What is the best way you ever got even or put a cocky resident/fellow in their place?

[DoubleblessedRN, ADN, RN, EMT-B, EMT-P]

What is the best or funniest thing you ever did to put a cocky/arrogant resident or fellow who thinks they know it all in their place? Or did you ever do something to them to get even with them for being condescending to you?

[Jamesdotter]

There was the day the resident handed me a pair of scissors and asked me to cut the tape. After cutting it I put the scissors in my pocket. "Hey, where are my scissors?" I just smiled and showed him my name etched on them...

[LittleTwinStars, ADN, BSN]

If someone is being a backseat driver (usually med students commenting that you're being rude when you're needing to be straightforward with the patient), I ask if they are volunteering to attend to the patient's needs, baby-sit, or answer their questions. One of my mottos is, "If you're going to be a backseat driver, at least give gas money."

[vintage_RN, BSN, RN]

Resident comes out of pts room saying they need a nurse because the pt wants the HOB raised....I look at her and say "well then raise it..." And walked away...she stood there for a good few seconds trying to process what I said. A resident? Helping a pt with an easy, mundane task? Never!

[EP10]

I'm still a nursing student so I'm probably not very well versed in hospital politics regarding employees. Are the residents considered as if they are superiors of the RN? I love your comeback to one of them but is there any way that the resident can complain about you and get you in hot water at work for "putting them in their place"?

[mikethemurse, BSN, RN]

So I just came across this thread, and had to tell this story, by far and above my father's best nursing come back...(I may have mentioned in other threads, my dad also an nurse x 38+ years started out in the Navy, and takes little crap from anyone. Not that he is a bad guy, he is actually the go to guy in the hospital for most things, and a wealth of knowledge.) Anyway...in July of one year, a very cocky resident began to straight up yell at my father, about a patient (not under my father's care). After about a min of this my father just looked at him, interrupting his rant and said in a clam voice..."you know what the difference between doctors and nurses is, doctors only think they are god." then he walked away leaving the newbie md to ponder this. I love it!

[crossfitnurse]

I'm still a nursing student so I'm probably not very well versed in hospital politics regarding employees. Are the residents considered as if they are superiors of the RN? I love your comeback to one of them but is there any way that the resident can complain about you and get you in hot water at work for "putting them in their place"?

Actually - I've seen lately that the Nurses actually get to write up evaluations on the residents at the system I am in. You hear the real word about them as a student from the RNs and then you start to understand what they are talking about when you start interacting with them when it comes to patient care. There are plenty of great ones, but I have seen and heard those that are just... Wow... Pretty disrespectful and lacking some common sense.

It makes me giggle sometimes at what happens between the RNs and them, but there are certain situations where as the nurse you seriously gotta be the patient advocate and really remind them they are part of the TEAM, not there to push you around.