Why is it the highest paid among us...

[notjustanurse]

can never bring their own *%$# stethoscope when they round on their patients?

[OCNRN63, RN]

iow, nurses should carry steths. around for your convenience, because they otherwise don't know what to do with them.

[SHGR, MSN, RN, CNS]

iow, nurses should carry steths. around for your convenience, because they otherwise don't know what to do with them.

i think kanzimonkey had a change of heart, and has already stated as much. you don't need to continue to argue. she's not riding around in a van full of stolen stethoscopes.

[Asystole RN]

IOW, nurses should carry steths. around for your convenience, because they otherwise don't know what to do with them.

Let it go, you are beyond sounding bitter and spiteful, moving into the realm of tantrum.

[OCNRN63, RN]

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[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

Let it go, you are beyond sounding bitter and spiteful, moving into the realm of tantrum.

I'm late jumping into this thread, and not planning to stay, but did want to say that I didn't find OCNRN's posts to be bitter OR spiteful. Just expressing her dissatisfaction with the answers as given, that's all.

[Altra, BSN, RN]

Have fun steth-shopping, kanzi monkey.

I forgot my steth one day last month. The previous work day I had been in a hurry to leave and so just stuffed it in my bag instead of walking back to my locker. That evening at home I was looking for something else buried in the depths of the bag and so pulled it out and put it on the dining room table, where it played hooky all the next day while I went to work.

My point is ... I felt like a schlump all day, having to ask to borrow a coworker's. I was unprepared to do my job. If I had lost it I would have spent one day, max, searching all the places it might be before ordering another one and sucking it up to pay the cost of rush shipping. It has nothing to do with *nurses* per se ... just the discomfort of knowing that I was inconveniencing others.

[wooh, BSN, RN]

This was fun for a short while, back to it...

Aural tapeworm.

Eustachian gonorrhea.

Cochlear e. coli....

[notjustanurse]

My current Master Cardiology is engraved. But so was the Cardiology II that was "borrowed" and never returned...

[Lovely_RN, MSN]

I find it annoying too. I also get asked for my penlight a lot too and I always have to run the MD down to get it back. How many times have you as a nurse had to ask the MD to borrow their stethescope?

[kanzi monkey]

iow, nurses should carry steths. around for your convenience, because they otherwise don't know what to do with them.

yes. well done reading between the lines.

*sigh*

[notjustanurse]

I honestly don't think you meant your comments the way they "sound" on here. And I have to admit when I initially read your comment about the nurses never reporting a pertinent assessment based on stethoscope findings, it sounded insulting.

When I started this thread I was venting about 2 particular MDs at my facility (and a third to a little lesser degree) that have a superior attitude with the nursing staff and seem to view us as their personal secretaries, and seem to think that they should have full access to whatever supplies and equipment we have, without bothering to bring their own. As I said earlier, forgetting your steth or misplacing it once in a while is not a big deal to me. It's the attitude that I will just willingly supply my expensive tool to you because you're too lazy to carry your own. (Not kanzi monkey personally, just the universal "you".)

[P_RN, ADN, RN]

"Let me hold your wallet, shoe, or glasses and I'll let you borrow the cheap one in my locker-just a minute....."

Littman stays, $4 playschool type MIGHT be loaned. I've had very little problem getting Playschool type back.