Why do some people think they are God's gift to nursing?

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Do you work with people that think they are just hot ****? People that you give/get report to/from and they ask a million condescending questions, acting like you don't know anything? I consider myself a laid back person, I try to stay quiet and let the person give report before I stop and ask a question (especially a stupid one: like you say "the pt hasn't had any pain medicine since the AM" and they ask "well what EXACT time?"---CHECK THE EMAR!)

Or that you give report to a person who is completely clueless and you're nice and polite, and then when the rolls are reversed and they ask you a million questions trying to seem smart. I'm trying not to get specific here I think people on the job read this site. Sorry for rant, I'm just kind of ticked off.

Specializes in being a Credible Source.

Personally, all I care about in report are those things that are either urgent or safety related...

Do they ambulate/transfer OK?

Are they likely to take a swing at me?

Problems taking PO meds?

Anything I need to do for them in the next 60-90 minutes? Labs, meds, FSBG?

Anything that the doc is likely to ask me in the next 60-90 minutes?

Any concern that the IV isn't OK?

VS trending badly?

Otherwise, I probably won't remember the details anyway and can just look in the EMR.

When I'm giving report, please don't ask me why the doc has ordered what they have - I often don't know the specifics because I often haven't had much interaction with the doc. If you really want to know, ask the doc yourself.

Don't ask me to recite lab values to you... it's more reliable for you to look them up, anyway... unless they're something that needs to be reported to the doc, in which case I'll tell you that I did.

I only want the highlights, and that's all I'm going to offer... and I'm fine saying, "I don't know" and thinking "I don't really care" to a great many questions that, IMO, aren't germane to the moment.

Specializes in ED.

I work in the ED and I think our report may differ from that on the floors. We give report on why the patient came in, what we did for them and how they are doing at the time of transfer. My biggest peeve is when I'm asked questions that would be more pertinent to floor care than care in the ED. When a person comes in in respiratory distress, my priority is not the bed sore on their coccyx or when the had their last BM. Also, don't be condescending to me when the patient gets to floor and you see that they did not have their routine colace in the ED. We give emergency meds and we have a different order sheet from that which you use. I will give stat meds, hang an IV, clean the patient up if needs be and then transfer him/her. I will not give routine meds. I probably will not know how well the patient ambulates if they came by stretcher and came in altered. I will not know when they had their last BM unless the had it while I was there. So please, don't ask.

Also, don't be condescending to me when the patient gets to floor and you see that they did not have their routine colace in the ED.

LOL. You SOB, LOL, you DIDN'T give the colace! You suck!

JK ;)

I've had "bosses" above me ask ridiculous questions or make comments like they know it all and it fried me because I knew they had no idea what they were talking about but they did it to make themselves look important. When I pointed out mistakes or was able to show, on paper, that they were wrong, guess who was out of a job?? I've learned to keep my mouth shut and do my own work and let the idiots hang themselves!

Specializes in Med-Surg, Neuro, Respiratory.

In my experience the majority of your questions will be answered if you just listen to my report without asking one hundred questions while I am talking. Then, if I missed something you would like to know, please feel free to ask.

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