Will somebody PLEASE tell these doctors....

Nurses General Nursing

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1. That we are not their secretaries? and that they are just as able to pull up their own computer rounding list as we are?

2. That no, I CANNOT explain the risks and benefits of a surgical procedure, and NO, I do not consider it my responsibility to "remind" you to get consent on the day of the procedure. I can only witness the INFORMED consenting patient's signature.

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I am not an alarm clock...I might be busy at 0500 and I might not have time to call you at home to make sure you are awake. Set more than one alarm clock if one doesn't wake you up...

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If you don't want to take the sock out of your mouth and speak clearly, then atleast take the mask off your face so I can read your lips. If you don't want to do either, then don't give me flack for asking you to repeat yourself until I finally hear you.

If I offer you a mask at delivery time and you refuse, expect me to LMAO when you start spitting amniotic fluid out of your mouth from the gush after the head is delivered. (Yes, it really happened)

I am not going to make your bed in your call room - PERIOD!!!:angryfire

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Specializes in Neuro ICU and Med Surg.

I just have to say ( and some may be repeated) that when I call you at 1900 for the hospice pt who can only have tylenol Q8H for her temp of 104, DON'T TELL ME TO, "DO WHATEVER YOU WANT AND DON'T CALL ME AGAIN" Really I can do what I want, so can I just go ahead and order a MS GTT. I just wanted to increase the frequency Sheesh!

DO NOT expect me to pull all your labs, and give them to you. You can use a computer just as well as I can. I AM NOT your secretary.

DO NOT DISRESPECT my staff that is a sure way to get a write up from all of us.

I AM NOT A MIND READER!!!!! Cannot say this enough.

When I ask you to see a pt in the middle of the night for distress, or whatever GET UP HERE AND SEE THEM. I didn't call you just because I felt like it.

DO NOT scream at me for not answering the phone when the ward clerk is on break and I have your poseyed pt who is trying to get onto the elevator. My response "I guess I should have answered the phone and let your pt walk out into the street huh?" Shut the doc up.

DO NOT remove a dressing to see the wound after I dressed it. Next time ask me to wait to do the dressing until you round. I have no friggin clue you are going to show up at midnight to see the pt. I cannot stand when docs do this. However we have a few docs that will do the entire dressing change since they took off the dressing.

DO not HANG UP ON ME for calling you.

DO NOT attempt to dishcarge someone with no hx of HTN, and not in pain with BP 170/100. And DO NOT SCREAM at me when I am letting you know I am not comfortable letting her go home. Doc finally came up to see the pt and had me give some med and then gave script and let her go home. ( I felt a little better since she received something and a script).

AS ALWAYS I AM NOT YOUR MAID. Throw away your coffee cups, clean up your sharps, and do not leave all your papers everywhere.

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Specializes in pediatric critical care.

and please stop dousing yourself in 5 gallons of nasty strong perfume/cologne just before you come to see your patients. not only will i request you to go shower again, i will continue to refuse you access to your 6 yr old asthmatic pt who is still on continuous aerosols. if your making me wheeze, you sure as heck are gonna cause them probs, and i hate change of shift emergency intubations.:eek:

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Let the staff know you appreciate us by giving us something besides fattening, unhealthy junk, even if it costs a lot, at the holidays. Money or a gift certificate would be just fine.

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and please stop dousing yourself in 5 gallons of nasty strong perfume/cologne just before you come to see your patients. not only will i request you to go shower again, i will continue to refuse you access to your 6 yr old asthmatic pt who is still on continuous aerosols. if your making me wheeze, you sure as heck are gonna cause them probs, and i hate change of shift emergency intubations.:eek:

omg, i hate that!! i don't have asthma, but any of that stuff immediately gives me a headache and nausea!! i have put that on all my medical charts but have one guy - an eye doctor, who will come into the room every time reeking! i have started to tell him about it, and not very nicely - and have decided to chance docs. i have eye problems, and have to go every 3 to 6 months - and if they want my money, they'd better leave the foo-foo off.

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Specializes in FNP, Peds, Epilepsy, Mgt., Occ. Ed.

Don't ask why I'm calling you at 2AM with a vital sign exceeding the parameters you gave when you wrote the orders!!!

That one always killed me when I worked in the hospital. If you call you get yelled at. If you don't call you get yelled at.

If you don't want to be called don't tell us to call!!!

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Please wash your hands or at least use the hand gel before you examine each patient.

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Specializes in geriatric.

do not dictate your h & p and progress notes during shift change in the room where we are suppose to get report.

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21. PLEASE! Do NOT tell your patients they're going to be discharged and then not write the order... or write the order for ANOTHER doctor to clear the patient for discharge. Don't let the "D" word past your lips unless and until you are actually sending the pt. home!

Do you realize that family members take a day off work to bring mom home, they drive from distant places to pick up their relative.

Do you know who will take the blow back when the patient and family find out that they are NOT actually free to leave. Of all the things I've seen pts and relatives lose their composure over, this has got to be one of the most frequent.

YESSSSSSS! It is funny bc we have had lots of negative feed back similar to 'the mean ol nurses wont hurry up what ever unimportant stuff she has to do and let me leave after dr doohead told me I can go home 6 hours ago"

Happened to me today.

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do not dictate your h & p and progress notes during shift change in the room where we are suppose to get report.

our manager likes to bring an entourage of superiors into our breakroom at lunchtime and shoo us out to have meetings....even though her office is just as big and can accomodate all of them!!!

it's bad enough you have to cram the food down quickly and call it "lunch" without having to stand in a supply closet to finish eating!

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Hey, I would volunteer to do this...then "accidently" get the cards mixed up...bet he won't ask you again.

I know someone who was a secretary who did just that!

Oops!!! Too bad. :nono:

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