They may respect the work you do or your ability to nurse or your knowledge but has every single doctor you've ever worked with like you. The reason I am asking is that I am the managing RN for a newly formed hospice, I went out marketing with our new marketer a couple of days ago and in the process of making our visits I mentioned to her a couple of doctors in our small home town who didn't particularly see eye to eye with me in the past. Now I know it's her job to be all sugar and sweet and basically kiss *** to get them to refer to us. The next day my corporate nurse calls me to see if there will be a problem with me working in this area. I asked her the same question, just thought I would hear from others.
2006-08-11 01:08:44 · 11 answers · asked by Only hell mama ever raised 6 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
Good for you Mad MAx you'll have hell in the hospital. White horse the marketer works for me she is not my superior and my job is to take excellent care of the patients and respect the doctors. That was my whole point, she doesn't understand things from the nursing perspective just from the amrketing perspective.
2006-08-11 01:18:16 · update #1
A nurse...especially a good one...will never have all doctors like her (him)...especially those with a big ego (which, let's face it are a bunch of them) and those trained in the "old school" where the nurses are nothing more than their handmaidens. Because a good nurse doesn't blindly accept everything a doctor says or does, she is the patients' advocate and often knows a whole lot more about the patient than the doctor. So, as you say, they may respect your work, but they won't necessarily like you.
2006-08-11 03:00:11 · answer #1 · answered by kathy_is_a_nurse 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doctors are people too, not all people like me so it would only make since that some doctors don't like me. The marketer doesn't deal with these docs the way you will and have dealt with them in the past. If they have been a problem for you in the past they may continue to be so now. The last thing you want is to compromise the care these hospice patients will receive. When you meet with these doctors let the past rest and go in there with a smile ready to promote your hospice. You don't have to kiss *** to be a good nurse it is not in our job description and shame on you nurses who do!!!
2006-08-11 08:47:45 · answer #2 · answered by Bonnie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not a nurse, but I worked with the docs and some of them are winey babies who just want to be served. As long a the nurse serves all of their needs the like them. If the nurse makes a mistake doing the doctors orders and the doctor neglets to read it before he signs off on it he blames the nurse. It is really ugly. The are a bunch or cranky babies who just are mean and do not appreciate the nurses. I repeat I am not a nurse, but worked at a hospital and saw the baby doc's in action. That does not mean they take care of babies that means they are babies. Nurses rock. They work hard and have more compassion than most humans.
It is really hard to kiss the *** of a man that uses you as his personal punching bag I imagine. I am nice and I cannot do that. How can an overworked nurse do that.
2006-08-11 08:15:01 · answer #3 · answered by adobeprincess 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Happydawg, you have to do something about that doctor. You know what he's doing isn't right. Aren't nurses also patient advocates? You can let your patients die because of maltreatment. Dont you know that giving patients the wrong medication means negligence and you could get sued for that too?
I know it's hard being a nurse, juggling a thousand orders, running around the halls, dealing with neurotic doctors, reassuring patients and relatives.. But that's why we are here! It takes a whole lot of passion and dedication to be in this work. Alot of people underestimate us but we just have to prove them wrong :)
As for the doctors and your co-workers, they need serious help too. You have to report that doctor. You cant just let him get away with it.
2006-08-11 10:50:04 · answer #4 · answered by nurseK 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a RN in a hospital and work with oncology and hospice and this is a true story.
One of the doctors I work with is a total idiot. I think it is a cultural thing because he came from Pakistan and I could be crazy, but I believe they look at women as property and less than intelligent.
I see him as incompetent, and if I had my way about it no patients would ever be refferred to him. He refuses to refer pts who are dying to hospice. Why, because if they stop treating, its money out of his pocket. It is to his benefit to keep treating these 80 year old pts who have no chance to recover because he makes thousands of dollars off of them. He told a patient the other day he would not take care for her any longer if she seeks a 2nd opinion and he would not speak to the 2nd opinion about her case. He does not treat pain effectively and he uses Demerol in terminal cancer pts which is a total screw up if you know anything about pain control He will give a pt 4 mg of Dilaudid then orderer 25 mg of demerol for breakthru pain. If I had any choice about it, I would never give him a refferral, and I have a hard time being nice about his treatment plan when speaking to his pts. I fake it and pretend like he has a clue when he is just a total moron. We got in a rif one time and I told him off and he told a couple of my co workers he was going to have me "fired". Everyone, even other doctors know he is incompetent, but we cannot seem to do anything about it. I despise him and he probably feels the same about me. We just tolerate each other. I have been treating cancer pts for 13 yrs. Whey they keep him on the medical staff is beyond me and about 15 other nurses. I am only nice about him for professional courtesy. When we get refferrals for cancer treatments, I do everything in my power to avoid giving him the refferral. He tells his female pts off and is rude to them. He refuses to treat their pain because he can. He refuses to consult 2nd opinions. He orders the same IV fluids for every single pt who walks in the door no matter what....0.9NS at 80 even when it is not appropriate. He only orders percocet for pain in a terminal pt when some morphine would be more appropriate, and if a female RN makes a suggestion for something, forget it, you will never get it because you are a woman. I despise this man and find him incompetent. Its not personal, its just watching his pts endure this.
2006-08-11 09:39:14 · answer #5 · answered by happydawg 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reading to much into it? YES.
Gaylord Focker was a nurse and the doctors didn't like him, but that didn't stop him from doing his job and working FOR the patients.
2006-08-11 09:21:27 · answer #6 · answered by DJFresh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a doctor, yet, but even I hate nurses already.
2006-08-11 08:11:50 · answer #7 · answered by none 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that you are asking for trouble.
Do not question your superiors.
You are there only to be of assistance to them.
It is not kissing ***, it is doing your job.
2006-08-11 08:13:06 · answer #8 · answered by Texas Cowboy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no iam a nursing student
2006-08-11 08:11:57 · answer #9 · answered by sunilkollam k 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats superiorty complex
2006-08-11 08:12:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋