He’s not doing himself any favors here, hence his anonymous rant:
It seems to me that many nurses enter the profession almost as an afterthought rather than a vocation. Consequently, the NHS nurses I work with often do not have the common sense required to do their jobs effectively and safely, or they simply don’t care enough.Nurses who cannot tell the difference between a coronary episode and patients feeling ‘a bit unwell’ double the doctors’ workload and risk the lives of patients.
And nurses who don’t think for themselves and constantly call the doctor mean that hours can be wasted tending to situations that should be sorted out by the nurses.
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Some of this I’am not understanding. I understand where the lawsuit is coming from. He operated on the wrong knee. But all this pain and suffering and emotional problems in my opinion is highly unlikely. I’ve had arthroscopy on both knees and TKR on one. Arthroscopy when no work is being done is not that painful of a surgery, and recovery time is hardly anything. Scrapping the bones and removing cartliage is painful and requires several weeks recovery and usually PT.
Admittedly he should be compensated but why do they not even once tell the truth?
Opps, above should be one post down.
I’ve always been perplexed by the need for breaks plus meal times for nurses. I mean, if I’m lucky, I’ll pop into the john for a pee break after 10 hours of work, and perhaps get something from a vending machine later than that. Don’t these people have any stamina? with an eight hour shift they need a meal break plus another break or two? And these are the non-union nurses. God help us if the union ever gets voted in.
Maybe you should go find some 3rd world indentured servants that would serve YOUR need the way YOU think they should be served.
I don’t know what kind of nurses you work with, but unless you have worked as one and know what their duties are, keep your mouth shut.
Lunches? breaks? I would like to get hired at that hospital.
That’s quite a manic article there. Is it me or did he contradict himself, like a dozen times?
It’s either a freaky doctor or a freaky hospital, or both!
Drs. in the NHS seem to hate nurses. Dr. Crippen refers to them as not being any good at their job and now this guy.
Sorry Lisa I have worked as both. Good nurses are great. But I can’t tell you how many times a had to do the work of a lazy ass while she (usually) sat her fat ass in the lunch room. Or worse clean up after the previous one on my patient’s. All my complaints to admin would essentially be “well she has a RN and a heartbeat in this shortage ” Since going over to the darkside
, I have to say lazy docs don’t survive very long (unless you are in the VA ). Why don’t you open your eyes tomorrow at work.
And people wonder why the turnover rate is high. Maybe it has to do with the pompous attitudes they have to deal with.
My answer to the previous anonymous would be that he is right about there not being many lazy docs around. But the resident in question is definitely not doing himself any favors with his tirade. I am a nurse and know that I will bend over backwards for a physician who treats me with respect and speaks to me as an equal.
“But I can’t tell you how many times a had to do the work of a lazy ass while she (usually) sat her fat ass in the lunch room.”
Wow, you must have been super nurse!
maybe you do bend over backwards to please a doctor but, do you also bend over backwards to care for your patients? I see so many nurses sucking up and ass kissing the Drs. and not caring what their patients may need. Surprising the number of doc’s that fall for that. I guess most of them also don’t really care about patients. Getting their own ass kissed takes priority over getting their patients ass wiped.
Son you should really think of getting into another profession. With this post and the post where you have begun to think of yourself as invincible, you are truly scary. You are clueless as to the responsibilities of nurses. Son they are the ones that cover doctors’ collective butts. I can not begin to tell you the times I have called MD’s regarding incorrect ordering of medications. Nurses are at the bedside when physicians are home or on the golf course. It is a nurse that will know when a patient takes a turn for the worse and notifies the doctor so again they can avoid that awful word “lawsuit”. I could rant on but then would you listen to a lowly nurse since you seem to “know everything”? I doubt it. Hopefully your attitude will get you in big enough trouble without you killing some poor patient. Consider something to do with computers. They don’t care if you have a lousy attitude.
DebRN: You’re the pompous ass in this.
I’ve had nurses help me out, and I’ve had nurses totally F-up simple med orders.
The difference between an RN and an MD is that I can get sued, and you won’t (even though it may be theoretically possible). Why? Because I’m the physician, and you’re the nurse.
And while some of my colleagues may be unfamliar with the concept of ‘health care team’ nurses that think they’re the reason the patients are in the hospital are the real danger. Just as a reminder: They’re there because thats where the doctors work at.
I have to agree with you on some points. Some(I said some) of the “nurses” that they are putting out now are butt nurses and think they just amake phone calls to the Docs or let’s chat with the new resident. They know nothing about assessment before they call because they want to make the impression that they know something. I will never forget when I asked my menteeRN to help clean up the rooms for the noc. You would have thought she was ask to jump off something. I have met good residents also who want to learn and share with staff, but I have also meet them that are worth the powder to shoot them. Why do we have to eat our young and each other??????
You sound quite harsh and lousy. It’s actually hard work for everybody so you don’t really have to go around claiming you’re the first among equals. It really does say something about the reason you why you might just find that widespread resistance to your kind.
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