keagirl takes exception to this ridiculous attitude:
The bottom line is that whether we are in clinic, the ward or in the OR, we are a team. We need to work together and do whatever needs to be done for efficiency sake and for the good of the patient. There is not a job in clinic that I consider “beneath me”. I’ll answer the phones (albeit pretending not to be me, but the receptionist), room the patient myself if the nurses are busy, draw blood, dip the urine and do other “non-doctor” like work, because no matter what the hierarchy, we are all in this together.
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There are no small jobs – just small people.
This PA does not belong in patient care, let alone no knowing anything about “team care”. Her title obviously gratifies her ego.
Be happy she left.
The advanced practice nurses at SLCH now find IV starts beneath them. Wearing their long white coats and working alongside their former colleague RNs they find many patient care tasks too demeaning. The docs here have shed the coat long ago and rolled up their sleeves, while the nurses are moving toward the attitude that they don’t do bodily fluids any more.
the PA & NP thing is way out of control; bypassing reasonable training standards really screws doctors AND patients:
As a first-year heme-onc fellow at a major NY hospital, the long-coat NPs were writing the chemotherapy orders (e.g. for acute leukemics – perhaps the sickest patients in the entire hospital) on the bone-marrow-transplant unit while the first-year-FELLOWS were doing the scut.
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