Nurse/Doctor Relationships: “Nurses, What’s It Like At Your Task?”?
#1)Don’t get it twisted, I’m talking “Professional Working
Relationships”, not that stereotypical garbage on TV…
#2) I often hear complaints regarding interdepartmental
miscommunication and/or drama, what’s it like at
your workplace, aka your “home away from home?”
#3) As a Senior RN in the ER, I have not found that to be
an issue, we have a pretty cool work rapport, and that’s
pretty much the way it is in most ERs department wide,
if there’s a problem, we usually ride it out, blow it off, then
run a megacode together, after that, “All Clear!”…
(but, hey, that’s just my experience…)
“Hey, Whassup,Trauma Crew!”… *What say you?* {*ﻭ*}
Yep, Meggy Jo, that’s cuz you, too are
Trauma Crew, and we really do
appreciate you!
(hey, that’s a rhyme, ha ha!)
that’s real though, ya’ll rock!
As a respiratory therapist, at my hospital, we have GREAT working relationships with our house docs, ER docs and pulmonoligists!
Well, in the ED that I reside in…. there aren’t any Mcdreamy’s, and no Mcsteamy’s. I work on nights, so you know were all crazy! As far as Nurse/doc relationships go for the most part, everyone works as a team to get things done…. no one is having fun in the broom closet! but we get along great. Whatever little issues arise, they are usually settled by the next code… as were all in the trenches together, fighting to see another day, or at least so our pt ‘s can see another day. There are RN to RN fights, or whatever position you posess for issues that have to do with poor leadership or choice in patient care, but at the end of the day, we all have respect for eachother and wouldn’t work with anyone else… especially those biotches on days! Nothing but love for my trauma crew!
Any time you put a bunch of women in a tight space, you are going to have controversy. I find that the one’s who don’t get involved in the drama are the one who don’t HAVE TO work. The one’s who work full time and are the main bread winners are the one’s who induce the most drama.
It seems like the daily abuse from patients and doctors, upper management, budget cuts, working short, etc. are felt more by those who have to work full time. They begin to resent their job and giving so much of themselves to others. They get to the place that they are tired of giving so much of themselves and compensate in other ways.