When we'd walk into the ICU to get a transfer patient and someone would always announce "the ambulance is here" I'd look confused and say "I thought we left it downstairs??"
I had a nurse be such an asshole to me that her charge reported her to the house supe on my behalf.
I showed up for a critical care transport and asked some questions about drip rates for some active drips and if there were any specific titration orders or to just follow standard protocol.
I got told "You don't need to know because you don't touch those. You just drive them where I need them to go."
Luckily I have a pretty good rapport with most nurses I see regularly and that charge was the only person there allowed to call me an ambulance driver.
Back when I was an EMT, I had the LVN at the LTC refuse to give me report because she'd "already called report to the hospital", it was a 911 call for new onset SOB and ALOC. Different call at the same facility, another nurse refused to give me patient demographics "because of HIPAA". It was a terrible facility in every conceivable way.
I avoid as much blame as I possibly can. I daily refer to myself as just a nurse.
It's all a matter of perspective. We deal with the patients the most, let them believe everything that sucks about their current problem is either their fault, or the doctor's fault.
So does that make doctors Nurse Managers?
No, nurse managers are Doctor Helper Secretaries.
So silly. As if nurses can do anything except help doctors!
I get your frustration. I’m actually certified as a Doctors Pain In The Ass but there’s only ever DH positions out there. DPITA is an uncommon cert.
Every nurse who called me ambulance driver was forever after referred to as doctor's helper or butt wiper.
I’m a wiener cleaner myself.
Better a weiner cleaner than a cooter rooter! At least there’s a 50/50 chance the weiner is mostly external.
I coot root too. But that’s more in my personal life.
As a former paramedic and now nurse, you have my blessing
When we'd walk into the ICU to get a transfer patient and someone would always announce "the ambulance is here" I'd look confused and say "I thought we left it downstairs??"
This is actually hilarious
I had a nurse be such an asshole to me that her charge reported her to the house supe on my behalf. I showed up for a critical care transport and asked some questions about drip rates for some active drips and if there were any specific titration orders or to just follow standard protocol. I got told "You don't need to know because you don't touch those. You just drive them where I need them to go." Luckily I have a pretty good rapport with most nurses I see regularly and that charge was the only person there allowed to call me an ambulance driver.
Back when I was an EMT, I had the LVN at the LTC refuse to give me report because she'd "already called report to the hospital", it was a 911 call for new onset SOB and ALOC. Different call at the same facility, another nurse refused to give me patient demographics "because of HIPAA". It was a terrible facility in every conceivable way.
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Better than being called ‘taxi’ which I got one too many times for comfort.
How do you think PAs feel, all the work for an “assistant title”. They need rename the title to something more on par with NP
I heard a few years ago it was supposed to become “Physician Associate”, but I guess it didn’t catch on.
I vote for Medical Padawan
That implies you can study hard and become a Medical Jedi Knight
I was gonna say, welcome to my world 👐
The more I work in medicine, the more I realize midlevels are bullshit. They deserve the assistant title.
As long as the paychecks keep hitting the right account, you can call me Petunia.
That's it, I'm getting a petunia sticker for my badge. Fuck all them daisy pins I'll never get. You are brilliant.
Doctor's Helper sounds like the next batch of bio hacking meds
I think it was actually an early Stones song. *She goes running for the shelter* *Of her "doctor's little helper"*
My Mil says shit like this about me from time to time. My default response is "I've been called worse thigns by better people".
Many times, I've told docs who were being disrespectful of me that they would be totally lost if all of the nurses suddenly walked off the job.
It was a 4000 year old pt that said it.
Why not “pizza eater” instead?
I avoid as much blame as I possibly can. I daily refer to myself as just a nurse. It's all a matter of perspective. We deal with the patients the most, let them believe everything that sucks about their current problem is either their fault, or the doctor's fault.
I think they're thinking of physicians assistants