Re:Nurse is on the list, thats really really BAD! (Score 1)

The problem with your statement, horrifying as it is, is that you are probably unaware that you are not dealing with nurses. That the nurse you are trying to "get help" from, are probably NOT nurses but LVN's, or CNA's or other form of what the hospitals like to call "nurses" I currently work in the surgery department, and it really bugs me that the techs (altho they are good), are always calle nurses, both in documentation and addresses. When it is nurses week, they share in the "nurses" week activities. Now, I don't really care about anything, except that when the techs have NO medical background, except a 18 month schooling of handing out instruments. Now they think they are nurses. Doctors get confused cuz they start talking drugs or pathology, and they are cluess. Guess what? The doctors wonder why nurses are so "uneducated". I too am passionate about this. Hospitals hate that you wear a name tag that shows not only your name, but your credentials. I have heard of patients complaining that her "nurse" didn't take good care of her or understand what she needed, only to come and find that it was a housekeeper. Please, and the hospitals refuses to think that this is a problem! Okay, there are bad nurses, and unions can protect them. I have seen that also. But not to talk tit for tat, I have worked with some really clueless doctors also. However, I don't beleive that all doctors are bad because of the few I have worked with. Example, I worked with a eye surgeon who asked me how to run the vitrectomy machine - a Daisy. As a competent eye nurse, I was extremely nervous that a doctor who had his full training, didn't know the foot pedals. Or how about the doctor who just froze in the triple A? Again, a few bad doctors don't make the whole of them bad. I have quite a few friends as doctors, and I respect them for their education and their ability to think on their feet. But just because you think s/o was out giving someone a BJ, well, I can tell you of a lot of "unprofessional behavior" by physicians who when needed in a trauma was in a compromising position with other staff (yes, nurses, other doctors, lab clerks, etc.) That is the behavior of irresponsible people, not job classifications.

I have been a nurse since 1987. I have worked in large hospitals and small. I too have seen the gamet.

enough of my ramblings....
lareya