I'm a paramedic working for a fire department in a big city. I have been a medic for nearly 14 years. I love my job but of all these years, the biggest disappointment I have is the following....
** Nurses and doctors ( mostly nurses ) being rude to me because I inconvienced them for bringing them a patient or yelling at me because I didn't start a propholactic IV on a 90 year old lady c/o general weakness who was otherwise stable. I guess I thought medics and hospital staff were all tight and friendly since we all work together. It's the opposite in a lot of the hospitals I bring my patients to. Yes, if I make a major error..i.e, drug error or some other major error, call my superiors because I needed to be educated/reprimanded. But if it's because my patient had some kind of condition that I would have no way of knowing out in the field...i.e, head bleed from a sneeze or cardiac issue when they only complained of shoulder pain after I ran a 12 lead and was negative and I sent them BLS.....why don't they contact me directly so I can learn from my mistakes and have a working relationship with them...not cause hostility cause they go right to my superiors to complain about me. I'm tired of these nurses having bad attitudes when all I am doing is bringing them business.
I have called nurses out and told my superiors who called the ED Manager to talk to their employees. It may change for a month or so..but eventually they all go back to being jerks. I tell them it must be nice to have a nice, clean, controlled environment to work on patients. Try being on a side of a freeway at 1 in the morning in the dark with a car on its side and cars going by you at 80 mph and working on someone....
Are today's nurses being told they are our bosses? Anyone have any suggestions?
** Nurses and doctors ( mostly nurses ) being rude to me because I inconvienced them for bringing them a patient or yelling at me because I didn't start a propholactic IV on a 90 year old lady c/o general weakness who was otherwise stable. I guess I thought medics and hospital staff were all tight and friendly since we all work together. It's the opposite in a lot of the hospitals I bring my patients to. Yes, if I make a major error..i.e, drug error or some other major error, call my superiors because I needed to be educated/reprimanded. But if it's because my patient had some kind of condition that I would have no way of knowing out in the field...i.e, head bleed from a sneeze or cardiac issue when they only complained of shoulder pain after I ran a 12 lead and was negative and I sent them BLS.....why don't they contact me directly so I can learn from my mistakes and have a working relationship with them...not cause hostility cause they go right to my superiors to complain about me. I'm tired of these nurses having bad attitudes when all I am doing is bringing them business.
I have called nurses out and told my superiors who called the ED Manager to talk to their employees. It may change for a month or so..but eventually they all go back to being jerks. I tell them it must be nice to have a nice, clean, controlled environment to work on patients. Try being on a side of a freeway at 1 in the morning in the dark with a car on its side and cars going by you at 80 mph and working on someone....
Are today's nurses being told they are our bosses? Anyone have any suggestions?