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Is anyone else dealing with moody attendings and nurses in their new position? Being new sucks!
beyond all hope said:Had the same feelings when I was a 'tern. For me, it was the nurses that were the worst. They can be really nasty to new interns. They usually get nicer once they get to know you and trust you, and often by second year they're calling you 'honey'.
I think this 'hazing' is completely unnecessary and adds to the stress of an already difficult year. I still get angry when I see nurses do this but I don't see that it will ever go away.
Some of the support staff will just be rude to anyone if they think they can get away with it. If someone is really bad, get together with your fellow residents and make a joint complaint to your PD. If everyone complains about the same person I'm sure your PD will do something about it. At Temple we actually fired a couple of the worst offenders and things got drastically better after that.
Do you guys have any suggestions how I could help my interns?
beyond all hope said:Do you guys have any suggestions how I could help my interns?
beyond all hope said:Do you guys have any suggestions how I could help my interns?
Kimberli Cox said:I find that doing a little "scut" now and again, when time permits, fosters good feelings among the team and helps get things done faster. No one should ever be "above" doing any chore that needs to be done; I was trained that we are all members of the team and if that means the Chief is doing discharge summaries, then so be it - your interns will love you for it and it will get the patients home faster.
ekydrd said:Absolutely true!!!
. . .except it's not ok. But [sigh] it is what it is, and we can't change it until we become Kimberli Cox and do a few H&Ps. Brava!Faebinder said:During lunch, tell em stories of how you were when you were an intern... that makes them feel like others went through this and its okay.
Is anyone else dealing with moody attendings and nurses in their new position? Being new sucks!