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To be totally transparent, I have two reasons for starting this thread. One is that I'd love some good advice, especially if any of you have been in a similar situation. Second, I need/want to vent. So if you don't want to listen to a whiny medical student, this thread is not for you....
I've been continuing to work part time (1 shift a week) in the ER. This is working out fine in terms of school, etc. The problem is that ever since I've started school a couple of the nurses have been giving me a really hard time. Not most - I still get along great with 98% of the people there. It's just a couple (who, by the way, are generally not real nice to the residents). Prior to this I've never had problems with anyone.
They'll make fun of me in front of patients if I miss a tough stick or something (You're going to be a doctor and you miss lab draw?), they give me crap if I ask questions about anything (gee, you don't know that already?), and recently one of them told me to "stop trying to be the doctor and do your own job" for - wait for it - telling a medic which room to go to with a patient after the charge nurse asked me to tell them!! Oh the horror! I then caught this nurse complaining about it to a bunch of other nurses. And this is my fear. I wouldn't be nearly so worried about it except I'm concerned they'll start turning other coworkers against me which could end up affecting my job.
After giving it some thought I decided I'd really better make sure that I'm not coming across badly, so I went to a couple of very experienced nurses who I work with a lot and asked them to give me their honest feedback. They both told me that I haven't been acting any differently since I started school, and that they'll tell me if they see me stepping out of line. I also had a doctor pull me aside when he witnessed some of this and tell me not to worry about it, that I was doing fine, and that some nurses just treat med students like dirt.
So what to do now? Part of me thinks I should just suck it up and take it (gotta develop a thick skin after all), but part of me thinks I ought to confront it before it festers. Anyone ever been in a similar position? Any thoughts of a good way to handle this?
I've been continuing to work part time (1 shift a week) in the ER. This is working out fine in terms of school, etc. The problem is that ever since I've started school a couple of the nurses have been giving me a really hard time. Not most - I still get along great with 98% of the people there. It's just a couple (who, by the way, are generally not real nice to the residents). Prior to this I've never had problems with anyone.
They'll make fun of me in front of patients if I miss a tough stick or something (You're going to be a doctor and you miss lab draw?), they give me crap if I ask questions about anything (gee, you don't know that already?), and recently one of them told me to "stop trying to be the doctor and do your own job" for - wait for it - telling a medic which room to go to with a patient after the charge nurse asked me to tell them!! Oh the horror! I then caught this nurse complaining about it to a bunch of other nurses. And this is my fear. I wouldn't be nearly so worried about it except I'm concerned they'll start turning other coworkers against me which could end up affecting my job.
After giving it some thought I decided I'd really better make sure that I'm not coming across badly, so I went to a couple of very experienced nurses who I work with a lot and asked them to give me their honest feedback. They both told me that I haven't been acting any differently since I started school, and that they'll tell me if they see me stepping out of line. I also had a doctor pull me aside when he witnessed some of this and tell me not to worry about it, that I was doing fine, and that some nurses just treat med students like dirt.
So what to do now? Part of me thinks I should just suck it up and take it (gotta develop a thick skin after all), but part of me thinks I ought to confront it before it festers. Anyone ever been in a similar position? Any thoughts of a good way to handle this?