PSA: DON'T Look Down on Nurses

[Psai]

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I have seen nurses scoff at the CNA's of their floors only to complain about being treated badly by physicians. It did seem that during my time in nursing school there was some anti physician propaganda going around. I'm sure the war of trying to earn NPs more autonomy has fueled some of it. It is absurd. Likewise, it is absurd for any medical student (or premed) to look down on nurses as their intellectual inferiors. People are in for a rude awakening when they realize this is more of a team sport than what they have thought. Sure the doctors make the big calls and dictate care. However, you have to have nurses (and other healthcare members) to execute these calls correctly, and possibly catch any bad calls you may have made.

Yeah that's the problem, nurses don't execute calls correctly way too many times and never catch the bad calls. They almost always call about unimportant things and miss the big picture.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

Yeah that's the problem, nurses don't execute calls correctly way too many times and never catch the bad calls. They almost always call about unimportant things and miss the big picture.

Depends on where you work. My wife works at a pretty good place. All but one of the docs and most of the nurses work as a team. It would suck ass to work in a place where the nursing staff doesn't give a **** and are largely incompetent.