Belly up to the Bar (aka The Post Whorin' Thread)

[Corey]

Originally Posted by tommymac

it goes down the line, for a tech or transporter they dont care because theyre name/license isnt on the line. Nurses are in the middle sometimes, theyre kind liable but soemtimes just dont give a shit. Docs, PA's, NP's have to care because were the ones who can get sued if things go wrong.

Around here, it seems to be a game of "who can I dump my workload on". The nurses I deal with seem to think they're entitled to greatness because they were able to get a two year degree and they didn't like that they had to work while they were doing their clinicals. Why know a thing about EKGs when some underpaid EKG scrub like me can do it for them? Why clean their shit covered patient when they can call in a nurse tech? Why start a line when they can get one of the paramedics to do it. Why get vitals when they can get one of the students to do it for "practice". Why check on their patient when telemetry will call them if something bad happens. Besides, it's cutting into their DrawSomething and Facebook time, and they need to get down to the cafeteria to get some food before there is a line. Nurses aren't the only ones who do this, granted, but they sure act like the most entitled of the groups. I haven't taken the class that teaches that sense of entitlement, but then again, I'm not in the nursing program.