Staying in YOUR lane?
How do y’all deal with nurses that cannot stay in their lane or just worry about themselves and their disciplinary UNLESS it’s for the concern of the patient as we are a multi-disciplinary team. This is not a bash on nurses but I’m just starting to hit my limit. I’ve been in this profession for 8 years now and feel like it’s just getting worse, especially post covid.
A few examples: 1. Typically when a patient is contact/enteric I always knock from the door to make sure patient is decent, not eating, wants to take their tx before gowning up so I’m not wasting a gown or wasting my time and can come back. Had a nurse this AM yell at me that I needed to gown up. It costs $0 to mind your business and all she simply needed to do was be nicer about it. I’m not blind and can read. 2. Patient in the ICU that’s on bipap, now just wearing HS, no acute distress, responsive, stable, sats stable and on low fio2-“are we gonna get an ABG?”. Stay in your lane. 3. Going in to give a breathing tx on med-surg and get a full interview on why I’m going in-read the MAR and the doctors notes like I did.
How do ya’ll respond to this? Please tell me this just isn’t a me thing. Again, not a bash on nurses because they are part of the job, but WTF. Stay in your lane, and I’ll stay in mine.