So i’m an EMT prn as a tech in an er, and as such don’t have my autonomy that i do on the street. i don’t mind it as i don’t gotta think when i have a doctor doing it for me. the problem is nurses. i don’t mind doing what I’m told. I’m used to it with medics and having a mutual understanding with our standing protocol/orders. but in here it’s all doctors telling us what to do.
great i don’t have to think, i don’t have to triage.
key word is don’t. i still do as that will better the pt care if i understand the situation so i always read charts and ask about pts as well as talk to them so i can advocate and help the doctors and nurses.
well i have this nurse who thinks she’s gods gift to nursing. so she will tell me to do things on pts that aren’t ordered and it gets me into trouble with the doctors who i have a huge amount of admiration and respect for.
I don’t always have time to sit down login and look at orders. but i try my best to go around and do things my self.
she multiple times will tell me to grab a urine sample on pts that aren’t hers if she hears i’m going into a room or to start an un ordered un indicate ecg on a pt who truly doesn’t need one because she thinks she knows everything.
i also think a lot of it has to do with the power trip of pulling me around, she out of all of the nurses i work with over works me the most.
how do i resolve this issue because it’s been 3 shifts this week alone she has done this shit.
i’d hate to cut my hours by asking to not work with her but she and don’t get along “because i’m just a baby” im 18 an adult, in the guard, pay my bills, buy my groceries. i just want to get this sorted less i lose my job by flipping my shit on her