Nurse Abuse

[ZacharyJasmine]

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[kimmiejs]

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[nurstinkerbelle]

So true... but sadly, being a nurse in a civilian hospital is so different than being one in the military. In the civilian world the hospital administrators (and therefore nursing admin as well) do whatever it takes to keep physicians happy -- you can count on them always supporting a physician and looking the other way if the doc is abusiive to staff (unless its something they absolutely just can't ignore)....

Docs who admit the most patients, or ones who are specialists and do their procedures at the hospital make $$ for the hospital and I have personally seen admin not only paying for doctors office space, but staffing their office at no charge on occassion, and have witnessed hospital admin distribute envelopes containing several thousand dollars in (unaccounted for- and non taxed) cash to "big admitters" at Christmas -- while hospital employees might, if "lucky" get a free turkey that year.

Admin knows they can hire new grads -- or just increase patient load on everybody else- or get agency staff, or make department heads pull shifts in addition to their other duties (have had to do that too) to cover patient care, so they'll do their best to ignore abusive docs, or blame the poor staff member who got abused for "causing the doc to get upset", rather than do anything to upset the doc & lose the money he brings in.

Scarier still is the fact that the employee who presses the matter will most likely soon find their performance evaluation going downhill, their shift being changed, and their working conditions made obnoxious beyond the point of tolerance, if they aren't let go for "being a troublemaker" or "incompetence"....

Have y'all heard the old joke about "What is the difference between God and a surgeon?" Answer-God knows He's not a surgeon! :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

There is a Federal law in place under Sexual Harassment that deals with a hostile work environment. Document names, dates, places, witnesses, etc. We're all proficient at CYA charting. When you have your facts straight and welldocumented (notarized statements from witnesses are a good idea to beef up documentation and prevent convenient memory lapses) contact a good attorney for review of your case. If necessary, name Admin and management. If your case is well documented the attorney may accept it on a contingency basis.