As a physician, I get exhausted with the endless self promoting savior complex mentality of RNs, while they portray physicians as arrogant, negligent and money hungry. A good nurse is very valuable and I work with good nurses. I also work with terrible nurses-who are grossly negligent, spend work hours online shopping, cannot perform basic work obligations, and one who told me in a patient’s room that all i did was “sign papers.” If i said anything remotely similar in such an open environment i would get severely reprimanded. If nurses want physician support, stop leaving the nursing profession to become nurse practitioners (with no residency and changing fields of medicine on a whim) and acknowledge that physicians have a liability and work schedule you dont-my shift doesnt end after 8 hours. Not with an endless inbox of patient messages, taking saturday to review labs and imaging, and patients who all want a call back “ASAP.”

As a physician, I get exhausted with the endless self promoting savior complex mentality of RNs, while they portray physicians as arrogant, negligent and money hungry. A good nurse is very valuable and I work with good nurses. I also work with terrible nurses-who are grossly negligent, spend work hours online shopping, cannot perform basic work obligations, and one who told me in a patient’s room that all i did was “sign papers.” If i said anything remotely similar in such an open environment i would get severely reprimanded. If nurses want physician support, stop leaving the nursing profession to become nurse practitioners (with no residency and changing fields of medicine on a whim) and acknowledge that physicians have a liability and work schedule you dont-my shift doesnt end after 8 hours. Not with an endless inbox of patient messages, taking saturday to review labs and imaging, and patients who all want a call back “ASAP.”

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