Thursday, September 24, 2009

Worst Page Ever Made By A Nurse

Worst page ever made by a nurse.  
Nurse:  "Dr, your patient screened positive for sepsis."
Doctor:  "That's what they're here for."
Nurse: "I'm supposed to call all positive sepsis screens."
Doctor:  Feeling like crying uncontrollably.
What happened to treating nurses like professionals and allowing them the professional latitude to stop wasting everyone's time with the worst pages ever and instead allow them to use their thinking skills for instituting common sense patient care? Just because a protocol says to call every positive sepsis screen does not mean we have to treat nurses like robots. It's a shame that nurses have been reduced to paper pushers and pill dispensers at the hands of a legal driven fear of civil liability and we're left with a system where every night I get the worst page ever made by a nurse.
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