Why are doctors always to mean to student nurses? Don't they see they are human too?

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Why are doctors always to mean to student nurses? Don't they see they are human too?

Answer 1

Honey,....they are mean to ALL nurses and not just student nurses.  This is how it is everywhere.  some doctors are too busy to deal with "new" nurses and explain to them what is going on and why, some are just plain a------- because they think that you are beneath them.  Others, are just oblivious on how to interact with human beings and their genius iq's have made them into horrible people to be around.  Dont let this frustrate you, even when your seasoned the majority of them will treat you this way.  YOu have to remember that we are there to take care of the patients and not the doctors!  Docs forget that sometimes.....over are the days where nurses drop what they are doing to be at the docs beck and call.

Answer 2

Student nurses by definition are learning and prone to errors or slow to act when the business at hand is very serious (for the patient).  Some surgeons lack of sensitivity or downright rudeness may seem like rejection.  However, you should remember that rejection by a stranger (or anyone who does not personally know you well) is utterly meaningless.  Someone who cuts you off in traffic can anger you, but how can it possibly be a personal attack?  Let it roll off you like water from a duck and concentrate on learning everything it takes to be an excellent nurse.  If someday you need surgery you will depend more upon the surgeons medical skills than his/her social skills.  It has been said that the corpus collosum of the male shrinks and men have less communication between their left and right brains than women.  This likely means that male surgeons can be logical or emotional but not both (like women) at the same time.  Surgery requires logic (and emotional sensitivity may suffer in the heat of battle).  Female nurses likely follow the logic every step of the way without losing their emotional sensitivity (and stepping on their toes likely hurts!).  Surgeons may actually tell jokes during an operation, to break the tension and you can never know how much stress the surgeon feels (on behalf of the patient).  Successful operations are always teamwork and you will some day be part of a very important team.  Incidentally, I read somewhere that nurses can have their own syndrome, they are always doing for others but who is doing for them?  Thank God nurses are human (and not robots ... yet?).

Answer 3

I know a lot of nurses who are rude and mean to doctors.

Answer 4

I know it's not an excuse for such bad behaviour, but doctors think it's a way of "breaking them in" so that the nurses can be "hardened" enough to think a step ahead of them in emergency situations.