Do doctors look down on nurses?

WOW! So you have a complaint! So, you have a serious complaint! What do you do? How do you pile through all the red tape of dealing with nurses? 

Doctors versus Nurse

Have you been given the run-around by a physical rehabilitation center or nursing home? Do they ignore your questions or requests? Does it seem like you are invisible to them? Have you made legitimate requests and been ignored at every turn?

 Does it "seem" like the corporate persons or people in charge of the licensed social workers are taking advantage of the situation?

                                                       

Home Nurse

Doctors sometimes have a chip on their shoulders and talk down to nurses, treating them as lesser members of the team. 

Nurses can understandably develop resentment over this behavior, fracturing work relationships and creating tension.

In surgery or during a procedure, the physician or physicians who are using the nurses to assist can be liable for the medical malpractice of the negligent nurse.

Nurses become easy targets for shaming and blaming for poor practice by a failing and dysfunctional system. 

Further, hard physical and emotional work coupled with inadequate financial rewards now makes nursing an unattractive profession. 

As a result, few motivated and caring individuals are attracted by the profession.

Here are some tips to help your situation with a bad behaving doctor:

1. Try to get along. The end goal is to have a better workplace, Angelis says. 
2. Find another job. 
3. Take control of the conversation. 
4. Network with other nurses. 
5. Know and use your strengths. 
6. Say something unorthodox. 
7. Realize even nice people get unhinged.

Nurses are doers who work harder physically than doctors, who are not as well paid or respected as they deserve, who have less autonomy and less credibility than they might, and who are wonderful patient advocates.

When a doctor engages in unethical or unprofessional conduct, you may be able to sue him or her for medical malpractice if you can prove that you suffered harm.

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