15 Things Medical Professionals Should Never Do

I kind of agree with this one "Don't wear your scrubs in public" . I mean when i first started in the medical field i was in school and i loved to wear my scrubs in public to me it makes you look important and it gives you the feeling that your somebody. But when I actually started working I would not go anywhere with out taking a bath first i dont even let my 2 year daughter give me a hug with out changing in to something else first. You dont want to pass anything you probley touched at work from a sick patient =(

You never hear physicians bad mothing each other. They may change orders or just write new orders but never speek negativily against each other. No one person, nurse, physician knows everything. Physicians are treeted as professionals because they act as professionals. If nurses want the same respect then the backstabbing/bad mothing needs to stop and we need to stand together and educate each other. Only as a group are we strong and only then will we gain respect and be looked upon as professionals and assets and not as liabilities.

Totally agree.. I wish everyone could read this article and adhere to it!!

I hate when I am at a patient's bedside and another nurse will come in and start talking about a co-worker or complain about the hospitol administration, as if the patient is invisible!!

Thank You! Now if we could get all medical professionals to read this it would be a great service to humanity and the way we do our jobs. So many of these things are happening today. I had the misfortune of being a patient last year and was appalled at the way some of the staff responded to questions and the talking loudly in the hall discussing patients with no regard as to who could hear them. There is alot of immaturaty. So thanks for this article and may we all take a personal inventory of our actions and reactions.

thank you for the advices. this is good!

I have to admit, I am challenged by the emotion part. I do get angry and frustrated with fellow staffers when I have a patient that is in the first stages of "going bad," electrolytes out of wack and muscle spasms and EKG changes, and I ask for something like phlebotomy or IV supplies, and they finisdh their conversation about their weekend or upcoming vacation before retrieving (sp?) those supplies; or I can't override a stat drug. Maybe it's my firefighter background. Those times when I feel the frustration boiling, I can often step to the other side of the curtain, tilt my head back and take a deep breath, let it out, go back to the patient's side, give them a smile and say, "I'm going to stay by your side and treat you like I would want someone to treat my: Mom, Dad, Sister, Wife, Son, etc. Selfishly it's as much for me as it is them.