RT &RN

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Scott Hubbell on July 29, 2009 at 8:25pm

Poor communication. Turfism. What happens when there is a big mess (poo, blood, vomit)? Typically we leave and the nurse has to clean it up. Help out. It isn't going to kill you (hopefully). Help them out when things are slow. Foster good relations and the clashes soon disappear. Make an effort to go above and beyond the call of duty.

▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Chris on August 1, 2009 at 11:07pm

Well stated Scott, how true that statement is!

▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Nazir Burki on July 31, 2009 at 7:06pm

Well it looks exteamly unprofessional to call the whole specility area a lazy one. i work in the critical care areas, most of the RN's are so irritated by small things. He or She just cares for one patient from 7 am to 7pm, while the RT's are looking after up to 10 patient, along with attending code blues, transportations etc.

It is their good luck that some times RT's are having fun in their department.
the salution is to do your work, and stay away from them

▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Anwar Nadeem on October 23, 2009 at 1:44am

i think if we will crticize the others including nurses and other professional then clashes will occur.
so we should concentrate on our own work,if they will do wrong they will be answerable.

▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jeff Whitnack on November 3, 2009 at 11:52am

I have been an RT since 1982. Looking back some of my finer moments have occurred when working well together with RN(s). And some of my most infuriating/frustrating moments have occurred when working not so well with RN's. To a degree the same can be said of working with Doctors and other RT's.

To a certain degree a small amount of this is inevitable. What I think revs it up a bit is that

RT's tend to be taught in school by some instructors and RT mentors to have a bad attitude about nurses. I remember the old lore about "the stupid nurse who turned up the COPDer's O2", even though the scientific foundation for all that was bogus!

RN's tend to be taught in school that RT's are just "ancillary" and that the only reason we're around is because nurses are too important to do the RT's work.

I work in a community hospital. There are only two RT's on duty at night. But we cover ER, ICU, floors, and a Level 2 Nursery. If even one of us was sick and couldn't be effectively replaced the entire hospital would be in an unviable position. Not so if any two RN's didn't show. This isn't meant to be a direct comparison per se. But we take critical care on the road, are akin to the cavalry---the ICU/ER nurse akin to artillery and floor nurses to the infantry.

What is ironic is that the ordinate people in nursing education/administration who have this "back of the mind" concept that one day nursing could take over all RT, undercut the whole foundation because they have this minimalist concept of what we do...ordered HHN/MDI tx's are just another medication ordered by the all-wise MD and to be given per the MAR, mechanical ventilation is just akin to a recipe to provide acceptable ABG's (forget about the extremes of ARDS and the intubated asthmatic).....

▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ronald Taylor on February 7, 2010 at 12:10am

From my experience there are bad RT's and bad Nurses but many nurses think that they should do all the Respiratory care because they are nurses here in the UK nurses do much of the Care but have very little theoretical knowledge especially when it comes to ventilation issues. I often here that if an RT does the care it will de-skill nurses but in many cases nurses do not have the skills. Every day I go to work I find clinical and technical errors also because nurses monopolise the work force in hospitals they have a bit more power.

▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by leo lamadrid on February 18, 2010 at 4:46pm

it depends what the problem arises, is it under the therapist responsibility or is it fall into the nurses care? and i suggest that nurses should not say something againts therapist if they want to see Rt sitting its because there JOB and responsibility are done.

▶ Reply to This

• ‹ Previous
• 1
• 2
• 3
• Next ›
• Page