One of them wrote in my evaluation:
Dr. PGYx is highly dedicated to patient care and I would gladly have her care for my family members.My program director told me that our nurses are often brutal in their resident evaluations and stingy with kind comments. Nurses also have special radar to detect quality in physicians & patient care, so this is an extra-nice compliment!
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Congrats! It's always great to have your hard work noticed!
Definitely! No tests/grades in residency, so positive and constructive feedback from patients, attendings, residents, and nurses (the toughest audience? maybe) helps me to improve and makes my job seem anything but thankless!
I feel bad for the nurses b/c they have to handle and work closely with a brand new intern class each year. Our nurses have the patience of saints, which I appreciated even 6 months ago.
Congrats!
To me, that is the highest compliment one can get (especially from a nurse because they have the most face-time with patients and truly see the impact of a physicians care).
And yes, they* can be stingy with compliments. :-)
*And by "they" I mean "we" sort of, I am still part-nurse. Hahah. This is my current identity crisis.
Yes, it's really the highest compliment in my book, too. They're well-acquainted with the good, bad, and the ugly of patient care and outcomes! It probably helps that I love working on a team with our nurses b/c they are awesome.
I'd like to hear more about your identity crisis to be a nurse while training to become a doctor. I would think that being a nurse gives you perspective that others don't have (so does having lived a bit of life before med school, too!). You'll have a clearer idea where the nurses on your team are coming from when they page you with questions or requests. Most good docs seem to pick this up eventually, but it takes time to learn.
I wonder if your nurse-doctor duality will also add challenge since you'll adopt a new role on the health care team as a physician while retaining your practiced nursing skill set. Can't do both jobs as one person or you'll never finish your work and leave the hospital. :-)
Well, rather than leaving a comment-opus here I'll try to put together some cogent thoughts with regard to my nurse-doctor duality. It is definitely a subject I get asked about a lot.
I also agree about the pre-medicine life. The older people in my program come from really varied backgrounds (lawyers, dancers, writers, physios, ski-bums) and I think they will be the ones least shell-shocked when we hit the wards.
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