"Are you with PT?" a nurse in the ICU asks me.
"Yep." I reply.
But the thing is, I know that she knows I'm a PT. How does she know? I've worked with dozens of her patients. And 99.9% of the time I talk with patients' nurses before I work with them. And nurses are not dumb. Her question is more or less an in to say "When are you gonna work with my patient?"
The other similar question and more to the fact that the person doesn't know my name is "Hey PT, are you gonna work with Mr. Patient?"
Seriously, I've been working at this hospital for almost a year now. In the same unit for most of that year. And I worked really hard to learn names of doctors, nurses, OT's, Speechies, RT's, CNA's, secretaries, etc. Not just in my unit, but in all the other units I occasionally work. So, that being said, one would think that this nurse who has worked in the ICU for years would try and learn the name of the "new" PT who's been working in her unit for the past how many months.
I mean, when someone new is in the tele unit, I notice, and if I'm seeing them pretty consistently I would try and learn their name. Especially if they are caring for one of my patients. Ya know?? I'm just saying.
