Here's a little section of tips, advice, and recommendations from your nursing staff....they (like all the rest of us) want you to be amazing doctors, and so please don't take any of this advice personally, but rather use it all as constructive criticism.
Clinic:
Please do not talk poorly about NHC to the patients, or in the clinic. The nurses can hear you. The patients can hear you. It's not professional and very much unacceptable.
Inpatient:
Please talk to the nurses, and listen to them when they talk to you. Many of these women have been nursing since before you graduated high school, and they have soooo much to teach you, so be receptive to them! If you and they disagree on something, sit down and talk to them. Explain your side and let them explain theirs. Let them teach you, and when appropriate, teach them.
Don't make your patients wait to be "x" cm before you 'allow' them to have an epidural. If they are changing their cervix (key here) and they are in pain, generally they should be "allowed" to have one.
When scrubbing in on a section (or if additional people in on delivery), be helpful - make sure your gloves and gowns are pulled. Help get the patient ready in the OR (place foley, put SCDs on, bovie pad, etc). Stay to help patient back in bed. You would be surprised how much these small gestures can mean to them when they have 500 things to get ready, especially when not a planned section.
When using an interpreter, remember that many of our patients read at an average of a second grade level; you need to use terminology that they will understand, and not medical words (or at least give them context of the medical words) - for example, talking about the "jaundice level...which is a thing called bilirubin...this is what can make the baby yellow."
Try to cluster care with the nurses if you can - see the patients when they see the patients. This helps minimize frequent disturbances.