Does anyone else need like an hour of silent time after getting home from work? Don’t talk to me, let me just cope and recover for an hour then I’ll be back to my normal self.
COVID is EVERYWHERE in our children’s hospital. These kids are SICK. Also fun fact: we’re seeing a lot of young kids with bradycardia, junctions rhythms and heart blocks. Like 0-6 month olds with heart rates in the 50-60s.
We just got an email that our therapy dog is retiring due to stress and 1. Sad but also 2. If our therapy dog is stressed how do you think your staff members feel?! 🤦🏼♀️
Picked up a cute little 8 hour shift today and the amount of remarks/sass I’m getting because I won’t stay for a full 12 and they have no one to cover me at 3…. You’re welcome for even picking up 8???
The amount of healthcare professionals I know that have started taking medications for anxiety and depression within this past year my is astonishing. Check on your healthcare friends, we are not ok.
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Ugh lovely can’t wait to start that tomorrow!! We had a great insurance company too before they switched us to UMR last year and it’s only been awful since
One of my patients needed a bath today, I wasn’t that busy so I did it. Had a nursing student with me and she asked if that was a nursing skill and why the nursing assistant didn’t do it. Excuse me- it’s a human skill, if you have time care for your patients. 🤦🏼♀️
Last night a med student kept coming up to me asking GREAT basic questions. I taught him how to: feed and change a baby, soothe a withdrawal baby, swaddle, and how to silence a pump right. Don’t forget to ask about the basics!!! These are important too friends.
I think the thing im most sick of with COVID is doing everyone else’s jobs. We’re supposed to limit exposures in the room so the nurse is now not only doing their own tasks, but expected to do everyone elses. 1/
Had a guy at Target today ask why I wasn’t working today and said “you milenellials have it so easy”.
SIR I just got done working 4 12s so kindly fuck off.
A guy CNA told us he thought girls could hold in their period until they went to the bathroom and only use pads or tampons like a diaper when they’re lazy. Oh honey....
YOU GUYYYYSSS I posted a negative review for the place I got my wedding dress (nothing false all true thank you next) and promptly got this email. Wow.
Got our patient surveys back from the whole peds hospital from the past year and among my favorite complaints are: 1. We don’t have coke. 2. Why do you only have diet soda? 3. The admission questions were annoying. 4. We bother them too much. 5. A mom had to feed her own kid.
Report from outside hospital:
“Their hemoglobin was 10.6 yesterday and is now 4.7”
“... are you giving them blood right now?“
“No, there’s no signs of them bleeding.”
🤦🏼♀️ seriously.
Sometimes as healthcare workers we do too way much to keep people alive… it’s hard to watch them suffer. The blessing and the curse of modern day medicine.
Our employer is opening another hospital ONLY for COVID-19 both rule our and confirmed cases and is asking for volunteer nurses to staff it but won’t provide:
- enough adequate PPE
- scrubs to change
- shower areas
- on call rooms for nurses
- hazard pay
Ok good luck sir.
I love driving into work and getting message after message from staffing saying they’re desperate for staff and offering bonuses for people to come in. I want a bonus for working short staffed plz and thanks.
The amount of boujee baby items my friends put on their registry?!!?? I cant. Ma’am I can not buy you a $1.5k bassinet or a $500 breast pump. I’m poor. How about a cute outfit and a book.
LOL just got something in the mail from our major league baseball team here that they’re looking for nurse VOLUNTEERS to work for them this next season. Im sorry… you’re a major league team and you can’t pay for healthcare providers to work for you? Nah I’m out.
Got yelled at for paging the on call surgeon last night. Responsed with “oh I’m sorry are you on call? Then expect there may be a call when your pt is tanking. This is your job.” I’m not dealing with your crap today.
A girl at my gym came up to me mid workout asking if I was with this guy that was near us (I had no idea who he was). She said she noticed he’d been following me around the gym and taking pictures. So we reported his ass to the front desk and he got kicked out. WHY DO MEN
I work with immunosuppressed kids. It’s 100% better for them if I call in sick when I’m ill. Yes, it could leave my team short but I’d rather do that then get a kiddo even more sick. It’s a double edged sword, what edge are you on? In reality we need better staffing.
I remember nursing school hammering it into our heads how expensive it is to train new staff and how we need to stay somewhere to make it worth it. While it may be expensive, can we also normalize leaving toxic work environments without guilt? Take care of yourself.
I keep getting mail from my old college asking for donations and... does anyone actually donate? I am poor and still paying back my loans. You do not deserve a donation. 🥴
We’ve had a lot of codes lately that leave these kiddos total cares and I am drained. Mentally, physically, emotionally. Drained. Healthcare is hard guys, really hard.
Why don’t I have the want to have kids? I’m hoping one day I do.... but man. I’m 28 and the thought of getting pregnant now makes me want to have a panic attack. I feel broken 😔
Sat next to a couple new grad nurses (they were VERY loud and obnoxious) at a restaurant tonight and overheard “Isn’t that every nurse’s dream? To just hook up with doctors in the supply closet after morning meds?”
.... oof hunny you have another thing coming.
Had a someone ask a toddler playing with a stethoscope if they were going to be a doctor some day and mom came back so quick with “nah if they’re smart they’ll become a nurse. They’re the ones that do everything and make miracles happen”.
Is it rude to make our wedding kid free or close to kid free? I have SO MANY cousins with kids I’d rather not pay for... but I don’t want to be rude either. Idk how to draw the line 😭
1. My advisor told me my 3.9 wouldn’t get into nursing school and to not even apply
2. I got a C in photography and almost didn’t get into nursing school.
3. My ATI NCLEX predictor told me I had a 64% chance of passing.
WELL I DID IT IN 4 YEARS AND PASSED IN 76 Qs so 💁🏼♀️
This weekend is Halloween, a full moon, and day light savings. Oh and I get to work all weekend. Say a prayer for all your healthcare worker friends, we’re not ok. 😭
Of course our patient load hasn’t changed either. And they group the rule out/Covid patients together so we usually have 3-4 patients each shift. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m tried y’all. I’m tired, burnt out and I need a break. 😔
Got an earful from a mom this morning because I was in their room all night. Listen lady, I’m sorry but I’m trying to not let your kid meet Jesus today. 🤷🏼♀️
Well buddy is here 💙 unfortunately took in some meconium and not tolerating it well so he’s in the NICU with a breathing tube for a few days. Hoping he can come home soon.
Me at work: answer all the phone calls no problem, call whoever I have to no second thought, & talks to people all day.
Me at home: ignores all phone calls, puts off making phone calls at all costs, & avoids all people.
🤷🏼♀️
What’s the weirdest/worst reason a pt or family has fired you? I had a dad fire me once because I was deep suctioning his kid and got a few specks of blood- he told me I was sucking his kids brains out and wouldn’t let me touch the kid again. He was serious.
Talking about buying a wedding dress with the fiancé:
“How much are they like $100-200? Why don’t you just buy one that’s fit you so you don’t have to pay to get it altered?”
The ENT doc brought her son into work today and profusely apologized because she couldn’t find a sitter and had to round quick on her kids. The kiddo told me he wants to be just like his mom when he grows up. GIRL. You’re a super mom. Rock it.
Listen, and I can’t say this enough. DONT CO SLEEP. Working in an ICU and seeing the effects of it… just don’t do it. Doesn’t matter how “safe” you think you are, it could still happen to you.
New grad I’m precepting told me she can’t wait til she’s done with orientation so she can take EA (excused absences- overstaffed you can stay home) because she’s in NP school and working is too overwhelming
WHY DID YOU EVEN GET A JOB?!
The hard part of working 12s is I’m SO excited to go home and crawl into bed but also don’t want to go to bed because that means I have to wake up soon and go back to work 🙃
You know those days where all your patients are so sick and busy that you feel like you can’t give 100% to any of them? Today was that day. Just feeling inadequate.