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Worst Parts of Nursing: What I Dislike About Being a Nurse
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 14. 08. 2024
- What's the worst part about being a nurse? What do I dislike about the nursing profession? Those are great questions.
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But most of my nursing students (in my first aid courses) say that your lectures are the best part of being a nurse or student!
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Sarah Madam @Please share your view about male nursing
I've been a nurse for 23 years. The hard part is watching MEAN nurses treat other nurses in a rude way. I hate that part. I also hate the politics and red tape- I want to be at patient's bedside, not at a computer bogged down in paper work. :) Nursing is an amazing way to show compassion and love to others in the hardest times of their lives.
It's this acting mean to each other ridiculous and unprofessional. Something needs to be done about this. For God sake it's takes a team effort for a good outcome for the patient and families.
oh yes i totally agree with that. i work for the local army hospital and red tape is almost our middle name lol.
I'm a student and have been told "nurses eat their young". It seems to be a reality, possibly due to stress coping. That said it's important for me (in my situation) to recognize this. I hope to lead in a different direction personally. Thank you for sharing your comment.
U are a good nurse!
Thats how it was when I started. Esp one nurse in particular. The last hospital did me in. Accused me of being on drugs during my shift. I was given a bad assignment, Im a diabetic on insulin & never once got to eat for 12 hours. I was immediately drug tested. Came back 100% clean. But they fired me because I didn't finish my charting. I couldn't because they pulled me off because of the drug test.
The worst part of nursing are the expectations. Iâve been a nurse for three years and I still feel overwhelmed a lot of times. It can be discouraging and scary sometimes when I come across a new situation and am not completely sure how to deal with it.
By far, calling a family to tell them that their loved one has died. Short staffing, excessive workloads, and negative coworkers make the list as well. But as you know, these things pale in comparison to the fulfillment of nursing.
Agree with you staffing, workloads
Well said!
doctors do the phone calls. im a doctor. dont try take our position lmao. get back to the bed pans
I think another awful part of nursing is the unspoken hierarchy that exists. Doctors look down nurses who look down on aides. It is so annoying, toxic, and overall frustrating because at the end of the day it is the patient who loses out. This is one of the core issues that need to leave hospitals if they want to improve EMPLOYEE satisfaction.
Sara, I've been a Frontline nurse for 35 years, I don't belive what has happened to the profession, its very,very discouraging! But I do believe that if a least all the nursing instructors were like you, new nurses would be better prepared to face the reality. Thank you for the video, really love them!
I second Heidi, I'm a nursing student and fairly young and am so curious how it was before and what has changed!
@@heidih3048 me too. R u doing bsc nursing? I m a second year student âșïž
I am SO excited about becoming a nurse but I'm praying that I'm am able to dodge nurse bullying. I've had a little taste in school but I'm hoping I'm placed in a healthy work environment! Thank you for all of your videos đ€!
Nice
Good luck in your nursing career, I am sure you will be great. Always remember to leave a smile on at least one person face everyday.
We learned to report it until it stops.
Just remember it's them with the problem of bullying and let it go. Don't be shock if patients treat you better than the staff. Best wishes. Something really needs to be done about this though. Be yourself and don't get caught up in the clicks. It's like high school. đ€Šââïž
Good luck. Nursing school is the worst for bullying in my opinion. It's because so many instructors encourage it. Once I graduated I haven't dealt with much bullying since and when I do see it, it doesn't bother me as much
I think the challenge of a new nurse is not having a mentor to coach the new RN. Sometimes a new RN do not do their 100% of their procedures in the clinical setting as a Student Nurse. So the challenge lies where the physician ask you to do a particular procedure, and the new nurse doesn't know what to do at that point which can be overwhelming.
I haven't learned anything in clinical. I have done nothing hand's on. I sure hope I get an adequite training program!
This is my exact fear! Having done an accelerated program during a pandemic I may have learned some skills in lab but had very minimal Clincial experience so starting work in a month is a great feeling but very daunting too
The worst part for me is having to pick up the slack of lazy nurses. Donât be a lazy nurse! Your coworkers donât like you. And if you donât know who the lazy nurse is at your job, itâs probably you. đ
Lol dang!!! I hope to god that's not the case.
*110% with you on that. lazy nurses who loves to pass their workload and who doesn't clean up and replenish the med carts. lazy nurses you know who are. always complain there's nothing to do or bored at work! I feel sorry for the patients to have those type of nurses on the floor opps i meant sitting on the chair*
Oh we all know who they are lol
You are absolutely right! And we can be able to identify them quickly!
Nurses just likes to complain. Eat their youngs
The disorganization, (nothing ever goes as planned), the constant starting and stopping of different tasks before you can get finished with even one, lazy and rude coworkers, long hours.... and yet I know it's my calling..
Thank you so much for your content.I passed my NCLEX and used 75% of what you have to offer. đ€đ€đ€đ€
Awesome ! How do you like nursing ?
I am a nursing student and have been working as a CNA for 6 years. I'm glad I chose to be a CNA first because it helps me see what nursing would be like. Now that I am closer to my graduation, I am facing imposter syndrome. The anxiety of "will I be a great nurse?", "what if I can't do XYZ?", "what if I screw up?" One of my friends, a former CNA became a nurse and I remember listening to her talking and crying about her first few weeks as a new RN.
I will be graduating this December and can't wait to be registered nurse but also so worried about all these. But knowing about these before jumping in to the field is better than not knowing at all and hit me in the face. Thanks for sharing!
The third thing....itâs like you are speaking for me!!! Iâm a new nurse and the expectation to provide adequate care for 8 patients is absolutely overwhelming. I donât eat, pee, or ever leave on time. I love so much about nursing, I just wish I was able to be the type of nurse I want to be...itâs not possible with our nurse/patient ratio đ
I learned that the hard way because I had gotten sooo depressed and exhausted. Never forget yourself. If you need to go to the bathroom or grab a drink, please do! Its vital to take care of yourself no matter what. When I'm thirsty, it only takes a few seconds to grab a cup of water. Everything can wait for 60 to 90 seconds if someone isnt coding. Since taking this frame of mind, I swear it's a little bit more bearable.
I'm sorry but did you say 8 patients??
what type of unit are you on where you have 8? I hope its not med sure because that would be ridiculous.
So true!!
8? I could hardly do 6. God bless
The worse parts for me about being a nurse is the work load involved, working long hour shifts and seeing patients deteriorate despite putting all the effort needed to save their lives.
The worst part is the family members that come in for 10 minutes every few days to visit their bed bound AxO 1 family members and complain about every little thing and tell the nurse they are not doing an adequate job of caring for their family member (when really you are giving amazing care).
Tell the family member to get a chair and seat beside the bed all day. They should care for loved one since they feel you ainât doing enough.
I have been working as a nurse since March. So far the things that drive me nuts are:
âRoad blocksâ: my way of saying a sudden change in the plan of care in some way. Example: patient suddenly pulls out their IV (and they are a hard stick). So I have to stop what Iâm doing and attempt to put a new one in. Sometimes this is a failure so I have to get someone else involved to help me. It basically holds me up for a while. Hence it is a roadblock UGH!
Difficult patients (for me on my floor this can also be mental health patients) they can be rude, crude and assaultive (I had a coworker get punched in the face repeatedly a couple of months ago. She is ok but she had to go to the ER which caused staffing issues since she missed a few days)
Computer issues: My MAR says patient A gets a Norco at noon but the Pyxuis machine says she does not. Holy cow I see red and lose it. Lol
I have been a nurse for nearly 1.5 years now and I would say the part I dislike most about nursing so far in my nursing career is: patients that deteriorate despite your best efforts, and rude patients/family members. The worst part about patients that decline is that I have questioned if there is something I could have (or maybe shouldn't have) done that caused or could have helped the situation. Usually with rude patients/family members the main issue is due to their fear for themselves/their loved one they want you to be in the room all of the time which I would love to do and feel awful (at times) that I can't do but I have to take care of all of the patients that I have been entrusted with and get everything that is needing to be done done.
That being said, I love what I do and have seen beautiful moments even in the midst of a patient declining (e.g. I had a patient once who had severe dementia and had developed sepsis and that patient's family decided to let the patient die naturally and I got to be part of making that patient comfortable in their last hours surrounded by their loved ones) and in rude patients/family members if I was able to get to why they were scared/angry/frustrated and work with them to feel like their concerns were heard.
I have been a nurse for 16 years and the worst part for me has been the hours and missing time with my family.
The worst part of nursing is the emotional and physical strain on one's body, mind and heart ⣠I also do not like placing NG tubes in. My biggest pet peeve is staff being rude to each other, including doctors. Please, love each other. âź
I agree. That's why I left Nursing 6 years ago after working for only 3 years as an RN (I hold a BSN). The amount of stress was too much to handle & not worth sacrificing my mental & physical health for tbh... I'll be starting my PhD in Linguistics next year. Wish me luck!!
@@fatimasrour313 GOOD LUCK FATIMA! I also love language and nursing. Oh well, at least, your a multirounded person and you have experiences in different facets of life. Your gonna do great. Much love xx
@@fatimasrour313 Good luck!! You're going to do great :) Linguistics is so interesting
As a new nurse: the unreasonable (as in nearly psychotic) expectations of some patients, meanwhile the hospital needs those expectations met for HCAPS
All of this.
Yes! And the personal struggle with you wanting to be there for all of your patients whenever they need or want something but learning that you can't always be there at the exact moment a patient is needing something which most patients thankfully understand, but some patients seem to expect their nurse/nurse assistant/other care team member to be in their room most of the time and are upset if you can't be. I had a patient once (I used to work on a trauma/orthopedics hospital unit) and I promised this patient (which I shouldn't have done) that I would try to come to their room every hour to give them Fentanyl as they had a high pain medication tolerance, and little did I know I would have to give blood shortly after I said that, so I wasn't able to get back to that patient's room until nearly 2 hours later and their loved one chewed me out so hard, even after I explained the situation.
@@NurseLady7 well.. Mam i m a second year bsc nursing student reading all this and thinking abt myself doing the same thing in future. Little bit scary and tough đȘ
Short staffing, senior nurses eating their young nurses, senior nurse managers treating young nurses like their kids, nurses have to take everyone responsibilities, care of category 4 patients, lazy nurses, selfish nurses, nurses who believe they are more knowledgeable than others, documentation, coding, dealing with visitors, disrespectful patients and those patients who are ungrateful
I work on a medicine unit where 80% of times we get complex hx of addiction or IVDU and behaviour challenges pts in Vancouver, Ca. There are some times when I have 3 out 4 pts are with addictions or they leave AMA. But I am proud to say that we have very good support system around us. The staff work as a team. But now I am ready to move on; in January I am moving to PACU.
Right now we are COVID unit since April. But still I am not tired. Sometimes frustrated with the challenging behaviour, but I guess that the part of our job sadly âčïž
I am very thankful for your videos. all through nursing school , you helped me a lottttt. Keep doing what you doing. God Bless You! â€ïž
Nursing student here and I love the nursing profession and I know this is the right job for me but it really is super overwhelming and can be discouraging and no one else understands except other nurses
Omg I agreed with you đŻ percent. Itâs hard for others really to understand
Nurses get blamed for everything that goes wrong.
Yesđ!!
Youre not protected from patients. And if you argue that you have rights you'll be blacklisted. Several of my coworker were sexually harassed and assaulted by a patient and they were too afraid to call the police like they're allowed to.
Thank you for making this video. I am a new grad nurse and I worked on Med surg floor for about 10months and I get scared all the time whenever I arrive at the hospital to start my shift. Everytime something new happens during my shift, and many of times I do not know what to do what to even start. I hope things get better soon cuz I really want to be a great nurse knowing everythingđ€Łđđ
I am a Life Coach for nurses and recently stumbled across your page. All is can say is THANK YOU. This is such helpful information as I learn how to best serve my clients and help heal the true healers.
The worst part about being a nurse is the customer service element. I spend more time doing customer service and catering to the families than taking care of the patients. 75 to 80 percent of my shift is NON-medical work. I left nursing 5 years ago! THANK GOD!
Wow 5years , so what do you do now?
@@zorrabanks I work for a medical supply company that does wearable defibrillators and work as a NP.
I can't wait to get back to Registered Nursing! It is truly my passion. The good, Bad, and the Ugly! I LOVE IT!
Thank you RN Sarah for your insights.
I'm in an accredited Nursing college , and you are giving me real help to my future.
Your channel is really a treasure in Nursing.
Too many visitors (pre-covid). One is enough except end-of-life. No room to work. Do 5 of your cousins need to see that you injured your ankle? Visitors can be very rude and unreasonable as well.
iâm about halfway done with my program and am just struggling to see the light at the end ... itâs soo hard and people not in nursing donât realize how hard it is
Definitely agree. I'm 3/4 done and it's fucking rough with all the high expectations. Last year I was in a really bad mental state, but thankfully I've gotten better. It's definitely harder than anything anyone can imagine if they are not IN it...lol. Good luck!!
So so so accurate. It is so fulfilling but man oh man it can be ALOT! The worst part for me was the carelessness of management. The ones that are in offfice and not on the floor. They seem to forget how overwhelming it can be and make crazy demands and expectations.
Ahhh so true! The real life lessons you donât learn in nursing school. Great video!
In my second week of night shift orientation as an RN and the first night I took six patients I had one who went into respiratory distress and another code đ .
Hi Sarah I am so relieved listening to your videos , especially this one.. I remember back in my early days taking care of I sick patient. I used to be Soo emotional. really thing that I could take away the pain and discomfort from my patient . I could literally feal their pain.. especially looking at them seeing that they are so vulnerable. I use to think.. hey maybe I could do things differently .. my daughter was the one who use to encourage me.
Secondly I use to have problem managing my time.. but over time I learned.. man I use to be so exhausted.
For me, the worst part of being a nurse in my country, (Caribbean island), is the lack of good management, leadership, and harsh treatment from senior nurses, and nurses in upper management. In my land, nurses are their own worst enemies and the nurses eat their young. They kill the enthusiasm new nurses have for the beginning of their careers, buy year 5 most are burnt out. Culture has overtaken the profession.
That's what killed my interest earlier in Nursing, I'll be graduating this month but am sad because despite my effort I came out with 2.2 degree, the most painful thing is that some lecturers do have students that favors them and give them good grades than you despite your hard work.
Thank you for all the videos, After 7 years I am finally a Registered Nurse.
Thank you SaraRN. I'm early in a BSN program in my late 30s. This was a helpful gut check. Also thank you for all of you content you've given me to help study.
Best
Six of us males graduated in a sea of females. ALL six of us have left nursing. The nurse to client ratio in IN is terrible! In FL an CA by law it is 1:7 and 1:5. (It was 1:50 in IN for me at one nursing home.) No ratio law. in nursing homes!!! That is a very very poor level of care. Oh and they want you to not take breaks and clock out to finish record keeping. And it's your license at stake!
What yal doing now?
Men need to stay out of nursing anyways đ
Girl! You are glowing! Havenât kept up with your videos for a while, but Omgee you look amazing! Motherhood looks good on you! đđ
Ungrateful and non-compliant patients. Patients assumption that you must know everything and have the solution for everything.
I agree!!
Not to mention ungrateful rude doctors and family members. Lazy co-workers.
As a nurse we sacrifice so much for the betterment of the patients that we put of health in jeprody...like not taking breaks cause we have task to complete
Well done...Being a nurse is rewarding and the best career. It is definitely not about the money! The good, wellness, healing, the bad, loses, disregard, now add COVID...from my experience there are many nurses who will not survive increasing empathy and compassion fatigue, burnout, work violence, lack of resources, stress, lack of support, tiredness...sadly and inappropriately present before COVID. It is going to get worse before it gets better. This is a tremendous burden for Americans. When COVID is under control, Healthcare teams and other Americans must believe, unite, and stand for healthcare changes and healthcare for everyone đ Nurses are caring, compassionate, loving, rarely say no, they give and give, their patients come first â€ïž.
Petty ass nurses. I have one here that cut up a happy birthday banner so the other nurse couldnât use it for someone she dislikes. â ïž
I have learned to deal with hard cases, difficult situations through good coping skills. Working out and just âvegging outâ helps me unwind. Gotta take care of yourself before others fam! â€ïž
Ruth R. Oh wow! What a psycho
What would we do without Sarah during COVID nursing school! You have been a lifesaver. Thank you!
Hi sarah !
From this video i get know that i have to be mentally strong enough to release that we are caregivers not god that we can save everyone and we shouldn't fell guilty about not able to safe someone's life. đ
You are the absolute sweetest and such an inspiration. God bless.
How did you manage your time in studying, reading, and passing exams. Iâm a first year nursing student and Iâm in health assessment, health promotion and pathophysiology. Everything is virtual and itâs a nightmare.
I know right, it's so god damn stressful, all those online classess...I'm a second-year here, and doing my final exams, and I can't believe I'm doing exams online and so early, cause usually I will expose to clinicals first, get some experience out of it, then only have our final exams, but due to this pandemic, my god, I only have 3 months to study till finals included classess
I literally feel the same. Itâs the WORST on zoom and so much more exhausting for some reason đ«. Iâm also taking health assessment and the lab is a challenge đ
I only work 1 day a week and all kids are grown and gone but 1 who is self sufficient. I let others know i am not available to do anything and wherever I go I carry study material. I dont answer the phone or door if studying and do not have many responsibilities. I havent cleaned my house in months. Studying is my life currently. Well worth it lol
@@jls5303 awesome! Well, I mean kind of. So sorry for you others.
For me, 7+ years as a technician and now a senior nursing student; the worst parts about nursing is the staff members who bring their personal problems and attitudes from home to work. Such staff tend to let their personal attitudes impede on the quality of teamwork which impedes on prompt and efficient patient care. I never understood why nursing staff tend to let their social aspects at work interfere with teamwork and patient care. Another part of nursing that I donât like is how nursing staff can tend to spread news about their colleagues/gossiping with other bedside employees. Lastly, I dislike that eat your young mentality is still a thing in the world of nursing. Otherwise, my experiences both as a tech and student nurse have been nothing but great and my passion for this field will ALWAYS trump over my dislikes of this field.
You played a crucial role in helping me pass my NCLEX examination,can't thank you enough đđđ
Hi Sarah you are very honest and knowledgeable and passionate .keep up the good work. Can you do some EKG interpretation, am sure its gonna be easy to get with you. Greatly appreciated
I love these points, thanks for sharing this was great
You made me learn a lot every time I watch your videos â€ïž đ
Awesome lecture đđ
Thanks for posting videos that are so helpful & honest. I love this channel.
Having been a CNA, I decided not to pursue nursing for these main reasons- 1. Physical strain 2. Nurse to patient ratio 3. Hospital system. I had knee and back problems at 20 years old because we had to lift and transfer so much every day, and I am a small person. We didnt have enough help.
If I were to reconsider becoming a nurse I would do home health so I could be 1 on 1 and give the kind of care each patient deserves, not try to split myself in 15 pieces, and have to witness neglect due to healthcare worker shortage. Hospitals often bring in more patients than the care team can handle in order to increase profit. :( Also, hospitals can enable their patients to remain sick because they can easily become despondent and depressed, refuse exercise, and order cake from the kitchen. Indeed they can get worse at the hands of a 1,000 dollar a day bed (on the cheaper side!). Patients need more mental health support built into the hospital system. Long term/hospice care would be so much more effective from home, when possible.
I'm a plasma nurse and it is my first job, and its really hard to apply for acute care jobs bc all facilities want you to have acute care experience first. And it's sooo hard to apply. I'm almost done with my 2 years at this plasma center and I need to move on. You literally don't even do any nursing things at the plasma clinic, it is almost like public health but not even to that level, and whenever there's an emergency that comes up, I literally can't do anything, bc there's nothing I can do. I am just seeking some advice on how to be more confident when applying. I know I am capable of doing so much, but I really feel like I need a lot of training. I just want to know if hospitals are willing to train nurses that are not really new grad but kinda, and some advice on how to be more confident applying.
Apply for med surg then transfer đ€·ââïž
Thank you for sharing this video. Iâm so sick of videos of nurses that post videos why they quit. I deeply feel like nurses are angels because of all their hard work. I know itâs not for everyone but you knew this before you start school. Iâm in nursing school & itâs so discouraging seeing nurses bash their jobs.
hey thanks for your input on what you think is the worse part of being a nurse. i have to agree with you 100%, i also think the demands that the patients put on us is another aspect to to nurse i don't like. i have no problem helping you learn about your disease process and the medications you take for them but you should know the medications you take!! i have to tell my patients all the time to keep a list on them and when they discontinue a medication put a line through it and date it so you know when you stopped taking it. it just gets under my skin when they come in for an appointment and say "it's a small green pill" well how many of those exist!! lol
I'm gonna get flak for this, no doubt:
It's not admin, it's not providers, it's not patients, its not even the family members (although that last one can be a problem, let's be real).
People are people, the are who they are, and I learned to take a form of pity for those who are outwardly disrespectful to others.
It's the gender imbalance in this field
I'm working in a facility/floor with 25 chicks and 4 other guys, I'm gonna get into some kind of trouble or offend someone. Unless I don't talk to anyone but those guys. Which is fine cause they end up being long-time friends
Same in nursing school, same in every healthcare environment I've worked in. I hope the move to the ER is a different situation
EDIT:
About nurses "eating their young". This is absurd.
New grads experience this a lot due to the thought "They (older, more experienced staff) must not like me because I'm new and inexperienced". This is simply not the case
What is happening is a social issue. A seasoned medical professional has a certain confidence about them. We can sense it in others. If you portray that, you subconsciously are telling us YOU ARE A WORTHY MEMBER OF THE TEAM. If that is not felt, well, they will quietly (or loudly) try and push you out.
However, this will happen a significantly lower amount if you are working with more men than women. And you know what, there's a lot of truth to that.
I can tell you this: clinical know-how is great, but you will have a MUCH MUCH MUCH better/easier time with this if you're good with people. Practice good body language and develop some sort of street smarts
Justin Foley Iâm a woman and I agree
It shouldnât be like that though..
I'm a new nurse and almost done with orientation. I feel like im.not ready still ...had a month extention already . I have 6 pt load and the floor is very fast paced . I'm already feeling overwhelmed, stressed , scared, inadequate....like I have help now with my preceptor but I dont know how ill do this alone !! Its sooo much work ! I'm terrified ill miss something , forget to do something, miss an important med , not correctly assess a patient and miss something , miss a doctor order ....not be able to document effectively and manage time .... sometimes I'm so damx tired I feel like i can't think things through properly . Half the times we have no techs ....so its twice the work ....im just sooo scared and nervous . Im at the point of wanting to go back and work as a tech instead of an RN lol . Idk what to do .... i don't want to be embarrassed by coming off orientation and looking crazy or asking for more time and looking crazy ..... some advice would be nice
Donât sit in your suffering. Ask for more time on orientation.
Right now i just wanna pass my nclex exam thank you so much Sara your video is helping all people in the world... all world nurse love you so much
I was a Dialysis nurse for 20+ years. Don't do it.
The worst thing about nursing? That lazy/sloppy coworker. There's always that "RN" that has the hardest time managing their time and workplace relationships.. Totally toxic
@Anna S interesting perspective.
I just started nursing school & I'm struggling in my chemistry class. Are there any helpful tips or advice you can give me to help me get better/pass?
Iâm currently in my last semester and I donât think i want to do this anymore. What can I do without going back to school?
Iâll finish the degree cuz I have to but what now ?
Your video is so amazing Sarah both in the content and the speech!
Thank you so much for posting this... I really needed to hear this đ
watching this while studying for the NCLEX lol
I'm a little worried but excited to start soon!!
Can you set boundaries and be like "Hey, for me to give the best possible care, I need to take care of myself ... and go to the bathroom."? Or is that not allowed?
Number 3! Was it for me! So overwhelming đ
Mom was a nurse at a veterans home.
I must add Surgeon Egos to the list!
Dealing with families.
I get to choose if I'll shift to Nursing this second sem but the thought that I won't be good enough as a nurse and there could be a patient that might die in my hands. I can't do it.
Well i had planned to start nursing school in 2020... Then 2020 happened...so i picked fitness & health instead
What exactly are you doing?? I was in between doing pta and lvn. I like the options with nursing and career advancements but I feel pta would be more chill. Although not as much room for growth...
Awesome video! New nurses take note
I wanna be a nurse. After watching this video. I am very confident and I felt better.
I am in my final year I need this.
Yes this is sooo true!! In addition to that dealing with difficult and mean patients, family and coworkers!!đđ
You could work in a factory and get paid the same amount of money with about 5% of the stress.
What factory work pays 100k +
Truth đđœ figuring it out as a new nurse can be overwhelming. đ skipping bathroom breaks is real...taking patient to the bathroom while your bladder is bursting đ€Ł
#1. NURSES HAVE TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY WITH NO ACTUAL POWER. If a doctor doesnât order something or orders the wrong thing, the nurse is considered responsible because she/he should have questioned the orders or lack of them. If the room is not clean, the nurse is considered responsible and, yes, I spend 20-30 minutes cleaning a room after it has been cleaned and I do get on my knees to clean the floor. Housekeeping says it will mop a floor, but will not clean the floor. Huh? If a med doesnât arrive in a timely fashion, nursing is considered responsible. If a pt doesnât like the food, nursing is considered responsible. If the lab is late in drawing blood, nursing is held responsible. If any department does not do what is expected, nursing is considered responsible. If a patient does not want to comply with what the doctor has ordered, the nurse is considered responsible for getting this compliance. My favoriteâŠ.if the doctor does not talk with the patient or the patients family, the nurse is considered responsible. In none of these cases does the nurse have the power to make anything happen. All we can do is ask nicely, try to explain, or do it ourselves. Almost forgot, the nurse is not the entertainment committee. I did have a patient call me in because he was bored, at 3am. I explained that this was the time to rest, that he had TV, but there were no âactivitiesâ in the ICU. I still have no idea what he expected me to do. About 15 minutes later his wife called in to complain that I had not adequately dealt with her husbandâs needs. I guess I am also responsible for entertainment. Who knew?
#2. EXPECTATIONS ARE UNREALISTIC. Patients come in with many years of chronic conditions which they may or may not have taken care of, usually not. Now they are acutely ill and they expect to leave the hospital in perfect health. Then they and their family get angry with nursing because their expectations were unrealistic. Nurses cannot give you strength when you have spent 30 years only moving from chair to bed. We cannot magically remove the extra 150+ pounds that you carry along with the health problems that come with it. We cannot get your blood glucose under control when you insist on eating all the candy and fast food you or your family brought in to the hospital. We cannot magically remove your addictions and the health problems they caused. Nurses can only help and guide you to the best level of health you can achieve, we cannot undo the damage you or time have already done.
#3 NURSING IS PHYSICALLY DEMANDING/INJURIOUS, especially when under staffed. After my first back injury it was explained to me that in areas of socialized medicine, careers are grouped by medical problems. Nursing is grouped with professional athletes because of the type, severity, and frequency of injuries we sustain. For every single pain I have, I can tell you which patient it is associated with. The exception is my knee pain which occurred when housekeeping tried out a new floor wax, which turned out to be slippery when attempting to reposition a patient.
Yes, nursing can be great, but unfortunately it also comes with conditions that foster burnout
Working in ICU, we have so many priorities in patient care. Getting âiceâ for friends/family is NOT one of them (before COVID). I have a problem when patient visitors think we are waitresses. Especially my female colleagues who get that negative treatment more often than I do. I always stand up for myself and my female colleagues in patient education/etiquette. In ICU, Our priority is to keep you alive and comfort you, NOT your guests. If you have an active DNR, then our priority is to comfort you.
thank you for sharing :)
Thank you for sharing!
Nursing school is probably the worse experience I had so far been a student nurse..
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I don't blame you. I've had instructors have screaming matches with students with all of us in the room.
Definitely. Nursing instructors are insane LOL
For me, the worst part (as a brand new Nurse) was that same repeated comment from some experienced Nurses; "Oh...didn't they teach that to you in Nursing School!" The message that I was receiving was that I was either too dumb to grasp a concept/skill or I some how elected not to learn something; this really baffled me; I confess that I would get to the low point of saying in no uncertain terms; "I don't want to here that B# one more time....No! they didnt teach me that in Nursing School because if they did I wouldn't be asking now!" Important observation here; the busiest Nurses with the most work load, seldom, if ever, presented this way.....this toxic comment seemed to be reserved for the Nurses that I wouldn't let work on a sick goldfish. I could never imagine Nurse Sarah ever being anything but helpful and charming. Anyway, my two cents on it.
I love her southern tone.đ so excited to become a Nurse. Also scared at the same time.
Can you please do a cvc dressing change?
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The current mode of mental healthcare drives me absolutely bonkers. When someone comes in with "a history of depression" which is causing medical issues, hospitals are really good at fixing the symptoms and not the actual problem (whatever is contributing to the depression), often making the problem worse by socially isolating them in the process. I feel like I'm wasting their time & mine, trying to follow protocols and barely finding a moment to talk with them about what's really going on.
Just had to point out your eyebrows are on point
Nurses do get blamed for a lot. Love this video! So true!
Management is annoying. Checking us at 0200 and making sure we are doing our job
I hate to some nurses are not doing the procedures as required, an instead they use a lot of shortcuts
I graduated BSN April 2020 and passed Ă© board exam July 2021 ( exams got postponed 3x) and currently working as a staff nurse rn (Aug 2021 ) but i'm not happy now huhu đ„ș
i regret everything rn đŁ
I found the worst bit about nursing was everyone you interact with having the possibility of âkarening outâ over the slightest thing. The dread before a new admission still hurts my chest. All the life and death critical stuff was fine.
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