A Message On Burnout, Featuring Dr. Vivek Murthy
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- Опубліковано 3 гру 2021
- BIG thanks to Dr. Murthy and the office of the surgeon general for this collaboration. It was a lot of fun. I thoroughly enjoyed our 2 hour hyponatremia discussion.
I also want to sincerely thank all the health care workers who have carried us through the last 32 waves of this pandemic. Without you we’d have to hire a lot more critical care ophthalmologists, and nobody wants that.
Thanks for all the comments. Love people talking about specifics. Patient ratios, more pay. Keep talking about these things. I agree with you. I’ve made videos about it. I’m just trying to do what I can with my platform to bring attention to these issues and I really do think the right people are listening. Thanks for being here.
This small steps are gonna bring the big changes in our field one day... revolution has started... At least we have stopped gloryfying this mess and come forward to protest for our humane rights and needs
Thank YOU for starting the conversation, in a great way. I'm a civilian person. I'm going to college for Psychology and Sexual Science, so not the medical field per se but, we really need changes.
This was great 👍 it's weird to say but I am so proud of you!!!
Did you ever think you'd have the surgeon general on your channel?
Good for you!!!!
We absolutely DON’T need "more collaborative models of care", which is code for solutions that are actually inferior/dangerous care delivered by poorly trained folks who (along with the organizations that hire them) are not held accountable for their incompetence and who increase overall cost of care.
What we need is nurses to be COVID vaccinated and to create incentives for them to stick to bedside nursing (and remove incentives for them to do other things), and to incentivize physicians to choose primary care.
Let's also talk about how nurses and support staff were laid off last spring when hospitals only cared about their bottom line --- and now these same hospitals are crying for help, offering huge sign on bonuses to lure back the same people who were tossed aside. Oh but don't fret! The CEO of our local system still makes millions. With an S, that was not a typo.
My goodness! The Surgeon General of the USA, no less, is apparently a member of the Glauc Flock! And he loves sodium!
LOVES IT
@@DGlaucomflecken Did Ortho bro already try to make dr. Murphy admit his patients?
@@henk-3098 the patient has sodium!
Me a non american: **Sees a important looking dude** oh shit.. oh damn... Nice
Katyusha The Surgeon General in the US is roughly equivalent to a Minister of Health in other nations. He’s the head of Public Health in the US and is appointed by the President.
It’s a big deal that Dr Murthy is in this video.
Thanks for watching! I promised Dr. Murthy this would get 1 million likes, please don’t make me a liar
U know you've made it when u get to collab with non other than THE Surgeon General! 👏👏👏 Proud of u Dr G❤
One of the best ones I've seen. No one makes videos as good as you, sincerely.
Posting on all social media!
Alright, fine. Have your like. Did you know him before he became SG?
Now if only we could get the Surgeon General to address safer nurse to patient ratios instead of simply saying it's a "complex issue"
Just quit my job as ER nurse to take a month off, the last two years have been brutal. I have nothing but respect for everyone practicing medicine, especially right now. The night is always darkest before the dawn, see you all back out there soon!
You did the right thing, I hope you will get get to rest as much as you need!
That's awesome hun. Thank you for working so hard under shitty circumstances. Our mental, physical and sexual health are all connected. Please take care of yourself. 💜
Same here. Definitely considered walking out and never coming back to medicine quite a few times over the last year and a half. After 3 months off the job, I feel much more emotionally stable. I actually feel QUITE stronger. Thanks to the pandemic of all things. Honestly if we can handle something like that, angry pts, and poor administration is a walk in the park compared to the last 24 months. I hope you get back into nursing at some point. I'm sure we all love what we do, just not times like those.
Enjoy your time off! It’s well deserved!
Sad that you need to quit to get time off for something caused by work. Hope you're feeling better soon
This is quite a flex, doctor 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I know right? Few people can say they've made a collab with Dr. G himself. That funny surgeon guy sure is lucky!
I see it as more of a gift...to all his colleagues, worldwide...rather than "a flex".
It's so polite to offer the hyponatremia alternative. Who wouldn't enjoy a good electrolyte hype session?
Right!!??
Me to myself: 🙂 *Just Smile and nod….*
Personally, I prefer the more robust hemoglobin dissociation curve. 😁
Why do I immediately think about Chubby Emu after hearing the word hyponatremia - as in “low sodium presence in blood” 😆
@@trappedoctopus or swearing 🤬. 😁
As a patient, I try to let my care team (I have Parkinson’s) know they’re appreciated. Morning appointment? I bring homemade muffins. Otherwise, seasonal treats - teas and ginger snaps, or something from the garden (zucchini bread, anyone?) - next week’s appointment is Christmas cookies. It’s not much, but the smiles are worth it!
It means a lot :)
You don't have to... But what a kindness. ♥️
This truly means so much. It can really brighten your day to have appreciative patients.
That’s so kind :)
as a resident, who’s finishing up 8 years of training-i can say that the simplest gestures (and a smile) go the furthest to both physicians and the rest of the staff. thank you!
I am an emergency medicine resident and might be suffering more from burnout than I realized because this actually made me full on cry. I’m so tired of covid and it just doesn’t stop 😢
Hey Alex, ran across your comment 10 months down the track. Just checking in with you, hope you're doing okay. Hello from Australia.
I really hope you are doing better now.😔
How's it now?
❤️❤️❤️ Hugs from a burned out ICU nurse ❤️❤️❤️
I hope your life is easier now 🧡
This is spot on. The nursing shortage is deeply impacting healthcare in all quarters. I work at a large children's hospital and we just don't have the staffing we need to fill all our beds. Many of our nurses are working 18 hour shifts, going home to sleep, and coming back to work 6 hours later. The burnout is real.
Corona virus took its toll and Nurses chose to leave because of how incredibly challeging it was and still is ?
@@kmc9452 It's multifactorial. Burnout has definitely led to a lot of nurses taking a break from healthcare, or stopping altogether. A fairly large number of nurses have refused to get vaccinated against COVID, which has led to them being unemployable in most healthcare settings in the US. On top of that, most hospitals are operating at far above their usual capacity, which means that even if they haven't lost any nurses since the start of the pandemic, they still have a nursing shortage. Most hospitals have enough nurses for their average patient load, and then hire other nurses per diem or offer overtime when they need more to cover increased patient load. That is not sustainable over the two years of the pandemic. So in summary, you have losses of nursing staff both to burnout and refusal to vaccinate while also having a increased need for nurses.
@@crisrsmith very interesting, considering the vaccine seems to be doing diddly
And that is a big part of the problem-the fact that nurses are willing to let themselves be abused because hospitals won’t hire more nurses. There is no other industry that abuses workers like healthcare. Nurses have to start standing up for themselves, they need to demand higher pay and more staff to lighten the heavy load. It is unsafe for anyone to work for 18 hours straight, over & over & over again, especially when human lives are at stake. When a patient is injured or dies from an error, the hospital is not going to stand behind the staff in a courtroom to support them-the hospital will throw staff under the bus to save itself. Administrators don’t appreciate what staff does-they only appreciate their tremendous bonuses that the burned out staff earned them. Time is the only thing in life that you can’t get back, so don’t waste it working like dogs so that the CEO & administrators can collect their overinflated salaries. Do your 37.5 hours every week and enjoy your life!!!!
NOW the nurses are “unemployable” b/c of vaccine mandates… I remember when they were healthcare heroes!!!! Most of whom already got and survived COVID so their ACTUAL immunity far exceeds what the “vaccine” doesn’t do… which is prevent the actual disease. They have altered the definition of vaccine because these don’t actually do what a true vaccine does!!! Why do I feel like I am taking crazy pills for even having to elaborate on this?!?! Sadly, this video felt like empty pandering - I think if I was a nurse I would be so disgusted and offended.
Almost spat out my coffee seeing Dr Murthy. What an honour! Proud of you doc-glauc!
I gasped!
I immediately looked up surgeon general and his face popped up. In awe.
Love that doctor Murthy appreciates a joke about his specialty 😄
And how about forgiving student loan debt that nurses are saddled with!
That would definitely reduce stress that nurses feel
Definitely this! Not having the payments for the past two years has been amazing; so much more money going back into the economy this way (if you have to think about it that way)
Yeah, social workers can have their student loans forgiven for working for a few years with child protective services. You’d think doctors could have their loans forgiven or reduced for working in certain areas or for certain populations.
People need better pay, better leave accrual, better staffing, actual sick leave (not just leave for all matters sick or not) actual paid holidays that don’t eat up your accrued leave (for those of us who get holidays, better recognition for what we do, better protection for nurses and staff when bullied, assaulted, harassed by patients, actually caring out the needs of the staff rather than the needs of the shareholders and top administration that do nothing but sit behind desks and give is busy work.
Spot on!
This is so true!! I work as a medical receptionist and it’s eating away at all medical professionals.
this is so true, my hospital finally approved a new PSL/PTO system and it's taken a lot of the strain off of nurses because they don't feel like they're *forced* to choose between pay or respecting quarantine anymore, and we have enough agency nurses to fill in the holes when we need them (barely, at least)
The nursing situation was critical before the pandemic hit! It has been exacerbated even more! God bless the healthcare workers through this pandemic! Where would we be without them! Thank you so much for all your care!,
Totally agree. I was burnt out long before covid.
Agreed. When I graduated in 1991 there was a surge in numbers of new nurses but now we are burned out and ready to retire, if not retired already. Hospital administration is the problem. We need more bedside care and less managers carrying clipboards and going to meetings all day.
This was a great video & sentiment. Although, saying "we know these problems exist and have existed for awhile. But we appreciate you" is the same as getting pizza for lunch without the pizza...and pizza may improve hyponatremia.
we can't even get pizza for lunch. because of covid any food must be individually pre-packaged so lots of hands aren't reaching for the same item. No boxes of donuts, no home-made cookies, no pot-lucks - you know all the ways you managed to grab a bit of sustenance during those 5 minutes when we managed to squeeze in a break for lunch and the bathroom.
My thoughts exactly. It's the same yada yada yada. No real solutions.
True.
Yeah, the problems existed long before covid, covid just brought the problems into the public eye more than ever before. So thanks for the empty "appreciation" once again, with zero effort to fix the problems faced by nurses, patients, and everyone else within this field
@@critterwatcher8009 No home-made cookies? Don't tell anybody, but when I was working transport, I would regularly bake cookies at home and bring them for floor staff (including transport, of course). I would put them in ziploc bags, two to a bag.
Worked my way around the entire hospital that way: nursing station at every unit, ED, Preop/PACU, OR, lab, imaging, EVS -- everybody except administration (and maternity/NICU, because I only went to those places once in nine months and was utterly terrified at the thought of going back).
Never had anybody give me a problem about it, and I'm sure I passed JHACO doing their rounds at least once.
Give the nurses and doctors clerical staff to do that electronic health record!
When I was working, I could have used a clerk or secretary.
I'm an RN who's been frontline nursing since the beginning. We are once again dealing with surges. We are a little urban hospital serving the poorest and least advantaged patients. We admitted 5 patients to our 15-bed medical floor last night and we were full. Our 10-bed ICU accepted patients from outlying rural hospitals until it too was full. I just got an email from my boss asking me if I can work tomorrow night for double bonus, as we are so short-staffed. And this is just more of the same.
I have a therapist and I can take good care of myself, but it's just not enough. I was called a homophobic slur last night at work by a patient. I've rescued co-workers from having their fingers broken. I have been kicked, punched, and bitten. That is entirely beside the additional strain and trauma from the pandemic. The general public demands ever-higher levels of care from RNs especially, but refuses to give us even the bare basics to work with.
Patient-nurse ratios should be federal law. It should be a felony to assault a nurse, and hospitals should be required to have a coherent policy for dealing with nursing abuse that they are also required to follow by law. It should be illegal to intentionally short-staff a medical unit (because let's face it--hospitals need to be kept in check on multiple fronts of this issue). And pay should be increased, for us AND for CNAs who are so incredibly vital.
For too long, the healthcare system has coasted by on the compassion, generosity and spirit of the people who work for it. I say: The best system comes from treating staff like they deserve, which translates directly into the best possible care for patients.
I'm a ICU nurse and like you been working since the beginning of Covid. I'm pretty much done. I'm about to put in my 2-4 weeks. I seen so much more death in these past few months than the entirely of my nursing career. It got to such a depressing point that I know what we are doing is pointless once the patient is experiencing multiple Organ failure due to Covid yet they are still full code. The patient just suffer. Once I had to code a patient 5 times in one shift with the daughter pissed off at the hospital for "killing my mom, I'm going to sue all of you!" While we were literally trying to keep her mom alive. The pay is not worth it. I can make more working as a waitress. (I live in Louisiana one of the lowest paying states with some of the worst Covid cases).
@@deathnotelover11 I can’t imagine a waitress making more money than an ICU nurse. It makes me believe that US health systems is run by organized crime syndicates.
@@deathnotelover11 serious question why did you become a nurse then?
@@JasonB808 it's more or less the pay in LA; all the wages are low here. I used to work at a clinical lab where I started at 16 an hour (they raised us to 20 due to inflation) in Austin Texas. Here in LA I'd be lucky if someone is willing to pay 14 an hour for the same job with fewer qualifications.
@@deathnotelover11 I was a rn working in Shreveport for Willis knighton. The pay was good (because of all the overtime) but I argee that cnas and lpns should have a huge pay raise.. cnas make the bare minimum.. they are the backbone of nursing. They work so hard for so little.
I was raised by a msn and my older sister is rn too. I don't know how they do it for 10+. I had enough after 3 years.
Im sorry that daughter said that to you.. it was shameful. I hope you know it was said in a horrible moment for her. She was looking for someone to blame. I lost my mom a few years ago to cancer.. I was even mad at my mom for dying. Dont hold that terrible moment against her. We all lash out at times.
Hang in there my fellow Louisiana nurse.
I worked in a hospital as a nurse and the stress was so bad I was hospitalized twice last year - I don’t ever want to go back to that again. And add in the favouritism, racism and other inequalities and it just made for a very hellish experience. Nursing burnout is a very serious global health issue. But it is really cool to see DR Murthy acknowledging it… thank you for Dr G
As an RN, I appreciate this video!! I love that they have identified that we are burned out and why... my question is why are we still working with the same ratios and still clicking the same amount of boxes on an EHR cash register that duplicates charting and is not user friendly???
Nurses are The backbone of all of our institutions. And our nurses, are so done with pizza. More nursing bodies and more pay for all nurses! Thanks for the support For primary care docs in the comments below.
Especially more retention pay.
Thank you so much for saying this! It’s gotten to the point now where we walk in the break room at the start of our shift, see a stack of pizzas and groan
Yeah, not everyone tolerates eating cheese
Yess better staffing ratios and support!
@@Monicalala That had nothing to do with it. We are tired of our managers doing the least they can do to pacify us for one shift instead of pushing for meaningful reforms of pay structures and staff retention and recruitment.
His speech carries the same energy as Glaucomflecken’s CEO letter of:
thank you for what you do,
Best regard,CEO.
It sounds pretty but without any real action to actually help the crisis.
That was my impression as well. How about we just give the nurses fistfuls of cash?
@@kelvinng3593 that wouldn't change the workload intensity. The systemic changes needed to fix that will likely still take ages, or at least, that's my impression. So, instead, here's an alternative 3 step plan:
Step 1: Declare SARS-CoV-2 an enemy combatant
Step 2: Draft all medical professionals into the national guard
Step 3: you can now legally give them all amphetamines
😎
Sounds coached, disingenuous. I’m not American so I’ve no idea who he is, but that’s the way it comes across to me. Hard to disagree with the words he says but I’ve heard them all before though, many times.
@@kelvinng3593 My nursing home did a bonus equivalent to 2 weeks of pay, increased wages, offers incentive pay for picking up any shifts, and is giving extra pay for working short staffed to the CNAs. Unfortunately, we've still had a bunch of people retire or leave. Frankly fistfuls of cash may be in order at this point.
@@kelvinng3593 I work in what is probably the highest paid health system in the US, and my fellow RNs are still quitting, though likely less frequently than our counterparts.
Even if they aren't leaving the system, they're moving to specialties they perceive to be less taxing (I'm in the ER).
As someone who has watched my NP sister and MRT mother both break down in tears because of work, this one hits hard. Keep up the good fight Dr. G!
This was great. I was a prosecutor (ugly cases I won’t talk about here) and I burned out bad enough a few years ago to quit my job and go live in a van. Yesterday I graduated from nursing school and I’m starting a job in the ED soon. While I know what I’m getting into now, the offer I accepted was because the managers had specific answers when I asked them in my interview about what they are doing to help prevent burnout. What is most refreshing to see here, and we need to keep shouting it from the rooftops, is that burnout is NOT A PERSONAL FAILURE. Burnout/compassion fatigue is a SYSTEMIC ISSUE and requires systems solutions (most of which is more staffing, of course, but there are always additional needs for people in this line of work).
Congratulations!
What were their specific answers? How's it going? I hope great.
This sounds good, but sounds like the same thing we've heard for so long. Forgiving student debt would be huge, safe staffing ratios, and actions, not just words are needed. You can't stop the burn when everything is still on fire....
Forgiving student debt would be amazing. But I wonder how many people are motivated to work, at least in part, because of debt? It could only contribute to more people taking a break. I really feel like lasting change only happens when the job becomes enjoyable. Which I don't feel happens if most days you're run off your feet, miss your breaks, and go home late. My vote will always be for better nurse-patient ratios. If that happened I'd love to work medicine or surgery again. For now I'm a stay at home mom and not sure what I'm going to do once kids are in school.
@@ngerstner753 student debt isn't much motivation to work with income based repayment. Housing, food, and being able to live s comfortable lifestyle and have money to spend on days off are huge. If you pay off student debt you provide many of those checks.
@@ngerstner753 The idea that people will only work under the threat of financial ruin is as pernicious as the belief that people will only behave ethically under the threat of eternal damnation.
@@xXxSapphir3xXx Plus people worked in the medical profession when educational costs were far lower and debt was smaller relative to pay rates. People who had their schooling covered by family or scholarships still work in their chosen profession, as well. I find the idea that people will be less likely to work if they are not in debt alarming - it justifies exponential increases in education costs without any evidence to back it up. Source: Adjunct professor, we sure as heck aren't seeing ballooning tuition in our paychecks, though we handle a growing proportion of the courseload. Increasing tuition is not tied to improved education quality, just profits for administrators working, for the most part, in nonprofits. I have no seen any evidence that students without debt are more likely to abandon their chosen field, so it seems like yet another ill-founded justification for inexcusable price hikes.
@@tabeechey I never said that people only work for the money... But I did imply in my comment that when the work is burning you out, you may not want to work as much if you don't have to. The point of my overall comment was that paying off someone's student debt doesn't solve the problem that they dread going to work. There are lots of nice idea in this comment section about financial incentives, but at the end of the day, what people need is a solutions to their burnout. I think the big solution is better staffing ratios.
Back in Aug, I had to get a surgery and was lucky enough to get it at an outpatient hospital owned by medical staffers, rather than a corporation. Everyone seemed a lot less burned out.
After the pre-check was done, the anesthesiologist was chatting with me and asked what I was going to school for. I told him honestly the goal was to be a therapist. He then straight up said that this clinic could offer me a lot of patients.
These were some of the nicest people I have met, working in what seemed to be a 'good' deal for medicine. We really need to rethink things. Every therapist I have met is so excited to find someone aiming to be in their field because the work-life balance is so great.
Critical care people need the exact same treatment.
Don't forget critical care's lesser known cousin, the ED. We have been running at between 200-300% capacity every single day since I joined the staff over a year ago. Nurses have had to care for up to 7 patients at a time, including multiple patients who end up in the ICU. Also, this week, our entire system reached its peak census, and the system I work for is over 120 years old. This can't go on forever. We need immediate action to relieve the burden, especially from the Delta variant. My hospital has 170 beds, and right now, close to 40 unvaccinated COVID patients.
I got a surgery at Banner and they injected me with something that made me euphoric and high af before my surgery. No anesthesiologist chatting for me.
Also, ambulatory care sites will not have the burnout rates of hospital clinical staff and never will. They have almost complete control over the number of patients they care for; the care is short term; and, as a result, workloads are much easier to manage. None of that is possible on the inpatient side, especially in the EDs where we are required to care for everyone who comes to see us.
Yes. I want the same work life balance! My brother thinks doctors should be paid in goats by the community but therapists like himself should make 6 figure salary.
Man I really appreciate this message! I've seen how hard my colleagues have been working during the pandemic. Burnout is real. Thanks Dr G and Dr Murthy
I've been saying for 2 years that there's going to be so much PTSD in the professionals who stayed, and so many who just can't keep pushing. And as much burnout as there is from overwork, the medical professionals I know have said there's also a lot from the constant abuse and mistrust, from things like having COVID patients accuse them of lying about their diganosis as part of some global plot, and in some countries, being literally attacked on the streets. (Not to mention the pharmacist that was murdered by a conspiracy theorist who happened to be his brother.)
Add to that the last wave, where medical professionals were pushing themselves beyond their limits once again, this time for patients who didn't need to be there but refused to get vaccinated, and it's more than we should be asking of our fellow humans. It's way too easy for those who don't get sick and who don't have to treat the sick to just not think about what's going on in our hospitals (or worse, to pretend it's not really going on so that they don't have to feel bad about it.)
I hope everyone is doing OK, and if you're not doing OK, that you can find help to get you to where you're doing OK.
Super cool endorsement! Over the sodium chat, can you discuss ways to tackle the crushing student debt future doctors have to take on prior to being pandemic crushed? Hard to help when you've got nothing left to give.
WAIT ! WHAT ! This was so good. With the surgeon general ????? So Good ! Thank you ! All. As an ER doc trust me it has not been easy specially those COVID ICU's ! Stay Safe All !
I know I am just a Medical Assistant in clinic, but I haven’t even been able to take a full week off since this all started. I can’t even make a living wage as a MA. Doctors and patients need us but I can’t even make my rent this month. I really feel for the acute care nurses. I can’t even Imagine what you’re going through
I was an in-hospital transporter, and I heard multiple coworkers mention being threatened with eviction because they couldn't afford rent despite working overtime at the hospital. The CNAs got paid the same as we did.
Left healthcare after nine months and will never go back. The healthcare is just like many of the patients it "treats": not functional, only barely alive, and yet we can't seem to do anything to either fix it or put it out of its misery.
Ortho could definitely trick him into admitting their post op patient…they have everything he loves:
1. Neck veins
2. A surgical incision he doesn’t have to look at
3. *sodium*
Seeing that Dr. Murthy is here, he could admit ortho's patient, who luckily, is full of sodium.
I've seen how the first responders were treated post 9/11 when they all started to get cancer. It took years for them to get help. The frontline healthcare workers who are being put through the meat grinder right now, we are going to be on our own.
Wow. I’m kind of in shock. In the most amazed way.
See, I grew up in the 80s when Surgeon General Dr Everett Koop made PSAs, often directed at children, and was a household name and very recognizable face.
I thought that was normal for a SG.
But as much work as SGs between then and now did, none have been a household name like Dr Koop. None really did what he did reaching out to the public where they are.
Is Dr Murthy taking a page out of Dr Koop’s book and reaching out to the public where they are?
If so, I LOVE IT.
Technology has changed and PSAs on NBC aren’t going to reach as many people these days. So I love the idea of targeting specific audiences using today’s media with what needs to be said.
Dr. Murthy has been pounding the pavement since day one of the pandemic (and at that point he was the former Surgeon General before being appointed again during the Biden administration!) he’s been on nearly every tv show and podcast I consume. His calmness and empathy go a long way.
I know his message doesn’t solve the problems we desperately need solving but he is certainly a public servant that cares to see problems solved.
Thank you! I have to listen to admin carry on about all the things that front line staff don't do well enough... Productivity, documentation, coding, protocols, throughput time, quality metrics, clicking the right box, screening for depression, screening for intimate partner violence, screening for tobacco use, addressing social determinants of health... And the list goes on indefinitely. My point though is that I keep thinking that one day they'll turn around and there won't be any front line staff left so again, thank you for putting this out there.
This made me laugh as I am a dialysis nurse, and our doctors tease us about the ‘washing machines’ we use!
I know what needs to be done! Give every healthcare professional a Jonathan. I know I could use one. As a family practice PA I’m at the point of burnout myself and it’s not pretty.
That sounds so difficult. I hope something helpful shakes out for you soon. You deserve a break.
That would be SWEET. If I could do my work while someone else charts everything, answers the bells while I check labs or do med pass... Man I'd be so much more efficient!
Thank you!!!!! I am so crispy! Since people are quitting the hospital has offered critical pay but sometimes it’s like pulling teeth to get management to give it. At least we are getting blankets for Christmas. I’ll use it if I get a lunch break 😂😂😂
Sigh. " Pulling teeth to get management to give it. " What's wrong with this picture here ?
Oooo a blanket? That’s better than a pet rock! 🙄🙄
I have a practice RN for 40 plus years and I did teach nursing school back in the day. I was so excited and overjoyed to hear of some nursing schools NOW teaching students how to CARE for themselves and take time for themselves to decrease stress and burn out. My daughter kept saying. Mom you can tell the supervisor no and don't let them shame you into coming in
The constant public shaming was part of why I changed positions this year. Nursing management, take note: it's both highly unprofessional AND manipulative as hell to constantly complain to your staff that they aren't picking up shifts, that certain staff can't take isolation patients and thus make it hard to make assignments, etc etc. And they wonder why critical care nurses won't stay or go to contract nursing 😠
What an unexpected and spectacular collaboration! So happy to see our Surgeon General speaking up about this issue.
Whoa, impressive collab! And thank you to all healthcare worker who risk their health for ours during this awful pandemic. ❤️
Now you just need to partner with one of the teacher comedians to bond over how much education has suffered burnout and how there's no one top level even attempting to acknowledge our struggles. 🙏
I know teaching is incredibly incredibly tough but it’s not the same burnout. There’s plenty of top level “educators” who acknowledge teacher burn out which is the same as this video. It doesn’t actually solve anything, it’s just nice words.
oh yeah let me just casually get a cameo from the SURGEON GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES, well played Dr G
Very good to see Dr. Murthy collaborate with you. The Public Health Service needs to be brought back to life!
Thanks Dr. Murthy. And Dr. G! As a nurse who's been with covid patients for awhile this is always nice to hear :) in times like these its nice to know people like you guys remember us.
God bless!!! Thank you! Burn out was a problem long before Covid. I'm glad its issues are finally being addressed.
Between this and a video I saw with Dr Mike and an elected official this morning, I’m really starting to think these types of videos are making a difference. Makes me think of 8th grade US History when they taught us the importance of pamphlets in the revolutionary war. Social media and short form content are the pamphlets of today. Good work!
I've been a nurse for over 11 years, 3 years of tele, 6 years of PACU p/t, 4.5 years of ICU, I left ICU after 20 months of COVID, reusing the N95 and the iso gowns, the critically ill Pts kept getting worse, burnout was no joke, both mentally and physically. Even my own health has been deterioated dramatically for the last 2 years, already seeing 3 cardiologists, still not 100%. I'm now a transport nurse maybe I'll return to ICU when I feel brave enough. Kudos 👏 💐 🥳 🎊 for everyone that stayed put. You have my deepest respect. 💖
THIS IS SO NEAT!! I'm so dang happy you're active on UA-cam now! Your videos really do make a positive impact!
Well done for showing this.
Yes, staff definitely need our help and support especially at the moment.
Ex UK Paramedic 30 years.
I worked as an RN in acute care for over 40 years. I appreciate Dr Gluac for so many humorous posts. This one was a big surprise because burn out and PTSD is real in health care especially when pushed to the edge with no support from hospital administrators. In public eye the administrator’s appear supportive by calling staff heroes but behind the scenes are demanding and uncaring. In a better health care world greed won’t be the motivation by insurance companies and health care corporations. Burn out and PTSD occurs when a conscientious health professionals are unable to provide consistent proper health care on a daily basis. It would be wonderful to see realistic actions to prevent burn out.
Dang, cool to see things like this happening for you! Happy for you!
No fucking way!!! 👏😳!!
That's so cool!
So grateful to hear this! Working these insanely long weeks and days in the clinical labs alongside our healthcare family, I want to say I see all that you do and you're all amazing during these trying times! ❤ (even if the lab and nurses don't always see eye to eye! 😉)
Honestly, I’ll happily accept free food. My hospital cafeteria is way overpriced AND there’s no staff discount. (e.g. $7 yogurt parfait for breakfast) I’m too cheap/too poor to afford it and I’m a resident doctor! I can’t imagine how other staff and even patients’ families can pay.
We are dealing with this at work... and we are overworked, underpaid... well, life can be hard on this line, and I absolutely get it why so many are leaving. I hope they can all recover and feel better soo
❤️❤️❤️ Thanks for bringing awareness to this subject. I have been there! I'm a surgical tech and I absolutely love your channel because I work with all of the specialties you make videos about. You are always sooooooo spot on!!!
I was in healthcare 14 years then took 2.5 years off. Returned September '21. I missed the OR so much I had to go back. I love my job and know it's my calling. I do think surgical techs and assistants should make more money; we are the lowest paid in the OR, but critical to have cases run safely and smoothly.
Just passed the board for RN. last few years I worked as an EMT and NA while finishing BSN. It's nice to see an emphasis on collaborative support and respect. Thank you for your awesome videos, laughing is part of the healing process.
Yes..... WE SEE YOU! THANK YOU for all you sacrifice
SWEEEEEET! I am duly impressed. Not a general surgeon, but the Surgeon General!
Holy smokes - such a level up! Congratulations, and thank you for the video!
I'd love to see Dr. Murthy make more future cameo appearances. He has such a calming presence - since Mr. Rogers is gone, will he be our neighbor?
7/26/23 just now watching. Amazed how this triggered my own PTSD. As chaplain I spent most of my time caring for my medical teams. Thanks for the good word and work.
This American Life featured a segment about a charge nurse in an ER who had two nurses for 45 patients in the ER one night. She exhausted all her resources and finally out of desperation ended up calling 911 (an internal 911 for health care professionals.) Good job, and thank you, Dr. Glaucomflecken for highlighting this ongoing and beyond serious problem. It's reassuring to know that there are a lot of smart, focused, and dedicated people out there.
Dude, how did you pull that off, that was epic! Healthcare work has always been hard. Now it just seems nuts. Massive love and respect to everyone from EMT-B on up.
Kudos for using your platform to move this conversation! Healthcare should be one of our main priorities as a society, up there with human rights and education. And it's awesome to see you collabing with Dr. Murthy! I hope you got to talk about pseudohyponatremia and hyperosmolar hyponatremia as well...
Okay, okay, here's a crazy idea: how about, just hear me out, how about we pay nurses enough money so that they can make a reasonable living wage from their job and therefore get some downtime, AND, this bit is important, AND afford to live reasonably close to where they are actually required to work? You know, so they don't have to move a two-hour commute away from work because housing is not affordable any closer on a nurse's wage... if it catches on, maybe we can branch out to teachers, as well.
Or I guess we can just keep calling them 'heroes' and telling them that we can 'see' them. Politicians like to do that; it's good PR, and heroes don't get paid.
FYI: You get to elect politicians. So choose wisely the next time you do.
Nicely said
@@uelueluesue eh everyone’s corrupt and looking out for themselves, plus power changes people so nothings a guarantee especially in American politics
My mom's a nurse and they're making $80 an hour on the week days and $90 an hour on the weekends.
They make well over a living wage.
I'm not upset about it. Because of it, my mom can help me when I'm struggling. But you're wrong to say nurses don't make a living wage.
Nurses in my area (georgia) make bank. There are no broke nurses. Ik a nurse that works only 3 days and makes 3k POST TAX, weekly.
This is awesome. I’m a nursing student and I can definitely see the burnout the nurses are experiencing right now. I feel bad for them- can’t wait to finish up so I can help alleviate some of the workload!
What a wonderful message. Thanks for using your platform and thanks to the Surgeon General doing something so unique!
Wow!!!!! Elevating the game I see!
This must have been so exciting to film! Did the SG's office reach out to you?
Hopefully y'all will be able to get some well deserved rest soon. As frustrated with everything as I am, it must be so much worse for health care providers. Hope y'all stay safe and healthy this holiday season. Hang in there.
Don't tell anyone, but I've been a dialysis center physician for 5 months now and I still have no idea how to read the dialysis machine
Just sent this to all my family members who are Doctors and Nurses! great video! Did'nt see that coming!!!!
Also, wow! Didn't read the full title, and nearly dropped my dinner when I saw you had the freaking SURGEON GENERAL in your video!!
This is great, love it. Always good to see engagement from health care officials addressing important less talked about matters in health care!
Congrats, Dr. G! Loved watching this!!
Never knew the Glauc Flock has so much power. Hopefully surgeon general can pull some strings to make it happen.
Just listened to his Smartless interview, awesome to see him on this!
Big ups! I can't believe you got Dr. Murthy on! Loved his book, "Together". This is great and makes me happy :)
Thanks doctor. I hope you help lead these changes you speak on
I knew it would happen to me, this burnout thing. But I thought it wouldn't hit until I had reached the same age as my dad. He was still going strong in his field when he was killed in an accident 3 months after his 71st birthday. I didn't make it. I was in nearly complete burnout just before my 69th birthday, but kept on until right before my 70th. That was 7 years ago, and I am not sure if I am past the burnout yet, while at the same time, I know I can never unretire. I loved delivering babies and working with women whether they were pregnant or not, and I miss it a lot. It has been hard admitting it was time to go. Thank you, Dr Glaucomflecken for your videos, and thank you for including the Surgeon General.
Thank you so much for keeping us laughing through this! ❤️
I've been a nurse for a really long time, the first half of which was at the bedside. During this pandemic, I am glad I'm not at the bedside anymore but I feel guilty for feeling glad and for not being at the bedside. I really take my hats off to all of you who work at the bedside, continue to work at the bedside, and return to work at the bedside during this pandemic. And for those of you who are burnt out, I am sorry you are burnt out. I hope you find your way to becoming whole again.
That's so awesome that you got Dr. Murthy on your channel!
Surgeon General is going to make sure ALL healthcare workers nation wide gets pizza! 😆😂
This was an awesome video though! Keep up the good work, love your videos. A doctor with an actual sense of humor is hard to come by these days!
I love it that Dr. G. occasionally busts out with something truly important on this channel. This and the tutorial on checking testicles for cancer are examples. I hope all of those will be reposted along with all the hilarious stuff, Doc.
The description to this video has me laughing so hard. It's this man's attention to detail that makes him such a loveable personality. God bless ya, Dr. G!
Wish I could heart react! I'm only in New Zealand but burnout is everywhere and it's cool to see change is coming!
As a pharmacist in a large hospital I needed to see/hear this I’ve been pulling nothing but doubles every day and came close to just quitting
That is just exhausting. I really hope they get you some help in there really soon. You need, and deserve, done rest.
His face of genuine joy at the end!
We didn’t quit. We just went traveling. Now we’re making as much money as the doctors.. could’ve been avoided if you would’ve paid your nurses what they’re worth.
Oh shit… the actual Surgeon General in his video. He’s made it!
Love your work Dr. Glaucomflecken! I hope you will be our graduation speaker this year ❤️
Hospital Administrators: okay okay, you’ve twisted our arms…we will order more Pizza AND will order breadsticks as well.
I'm often a patient, but I also worked in a very big hospital within the UK. This makes me happy. The UK need some similar help. Seriously similar help.
You are a cultural phenomenon, truly!!
Patient ratios is everything!!!!! More pay only gives a higher incentive to push past your limits. It does not protect against burnout.
I've been an RN 31 years now and pretty burned out. Thanks for your comments. Love your videos. It takes a doctor to know one right? I just saw your video about your health scare from a year ago. Glad to know you are ok!
Wow! What a special guest!
OMG! This is awesome! Thank you!
Thank You for talking about burnout and EMR