As a NP..former ICU RN...if I had a family member hospitalized...I would NEVER leave them in a hospital by themself. The nursing staff is so mistreated...these corporations called hospitals prefer profit over lives.
Could. Not. Agree. More. A HUGE tragedy that occured with covid in my opinion was all the family restrictions (which I get because they needed to limit spread), but how many people died because they didn't have a loved one to be there and advocate for them
@@NurseLiz yes as well as the social impact on health, I remember learning about determinants of health and having visitors is one thing that can help some recover quicker as it reduces stress from the isolation and unusual situation hospital puts people in. We really aren't focusing enough on all aspects of health through this pandemic and it's horrifying. As you said friend family not advocating, but how many times has a family member gone this isn't normal for them, when it could be normal in general and you pay more attention and something is found that nurses/doctors can intervene with eg mental health or unusual behaviour post head injury etc that finds an issue which would otherwise be overlooked even in a reasonably staffed place. While visitors can sometimes be a hindrance to getting cares done etc, they really can make a difference to the patient
AMEN!! I have investigated enough events to know that harm occurs every day and with nearly every patient. Hospitals are set up to fail the patient in so many ways. Leaders are too busy to fix the processes that contribute to events, and systems prevent processes from staying fixed. The diligence required to avoid errors is exhausting.
Same here! I'm a 31 year RN. I always advise people who have a famly member in the hospital to have someone stay with them at all times. It's not safe otherwise.
@@kumitaylor917 I totally agree. Several places we had experience with had "window visitation" only for two weeks at a time upon arrival, or if they had a patient come in with COVID. They called my youngest daughter and I Mom's "tail gaiters" because we set up a canopy, brought a cooler and stayed there for hours a day so Mom wouldn't be alone.
43 year nurse here, now retired. Just stayed with my sister while she was in the hospital, 24/7 for 4 days. Caught multiple oversights, mistakes, whatever you want to call them, during this time. Honestly, I am convinced that my sister's condition would have turned out a lot differently had I not been there.
No one in our family are nurses,but when our mother contracted legionnaires disease, one of us (her kids)stayed with her, 24/7, I believe she got better care, she almost died several times, she's in the medical journals as the 1st smoker to live through Legionnaires,❣️❣️❣️
@@MelissaR784 Where I live, many hospitals STILL won't allow a family member to stay in the hospital with the patient. Where my sister lives (another state), they allowed it and even brought me warm blankets at night.
Nurse of 5 years here! My 24 year old husband spent three months in the hospital due to covid last year and once he was negative for covid and they let me in, I quit my job and became his full time caregiver. It’s hard to trust others with your loved ones care so I feel this!
Oh well. I just found out that Nurses are the scapegoats of the healthcare system.We are designed to take that role. We are set up to fail big time.We Nurses should fight our rights as human beings.
@@edithkinsey7031 I wasn't talking about the boards. I think we need to do away with the state boards entirely. They are nothing but, a pain in the ass. They want nurses to run all over the place for mass emergencies, just give us a national license already.
@@donnathedead7554 Yep, they want you to FEEL and think you are obligated to do what ever they say. Those people that tell you to go here, do this are psycho. Take care of your own first, let them go
I’ve been an RN since 2004. The hospitals are just so drastically cutting corners. IMO, the regular staff should get higher incentives and pay and they should use less travel nurses. I get it, travel nurses are necessary when u need them . But, a cohesive staff is important. Hospitals are staffed w mostly new nurses now. ICU and ER taking new grads… um what? They take those new grads so they can pay bottom pay and more experienced nurses are just done. I won’t work for low pay when I can make $10-15 more doing way more less stressful work. Experience counts in nursing. New nurses need experienced nurses around to help mentor them.
There was a new ER nurse I overheard as a patient complaining about her lack of mentorship from her department after having just graduated as an RN. She has been there for 6 months and wanted more experience but there was no staff to give her the time. 0_0 I had super mixed feelings after hearing her concerns.
I am a travel nurse but not on a full time basis. I have a home base where I work as well in a rural hospital system between contracts or just cause I dont want to travel. It's INSANE EVERYWHERE!!!!! I've been a nurse for over 15 yrs now and have VAST experience is just about every dept and specialty and what scares me the most , I'm now starting to see new grads being hired into travel roles. A traveler should have extensive experience with any skill that may come their way, and unfortunately, I watched a traveler struggle with a nasal pharyngeal swab collection. The standards are going WAY BELOW where it should be in skills and experience, which is putting even more people in danger. Being that I do travel, I am seeing more and more staff nurses who have no common sense and hardly any critical thinking skills (which honestly, I blame alot of these tech type schools who do not require pre-reqs or exams to enter nursing school) As a whole, I'm against using travel personnel, but in most of the places I go to contract, which is more rural and not big cities, there are not enough licensed staff to work. Most of these places, the pay is quite a bit less than the bigger cities or organizations, the housing is too expensive, not as much infrastructure and its very difficult to recruit in, as those that are looking are on the younger side. When I was younger, I wanted alot more action around me. Personally, I think everything needs to be fixed, but honestly, I only see it getting worse.
Yeah. Like all the nurse practitioners now that graduated from nursing school, immediately going on to some proprietary online nurse practitioner program and being allowed to use their hours working as nurses without nursing experience as their clinical experience. So now we have all these nurse practitioners with their massive egos who are “seeing patients” who have neither nursing experience nor experience doctors get during their very long training. US for profit death care!
yes it does count (experience) well the nursing shortage has not changed I went straight to an ICU when I graduated in 1989 but nurses nowadays are not allowed to touch patients while in school so how do you expect them to perform? Experienced nurses like me are fed up. We do not get paid what we should and we help the new drs out too ya know.
I went to a hospital in Arizona by ambulance in excruciating pain and constant vomiting. No pain med in ambulance. Got to hospital. Still nothing for pain. Laid on gurney for an hour. Then transferred to wheelchair and literally abandoned in a hallway for another two hours with nothing for pain. My vitals weren’t stable. BP extremely low in ambulance 3 hours ago. I kept waiting in agony getting so weak I was slumped over. A couple walked by and said we’ve been here 6 hours, we’re leaving. I told the nurse I was going to leave. He said all the hospitals are full, which was a lie. I called my husband to come get me. I had to drive another 40 minutes to a small town hospital that took me straight in and gave me exceptional care. It’s a scary time to be sick.
That’s a horror story. I’ve had kidney stones multiple times and the pain is so bad I can’t be still. I just walk and holler and lay down two seconds and repeat. I get a ride to the ER but if I don’t get a shot right away I could’ve stayed in my own home in pain with my dogs staring blankly at me “I didn’t do nothing, was it roscoe? Scooby? Check them”….sometimes I think it’s time to get to know some street vendors and pray for safety. It’s cheaper and u don’t have to wait hours for relief. I haven’t had an episode since Covid hit thank God . I’m avoiding the medical places
@@tinawindham6958 I’m going to do the same. I have antibiotics in my preps. I bet I won’t be without strong pain meds again. I’ll take my chances at home. I got pneumonia from valley fever a year ago and had to go ER in the height of the pandemic. Dr tried to put me on covid unit. I said “no I’ll go home and die with my family” My friend went in for gallbladder surgery, got covid and died in the hospital.
I was a nurse for 40 yrs and recently retired due to refusal to take non researched medicine.I discouraged my daughters from the time they were young to NOT be a nurse. It is incredible hard work.
@Dana A few of the nurses that declined vax are working from home for insurance companies, using their nursing background. Per them it was easy to get the job, same pay. Good luck , prayers for you! No matter what NO Vaccine!
@@pilgriminprogress6668 It's been extraordinarily difficult for me to go that route because my primarily psychiatric nursing back round. Of course for no vaccine, my sister died from it. I have long term care experience from twenty years ago, but they want hospital RNs and even though I have BSN since 1995, psych nursing telehealth are all APRN jobs. I'm not an APRN.
Former psych RN. A similar situation almost happened in the hospital I worked in. Someone broke a window on the 5th floor and attempted to jump. Psych was understaffed at the time, but fortunately this person was caught and prevented from falling (the nurse was literally holding onto the patient as they were dangling from the window). Hospital fixed the window, put the patient on a lower acuity unit, and didn't do shit about staffing. I also saw on more than occasion ratios on the psych unit of 1:14 to 1:16 or more. During one meeting we were told, not exaggerating, that ratios were kept at this level because "research showed that nurses who don't have time to sit down have better response times." When I eventually left that place and got hired in a prison, I was told there would always be at least one other nurse on staff with me during my shift. During the day, there was routinely 4 or 5 nurses. Shortly after I started, I was consistently the only nurse on sight for 450+ inmates, and I was often stuck with overflow work that dayshift hadn't completed. Left that job to work in a children's psych hospital that also treated adults and addicts. I had coworkers that had only been there for about 8 months and had already seen three change of CEOs in that time. Far more toxic than the prison. I was being pressured by the CEO and marketing (why the f*** was marketing even involved in this?) to admit people when we didn't have a physical bed to put them in. Left that job after maybe only 2 months post orientation. In that two month span, multiple behavioral codes (there was no security), one child nearly killed by another (resulting in permanent brain damage), and another who had ingested screws/nuts/bolts. Absolute insanity. When I left, there were so many other people in my department that were leaving that, a month or so later, I got a text offering a $15k sign on bonus to work there. Didn't take it. Healthcare for profit is the biggest scandal nobody is reporting today. It absolutely kills people.
When I left nursing after nearly 40 years in the acute care setting, I recall having my 'exit interview' with the HR person. I had been burned out for years and was more than ready to leave the profession. I remember the HR person (20 something), as she glanced at the paperwork, trying to decide which question to ask me. I nearly choked on my spit when she asked, with forced interest, "So why are you leaving ?" Fighting the desire to just vent my frustrations, I responded, "Almost 40 years as a nurse, isn't this long enough?".
Oh, lordy. If only, in those moments, it would feel okay to tell that youngun what you REALLY thought about just WHY you're leaving! As I read your comment, all I could think of as a civil retort, would be, "Sorry, kiddo, but that information is above your pay grade." 😒
@@livingitup9647 I wanted to reply, 'Well, how much time do you have?", but I zipped it because firstly, she wouldn't be able to relate and secondly, my leaving was the best prize of all.
IT'S CRAZY. THIS PUTS EVERYONE IN A DANGEROUS POSITION. THE SAD THING FOR ME WAS NO ONE WAS HAPPY AT WORK. THE PLACE WAS JUST TOXIC. EVERYONE WAS MISERABLE. OVER WORKED AND UNDER PAID. 💔💔💔💔😭😭😭😭
CONGRATULATIONS ON THE 40🙏🏽👏🏽👏🏽. I COULD ONLY DO 7 YEARS AND I LEFT IN AUSTRALIA. THANKS TO SOCIAL MEDIA I DON'T FEEL LIKE A LOOSER. THE PROBLEMS ARE WORLD WIDE. THEY WANT TO WORK PEOPLE TO DEATH. WE NEED A RADICAL CHANGE IN STAFF TO PATIENTS NUMBERS WORLD WIDE. ONE PERSON CAN'T LOOK AFTER 20 PEOPLE.
The father of the patient named Grace now has a billboard initiative all around the Appleton Wisconsin area opening the eyes of the people in that area because they drugged and made his daughter a DNR without any family input.
Many street protest have been done at the hospital as well to get the community involved. Grace was murdered while her sister begged for help and the parents watched on Facetime.
That story was a disgrace, to Grace and her family. I was sickened after reading that. That doctor had no legal right to create a DNR without family signatures/approval. How can a DNR be honored without family signatures or even from a judge?
@@LovePrettySunsets Well a lot of "emergency laws" were passed in the middle of the chaos so guarantee that was in there. I don't think a doctor would be that bold today if they didn't have a legal backing.
Before I watched this video i went through and read some of the comments, and decided that I could not watch this video. I was a Registered Nurse for over 35 years, and I know that this would have just sent my BP through the roof. When I had abiut 20 years of experience I was left on night shift with one other RN in an intensive care unit with multiple ventilator patients and a completely full house. That meant that we were each taking 4 patients and 1-2 vent patients with the other patients we had. We were supposed to provide ¨Exceptional critical care nursing¨ to these patients. If you want to try it go right ahead on my friend, not me, not anymore. When I left nursing I never looked back, I let my license lapse so I could not even be tempted. I have so many more horror stories, they would make your hair stand straight up!!
Kathy, I can't imagine having that many vent patients! I am a homecare nurse with one medically fragile ventilated infant, I spend hours standing over her, performing every intervention ordered. This has even cost me a tooth, the dentist said I'd been clenching my teeth so hard from stress while working it caused a vertical crack which couldn't be repaired. And I had to have it pulled. I would say the job is only slightly less stressful than an air traffic controller!
You're probably right to not listen to all the horror stories, I'm starting to wish I hadn't. I won't tell you about my bad experiences with doctors and hospitals, but I will tell you about a crazy thing I did to avoid going to the emergency room once. One day I found myself unable to breathe. My heart was racing and lips were blue, so my husband tried to convince me I needed to go to the emergency room. I strongly refused and ordered him to go to Walmart to get a can o' air, the ones they sell to the tourists who have trouble with the altitude where I live. The oxygen helped and after about an hour my heart quit racing. Had I gone to the emergency room my symptoms would have cleared up in the waiting room before the doctor had a chance to see me. When a doctor doesn't have a chance to see the symptoms with their own eyes they don't believe anything actually happened to you, and therefore treat you like sh¡t. Then the nurses join in.
40 year night shift ER -processing years of trauma,abuse by management-we were expected to care for multiple patients -with no support-it was dangerous -
As a nurse working in Florida, my PCU promised 1:4 ratio. I'm working with 1:5 everyday and rumors are they want to increase this! Keep in mind, I graduated April 2020 w/o graduation. w/o preceptorship. 3 weeks for orientation. Also, 6 month new grad was my Charge nurse. ER does not give report. PACU always sneaks patients into the room. I work at a Truama Center and Neuro center (only one MRI also). Everyone is incredible in my unit with helping out, but we are stretched so thin!
I was a CNA in a Florida hospital and the ratio for the nurses was unbelievable.Found a travel nurse crying cause it's so overwhelming. I'd have 35-37 patients a day.It got so crazy .
Our healthcare system is in a major crisis. People don’t like it when I say this, but as the population ages and expands it will be more difficult to care for those individuals. Baby boomers are aging and I’m an agency nurse, I fill the gaps at LTC facilities, sometimes I take the floor with 40 patients. Sometimes I’m a supervisor and if a nurse doesn’t show up I’m expected to take the floor AND sup. It’s a stressful job and I can see why many have left and/or retired. I’m 26 and I’m like, how am I going to do this my whole life? Not sure, but I’ll take it one day at a time. The shortages are just going to keep happening and perhaps they will get even worse. Idk 🤷♀️
There are so many other options. Don’t get handcuffed by that phrase, “I stay because I care about the patients/residents/clients.” Of course you care about them, but you can take that virtue anywhere.
Go nurses Go , get your power back. I worked in the same hospital for 28 years. The CEO and BOD cut the staffing to barebones. This has been happening for more than a decade. I worked in an ICU and we we’re always short staffed and severely short staffed on the weekends. So, not only are you paying through the asse for healthcare insurance, you are getting comprised care. Not to mention the unbelievable stress emotionally and physicallyand doing to work of 3 people.Corporations and insurance has completely taken over healthcare and hospitals. They don’t care , you are a commodity. .Did I mention our hospital is a magnet hospital. What a joke
When nurses were forced into 12 hour-shifts, and the patient/nurse ratio increased, that’s when patient’s lives, and nurses licenses were put in severe jeopardy.
Priorities of how the facility looks vs actually staffing all staff as needed and demanding perfection is the main reason I am leaving bedside nursing. Took me over 39 years to finally understand these businesses don’t actually care.
@@ScrivenArt I'm retired and I'm surprised at how little it take to have a contented life, daily swimming, practicing guitar, taking leaves in the hot a Hawaiian sun, net flix and out and about either the wifie, sounds boring but I like it.
I'm an R.N., and as I write this, my husband is a patient in a large university teaching hospital which is about 1¾ hours from where we live, and he is seriously ill. I had him transferred there from another hospital because of several issues. The level of care at any hospital is based on several things: first, the quality of the doctors. With rare exception, there is no small to average sized hospital which will attract the best physicians, or will be willing to pay them for their expertise. Second, these hospitals usually lack the top quality equipment, as well as those who can interpret the testing correctly! Just as an example, my husband has had a large area of atelectasis in his right lung for many years. At one facility they recently did a chest x-ray, and the report had NO MENTION of the atelectasis on it!!! Third, the larger university teaching hospitals are less money-driven. While they, too, have to deal with finances, there is usually more money available for them to get the best doctors, staff, and equipment. This is not true in smaller city hospitals, and especially in hospitals which service rural areas. In these hospitals, if a doctor orders too many of a test which is costly, the "higher-ups" will definitely pressure the doctor to order less of that test. Fourth, there is the issue of staffing. While even the large university hospital is struggling right now with staffing, that struggle is even far, far greater in the city and rural-based hospitals..... I'm also seeing that even the best nursing homes and rehabs. are currently struggling with having enough staff and good physicians. In recent months my husband was at a specialized nursing home which dealt with higher needs respiratory patients. They have an excellent, well respected program. But when my husband got there, his care was abysmal! For the 3 days he was there, no one got him up in a chair daily as ordered. They were barely able to clean up his incontinence of urine and feces in a timely way. There was no consistent wound care. The last night he was there, his oxygen levels dropped very rapidly to a dangerous level. I ran out of his room to get help, and had to run past 2 empty nurses' stations to finally find staff at a 3rd!!! Then I had to become insistent with the squad about taking my husband to a higher level local hospital, despite the fact that that hospital was within their territory for transport! They were trying to take him to a hospital which is known for its local maternity care. 😳 ..... Unless all of us as physicians, nurses, and other medical staff stand up about these issues, they will only worsen. We need to advocate for our patients, as well as for ourselves. Unrealistic expectations and ridiculously high patient loads put our licenses at risk! While I realize the heavy responsibilities of the CEOs and of other management people at hospitals, their salaries have become totally ridiculous. No healthcare manager should be making well over a million dollars!!! We desperately need management who believes that healthcare is a humanitarian service to our fellow humans. If the management folks want million dollar plus salaries, then they need to work for large corporations and to get out of healthcare!
The issue with hospital stay in this country is that families are nowhere to be seen when people are hospitalized. I know Covid made that impossible but sometimes they allow 1 person to go in. If this is your husband, what are u doing home? As a former nurse, you can go in during visiting hours and wash him, feed him, wipe down his room and medical équipements, make sure he is good for night, has clean sheets, his labs and meds are done and help his nurse do wound care. I had several family members that come in and do this for their love ones and this is a big help to the nurses….instead of venting about customer’s service, this is what you do! My culture this is what we do. When someone is sick…..family is there first before they call nurse or doctor to do basic need stuff.
@@hadzana3558 I had a pt once with history of R leg BKA, post open heart surgery and everyday, his wife came in at 11. She got a special pass to come in early instead of 1pm like others. The pt didn’t want assistance until she got there because they didn’t want him to be a burden for the nurses. His wife helped him with everything until she left at 6pm after dinner. All we did was his medical need and even then, she helped tremendously with positioning, turning, sitting him in chair, calling if IV had issues and more. All the nurses were so grateful to her. I know everybody can’t do this but being a nurse and knowing the way these hospital are ran, no way will I rely 100% on them to care for my love one. I actually have a red list of hospitals to avoid in my area for my own care.
As a nurse of 43 years (now retired), I pray that I do not become chronically ill at some point, necessitating frequent hospitalizations. Scares the CRAP out of me. I told my husband that I will be 'that patient', (you know the one, the healthcare professional turned patient who questions everything). Unfortunately, I am quite aware of the potential for oversights and mistakes in healthcare anymore.
Nurses ‘ranting’ is how the hospitals sees us talking about staffing ratios. We need to encourage patients to complain about care from these hospitals on social media. Flood the media and they will pay attention. They will only be the paying patients that will complain. Perhaps we need to look at how many patients are being cared for without insurance. That’s how hospitals lose money. It has nothing to do with nursing pay which is horrible!!! Big money is paid to higher ups.
Yeah, we should complain about the poor people getting terrible medical care, the same as us insured folk do. It always helps to blame people in bad situations for the medical facilities incompetence. I'm so glad my insurance make the doctors richer while "we" all get trash medical care, regardless.
@@melissacole1821 I walked out of ER..new teenage RNs with nasty attitudes treating me like a criminal because I can't afford insurance at 63..too young to help, and too sick to work as a Nurse Aide for 10$ an hour. I have been at this job 40 years and the RNs can act above you even though you went to school for 2years, because back in the day even Nurse Aides had a type of license, now they get 2weeks, go to private homes, no back up, I have been there. Thank goodness that I know CPR.
I've had the displeasure of working among ,immoral, careless ,drug addicted nurses that would steal their patients medication and then give them saline solution in their IVs . Hospitals may be understaffed but they have plenty of time to watch you tube videos and sleep around with other staff members. I don't know why anyone never bothers to mention this reality.
This crap has been going on for DECADES, hospital makes way more money with low staff, it's the nurses license only at risk and hospitals don't give a flip
In the mid to upper 1990's it was totally "normal" for RNs to get 10-11 patients on busy med surg floors, 7-9 on telemetry/cardiac/stepdown, 3-4 in ICU. Lucky if they get to pee or eat lunch in a 12hr shift. . Would have to have another nurse cover your patients so you could eat- giving this "cover" nurse double patients for 30 min. Not much has really changed in all these years. Nurses are said to be the backbone of the hospital. Without a backbone, hospitals will crumble!. Nurses need to stand up and unite instead of fighting amongst themselves. That is what hopitals want them to do. United, we can get better pay/benefits, safer staff/patient ratios, better work environment.
I used to be an RN. No jib. Never tested. They tried to coerce me to get “nasally tested” in a Philly hosp a few weeks back by using my daughter as bait. She is jibbed/not sick/with paper on her face/>6 ft away from anyone else. They said that couldn’t stay in the Triage private room with me so that she would put pressure on me to test so that she could stay. The tactic was a fail and she stayed. Then they told me in Obs that I couldn’t get a nuc med stress test without the nasal swipe. I told them no thank you and you cannot deny me diagnostic testing if I refuse the offer. Many phone calls by nurse to doctor and staff, I got my test without being unnecessarily probed. Lesson learned by my 22 yr old daughter and all of the other pressure putting people. A coat/scrubs w/ name tag and letters does not equal critical thinking. I have never and will never leave a family member alone in a facility of any kind. A few years ago my sister had a grand mal seizure because they didn’t give her scheduled medication and missed ultie doses The ol’ didn’t have an order/prob got a sh*t report if at all/ didnt look at the list of at home meds for her current dxs/didn’t think to get an order for missing meds/etc. Total fails in all categories of even nursing 1 care. Needless to say, when I got there heads rolled. Anyway, nursing care rants. Happy advocating!
I worked in ICU throughout the mid 80s and all 90s. It was normal to go 8 hours without even realizing I didn't have a chair for my table to chart. I worked 12-hour shifts, often requested to work 6-8 hours, go sleep for 4 hours, then return for night shift because there were no nurses for our open heart unit.
7-8 on medsurge and 4-5 on pcu but no secretary , one cna for 18 patients , you do your own ekgs , draw your own labs , do your own admissions , transport your patients to and from procedures , leave the floor to be in a procedure , answer phones ..it’s horrid
I honestly think that it’s so unsafe for nurses to cover each other’s patients . If it was safe then you would have all the patients at the beginning of the shift
We need legislation passed for safe ratios. 8:1 in a PCU is insane. I can’t even imagine what that nurse is going through. And that pts family. I love what I do yet it’s getting sooo difficult. To just. Be. A. Nurse. Thanks Liz
Bless your heart !! My daughter is also an R.N. and is overwhelmed with all the problems,I can see it in face and I hear it in her voice. And yes a patient did jump to their death .at ORMC.
I just spent 3 weeks in the ICU maybe 6 months ago. I was severely sick and almost died. The level of care I received was absolutely incredible. All the way from the ICU nurses, the doctors, the surgeon and trauma team. They all worked together and acted quickly. My life was in their hands as they made all the appropriate medical decisions. Rapid response team was called a few times that I believe saved me. Our community hospital has been improving their care and renovating. Everyone I speak to has had great care. They have been able to continue improving during covid. Honestly I was scared to go to any hospital during covid and after all the corporate issues hospitals have been having recently. I'm now getting ready to move to this area and very nervous to leave such a great hospital I live less than 5 minutes from. My family was with me every day to visit while I was on a ventilator. It made all the difference in my recovery. I even have memories of my husband holding my hands. I can't express how important it is for loved ones to visit. The ICU nurses never left my side. Sometimes I had 3 or 4 in the room. Someone sat by my bed side when I was extremely ill. They never left until the next person came. I felt incredibly safe. I had developed ICU delirium and was hallucinating for 2 weeks. I'm so grateful for everyone that helped me. I'm doing great now because of the level of care I received. I'm so impressed with the care I received and so heartbroken that all hospitals are not being ran this way. I had access to every possible resources I needed to recover. This is in Florida. I just wanted to add when I realized everything that was going on and what happened to me I thanked my nurse and told her they never left my side. She told me because I was in the ICU that they only have one person to care for most of the time. That because of this ratio they are able to give the highest level of care. I was so critical sick at one point I had a huge team of people by my side. My blood pressure was extremely low. I had severe sepsis. Because I had so many people watching me is why I am alive and my children still have a mother. For all the health care workers, nurses we go home and most of the time you never hear of much you all have impacted our lives. We are truly grateful that you give everything to care for us! These are some of the most important jobs in our community. I pray with everything going on you guys put your foot down and weather the storm. Your work is so important!
Wow! So blessed you were well cared for and could have visitors. How many died during covid days without loved ones allowed to visit. My mom was one. She did not deserve to die alone.
@@janeta3509 My heart goes out to you and your family! It's been a difficult time during covid. I live in Florida and our governor just recently signed a bill allowing family members to visit no matter what. His wife had breast cancer during covid and they realized how important it was to have your loved ones by your side. You and your family are in my prayers 🙏 I feel incredible blessed/fortunate. My children almost didn't have a mother! 🙏 I thank God every day! I pray for everyone who has been faced with these trying times and our health care system corporate gets it together. There's still a lot of amazing people caregivers who care. We really need to support the good ones as much as we can in our community right now. 🙏
@@Claire76genx I have been extremely weak for a few months trying to build up my strength. I spent 6 days on a ventilator. Completely horrible experience I don't think anyone can understand unless they have been there. The medications they use to put you in a medical coma can be terrible. I went into sepis shock and was hallucinating for a few weeks. Completely terrified at times. I hope you feel better. It really takes a lot of time to heal.
@onnielou70 kinda have this feeling. 🙂 I was on a lower floor for a few hours until the nurse recognized I was going into sepsis shock. When rapid response was called and I was placed on the ICU. This is when everything changed quickly. There was no more trying to figure out what was wrong with me. I was rushed into emergency surgery within that day. Immediately had Central lines placed in my arm and aligning my neck and feeding tubes. I'm so grateful for the nurse who quickly recognized this and wasn't afraid to call rapid response. I think they were called a few times I don't even know. I remember the blue light going off in the ICU and tons of people in my room quick. Honestly they had to put one fire out after another. I have so much respect for all the teams working together. It really amazes me how knowledgeable and quickly you have to act. Even Nurses jobs are extremely important. Everyone! It's really opened my eyes.
I have worked in Miami and currently work in Broward County Fl. and love both facilities and are well staffed. Im an ER nurse and love nursing even after 25 yrs of nursing experience
Hi Lisa, I'm also in Broward County and graduate ABSN in 12 weeks. And currently working as a nurse extern in ortho/neuro med surg. Hoping to start in the ICU to advocate for the most critical and safety is key🤞🏽. If possible I'm interested in the name of organization. Kindly.
As a recently retired bedside RN and also the mom who just lost her 30 y/o daughter after 3 wks in the hospital and then a transfer to a nursing home. The thought of ever returning to work terrifies me. Not only could I see lack of some simple cares, like turning q 2 hrs, due to short staffing but I could see the stress on almost every nurse’s face. The nursing home was just beyond belief short staffed. The scary thing is that, in my experience, so much turn over in nurses leads to new grads learning from others who don’t have much more experience than them! While many of those people are amazing and can survive anyway, many sink and end up hating their job. There is very little job satisfaction in nursing. You get those little rewards from different patients, but overall job satisfaction is very difficult to have when you almost feel coerced to try to do the impossible and make it look like you did everything the way it should be done. I got called in to talk to an attorney about a case where the hospital was being sued for wrongful death….the attorney basically said I was not likely going to face many problems but that in the future I should document everything as being ok when I gave report! Like I am supposed to stay with that patient until they got better or else lie that the patient appeared stable when I left. (The only thing this patient had going on when I left was unidentified severe pain which ended up wrongfully identified as sickle cell pain by the doctors.) When I left she was having pain and I had a doctor see her and documented her pain as unresolved when I left but that full report was given. Which was the truth. I hate that you feel pushed into lying for whatever reasons!
I’ve worked in healthcare for 29 years. I have never in my life seen it this bad, our healthcare system is in the crapper. Going to a doctor or hospital is my absolute last resort. My daughter just graduated high school & wanted to go to nursing school. I talked her out of it. Number one reason, we refuse to be force jabbed with substances that have not been thoroughly studied. No thanks.
I agree. Was a nurse for 33 years, 80's,90's and 2000's. The eighties was so much better. Had never heard of agency/travel nurses back then. So incredibly sad.
I would go back to nursing BUT will not get the JAB. So it’s the hospital shooting themselves in the foot then crying about it. BUT….. I’m sure the GOVERNMENT will take care of it. We know how that will turn out.
I want to speak as a student nurse. I was hired to work as a nurse extern and was told the job is basically a PCT position and the ratio was 10:1. I also asked was it going to benefit me a future nurse and was told it was. After finishing taking necessary labs, facility and company orientation, I was told to orient on the floor with a PCT. It wasn’t anything related to nursing in fact the person they had me oriented with had a 20:1 ratio meaning the entire unit. I was required to follow her the entire shift. I’ve seen patients neglected up to an hour after they asked for help, vitals were being estimated instead of properly measuring it. As I asked why she simply said she doesn’t have time. I asked about being paired with a nurse so I can strengthen my skills as a nurse extern/future nurse and I was told that nurses needed to build up trust in order for me to work with them or watch as they do certain procedures. I couldn’t spike the IV bags, not even use my stethoscope for anything or anything related to what I’ve mastered in nursing school. This was my first hospital job and I quit this job after working half of a 12hour shift of orientation (second day on the job). I was told this was considered job abandonment mind you it was only my second day and still orientating. I report it to HR and was told they will investigate it and never heard anything from them again and seen I was taken out of their system as if I never worked there. This actually put a bad taste in my mouth as a student nurse due to ratio issue, patients not receiving adequate care and more. I care to much to work anywhere that don’t value their employees nor their patients.
They do not value or respect their nurses. They will be bringing nurses from the phillipines to pay them to work extra as the loyal employees are burned out! These hospitals will throw new grads to the wolves who can’t even use a bedpan appropriately…
I graduated from a 3 year clinical program in 1981. I stopped renewing my license after 5 years. Never made as much money but kept my humanity. Great education for navigating the quagmire that is Medicare!
My ambulance consistently has a 1:1 ratio, I like it. 😂 I work per-diem as a vascular access nurse, and full time as a paramedic... I don't care about the money!
My wife and I both worked at a skilled nursing facility that was small and independently owned but like so many of them now days these big corporations buy them up and they loose all compassion and care for the residents, it's all about numbers and basically money. We had so many terrible incidents that we left the business. They're so short staffed (unless state is in the building) we couldn't harden our hearts to the neglect. A Resident was dropped and put back in bed with broken leg, one man got out of the building and ended up in the ditch in front of facility (in the winter in NC) it was all swept under the rug. Thank goodness we're no longer in that business but I often think of our precious elderly and the horror some go through.
Left a LTC / skilled care facility back in Apr 2020. People were being starved with new draconian rules imposed mar 2020. Residents requiring help with adls ...like feeding ...were only ones allowed in dining room. Problem was....only PT dietary dept etc...were allowed in dining room ( these depts could not feed people ..only coax them to eat...so sickening)... while nurses and cnas were the ones handing out roomtrays to those who could feed themselves..but left stuck in their rooms 24/7. I reported per protocal... to no avail! I'm still having nitemares over these crimes on humanity....also full codes were being changed to dnr status with zero family knowledge ...we were attached to a hospital but sold out to another company July 1 2019🤔
Two more shifts and my contract is over. Was going to sign a six week extension but forget that! We have just had our 8th Covid admit in two weeks and my rate has been cut by $1400 we are understaffed and I hate to leave my coworkers but enough already!
I work as a travel MT and have been to facilities in quite a few states. There are so many things I have seen that made me glad I was not a patient at that facility. It really has soured my experience working in Healthcare
I never knew about nurse ratios! That is insane! Thanks for letting me know what I need to out for on the ballot! We definitely should pay and treat our nurses better 😣
I have had my life saved more than once at ORMC. And they were the only hospital that finally found out what was wrong with my mother. They could not save her because she had CJD and it's fatal. I know in every hospital there are problems and problem employees. There was a nurse who fought for me one of the times that I was dying and knew if they put me in PCU I would have died. Finally I was being sent to ICU and I was coding in the elevator. A wonderful doctor ,( I wish I could find) saved me quickly. And every time I ended back in the ORMC, either heart ward or even the ER he would see my name and would come and check on his "Angel". I did have small issues with a couple of incidences but for my life I'm lucky they saved me several times. I wouldn't be alive if it weren't for them.
@ Teresa Weaver - I'm so glad you had those good experiences at ORMC. By hearing about their problems as shared in this video and the comment section, it would seem that most patients wouldn't get good care because of the shortages of nursing staff. But from your testimony, I'm sure that there are plenty of doctors and caring nursing staff who each day give it their all to minister to the medical needs of their patients. Thank you for sharing; hopefully, any nurses or doctors reading your comment will be encouraged and remember that their efforts are making a difference in the midst of the staff shortages.
@@newbeequilter Thank you for your reply. And I do agree with you in the way that there is a shortage of nurses and doctors. I, Thank God, have had great success of getting better and living past the death sentence I was given. I had gotten lucky and this was of course over 20 years ago when things certainly were better. I do fully agree again about the way things have gotten bad in the field of medicine. I will not go to the doctor because I no longer have trust in doctors. I no longer live in Florida and the medical where I live is low par. It is a shame how the nurses get treated. I'm not putting down what has happened at ORMC either. I wish that things would get better for everyone involved because without good healthcare we all lose.
It’s not just nurses. I work in radiology and it’s the same thing. I finally gave up on the hospital life after 2 years of covid and all of the low staffing crap. I was a supervisor and had mandatory overtime and hadn’t been able to take a vacation for 2 years. I was burned out and exhausted but couldn’t step away. I have been in MRI/X-ray for 20 years and I’ve only watched the healthcare field get worse as hospital chains chase profits and purposely understaff. I went outpatient and am SO MUCH HAPPIER.
I am a retired nurse, 44 years in the profession, last 10 years advance practice. It looks like much of our health care has devolved into 3rd world health care. A few decades ago Central Florida basically changed into 2 hospital systems, Orlando Regional and Florida Hospital (now known as Adventist Health). They purchased the smaller independent hospitals and eliminated competition. I would not trust either, but Orlando Regional seems a bit better. A friend's mother was recently at FH for a PEG tube insertion due to oral cancer. The tube was inserted into a muscle, not the stomach. Her mom was fed for about a week, no one knows where the feedings were going. It seems the vast majority of healthcare now consists of writing prescriptions. Some physicians are starting practices focusing on health, nutrition, exercise, and getting off as many meds as possible. I think this is the best future.
The fact that I had to scroll just from Google searching "Orlando Regional Medical Center" just to find this video. And it was the ONLY link on the first page talking about this. The fact that this isn't being talked about in the media is literally outrageous.
This is against the science first narrative. If you cant trust hospitals why would you trust the cdc or faucci? Oh thats right you shouldnt. They want to take the oath away of do no harm. No faith should be put in these places unless your doctor has proven his competence.
My husband gets the Orlando Sentinel, and just got a notice that service will cease in July. Good Riddance, I say. The “slantinel” hasn’t reported anything in years. It’s now nothing more than the mouthpiece of the left
It's not about the money. It's about the unsafe staffing ratios. Pushed to the limit, run off your feet, no lunch or dinner break, incessant interruptions while trying to focus on direct patient care. Getting off shift late after reporting to nasty coworkers. The list goes on and on. Throwing money at the problem doesn't make any of the above go away.
Booming? We are in a recession and racing towards an economic depression. However, hospitals better pay competitive rates or lose nurses. High turnover is not good for the overall patient care in the hospitals.
@@lovelovevon4316 These high rates of pay can't last. When these gas prices go up even more and reach critical mass and paralyses the entire economy....those travel nurse jobs will disappear overnight. The nurses that stay will have unprecedented nurse patient ratios.
But hasn't this happened for decades? My then partner graduated with her BSN in 1980--University of Minnesota School of Nursing--and was immediately hired into a surgical ICU. What I remember most clearly about those days is how the public was being fed the lie of a severe nursing shortage, when in reality most health centers, hospitals and clinics were simply refusing to hire due to budget constraints. This situation wasn't resolved until the MNA (Minnesota Nurse's Union) went on strike. The metaphor I like to use is the fever chart--ways of thinking about staffing go up and down wildly, depending on the year and the amount of money involved. But again, the public is spoon fed a PR lie concocted from the Clouds of Nowhere.
Great video. I first heard about this case on Tiktok but when I tried to Google it, I couldn't find any information. I hope this starts to trend in the news cycle so that the right changes can be made to this terrible system.
When I had stephans-Johnson with necrosis, I had an admin guy stop in to see how my care was. I said my care is great since I am in isolation and somewhat bored, yesterday I logged my care. I had someone in my room changin Iv's, bandages, marking the boarders of infection etc for 17 hours and 13 minutes out of 24 hours. I was in a regular ward. I said pls pls check that they have added staff so the other patients are getting the care they need. Usually it was one nurse or tech per 6-8 patients. We were all breathing on our own able to push the button if we needed to pee etc. But I required 2 extra staff just for me. (they had added extra staff) and I was the first patient in our state to survive such a terrible condition. After 2 months i was released to care of family, and eventually returned to my job and worked 15 more years til retirement. There are good hospitals and wonderful nurses. If you have a bad feeling as a patient speak up. Families check up on your loved ones, stop in at 2 am and see what is going on.
I attempted nursing school years ago and thank goodness I got out of it. Instant anxiety when it was time for clinical part at hospital. I never saw any health there. Just patients with bed sores being pumped full of meds. Literally wanted to leave each time I was there. Im so happy I left or id probably be very depressed and maybe even dead. I chose alternative ways to serve the people. This system is not meant to keep people healthy at all. Choose wisely, beautiful humans!
I got through nursing school but refused to work as a nurse. Luckily I don’t have to work. It’s a nightmare. My first little lady in the CNA course died and they were abusing her. I reported it and NOTHING was done. It didn’t get better throughout RN school. I had a target on my back nearly the whole time because I spoke up. They don’t like those who question. My friend was the VP of nursing at the hospital I was doing clinical at and I discussed some of my concerns with her. She literally told me “that’s just how things are done”. I lost all respect for her and realized nothing would ever change. My friend’s who are working as nurses used to vent about the awful things they dealt with. Then, one by one they became sucked in. For example, one girl pushed a med she was not authorized to give and she killed the pt. They spent 4 hrs trying to get him back. They did but he was injured. She said they fixed the record to make it appear he decompensated unexpectedly on his own. She stopped venting after that and was totally a part of the system. I know MANY who have lost pts they should not have. Each record was adjusted to show no fault of staff. Absolutely disgusting.
@@Adentalgrl i do not doubt any of this at all! I got a yucky feeling of sickness and death and wrongdoing and lack of actual care and love when there. Patch Adam's was a good movie but I wish it was real. Maybe somewhere it is.
I went to the Er in Early April was shocked that there was only a few PA’s and new graduates. I didn’t see any doctors. But 3 months later I got billed by 5 doctors that I never saw. Maybe they were behind the curtains.
if you had lab work done a Dr. interprets it and you get billed. If you had an xray done-same thing a Dr reads it and you get billed. The PA who treated you is under the supervision of a Dr who gets to bill ea pt that the PA sees. This is how the system works because legally only a Dr can interpret lab, xray, ct scan, ekg results. so they glance and bill. It's called the cha-ching factor$$$$$$$ Our whole healthcare system is a clusterf--k. ( I worked in a trauma center for almost 40 yrs)
I am a retired RN. I spent 25 years working 10-12 hour days bc my heart was In it, I always believed I was helping people and the hospitals & management were too. I graduated in 1990 and by 2010 it was abundantly clear that no matter what laws were passed it was always the moral law that guided true healthcare & those called to it. The golden rule or moral law of doing unto others as you want done to you began to rapidly deteriorate & so did every part of healthcare. By 2013 I was checking in patients not by talking to them and listening and by applying the wisdom of the knowledge & experience I had, but by the newest guidelines blinking on the computer screen ( must have this , pt is due for this vaccine, needs this , needs this , missed two apts ⚠️ , needs to be compliant on this test etc etc etc...all downloaded & updated constantly per "the system" handed down from higher up or the state, or insurance company or now the pharmacy without regard to patients history or medical information. MD prescribing based on his wisdom and exp in working & knowing his patient constantly overruled suppressed causing stress after stress, on patient & healthcare workers. , It was clear to me research companies & walking for aids or arthritis money wasn't going to find a cure it was going to repackage & rename the same meds ... but under new arthritis med, etc...as a physician explained to me "there is no money in a cure, only treatment". That day the scales that were blinding my eyes from seeing the truth fell off. I asked the Lord to get me out.. and since then I have discovered so much of what causes so much disease in America is our lack of nutrition and poor diet bc of what is being sold to us in way of so called news and knowledge in the media & by the food and drug industries. Search back to when you or when your parents were young you'll find commercials of (actors) Docs telling you which pack of cigarettes were good to smoke. Yes, It's true. Physicians today have maybe one nutrition class in school. How is that possible,? Surely God would provide for us & teach us how to properly eat and teach his doctors. He did but the medical schools have been long bought out ( by those who had money on their mind not God or good) and they don't focus on nutrition and how when one eats properly they can be free from the scourge of what America struggles with daily. The Bible says "my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge". MD's are educated to treat symptoms. Treat the symptoms with their medications (synthetically made of course bc natural treatments found in nature CANT be patented). Think about it, in decades gone by did they spend their life going to the doctor every three months and if you didn't they couldn't get their proper treatment? This is what is going on now. It's so much worse since Covid. Young people have already been enlightened by the Lord on eating properly. Covid fear & constant media narrative has now tried to get them into the medical Never ending hamster wheel. If we pray 🙏 for peoples eyes to be opened and keep sharing these truths the medical industry will decrease & we can get back the medical field and let those who are called to it remain. It is perfectly ok to question & even disagree with doctors on things,& if they won't allow it or pressure you, it's best to get a second & even third opinion. Pray first bf even going and pray for all doctors. All they have to do is STAND UP to the system and everything will change. I knew my help came from the Lord. The big companies driving it all now...is not who began healthcare... no it was the church.. working for & being the hands of the Lord. It's high time we get back to him being our boss. Get healthy my friend and God bless you.
Agree! It is actually when they closed all those convents with the nursing sisters, who worked for the Lord, (same with the schools and teaching sisters), that it all became big business, less care. It appears very well orchestrated....hence, what happened with so much deception as of past three years. Would have not been “pulled off” otherwise.
As a nurse for 20 years I have come to the conclusion that nurses generally reject the idea of joining labor unions at least in the metropolitan area I live in, that being said the ONLY hospital in my area that has set nurse to patient ratios just happens to be the only hospital in which nurses have union representation. I worked PCU units for the past 8 years, the industry standard seems to be a 3/1 nurse patient ratio occasionally you may get four if one is a Med/Surg acuity patient, 8/1 is an unsafe ratio in any acute care setting let alone an ICU/Step-down unit.
I’ve worked 40/1…. It’s still going and administration is clever to make nurses feel like friends until something like this happens & quickly they don’t know you. Grateful that this is being talked about, it’s been a long time coming
We are unionized here in my city in FL. It has not corrected staffing, pay, or benefits any more than the other two hospitals here who are not unionized.
those are the ratios as they should be.The hospitals push SUCH anti union rhetoric beause they don't want to actually have to treat people decently. so frustrating
I can beat that,school nurse,one of 2 RNs,the 2nd nurse was special education only.responsible for over 800 kids.The burnout accelerated,and thankfully the principal fired me.This ridiculous ratio isn't uncommon,especially in Queens. There's no way you can feel effective. It's just a ridiculous situation that can only end in tears.
My 4 daughter's ages 16, 21, 25 & 30 NEVER had a school nurse on site. In elementary there was a paid clinic woman who had a do of "training". In middle school parents took turns volunteering in the clinic to give ice, bandages etc. Most days no volunteer so you just sat in front office w your issue. High school had nothing that I recall other than first aid kit in front office. The entire county had 1 RN that came to the school yearly to give hearing & vision screening if you had no insurance basically.
PLEASE leave your job when they put too much on you that you know would put your job at risk. My daughter worked at walgreens for long time and during covid they had wanter her to be trained to give covid shots and she did not do it. They later at some point and time said that she made an error with handing the patient the wrong meds as they already under staffed at the pharmacy dept there. They fired her. She has since graduated with a degree not in the medical field.
I will not go to the doctor or hospital unless my life is in danger and probably not even then. I don't trust people who are more concerned about gender, identity, and sex preference than actual academics. Not only that, people are so filled with hate these days they wouldn't think twice to do something that could put your life at risk
As a Med Tech (LABORATORY, since 1930, THAT IS NOT A TITLE FOR CARE TECHS) I also watched new techs with less education and experience get hired for more money. Then as a teacher, science in high school, same thing. They could not get new people right out of college to work for that but expected us to continue to work for that amount.
Many thanks for having a place to voice our issues. Hospitals in the south have staffing issues dating back 15+ years. One in particular had a Mandatory 1 to 4 Ratio for MICU back in 2010.
We are new to Florida. My dad had a stroke in February. He stayed at Orlando Health in Clermont for several days. The ER staff was wonderful. They let both my mom and I stay with him until a room was ready. The nurses/doctors and the guest service staff at the lobby were all excellent. They made sure my mom and I were comfortable, they gave us bottled water. His nurse talked for a long time with me about his diet for when he went home. I was impressed actually at the level of care he received. I did notice the windows were nailed shut. What a horrible tragedy. If they were short staffed at this hospital, they didn't let it show. I applaud all Nurses. You have a very demanding job. Thank you-Michelle
Joint Commission and other regulators have a role in causing this too. Document that you documented your documentation - seems to be their motto. No wonder docs and other clinicians leave the field. I was on Survey Readiness Steering Committee. Worst was being more or less forced to create employee appraisals for nurses that were nine pages long. Heaven hep the nurse managers with 65 nurses’ appraisals to shepherd if they missed a check box in the competency sections. It was incredibly frustrating to have to be the enforcer of this ridiculousness. Being in administration is no fun either. Constant layoffs and God help you if your VP saw you in the cafeteria because you’d be given yet another department to run. We all hoped to get laid off. It was an overwhelming situation.
I know this video is a few weeks old but reading these comments makes me even more worried hit my granddaughter who is headed for. Nursing school fall of 23… and I thought all I had to worry about was her being forced to get vaxed … I wish she’d choose a different career ….God bless you all!
3rd year med student here and I can only fathom managing 3 critically ill patients right now. I honestly cannot imagine managing 6 and doctors don't change dressings or monitor vitals. Gives me the heebyjeebies. 😳
please remember when you graduate to be kind to the staff- they are running their butts off, they get UTI's because they don't have time to go to the bathroom and I've seen staff faint because they can't eat for 12 hrs.
If it bothers you to think of , you should see how nurses are spoken to , in many cases literally screamed at , by many doctors . I have been out of the clinical realm for a few years now but in my 32 yrs of nursing I saw alot of verbal abuse towards nurses . I am guessing this younger group of nurses won't put up with that as much as the older generation did. I know I learned over time not to take it from them .
The acuity level determinations are skewed in favor of understaffing. Department managers are given bonuses for quarterly under-budget staffing! This is wrong and admin needs to be taken to task for this. They are responsible, but then so are we. We must not accept bad assignments and I am just as guilty of that. I worked in a nursing home 3 months and accepted 60 patients from 11p to 7a.
I live in Ohio. In February I had to go in hospital because of covid. I was in 5 days. They were very shortly staffed. But everyone was so good to me and very friendly. I'm sure they were stressed, but they took good care of me.
Most of our travelers in ICU called in for their last night. Hospital is full already. No one to fill in. The cards are beginning to fall where I am too.
I completely agree with the whole new grads in ICU thing. I see aot of social media nurses telling students you can work in the ICU right out of graduation. This is not always going to be the case, especially in this day when hospitals are hiring a lot of new grads (or from what I'm seeing a lot of new grads).
Husband told me 15 new grads started CVICU on Monday. They do have over 20 weeks of training thank goodness. But new grads? Husband worked his way up from med surge over years.
I worked at then..Orlando Regional .back in early 1980s. Had common patient assignment of 8 to 10, but with LPN for each RN! How wonderful the times were. How sad the patient needs are not held as the priority by the "system."
My step cousin who was a mentally ill heroin addict committed suicide the same way back in 1978, only from the 12th floor. This was in NYC. He landed in an overgrown abandoned courtyard. His birth mother was notified weeks after the fact. He’d already been buried on Hart Island, (Potter’s Field). If you’re a poor patient, you take the hospital they give you or leave AMA.
I recently had an assignment in a long term care facility in New York and had 51 residents to pass medications, do treatments and put out all kinds of fires on a 12 hour shift. I would have rather gone to hell
I too have attempted to make it through that assignment! I had 51 residents on two floors to pass meds to. I had to fill stacks of medication trays by opening pharmacy dispensary-type pill bottles and draw up numerous injectable medications. While I was pursuing this daunting chore, patients were pacing the hallways, arguing, and desperately pressing their call light for needed help! It was a special Hell. One nightmare shift like this and I quit! I was terrified that a patient would get injured or take a turn for the worse and I would be to blame. The two assistants on duty were overwhelmed!!
I'm long term care, safe staffing is long gone in that industry. we still have agency at my facility, although they are trying to get rid of them, and I make sure to ask them if it is any better anywhere else. So far, the answer has been no.
I am in long term/TCU with a lot of psych diagnoses in addition to their medical diagnoses. I came from a facility in which as a floor nurse I had 35 to 40 patients...yes, I left. I needed to move into management as a result of my chronic pain that is managed well by a pain pump. When I was interviewing I asked about ratios and one of my reasons for accepting this position as opposed to others was their rations were 1 to 20 with with 2 CNA/TMA which is by far the best ratio in my area. I love my job as a nurse manager but even if I didn't and could physically handle working the floor full-time I wouldn't. It is simply too much. I had a training today and one of our corporate nurses (responsibilities are training, consultating, auditing, etc) actually said there was no reason our floor nurses couldn't get all the MDS forms for their coding (skin, bowel/bladder, smoking, elopement, etc) because we have such low ratios and our acuity isn't that bad! I almost laughed out loud because at first I thought she was joking. At the same time she was encouraging us to take more complex patients. If they change the narrative many nurses will fall for that bs. I simply do not understand. We all can't stop working the floor as we need beside nurses to provide the care but expecting them to get everything the business wants them to do to be paid while providing the care they were actually hired to do. I sincerely hope our legislators get wind of all the recent court cases and make changes and laws for ratios . I fear if they don't the nursing shortage won't be a shortage but an emptyage!
Hey LIZ not sure if you know this but there is an author/ UA-camr who is coming up. She wrote the book called patients at risk and is talking about NPs not adequately being trained to deal with the stress of primary care. Can you do a video on that please?
A nurse since 1995. The public are truly unaware of how hard we work. It’s back breaking, stressful, physical work, emotionally taxing and on top of that we have a huge responsibility to provide safe care. In this very physically, stressful and emotion ally heard job everyday we are responsible for the lives of our patients. Drs are not the ones that look after these patients, we do. We are the ones who are the eyes and ears for the Drs. We administer drugs that can kill people everyday. We have to monitor each patient closely. Even with the right patient staff ratio it’s still a very intense job. Most shifts you have more patients than we can safely look after. We can’t do our jobs probably and not e of us went into nursing to run all day and not have the time to interact and treat our patients with the kindness and dedication we would like. I am not working at the moment due to a spinal injury and I have been so disappointed at the lack of quality treatment and care available to me out there. Staff are stressed and there really isn’t any that close client/patient relationships anymore. I remember doing a night duty once and we had two RNs on fir a ward of 24. 12 patients each. Worst shift I’ve ever had.
This is basically why my daughter who has a RN License and also she was a anesthesiologist nurse she doesn’t work in a hospital . She is the head person of one of the main blood donation organizations in the country phlebotomy won over being a RN and she actually makes a bunch more. Not put in risky situations.
As an RN x 50 years (ICUCCU)I highly recommend anyone hospitalized has a family member stay with them at all time. That support person should have normal lab values to compare to- complete blood count, and chemistries. You can find both on a smart phone. Ask professional staff (RN,MD or RNP’s ) all lab results of your family member everyday and more normal if patient is not normal mentation. RN’s should not have more than 6 patients each day shift.
This video made me cry. My hospital is currently in contact negotiations. I think we are going to strike. The reason is exactly what you're talking about. We need the public to stand up with us because these gready profit making corporations DO NOT CARE ABOUT NURSES OR PATIENTS!
California nurses can’t relate. In our state the nurses lobby for safe staffing ratios and salaries. Mandated lunch and breaks, it’s truly a dream to nurses elsewhere. When you have strong unions they take care of you.
i've worked in multiple hospitals in california and Ca. hospitals still do crazy things with staffing. There was one med/tele floor just 2 months ago that had nurses splitting between 7 and 8 patients and one nurse took 10 because they don't have any staff and they refused to pay registry/travelers a competitive pay rate. The hospital is still having major staffing issues because they refuse to offer competitive rates.
Thank God I am retired. To me poor staffing was much more important than poor pay. The level of co-morbidities in most hospitalized patients dictates a high level of staffing. Meanwhile the nursing administration makes decisions on how many patients a nurse must manage from their ivory tower. I am so blessed that the two times I have been hospitalized, late in 2016, and early 2017 I got excellent care but I would truly need to be dying to go to a hospital since 2020.
Florida nurse here…don’t move here because they treat their nurses like crap! Pay their nurses like crap! See their nurses as crap! No one down here likes unions, so it won’t get any better any time soon. Time to move!!!
I'm not sure where Nurses are valued. Oklahoma isn't better. The BON is a joke. Thank goodness for side hustles. I'm a 17 year MSN prepared RN and I want out... desperately.
i have worked in many parts of Florida and was shocked when I found the nurses in Lakeland have a union! I had to call my mom she couldn't believe it either
One of the reasons LTC can cover up there abysmal ratios is because they count nurse leadership as “direct care staff “ it’s insane and until CMS mandates there will be no change - let me know if you want some inside info on LTC compliancy and background- sincerely a LTC nurse educator looking for an out
Omg what?! I had no idea. Can you email me @ nurselizyt@gmail.com id love to talk more with you and bring you on as a resource if you are willing when we discuss long term care things!
This is my 2nd year working in Fl as a baby hospital nurse and let me tell you. I work for supposedly one of the better hospital systems and it’s still horrible on our med surg unit. The quality of care just isn’t there. Stay away from Fl healthcare if you can 😢
They're non profit lol. I worked as a tech for 3 years and I was paid $8.50 an hour and the other techs with the same experience were paid $11an hour. Real Christian of them. They love to leave me with 13 patient on a ortho floor where almost no one could walk alone. A patient passed one night because of this.
Hahaha in my PCU I have had 7 to 9 patients. Active STEMI, TPa, stabile ventilated, afib rvr and yeah they dont care. I have an easier shift in ICU with 3 patients. It's unbelievable .
We have a union and a contract. That specifies ratios new york finally is passing a bill for ratios but isn't in effect until January 2023. So we wait... and see what miracles can come.
I work within catholic health in buffalo new york. We were on strike in October 2021, made no difference in reality feels like now administration hates us and is punishing us for the strike.
My Mom shortly worked at ORMC back in 1990. She was a RN. They paid horrible, understaffed like mad. Kept her over 48 hrs just to hand out meds. Tried to keep her 60 to 72 hoyrs with a few hours of sleep here and there. Even had her go to other floors to hand out meds. I finally went and got her out. Told them she was not going to sleep a few hours at a time, stay so long, make a mistake at handing out meds and be charged. They freaked! She can't leave, she's our only RN on 2 floors. I said hire from the staffing agencies, they have nurses waiting to work. This is illegal.
I work in healthcare but I’m working to get out in next 2 years. That’s my goal. It’s just to stressful. I might stay prn for extra money and it’s a good backup career bc your always needed. But way to stressful. I know someone has to do the job but I will be more then happy to get out
Love, love your content. I have two daughters in nursing, you are so right. I told them to not risk their lives or career, bc the higher up don't care.
Sadly, lobbying for ratio mandates will be met with even harder, or more financial 😉😉, lobbying by hospitals and unfortunately with our corrupt government.....money talks. I honestly don't know what the future for the healthcare industry holds in store anymore, but I think it'll be a major breaking point before our government even cares, sadly.
They will cut housekeeping and nurses aides. That’s the admin response to lower ratios. It happened at my facility. Told us to take out the trash, clean the rooms etc
I was hospitalized March 2021 with covid @ a small facility in a college town. I had excellent care and nursing staff was wonderful. Guess I need to say Thank You. God once again.
@@NurseLiz was alot better when we had more travelers, used to be 3-4. Now my hospital is shutting down units and kicking out travelers and trying to have new grads like me run everything to save money after covid. The "seasoned" nurses of 1-2 years of experience are all leaving too. :(
WTF. I work in Australia and every hospital that I have worked at required patients to be sent to cardiac Cath lab for cardio versions and TEE. Every case was at least 1:1 nursing care for procedures.
During the COVID epidemic I was left alone in a hospital after surgery. My roommate and I were terrorized, TERRORIZED by a certain nurse and nurse assistant. We were literally hit, slapped, and they would push our food out of our reach. I went four days with little more than water, unable to move much or get out of bed to bring the food on my tray closer so I could reach it. When about day 3 I could ask the NA why are they not feeding us she responded, 'If you don't eat, you don't chit and we don't have to clean you'. I swear to God that is exactly what she said. After day four I was able to convince the Dr. to let me go home before the nurses killed me......he laughed but I was serious. Never again.
Wow. While unsafe staffing is a big issue , rude and dangerous staff are something that can be dealt with. I hope to heavens you followed this incident up with written complaints.
I work in a Rehab Facility with no staff but sure bringing in pts Quantity over Quality it's awful, I work for a huge company that owns 500 nursing homes ALL ABOUT GREED and then the type of cna's they hire should not even be working with these types of pts we have a rehab unit a Vent unit and 2 long term units IT'S AWFUL
They're not even paying for nurses aids to clean up the patients so the nurses can focus on vitals and medications? As a former care coordomator I've reported situations where for instance a brain injured patient was falling out of bed and calling me every half hour and I'm located far away from these hospitals and only available by phone. This is terrible.
I wanted to move out to Florida...but 3 things stopped me 1. (hurricanes, tsunamis, high wing) if they dmage your home or destroy it...home insurance there will fuk you over and won't cover anything and will deny it...will the Insurance Florida commissioner do anything in time when you don't have a proper home or don't have a decent roof over your head? 2. Lack of a decent hospital in all of southern Florida...like..I looked on Google maps...every hospital is 3 stars or less...like are there even docs and surgeons that save lives over there or do they just let the patient die? 3. No proper Medicaid 4. And expensive just like everywhere I guess to due inflation these days.
I had a family member in the hospital and another family memeber noticed they had not been bathed and ask the nurse when are they going to bath and the nurse said it depends what day of the week they was on for bathing i couldnot believe that
I remember with my son who has chronic ulcerative colitis during one of his stays at Orlando them putting him in a tuberculosis room to isolate him because they needed to test him for it before they could get him on a biologic they needed to make sure he didn't have it. Then because it was weekend it took forever. Then when results did come in they were invalid and they needed to retest before they could put him on only medicine that seems to stop his immune system from killing him. I was terrified with him being in that room and he was in so much pain he keep telling me he was going to jump out the window if they didn't help him. It was so heartbreaking and frustrating.
The need of nurses always being an issue, because the healthcare facilities get greedy and only care about profits leaving nurses and other staff work under a big stress and the most important nurses work many times under unsafe environment leading to a high turnover
I am a FL LPN with a college degree. I switched fields. I have worked psych, LTC, rehab, wound care, assisted living and this past year I did travel nursing, and I am now doing Home health private duty. Typically I have had from 25-30 patients. If they are all walkie talkies that's fine, but when 8 are Gtube, 15 are diabetics, 3 have ostomy, 2 have trachs, and EVERYONE has narcotics Q4 PRN then it's a nightmare. Assisted living with memory care is usually 30 patients with dementia or Alzheimer's high fall risk. I have literally been the only nurse 7a -11p with 120 patients. Imagine 2 critical incidents at 1 time, impossible. This is normal in Florida Safe staffing ratios must take into account acuity. In LTC are they on IV, Gtube, trach, diabetic ? It's all about realistic safe expectations. The good nurses get the hardest cases while those who don't seem to care seem to get all the walkie talkies. I made almost 100k last year, but my quality of life suffered. I figured if I'm going to be understaffed, have to bust my a$$ to get everything done, then I might as well get paid well, thus travel. I have stepped back now, do 12hr shifts 7a-7p 4 days a week now with 1 patient! I am no longer hating my life and questioning my future. I was working on my RN, but no more. Why put myself back into the nightmare? If I had to do it over, I'd go OT, PT, ST. They seem to actually do their job and be happy.
All HOSPITALS are bad at this time. Nothing but new grads working, as all seasoned Nurses left after the CV crap. I was recently hospitalized in Phoenix area, after a emergency situation. When admitted after being Life Flighted I was in a Critical Care area and nobody could start an IV, after the one placed by EMT quit. I was shocked. IF my dominant hand had not been affected by the trauma, I would have asked for a needle and did it myself. I have excellent veins. My nurse and others on the floor tried 5 times and couldn't place one. I tried to coach them but they were oblivious. My immediate Nurse, new grad one year, did not even know how to hold the Needle properly. I pointed out the "wings" that you are supposed to hold it by to insert and she didn't even know that this was why they were there. She just said that she was "not trained to do it that way". Blind leading the blind in the hospitals now!! No business putting new grads in ICU/ER positions without experienced oversite. I have over 20 years experience as a Critical Care nurse and can't get a job because I refuse to be jabbed.
As a Canadian nurse I can speak to this happeinig here. I actually quite my RN position of 20 years, our government seems to be doing this on purpose. They state there is nothing they can do but there is so much, our union is in bed woth government. Staff working tell of 1:12 ratios on the daily. Hire back all of the nurses fired for their medical choice. None of thos happened evan at covid peak when no on ewas terminated at least not to this extent. We need to rise up.
This is exactly why I'm hesitant becoming a nurse. I finished all my prerequisites, but have not taken entrance exam. It just seems like healthcare is going to hell in a hand basket. But I'm not sure what else I'd be interested in as a career.
I worked in a rehab hospital (no retired) and norm 8-9 to one nurse one CNA not unusual to have 11 pts I was not quite at the end of my orientation and was pulled to a team and my first solo was 11 pts. Talk about anxiety.
As a NP..former ICU RN...if I had a family member hospitalized...I would NEVER leave them in a hospital by themself. The nursing staff is so mistreated...these corporations called hospitals prefer profit over lives.
Thank you
Could. Not. Agree. More. A HUGE tragedy that occured with covid in my opinion was all the family restrictions (which I get because they needed to limit spread), but how many people died because they didn't have a loved one to be there and advocate for them
@@NurseLiz yes as well as the social impact on health, I remember learning about determinants of health and having visitors is one thing that can help some recover quicker as it reduces stress from the isolation and unusual situation hospital puts people in. We really aren't focusing enough on all aspects of health through this pandemic and it's horrifying. As you said friend family not advocating, but how many times has a family member gone this isn't normal for them, when it could be normal in general and you pay more attention and something is found that nurses/doctors can intervene with eg mental health or unusual behaviour post head injury etc that finds an issue which would otherwise be overlooked even in a reasonably staffed place. While visitors can sometimes be a hindrance to getting cares done etc, they really can make a difference to the patient
AMEN!! I have investigated enough events to know that harm occurs every day and with nearly every patient.
Hospitals are set up to fail the patient in so many ways.
Leaders are too busy to fix the processes that contribute to events, and systems prevent processes from staying fixed.
The diligence required to avoid errors is exhausting.
Same here! I'm a 31 year RN. I always advise people who have a famly member in the hospital to have someone stay with them at all times. It's not safe otherwise.
NEVER, Leave Your Loved one in The Hospital Alone!!!
Nursing homes need someone to stay with a loved one to. They are always short staffed with very few days off.
Not every country is the same
💯 yes, my siblings and I always took turns staying with our parents in the hospital and hospice. We never left them alone.
They are not letting people be with their families again due to a “rise” in Covid cases It’s despicable
@@kumitaylor917 I totally agree. Several places we had experience with had "window visitation" only for two weeks at a time upon arrival, or if they had a patient come in with COVID. They called my youngest daughter and I Mom's "tail gaiters" because we set up a canopy, brought a cooler and stayed there for hours a day so Mom wouldn't be alone.
I am a retired RN. People don't realize how understaffed hospitals are now.
I realize, unfortunately, only after an incident I experienced personally. I am a retired EMT and was shocked, at how bad things have gotten.
Now? Uh it's been like that for ages...
They love a 6:1
There were so many nurses that could retire when the pandemic started and they all retired after we had our first wave of nurses leaving to travel.
Early retired RN here in the west coast. Haven’t worked over 4 1/2 years.
43 year nurse here, now retired. Just stayed with my sister while she was in the hospital, 24/7 for 4 days. Caught multiple oversights, mistakes, whatever you want to call them, during this time. Honestly, I am convinced that my sister's condition would have turned out a lot differently had I not been there.
Good om ya ma am!
No one in our family are nurses,but when our mother contracted legionnaires disease, one of us (her kids)stayed with her, 24/7, I believe she got better care, she almost died several times, she's in the medical journals as the 1st smoker to live through Legionnaires,❣️❣️❣️
Hospitals won't let visitors because of Covid. I
@@MelissaR784 Where I live, many hospitals STILL won't allow a family member to stay in the hospital with the patient.
Where my sister lives (another state), they allowed it and even brought me warm blankets at night.
Nurse of 5 years here! My 24 year old husband spent three months in the hospital due to covid last year and once he was negative for covid and they let me in, I quit my job and became his full time caregiver. It’s hard to trust others with your loved ones care so I feel this!
We need to get legislation passed for basic safety standards and whistle blower protection for medical staff that report problems.
Oh well. I just found out that Nurses are the scapegoats of the healthcare system.We are designed to take that role. We are set up to fail big time.We Nurses should fight our rights as human beings.
The professional regulation board has zero care to protect any nurse, are you delusional? Don't mean to sound harsh but you need a jolt
@@edithkinsey7031 I wasn't talking about the boards. I think we need to do away with the state boards entirely. They are nothing but, a pain in the ass. They want nurses to run all over the place for mass emergencies, just give us a national license already.
@@donnathedead7554 The Board of Professional Regulation has everything to do with law's that govern nursing and they do not exist to protect nurses
@@donnathedead7554 Yep, they want you to FEEL and think you are obligated to do what ever they say. Those people that tell you to go here, do this are psycho. Take care of your own first, let them go
I’ve been an RN since 2004. The hospitals are just so drastically cutting corners. IMO, the regular staff should get higher incentives and pay and they should use less travel nurses. I get it, travel nurses are necessary when u need them . But, a cohesive staff is important. Hospitals are staffed w mostly new nurses now. ICU and ER taking new grads… um what? They take those new grads so they can pay bottom pay and more experienced nurses are just done. I won’t work for low pay when I can make $10-15 more doing way more less stressful work. Experience counts in nursing. New nurses need experienced nurses around to help mentor them.
There was a new ER nurse I overheard as a patient complaining about her lack of mentorship from her department after having just graduated as an RN. She has been there for 6 months and wanted more experience but there was no staff to give her the time. 0_0 I had super mixed feelings after hearing her concerns.
I am a travel nurse but not on a full time basis. I have a home base where I work as well in a rural hospital system between contracts or just cause I dont want to travel. It's INSANE EVERYWHERE!!!!! I've been a nurse for over 15 yrs now and have VAST experience is just about every dept and specialty and what scares me the most , I'm now starting to see new grads being hired into travel roles. A traveler should have extensive experience with any skill that may come their way, and unfortunately, I watched a traveler struggle with a nasal pharyngeal swab collection. The standards are going WAY BELOW where it should be in skills and experience, which is putting even more people in danger. Being that I do travel, I am seeing more and more staff nurses who have no common sense and hardly any critical thinking skills (which honestly, I blame alot of these tech type schools who do not require pre-reqs or exams to enter nursing school) As a whole, I'm against using travel personnel, but in most of the places I go to contract, which is more rural and not big cities, there are not enough licensed staff to work. Most of these places, the pay is quite a bit less than the bigger cities or organizations, the housing is too expensive, not as much infrastructure and its very difficult to recruit in, as those that are looking are on the younger side. When I was younger, I wanted alot more action around me.
Personally, I think everything needs to be fixed, but honestly, I only see it getting worse.
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Yeah. Like all the nurse practitioners now that graduated from nursing school, immediately going on to some proprietary online nurse practitioner program and being allowed to use their hours working as nurses without nursing experience as their clinical experience. So now we have all these nurse practitioners with their massive egos who are “seeing patients” who have neither nursing experience nor experience doctors get during their very long training. US for profit death care!
yes it does count (experience) well the nursing shortage has not changed I went straight to an ICU when I graduated in 1989 but nurses nowadays are not allowed to touch patients while in school so how do you expect them to perform? Experienced nurses like me are fed up. We do not get paid what we should and we help the new drs out too ya know.
I went to a hospital in Arizona by ambulance in excruciating pain and constant vomiting. No pain med in ambulance. Got to hospital. Still nothing for pain. Laid on gurney for an hour. Then transferred to wheelchair and literally abandoned in a hallway for another two hours with nothing for pain. My vitals weren’t stable. BP extremely low in ambulance 3 hours ago. I kept waiting in agony getting so weak I was slumped over. A couple walked by and said we’ve been here 6 hours, we’re leaving. I told the nurse I was going to leave. He said all the hospitals are full, which was a lie. I called my husband to come get me. I had to drive another 40 minutes to a small town hospital that took me straight in and gave me exceptional care. It’s a scary time to be sick.
That’s a horror story. I’ve had kidney stones multiple times and the pain is so bad I can’t be still. I just walk and holler and lay down two seconds and repeat. I get a ride to the ER but if I don’t get a shot right away I could’ve stayed in my own home in pain with my dogs staring blankly at me “I didn’t do nothing, was it roscoe? Scooby? Check them”….sometimes I think it’s time to get to know some street vendors and pray for safety. It’s cheaper and u don’t have to wait hours for relief. I haven’t had an episode since Covid hit thank God . I’m avoiding the medical places
@@tinawindham6958 I’m going to do the same. I have antibiotics in my preps. I bet I won’t be without strong pain meds again. I’ll take my chances at home. I got pneumonia from valley fever a year ago and had to go ER in the height of the pandemic. Dr tried to put me on covid unit. I said “no I’ll go home and die with my family” My friend went in for gallbladder surgery, got covid and died in the hospital.
Good idea wow
As someone with chronic illness and pain, every day is scary.
I was a nurse for 40 yrs and recently retired due to refusal to take non researched medicine.I discouraged my daughters from the time they were young to NOT be a nurse. It is incredible hard work.
@Pilgrimprogress. Thank you, I'm an unvaxxed RN as well. Currently not working. It's been difficult finding part time work.
@Dana A few of the nurses that declined vax are working from home for insurance companies, using their nursing background. Per them it was easy to get the job, same pay. Good luck , prayers for you! No matter what NO Vaccine!
@@pilgriminprogress6668 It's been extraordinarily difficult for me to go that route because my primarily psychiatric nursing back round. Of course for no vaccine, my sister died from it. I have long term care experience from twenty years ago, but they want hospital RNs and even though I have BSN since 1995, psych nursing telehealth are all APRN jobs. I'm not an APRN.
I agree with you.
you should be in a Lawsuit against the forced Mandate of a Dangerous vaccine . Soon it will come
Former psych RN. A similar situation almost happened in the hospital I worked in. Someone broke a window on the 5th floor and attempted to jump. Psych was understaffed at the time, but fortunately this person was caught and prevented from falling (the nurse was literally holding onto the patient as they were dangling from the window). Hospital fixed the window, put the patient on a lower acuity unit, and didn't do shit about staffing. I also saw on more than occasion ratios on the psych unit of 1:14 to 1:16 or more. During one meeting we were told, not exaggerating, that ratios were kept at this level because "research showed that nurses who don't have time to sit down have better response times."
When I eventually left that place and got hired in a prison, I was told there would always be at least one other nurse on staff with me during my shift. During the day, there was routinely 4 or 5 nurses. Shortly after I started, I was consistently the only nurse on sight for 450+ inmates, and I was often stuck with overflow work that dayshift hadn't completed.
Left that job to work in a children's psych hospital that also treated adults and addicts. I had coworkers that had only been there for about 8 months and had already seen three change of CEOs in that time. Far more toxic than the prison. I was being pressured by the CEO and marketing (why the f*** was marketing even involved in this?) to admit people when we didn't have a physical bed to put them in. Left that job after maybe only 2 months post orientation. In that two month span, multiple behavioral codes (there was no security), one child nearly killed by another (resulting in permanent brain damage), and another who had ingested screws/nuts/bolts. Absolute insanity. When I left, there were so many other people in my department that were leaving that, a month or so later, I got a text offering a $15k sign on bonus to work there. Didn't take it.
Healthcare for profit is the biggest scandal nobody is reporting today. It absolutely kills people.
When I left nursing after nearly 40 years in the acute care setting, I recall having my 'exit interview' with the HR person.
I had been burned out for years and was more than ready to leave the profession.
I remember the HR person (20 something), as she glanced at the paperwork, trying to decide which question to ask me.
I nearly choked on my spit when she asked, with forced interest, "So why are you leaving ?"
Fighting the desire to just vent my frustrations, I responded, "Almost 40 years as a nurse, isn't this long enough?".
Congratulations on your retirement! 20 something?!? Had to laugh at a newb asking you that!
Oh, lordy. If only, in those moments, it would feel okay to tell that youngun what you REALLY thought about just WHY you're leaving! As I read your comment, all I could think of as a civil retort, would be, "Sorry, kiddo, but that information is above your pay grade." 😒
@@livingitup9647 I wanted to reply, 'Well, how much time do you have?", but I zipped it because firstly, she wouldn't be able to relate and secondly, my leaving was the best prize of all.
IT'S CRAZY. THIS PUTS EVERYONE IN A DANGEROUS POSITION. THE SAD THING FOR ME WAS NO ONE WAS HAPPY AT WORK. THE PLACE WAS JUST TOXIC. EVERYONE WAS MISERABLE. OVER WORKED AND UNDER PAID. 💔💔💔💔😭😭😭😭
CONGRATULATIONS ON THE 40🙏🏽👏🏽👏🏽. I COULD ONLY DO 7 YEARS AND I LEFT IN AUSTRALIA. THANKS TO SOCIAL MEDIA I DON'T FEEL LIKE A LOOSER. THE PROBLEMS ARE WORLD WIDE. THEY WANT TO WORK PEOPLE TO DEATH. WE NEED A RADICAL CHANGE IN STAFF TO PATIENTS NUMBERS WORLD WIDE. ONE PERSON CAN'T LOOK AFTER 20 PEOPLE.
The father of the patient named Grace now has a billboard initiative all around the Appleton Wisconsin area opening the eyes of the people in that area because they drugged and made his daughter a DNR without any family input.
Many street protest have been done at the hospital as well to get the community involved. Grace was murdered while her sister begged for help and the parents watched on Facetime.
That story was a disgrace, to Grace and her family. I was sickened after reading that. That doctor had no legal right to create a DNR without family signatures/approval. How can a DNR be honored without family signatures or even from a judge?
Oh no, I have to research about this, so wrong !!!
@@LovePrettySunsets Well a lot of "emergency laws" were passed in the middle of the chaos so guarantee that was in there. I don't think a doctor would be that bold today if they didn't have a legal backing.
@@LovePrettySunsets Because hospitals value HIPAA over common sense.
Before I watched this video i went through and read some of the comments, and decided that I could not watch this video. I was a Registered Nurse for over 35 years, and I know that this would have just sent my BP through the roof. When I had abiut 20 years of experience I was left on night shift with one other RN in an intensive care unit with multiple ventilator patients and a completely full house. That meant that we were each taking 4 patients and 1-2 vent patients with the other patients we had. We were supposed to provide ¨Exceptional critical care nursing¨ to these patients. If you want to try it go right ahead on my friend, not me, not anymore. When I left nursing I never looked back, I let my license lapse so I could not even be tempted. I have so many more horror stories, they would make your hair stand straight up!!
Kathy, I can't imagine having that many vent patients! I am a homecare nurse with one medically fragile ventilated infant, I spend hours standing over her, performing every intervention ordered. This has even cost me a tooth, the dentist said I'd been clenching my teeth so hard from stress while working it caused a vertical crack which couldn't be repaired. And I had to have it pulled. I would say the job is only slightly less stressful than an air traffic controller!
You're probably right to not listen to all the horror stories, I'm starting to wish I hadn't. I won't tell you about my bad experiences with doctors and hospitals, but I will tell you about a crazy thing I did to avoid going to the emergency room once.
One day I found myself unable to breathe. My heart was racing and lips were blue, so my husband tried to convince me I needed to go to the emergency room. I strongly refused and ordered him to go to Walmart to get a can o' air, the ones they sell to the tourists who have trouble with the altitude where I live. The oxygen helped and after about an hour my heart quit racing.
Had I gone to the emergency room my symptoms would have cleared up in the waiting room before the doctor had a chance to see me. When a doctor doesn't have a chance to see the symptoms with their own eyes they don't believe anything actually happened to you, and therefore treat you like sh¡t. Then the nurses join in.
40 year night shift ER -processing years of trauma,abuse by management-we were expected to care for multiple patients -with no support-it was dangerous -
As a nurse working in Florida, my PCU promised 1:4 ratio.
I'm working with 1:5 everyday and rumors are they want to increase this!
Keep in mind, I graduated April 2020 w/o graduation. w/o preceptorship. 3 weeks for orientation. Also, 6 month new grad was my Charge nurse. ER does not give report. PACU always sneaks patients into the room. I work at a Truama Center and Neuro center (only one MRI also).
Everyone is incredible in my unit with helping out, but we are stretched so thin!
I was a CNA in a Florida hospital and the ratio for the nurses was unbelievable.Found a travel nurse crying cause it's so overwhelming.
I'd have 35-37 patients a day.It got so crazy .
Lord you're still new. Get all the support and help you need. We make so many assumptions as nurses and won't know everything.
That's why us veteran nurses left
Do you really think it'll get better with universal health care? You'll end up with three times the patients with fewer staff members.
This is criminal. No new RN should be in this situation
Our healthcare system is in a major crisis. People don’t like it when I say this, but as the population ages and expands it will be more difficult to care for those individuals. Baby boomers are aging and I’m an agency nurse, I fill the gaps at LTC facilities, sometimes I take the floor with 40 patients. Sometimes I’m a supervisor and if a nurse doesn’t show up I’m expected to take the floor AND sup. It’s a stressful job and I can see why many have left and/or retired. I’m 26 and I’m like, how am I going to do this my whole life? Not sure, but I’ll take it one day at a time. The shortages are just going to keep happening and perhaps they will get even worse. Idk 🤷♀️
You be careful. That sounds dangerous
God will give you strength. Pray and seek HIM.
Jesus be with this angel. That is so freaking scary. Couldn't be me. The world needs people like you
oh my gosh... that sounds honestly horrific. I'm so sorry you are dealing with that. stay safe. Seriously. protect your license. No job is worth it
There are so many other options. Don’t get handcuffed by that phrase, “I stay because I care about the patients/residents/clients.”
Of course you care about them, but you can take that virtue anywhere.
Go nurses Go , get your power back. I worked in the same hospital for 28 years. The CEO and BOD cut the staffing to barebones. This has been happening for more than a decade. I worked in an ICU and we we’re always short staffed and severely short staffed on the weekends. So, not only are you paying through the asse for healthcare insurance, you are getting comprised care. Not to mention the unbelievable stress emotionally and physicallyand doing to work of 3 people.Corporations and insurance has completely taken over healthcare and hospitals. They don’t care , you are a commodity. .Did I mention our hospital is a magnet hospital. What a joke
I am all for capitalism but America’s super exploitive capitalism is at an all time dangerous high now.
When nurses were forced into 12 hour-shifts, and the patient/nurse ratio increased, that’s when patient’s lives, and nurses licenses were put in severe jeopardy.
Priorities of how the facility looks vs actually staffing all staff as needed and demanding perfection is the main reason I am leaving bedside nursing. Took me over 39 years to finally understand these businesses don’t actually care.
Congrats on retirement Tammy! I hope you get to do some fun and fulfilling things after all those years of service.
@@ScrivenArt I'm retired and I'm surprised at how little it take to have a contented life, daily swimming, practicing guitar, taking leaves in the hot a Hawaiian sun, net flix and out and about either the wifie, sounds boring but I like it.
Congrats! 3 years for me… it has gotten a lot worse in the past few years. You weren’t imaging that!
They really dont care...its depressing and disgusting
@@AnalyzewithAstephen I guess we are too naive about the world....we need to be more cynical, perhaps more nihilistic.
I'm an R.N., and as I write this, my husband is a patient in a large university teaching hospital which is about 1¾ hours from where we live, and he is seriously ill. I had him transferred there from another hospital because of several issues. The level of care at any hospital is based on several things: first, the quality of the doctors. With rare exception, there is no small to average sized hospital which will attract the best physicians, or will be willing to pay them for their expertise. Second, these hospitals usually lack the top quality equipment, as well as those who can interpret the testing correctly! Just as an example, my husband has had a large area of atelectasis in his right lung for many years. At one facility they recently did a chest x-ray, and the report had NO MENTION of the atelectasis on it!!! Third, the larger university teaching hospitals are less money-driven. While they, too, have to deal with finances, there is usually more money available for them to get the best doctors, staff, and equipment. This is not true in smaller city hospitals, and especially in hospitals which service rural areas. In these hospitals, if a doctor orders too many of a test which is costly, the "higher-ups" will definitely pressure the doctor to order less of that test. Fourth, there is the issue of staffing. While even the large university hospital is struggling right now with staffing, that struggle is even far, far greater in the city and rural-based hospitals..... I'm also seeing that even the best nursing homes and rehabs. are currently struggling with having enough staff and good physicians. In recent months my husband was at a specialized nursing home which dealt with higher needs respiratory patients. They have an excellent, well respected program. But when my husband got there, his care was abysmal! For the 3 days he was there, no one got him up in a chair daily as ordered. They were barely able to clean up his incontinence of urine and feces in a timely way. There was no consistent wound care. The last night he was there, his oxygen levels dropped very rapidly to a dangerous level. I ran out of his room to get help, and had to run past 2 empty nurses' stations to finally find staff at a 3rd!!! Then I had to become insistent with the squad about taking my husband to a higher level local hospital, despite the fact that that hospital was within their territory for transport! They were trying to take him to a hospital which is known for its local maternity care. 😳 ..... Unless all of us as physicians, nurses, and other medical staff stand up about these issues, they will only worsen. We need to advocate for our patients, as well as for ourselves. Unrealistic expectations and ridiculously high patient loads put our licenses at risk! While I realize the heavy responsibilities of the CEOs and of other management people at hospitals, their salaries have become totally ridiculous. No healthcare manager should be making well over a million dollars!!! We desperately need management who believes that healthcare is a humanitarian service to our fellow humans. If the management folks want million dollar plus salaries, then they need to work for large corporations and to get out of healthcare!
Well said. Praying for you and your family. Future nursing student hoping to add value to this system🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
The issue with hospital stay in this country is that families are nowhere to be seen when people are hospitalized. I know Covid made that impossible but sometimes they allow 1 person to go in. If this is your husband, what are u doing home? As a former nurse, you can go in during visiting hours and wash him, feed him, wipe down his room and medical équipements, make sure he is good for night, has clean sheets, his labs and meds are done and help his nurse do wound care. I had several family members that come in and do this for their love ones and this is a big help to the nurses….instead of venting about customer’s service, this is what you do! My culture this is what we do. When someone is sick…..family is there first before they call nurse or doctor to do basic need stuff.
I am with you 100%.
@@hadzana3558 I had a pt once with history of R leg BKA, post open heart surgery and everyday, his wife came in at 11. She got a special pass to come in early instead of 1pm like others. The pt didn’t want assistance until she got there because they didn’t want him to be a burden for the nurses. His wife helped him with everything until she left at 6pm after dinner. All we did was his medical need and even then, she helped tremendously with positioning, turning, sitting him in chair, calling if IV had issues and more. All the nurses were so grateful to her. I know everybody can’t do this but being a nurse and knowing the way these hospital are ran, no way will I rely 100% on them to care for my love one. I actually have a red list of hospitals to avoid in my area for my own care.
As a nurse of 43 years (now retired), I pray that I do not become chronically ill at some point, necessitating frequent hospitalizations.
Scares the CRAP out of me.
I told my husband that I will be 'that patient', (you know the one, the healthcare professional turned patient who questions everything).
Unfortunately, I am quite aware of the potential for oversights and mistakes in healthcare anymore.
Nurses ‘ranting’ is how the hospitals sees us talking about staffing ratios. We need to encourage patients to complain about care from these hospitals on social media. Flood the media and they will pay attention. They will only be the paying patients that will complain. Perhaps we need to look at how many patients are being cared for without insurance. That’s how hospitals lose money.
It has nothing to do with nursing pay which is horrible!!! Big money is paid to higher ups.
Yeah, we should complain about the poor people getting terrible medical care, the same as us insured folk do. It always helps to blame people in bad situations for the medical facilities incompetence. I'm so glad my insurance make the doctors richer while "we" all get trash medical care, regardless.
@@melissacole1821 I walked out of ER..new teenage RNs with nasty attitudes treating me like a criminal because I can't afford insurance at 63..too young to help, and too sick to work as a Nurse Aide for 10$ an hour. I have been at this job 40 years and the RNs can act above you even though you went to school for 2years, because back in the day even Nurse Aides had a type of license, now they get 2weeks, go to private homes, no back up, I have been there. Thank goodness that I know CPR.
I've had the displeasure of working among ,immoral, careless ,drug addicted nurses that would steal their patients medication and then give them saline solution in their IVs . Hospitals may be understaffed but they have plenty of time to watch you tube videos and sleep around with other staff members. I don't know why anyone never bothers to mention this reality.
This crap has been going on for DECADES, hospital makes way more money with low staff, it's the nurses license only at risk and hospitals don't give a flip
In the mid to upper 1990's it was totally "normal" for RNs to get 10-11 patients on busy med surg floors, 7-9 on telemetry/cardiac/stepdown, 3-4 in ICU. Lucky if they get to pee or eat lunch in a 12hr shift. . Would have to have another nurse cover your patients so you could eat- giving this "cover" nurse double patients for 30 min. Not much has really changed in all these years. Nurses are said to be the backbone of the hospital. Without a backbone, hospitals will crumble!. Nurses need to stand up and unite instead of fighting amongst themselves. That is what hopitals want them to do. United, we can get better pay/benefits, safer staff/patient ratios, better work environment.
I used to be an RN. No jib. Never tested.
They tried to coerce me to get “nasally tested” in a Philly hosp a few weeks back by using my daughter as bait. She is jibbed/not sick/with paper on her face/>6 ft away from anyone else. They said that couldn’t stay in the Triage private room with me so that she would put pressure on me to test so that she could stay. The tactic was a fail and she stayed. Then they told me in Obs that I couldn’t get a nuc med stress test without the nasal swipe. I told them no thank you and you cannot deny me diagnostic testing if I refuse the offer. Many phone calls by nurse to doctor and staff, I got my test without being unnecessarily probed. Lesson learned by my 22 yr old daughter and all of the other pressure putting people. A coat/scrubs w/ name tag and letters does not equal critical thinking. I have never and will never leave a family member alone in a facility of any kind. A few years ago my sister had a grand mal seizure because they didn’t give her scheduled medication and missed ultie doses The ol’ didn’t have an order/prob got a sh*t report if at all/ didnt look at the list of at home meds for her current dxs/didn’t think to get an order for missing meds/etc.
Total fails in all categories of even nursing 1 care. Needless to say, when I got there heads rolled.
Anyway, nursing care rants. Happy advocating!
I worked in ICU throughout the mid 80s and all 90s. It was normal to go 8 hours without even realizing I didn't have a chair for my table to chart. I worked 12-hour shifts, often requested to work 6-8 hours, go sleep for 4 hours, then return for night shift because there were no nurses for our open heart unit.
7-8 on medsurge and 4-5 on pcu but no secretary , one cna for 18 patients , you do your own ekgs , draw your own labs , do your own admissions , transport your patients to and from procedures , leave the floor to be in a procedure , answer phones ..it’s horrid
I agree I sometimes wonder if nurses where male dominated if they would put up with this tx??
I honestly think that it’s so unsafe for nurses to cover each other’s patients . If it was safe then you would have all the patients at the beginning of the shift
Why am I not surprised by ANY of this? This is going on across the country and patients know nothing about this!
We need legislation passed for safe ratios. 8:1 in a PCU is insane. I can’t even imagine what that nurse is going through. And that pts family. I love what I do yet it’s getting sooo difficult. To just. Be. A. Nurse. Thanks Liz
Bless your heart !! My daughter is also an R.N. and is overwhelmed with all the problems,I can see it in face and I hear it in her voice.
And yes a patient did jump to their death .at ORMC.
Try 1:15 in a PCU
@@joycewright5386 that’s horrible!!
I just spent 3 weeks in the ICU maybe 6 months ago. I was severely sick and almost died. The level of care I received was absolutely incredible. All the way from the ICU nurses, the doctors, the surgeon and trauma team. They all worked together and acted quickly. My life was in their hands as they made all the appropriate medical decisions. Rapid response team was called a few times that I believe saved me. Our community hospital has been improving their care and renovating. Everyone I speak to has had great care. They have been able to continue improving during covid. Honestly I was scared to go to any hospital during covid and after all the corporate issues hospitals have been having recently. I'm now getting ready to move to this area and very nervous to leave such a great hospital I live less than 5 minutes from. My family was with me every day to visit while I was on a ventilator. It made all the difference in my recovery. I even have memories of my husband holding my hands. I can't express how important it is for loved ones to visit. The ICU nurses never left my side. Sometimes I had 3 or 4 in the room. Someone sat by my bed side when I was extremely ill. They never left until the next person came. I felt incredibly safe. I had developed ICU delirium and was hallucinating for 2 weeks. I'm so grateful for everyone that helped me. I'm doing great now because of the level of care I received. I'm so impressed with the care I received and so heartbroken that all hospitals are not being ran this way. I had access to every possible resources I needed to recover. This is in Florida. I just wanted to add when I realized everything that was going on and what happened to me I thanked my nurse and told her they never left my side. She told me because I was in the ICU that they only have one person to care for most of the time. That because of this ratio they are able to give the highest level of care. I was so critical sick at one point I had a huge team of people by my side. My blood pressure was extremely low. I had severe sepsis. Because I had so many people watching me is why I am alive and my children still have a mother. For all the health care workers, nurses we go home and most of the time you never hear of much you all have impacted our lives. We are truly grateful that you give everything to care for us! These are some of the most important jobs in our community. I pray with everything going on you guys put your foot down and weather the storm. Your work is so important!
I spent 48 day in a coma on a ventilator its hard to get o er I have a problem with my feet due to it I hope yr doing well
Wow! So blessed you were well cared for and could have visitors. How many died during covid days without loved ones allowed to visit. My mom was one. She did not deserve to die alone.
@@janeta3509 My heart goes out to you and your family! It's been a difficult time during covid. I live in Florida and our governor just recently signed a bill allowing family members to visit no matter what. His wife had breast cancer during covid and they realized how important it was to have your loved ones by your side. You and your family are in my prayers 🙏 I feel incredible blessed/fortunate. My children almost didn't have a mother! 🙏 I thank God every day! I pray for everyone who has been faced with these trying times and our health care system corporate gets it together. There's still a lot of amazing people caregivers who care. We really need to support the good ones as much as we can in our community right now. 🙏
@@Claire76genx I have been extremely weak for a few months trying to build up my strength. I spent 6 days on a ventilator. Completely horrible experience I don't think anyone can understand unless they have been there. The medications they use to put you in a medical coma can be terrible. I went into sepis shock and was hallucinating for a few weeks. Completely terrified at times. I hope you feel better. It really takes a lot of time to heal.
@onnielou70 kinda have this feeling. 🙂 I was on a lower floor for a few hours until the nurse recognized I was going into sepsis shock. When rapid response was called and I was placed on the ICU. This is when everything changed quickly. There was no more trying to figure out what was wrong with me. I was rushed into emergency surgery within that day. Immediately had Central lines placed in my arm and aligning my neck and feeding tubes. I'm so grateful for the nurse who quickly recognized this and wasn't afraid to call rapid response. I think they were called a few times I don't even know. I remember the blue light going off in the ICU and tons of people in my room quick. Honestly they had to put one fire out after another. I have so much respect for all the teams working together. It really amazes me how knowledgeable and quickly you have to act. Even Nurses jobs are extremely important. Everyone! It's really opened my eyes.
I have worked in Miami and currently work in Broward County Fl. and love both facilities and are well staffed. Im an ER nurse and love nursing even after 25 yrs of nursing experience
Hi Lisa, I'm also in Broward County and graduate ABSN in 12 weeks. And currently working as a nurse extern in ortho/neuro med surg. Hoping to start in the ICU to advocate for the most critical and safety is key🤞🏽. If possible I'm interested in the name of organization. Kindly.
so great to hear!
Do you work at broward general ? It's a great hospital
I grew up in browardnow in Orlando
As a recently retired bedside RN and also the mom who just lost her 30 y/o daughter after 3 wks in the hospital and then a transfer to a nursing home. The thought of ever returning to work terrifies me. Not only could I see lack of some simple cares, like turning q 2 hrs, due to short staffing but I could see the stress on almost every nurse’s face. The nursing home was just beyond belief short staffed.
The scary thing is that, in my experience, so much turn over in nurses leads to new grads learning from others who don’t have much more experience than them!
While many of those people are amazing and can survive anyway, many sink and end up hating their job. There is very little job satisfaction in nursing. You get those little rewards from different patients, but overall job satisfaction is very difficult to have when you almost feel coerced to try to do the impossible and make it look like you did everything the way it should be done.
I got called in to talk to an attorney about a case where the hospital was being sued for wrongful death….the attorney basically said I was not likely going to face many problems but that in the future I should document everything as being ok when I gave report! Like I am supposed to stay with that patient until they got better or else lie that the patient appeared stable when I left. (The only thing this patient had going on when I left was unidentified severe pain which ended up wrongfully identified as sickle cell pain by the doctors.) When I left she was having pain and I had a doctor see her and documented her pain as unresolved when I left but that full report was given. Which was the truth. I hate that you feel pushed into lying for whatever reasons!
I’ve worked in healthcare for 29 years. I have never in my life seen it this bad, our healthcare system is in the crapper. Going to a doctor or hospital is my absolute last resort. My daughter just graduated high school & wanted to go to nursing school. I talked her out of it. Number one reason, we refuse to be force jabbed with substances that have not been thoroughly studied. No thanks.
I agree. Was a nurse for 33 years, 80's,90's and 2000's. The eighties was so much better. Had never heard of agency/travel nurses back then. So incredibly sad.
I would go back to nursing BUT will not get the JAB. So it’s the hospital shooting themselves in the foot then crying about it. BUT….. I’m sure the GOVERNMENT will take care of it. We know how that will turn out.
I want to speak as a student nurse. I was hired to work as a nurse extern and was told the job is basically a PCT position and the ratio was 10:1. I also asked was it going to benefit me a future nurse and was told it was. After finishing taking necessary labs, facility and company orientation, I was told to orient on the floor with a PCT. It wasn’t anything related to nursing in fact the person they had me oriented with had a 20:1 ratio meaning the entire unit. I was required to follow her the entire shift. I’ve seen patients neglected up to an hour after they asked for help, vitals were being estimated instead of properly measuring it. As I asked why she simply said she doesn’t have time. I asked about being paired with a nurse so I can strengthen my skills as a nurse extern/future nurse and I was told that nurses needed to build up trust in order for me to work with them or watch as they do certain procedures. I couldn’t spike the IV bags, not even use my stethoscope for anything or anything related to what I’ve mastered in nursing school. This was my first hospital job and I quit this job after working half of a 12hour shift of orientation (second day on the job). I was told this was considered job abandonment mind you it was only my second day and still orientating. I report it to HR and was told they will investigate it and never heard anything from them again and seen I was taken out of their system as if I never worked there. This actually put a bad taste in my mouth as a student nurse due to ratio issue, patients not receiving adequate care and more. I care to much to work anywhere that don’t value their employees nor their patients.
They do not value or respect their nurses. They will be bringing nurses from the phillipines to pay them to work extra as the loyal employees are burned out! These hospitals will throw new grads to the wolves who can’t even use a bedpan appropriately…
Thank Q God!!!
Finally we hear the voices
Of CARE ❤🥁🕊
I graduated from a 3 year clinical program in 1981. I stopped renewing my license after 5 years. Never made as much money but kept my humanity. Great education for navigating the quagmire that is Medicare!
My ambulance consistently has a 1:1 ratio, I like it. 😂 I work per-diem as a vascular access nurse, and full time as a paramedic... I don't care about the money!
My wife and I both worked at a skilled nursing facility that was small and independently owned but like so many of them now days these big corporations buy them up and they loose all compassion and care for the residents, it's all about numbers and basically money. We had so many terrible incidents that we left the business. They're so short staffed (unless state is in the building) we couldn't harden our hearts to the neglect. A Resident was dropped and put back in bed with broken leg, one man got out of the building and ended up in the ditch in front of facility (in the winter in NC) it was all swept under the rug. Thank goodness we're no longer in that business but I often think of our precious elderly and the horror some go through.
omg :( that is horrifying.
Left a LTC / skilled care facility back in Apr 2020. People were being starved with new draconian rules imposed mar 2020. Residents requiring help with adls ...like feeding ...were only ones allowed in dining room. Problem was....only PT dietary dept etc...were allowed in dining room ( these depts could not feed people ..only coax them to eat...so sickening)... while nurses and cnas were the ones handing out roomtrays to those who could feed themselves..but left stuck in their rooms 24/7. I reported per protocal... to no avail! I'm still having nitemares over these crimes on humanity....also full codes were being changed to dnr status with zero family knowledge ...we were attached to a hospital but sold out to another company July 1 2019🤔
Two more shifts and my contract is over. Was going to sign a six week extension but forget that! We have just had our 8th Covid admit in two weeks and my rate has been cut by $1400 we are understaffed and I hate to leave my coworkers but enough already!
I work as a travel MT and have been to facilities in quite a few states. There are so many things I have seen that made me glad I was not a patient at that facility. It really has soured my experience working in Healthcare
I never knew about nurse ratios! That is insane! Thanks for letting me know what I need to out for on the ballot! We definitely should pay and treat our nurses better 😣
you know i'll let you know when states have it on their ballots!!!
@@NurseLiz Thank you for educating us. California did it: realistic, safe Nurse to patient ratios. Please, before too many more people suffer & die.
I have had my life saved more than once at ORMC. And they were the only hospital that finally found out what was wrong with my mother. They could not save her because she had CJD and it's fatal. I know in every hospital there are problems and problem employees. There was a nurse who fought for me one of the times that I was dying and knew if they put me in PCU I would have died. Finally I was being sent to ICU and I was coding in the elevator. A wonderful doctor ,( I wish I could find) saved me quickly. And every time I ended back in the ORMC, either heart ward or even the ER he would see my name and would come and check on his "Angel". I did have small issues with a couple of incidences but for my life I'm lucky they saved me several times. I wouldn't be alive if it weren't for them.
@ Teresa Weaver - I'm so glad you had those good experiences at ORMC. By hearing about their problems as shared in this video and the comment section, it would seem that most patients wouldn't get good care because of the shortages of nursing staff. But from your testimony, I'm sure that there are plenty of doctors and caring nursing staff who each day give it their all to minister to the medical needs of their patients. Thank you for sharing; hopefully, any nurses or doctors reading your comment will be encouraged and remember that their efforts are making a difference in the midst of the staff shortages.
@@newbeequilter Thank you for your reply. And I do agree with you in the way that there is a shortage of nurses and doctors. I, Thank God, have had great success of getting better and living past the death sentence I was given. I had gotten lucky and this was of course over 20 years ago when things certainly were better. I do fully agree again about the way things have gotten bad in the field of medicine. I will not go to the doctor because I no longer have trust in doctors. I no longer live in Florida and the medical where I live is low par. It is a shame how the nurses get treated. I'm not putting down what has happened at ORMC either. I wish that things would get better for everyone involved because without good healthcare we all lose.
It’s not just nurses. I work in radiology and it’s the same thing. I finally gave up on the hospital life after 2 years of covid and all of the low staffing crap. I was a supervisor and had mandatory overtime and hadn’t been able to take a vacation for 2 years. I was burned out and exhausted but couldn’t step away. I have been in MRI/X-ray for 20 years and I’ve only watched the healthcare field get worse as hospital chains chase profits and purposely understaff. I went outpatient and am SO MUCH HAPPIER.
I am a retired nurse, 44 years in the profession, last 10 years advance practice. It looks like much of our health care has devolved into 3rd world health care. A few decades ago Central Florida basically changed into 2 hospital systems, Orlando Regional and Florida Hospital (now known as Adventist Health). They purchased the smaller independent hospitals and eliminated competition. I would not trust either, but Orlando Regional seems a bit better. A friend's mother was recently at FH for a PEG tube insertion due to oral cancer. The tube was inserted into a muscle, not the stomach. Her mom was fed for about a week, no one knows where the feedings were going. It seems the vast majority of healthcare now consists of writing prescriptions. Some physicians are starting practices focusing on health, nutrition, exercise, and getting off as many meds as possible. I think this is the best future.
Yes isn't it though -- reminds me of my moral ethics class way back in the early 80s.
Wth! Did they not test the the tube immediately with contrast under fluoroscopy? That’s standard practice.
The fact that I had to scroll just from Google searching "Orlando Regional Medical Center" just to find this video. And it was the ONLY link on the first page talking about this. The fact that this isn't being talked about in the media is literally outrageous.
100% agreed!
Nobody cares. They should, but nobody does.
This is against the science first narrative. If you cant trust hospitals why would you trust the cdc or faucci? Oh thats right you shouldnt. They want to take the oath away of do no harm. No faith should be put in these places unless your doctor has proven his competence.
My husband gets the Orlando Sentinel, and just got a notice that service will cease in July. Good Riddance, I say. The “slantinel” hasn’t reported anything in years. It’s now nothing more than the mouthpiece of the left
My mom was drugged to restrain her and then they lied to me about it day after day. She was comatose for a week but immediately revived when removed.
Now we are in new booming phase of economic cycle, the hospitals should pay high rate to keep their nurses, look at the housing price n gas price.
But, then how would the hospital CEOS continue to make 3 plus million a year?
It's not about the money. It's about the unsafe staffing ratios. Pushed to the limit, run off your feet, no lunch or dinner break, incessant interruptions while trying to focus on direct patient care. Getting off shift late after reporting to nasty coworkers. The list goes on and on. Throwing money at the problem doesn't make any of the above go away.
@@josettebassett3734 um, yea, my point was because CEOs are lining their pockets so heavily they claim they cannot afford to hire more staffing!
Booming? We are in a recession and racing towards an economic depression. However, hospitals better pay competitive rates or lose nurses. High turnover is not good for the overall patient care in the hospitals.
@@lovelovevon4316 These high rates of pay can't last. When these gas prices go up even more and reach critical mass and paralyses the entire economy....those travel nurse jobs will disappear overnight. The nurses that stay will have unprecedented nurse patient ratios.
But hasn't this happened for decades? My then partner graduated with her BSN in 1980--University of Minnesota School of Nursing--and was immediately hired into a surgical ICU. What I remember most clearly about those days is how the public was being fed the lie of a severe nursing shortage, when in reality most health centers, hospitals and clinics were simply refusing to hire due to budget constraints. This situation wasn't resolved until the MNA (Minnesota Nurse's Union) went on strike. The metaphor I like to use is the fever chart--ways of thinking about staffing go up and down wildly, depending on the year and the amount of money involved. But again, the public is spoon fed a PR lie concocted from the Clouds of Nowhere.
I worked at Virginia Mason in the 70's . The hospital was always trying to figure out ways to get rid of their RN's.
Exactly, the shortage has always padded the pocket of the corporations, (regardless if not for profit, the still make money.)
@@vsee3154 which the Catholics bought out. They are using their beliefs to control the women -- still!
The CEO makes all the money
I worked on a PCU unit... I had 5 patients everyday.... It is horrific. I quit yesterday.
Great video. I first heard about this case on Tiktok but when I tried to Google it, I couldn't find any information. I hope this starts to trend in the news cycle so that the right changes can be made to this terrible system.
There's an article out now thanks to nanders. Search for it now. Ormc unsafe ratios , nurses walk out
I ran into the same issue. It wasn't a searched for thing. They do a really good job of cleaning up their messes apparently
When I had stephans-Johnson with necrosis, I had an admin guy stop in to see how my care was. I said my care is great since I am in isolation and somewhat bored, yesterday I logged my care. I had someone in my room changin Iv's, bandages, marking the boarders of infection etc for 17 hours and 13 minutes out of 24 hours. I was in a regular ward. I said pls pls check that they have added staff so the other patients are getting the care they need. Usually it was one nurse or tech per 6-8 patients. We were all breathing on our own able to push the button if we needed to pee etc. But I required 2 extra staff just for me. (they had added extra staff) and I was the first patient in our state to survive such a terrible condition. After 2 months i was released to care of family, and eventually returned to my job and worked 15 more years til retirement. There are good hospitals and wonderful nurses. If you have a bad feeling as a patient speak up. Families check up on your loved ones, stop in at 2 am and see what is going on.
I attempted nursing school years ago and thank goodness I got out of it. Instant anxiety when it was time for clinical part at hospital. I never saw any health there. Just patients with bed sores being pumped full of meds. Literally wanted to leave each time I was there. Im so happy I left or id probably be very depressed and maybe even dead. I chose alternative ways to serve the people. This system is not meant to keep people healthy at all. Choose wisely, beautiful humans!
I got through nursing school but refused to work as a nurse. Luckily I don’t have to work. It’s a nightmare. My first little lady in the CNA course died and they were abusing her. I reported it and NOTHING was done. It didn’t get better throughout RN school. I had a target on my back nearly the whole time because I spoke up. They don’t like those who question. My friend was the VP of nursing at the hospital I was doing clinical at and I discussed some of my concerns with her. She literally told me “that’s just how things are done”. I lost all respect for her and realized nothing would ever change.
My friend’s who are working as nurses used to vent about the awful things they dealt with. Then, one by one they became sucked in. For example, one girl pushed a med she was not authorized to give and she killed the pt. They spent 4 hrs trying to get him back. They did but he was injured. She said they fixed the record to make it appear he decompensated unexpectedly on his own. She stopped venting after that and was totally a part of the system. I know MANY who have lost pts they should not have. Each record was adjusted to show no fault of staff. Absolutely disgusting.
@@Adentalgrl i do not doubt any of this at all! I got a yucky feeling of sickness and death and wrongdoing and lack of actual care and love when there. Patch Adam's was a good movie but I wish it was real. Maybe somewhere it is.
How do you serve people now?
I went to the Er in Early April was shocked that there was only a few PA’s and new graduates.
I didn’t see any doctors. But 3 months later I got billed by 5 doctors that I never saw. Maybe they were behind the curtains.
if you had lab work done a Dr. interprets it and you get billed. If you had an xray done-same thing a Dr reads it and you get billed. The PA who treated you is under the supervision of a Dr who gets to bill ea pt that the PA sees. This is how the system works because legally only a Dr can interpret lab, xray, ct scan, ekg results. so they glance and bill. It's called the cha-ching factor$$$$$$$ Our whole healthcare system is a clusterf--k. ( I worked in a trauma center for almost 40 yrs)
@@annmartin9357 Yes, but I’d rather hear a Dr tell me to my face. But because I didn’t see any one of these drs it still is suspicious. imo
They probably " consulted" on your case.
@@sherylpayne5851 That’s possible. But I feel that patient healthcare is trending downward and will cause problems.
OMG!
I am a retired RN. I spent 25 years working 10-12 hour days bc my heart was In it, I always believed I was helping people and the hospitals & management were too. I graduated in 1990 and by 2010 it was abundantly clear that no matter what laws were passed it was always the moral law that guided true healthcare & those called to it. The golden rule or moral law of doing unto others as you want done to you began to rapidly deteriorate & so did every part of healthcare. By 2013 I was checking in patients not by talking to them and listening and by applying the wisdom of the knowledge & experience I had, but by the newest guidelines blinking on the computer screen ( must have this , pt is due for this vaccine, needs this , needs this , missed two apts ⚠️ , needs to be compliant on this test etc etc etc...all downloaded & updated constantly per "the system" handed down from higher up or the state, or insurance company or now the pharmacy without regard to patients history or medical information. MD prescribing based on his wisdom and exp in working & knowing his patient constantly overruled suppressed causing stress after stress, on patient & healthcare workers. , It was clear to me research companies & walking for aids or arthritis money wasn't going to find a cure it was going to repackage & rename the same meds ... but under new arthritis med, etc...as a physician explained to me "there is no money in a cure, only treatment". That
day the scales that were blinding my eyes from seeing the truth fell off.
I asked the Lord to get me out..
and since then I have discovered so much of what causes so much disease in America is our lack of nutrition and poor diet bc of what is being sold to us in way of so called news and knowledge in the media & by the food and drug industries. Search back to when you or when your parents were young you'll find commercials of (actors) Docs telling you which pack of cigarettes were good to smoke. Yes, It's true.
Physicians today have maybe one nutrition class in school. How is that possible,? Surely God would provide for us & teach us how to properly eat and teach his doctors. He did but the medical schools have been long bought out ( by those who had money on their mind not God or good) and they don't focus on nutrition and how when one eats properly they can be free from the scourge of what America struggles with daily. The Bible says "my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge". MD's are educated to treat symptoms. Treat the symptoms with their medications (synthetically made of course bc natural treatments found in nature CANT be patented). Think about it, in decades gone by did they spend their life going to the doctor every three months and if you didn't they couldn't get their proper treatment?
This is what is going on now. It's so much worse since Covid. Young people have already been enlightened by the Lord on eating properly. Covid fear & constant media narrative has now tried to get them into the medical Never ending hamster wheel.
If we pray 🙏 for peoples eyes to be opened and keep sharing these truths the medical industry will decrease & we can get back the medical field and let those who are called to it remain.
It is perfectly ok to question & even disagree with doctors on things,& if they won't allow it or pressure you, it's best to get a second & even third opinion.
Pray first bf even going and pray for all doctors. All they have to do is STAND UP to the system and everything will change.
I knew my help came from the Lord. The big companies driving it all now...is not who began healthcare... no it was the church.. working for & being the hands of the Lord.
It's high time we get back to him being our boss.
Get healthy my friend and God bless you.
YES YES YES YES...
Agree! It is actually when they closed all those convents with the nursing sisters, who worked for the Lord, (same with the schools and teaching sisters), that it all became big business, less care. It appears very well orchestrated....hence, what happened with so much deception as of past three years. Would have not been “pulled off” otherwise.
Praise God. Thank you for sharing this.
As a nurse for 20 years I have come to the conclusion that nurses generally reject the idea of joining labor unions at least in the metropolitan area I live in, that being said the ONLY hospital in my area that has set nurse to patient ratios just happens to be the only hospital in which nurses have union representation.
I worked PCU units for the past 8 years, the industry standard seems to be a 3/1 nurse patient ratio occasionally you may get four if one is a Med/Surg acuity patient, 8/1 is an unsafe ratio in any acute care setting let alone an ICU/Step-down unit.
I was 8 to 1 and it was bad
I’ve worked 40/1…. It’s still going and administration is clever to make nurses feel like friends until something like this happens & quickly they don’t know you. Grateful that this is being talked about, it’s been a long time coming
We are unionized here in my city in FL. It has not corrected staffing, pay, or benefits any more than the other two hospitals here who are not unionized.
those are the ratios as they should be.The hospitals push SUCH anti union rhetoric beause they don't want to actually have to treat people decently. so frustrating
I saw a union hospital fire nurses in the name of Covid. Happy you have decent conditions!!!
I can beat that,school nurse,one of 2 RNs,the 2nd nurse was special education only.responsible for over 800 kids.The burnout accelerated,and thankfully the principal fired me.This ridiculous ratio isn't uncommon,especially in Queens. There's no way you can feel effective. It's just a ridiculous situation that can only end in tears.
Why did you wait to get fired. Why not quit
My 4 daughter's ages 16, 21, 25 & 30 NEVER had a school nurse on site. In elementary there was a paid clinic woman who had a do of "training". In middle school parents took turns volunteering in the clinic to give ice, bandages etc. Most days no volunteer so you just sat in front office w your issue. High school had nothing that I recall other than first aid kit in front office. The entire county had 1 RN that came to the school yearly to give hearing & vision screening if you had no insurance basically.
PLEASE leave your job when they put too much on you that you know would put your job at risk. My daughter worked at walgreens for long time and during covid they had wanter her to be trained to give covid shots and she did not do it. They later at some point and time said that she made an error with handing the patient the wrong meds as they already under staffed at the pharmacy dept there. They fired her. She has since graduated with a degree not in the medical field.
I will not go to the doctor or hospital unless my life is in danger and probably not even then. I don't trust people who are more concerned about gender, identity, and sex preference than actual academics. Not only that, people are so filled with hate these days they wouldn't think twice to do something that could put your life at risk
As a Med Tech (LABORATORY, since 1930, THAT IS NOT A TITLE FOR CARE TECHS) I also watched new techs with less education and experience get hired for more money. Then as a teacher, science in high school, same thing. They could not get new people right out of college to work for that but expected us to continue to work for that amount.
We need to come up with a petition
Many thanks for having a place to voice our issues. Hospitals in the south have staffing issues dating back 15+ years. One in particular had a Mandatory 1 to 4 Ratio for MICU back in 2010.
Glad you’re spreading the truth! Orlando Health is the worst hospital I’ve ever worked for.
I’ll NEVER go back there
We are new to Florida. My dad had a stroke in February. He stayed at Orlando Health in Clermont for several days. The ER staff was wonderful. They let both my mom and I stay with him until a room was ready. The nurses/doctors and the guest service staff at the lobby were all excellent. They made sure my mom and I were comfortable, they gave us bottled water. His nurse talked for a long time with me about his diet for when he went home. I was impressed actually at the level of care he received. I did notice the windows were nailed shut. What a horrible tragedy. If they were short staffed at this hospital, they didn't let it show. I applaud all Nurses. You have a very demanding job. Thank you-Michelle
Joint Commission and other regulators have a role in causing this too. Document that you documented your documentation - seems to be their motto. No wonder docs and other clinicians leave the field. I was on Survey Readiness Steering Committee. Worst was being more or less forced to create employee appraisals for nurses that were nine pages long. Heaven hep the nurse managers with 65 nurses’ appraisals to shepherd if they missed a check box in the competency sections. It was incredibly frustrating to have to be the enforcer of this ridiculousness. Being in administration is no fun either. Constant layoffs and God help you if your VP saw you in the cafeteria because you’d be given yet another department to run. We all hoped to get laid off. It was an overwhelming situation.
Anna Bodot: I didnt know it was THAT horrible
Thank you Liz for speaking out. The healthcare system today are unbelievable. Share ! Share! Share! The general public needs to know what’s going on.
I know this video is a few weeks old but reading these comments makes me even more worried hit my granddaughter who is headed for. Nursing school fall of 23… and I thought all I had to worry about was her being forced to get vaxed … I wish she’d choose a different career ….God bless you all!
3rd year med student here and I can only fathom managing 3 critically ill patients right now. I honestly cannot imagine managing 6 and doctors don't change dressings or monitor vitals. Gives me the heebyjeebies. 😳
please remember when you graduate to be kind to the staff- they are running their butts off, they get UTI's because they don't have time to go to the bathroom and I've seen staff faint because they can't eat for 12 hrs.
If it bothers you to think of , you should see how nurses are spoken to , in many cases literally screamed at , by many doctors . I have been out of the clinical realm for a few years now but in my 32 yrs of nursing I saw alot of verbal abuse towards nurses . I am guessing this younger group of nurses won't put up with that as much as the older generation did. I know I learned over time not to take it from them .
The acuity level determinations are skewed in favor of understaffing. Department managers are given bonuses for quarterly under-budget staffing! This is wrong and admin needs to be taken to task for this. They are responsible, but then so are we. We must not accept bad assignments and I am just as guilty of that. I worked in a nursing home 3 months and accepted 60 patients from 11p to 7a.
wow!
that’s 12 min a patient in those 12 hours
@@tabs1013 right and no time to chart or pee or snack.
I live in Ohio. In February I had to go in hospital because of covid. I was in 5 days. They were very shortly staffed. But everyone was so good to me and very friendly. I'm sure they were stressed, but they took good care of me.
Most of our travelers in ICU called in for their last night. Hospital is full already. No one to fill in. The cards are beginning to fall where I am too.
ugh I'm sorry. It's definitely not a great situation
This is an excellent video, Nurse Liz. Your efforts and accomplishments are always admirable! You have our heartfelt congratulations!🙌
Thank you so much!
I completely agree with the whole new grads in ICU thing. I see aot of social media nurses telling students you can work in the ICU right out of graduation. This is not always going to be the case, especially in this day when hospitals are hiring a lot of new grads (or from what I'm seeing a lot of new grads).
the ICU seems to be the only job portrayed on social media. It's honestly weird.
My hospital taking new nurses with no experience or less than 1yr experience to train in ICU. 4 to 6 weeks and they’re on their own in ICU!😳😳
@@lillis887 that's how it is in most hospitals now unfortunately
@@lillis887 i have about a year of experience now, and i am not a bad nurse, but i know im not ready for ICU
Husband told me 15 new grads started CVICU on Monday. They do have over 20 weeks of training thank goodness. But new grads? Husband worked his way up from med surge over years.
I worked at then..Orlando Regional .back in early 1980s. Had common patient assignment of 8 to 10, but with LPN for each RN! How wonderful the times were.
How sad the patient needs are not held as the priority by the "system."
My step cousin who was a mentally ill heroin addict committed suicide the same way back in 1978, only from the 12th floor. This was in NYC. He landed in an overgrown abandoned courtyard. His birth mother was notified weeks after the fact. He’d already been buried on Hart Island, (Potter’s Field).
If you’re a poor patient, you take the hospital they give you or leave AMA.
I recently had an assignment in a long term care facility in New York and had 51 residents to pass medications, do treatments and put out all kinds of fires on a 12 hour shift. I would have rather gone to hell
I too have attempted to make it through that assignment! I had 51 residents on two floors to pass meds to. I had to fill stacks of medication trays by opening pharmacy dispensary-type pill bottles and draw up numerous injectable medications. While I was pursuing this daunting chore, patients were pacing the hallways, arguing, and desperately pressing their call light for needed help! It was a special Hell. One nightmare shift like this and I quit! I was terrified that a patient would get injured or take a turn for the worse and I would be to blame. The two assistants on duty were overwhelmed!!
@@sharondoan1447 Chile who you telling, One hot microwave mess!
I'm long term care, safe staffing is long gone in that industry. we still have agency at my facility, although they are trying to get rid of them, and I make sure to ask them if it is any better anywhere else. So far, the answer has been no.
I am in long term/TCU with a lot of psych diagnoses in addition to their medical diagnoses. I came from a facility in which as a floor nurse I had 35 to 40 patients...yes, I left. I needed to move into management as a result of my chronic pain that is managed well by a pain pump. When I was interviewing I asked about ratios and one of my reasons for accepting this position as opposed to others was their rations were 1 to 20 with with 2 CNA/TMA which is by far the best ratio in my area. I love my job as a nurse manager but even if I didn't and could physically handle working the floor full-time I wouldn't. It is simply too much. I had a training today and one of our corporate nurses (responsibilities are training, consultating, auditing, etc) actually said there was no reason our floor nurses couldn't get all the MDS forms for their coding (skin, bowel/bladder, smoking, elopement, etc) because we have such low ratios and our acuity isn't that bad! I almost laughed out loud because at first I thought she was joking. At the same time she was encouraging us to take more complex patients. If they change the narrative many nurses will fall for that bs. I simply do not understand. We all can't stop working the floor as we need beside nurses to provide the care but expecting them to get everything the business wants them to do to be paid while providing the care they were actually hired to do. I sincerely hope our legislators get wind of all the recent court cases and make changes and laws for ratios . I fear if they don't the nursing shortage won't be a shortage but an emptyage!
I hate that answer. Ugh. Everyone pulling agency nurses is going to make things even worse.
We temporarily had hazard pay to prevent using agency. We were fully staffed. Now that the hazard pay is gone, we are short staffed again.
I love how all of these large hospitals can claim they're broke and you have multiple people on the board taking home multi-million dollar bonuses
Hey LIZ not sure if you know this but there is an author/ UA-camr who is coming up. She wrote the book called patients at risk and is talking about NPs not adequately being trained to deal with the stress of primary care. Can you do a video on that please?
A nurse since 1995. The public are truly unaware of how hard we work. It’s back breaking, stressful, physical work, emotionally taxing and on top of that we have a huge responsibility to provide safe care. In this very physically, stressful and emotion ally heard job everyday we are responsible for the lives of our patients. Drs are not the ones that look after these patients, we do. We are the ones who are the eyes and ears for the Drs. We administer drugs that can kill people everyday. We have to monitor each patient closely. Even with the right patient staff ratio it’s still a very intense job. Most shifts you have more patients than we can safely look after. We can’t do our jobs probably and not e of us went into nursing to run all day and not have the time to interact and treat our patients with the kindness and dedication we would like. I am not working at the moment due to a spinal injury and I have been so disappointed at the lack of quality treatment and care available to me out there. Staff are stressed and there really isn’t any that close client/patient relationships anymore. I remember doing a night duty once and we had two RNs on fir a ward of 24. 12 patients each. Worst shift I’ve ever had.
This is basically why my daughter who has a RN License and also she was a anesthesiologist nurse she doesn’t work in a hospital . She is the head person of one of the main blood donation organizations in the country phlebotomy won over being a RN and she actually makes a bunch more. Not put in risky situations.
That sounds like a cool job! I'm glad she got out and found something she likes more and makes more!
How did she manage to make the transition to that job?
That’s a great job
As an RN x 50 years (ICUCCU)I highly recommend anyone hospitalized has a family member stay with them at all time. That support person should have normal lab values to compare to- complete blood count, and chemistries. You can find both on a smart phone. Ask professional staff (RN,MD or RNP’s ) all lab results of your family member everyday and more normal if patient is not normal mentation. RN’s should not have more than 6 patients each day shift.
So basically the family member needs to do the work of the nurse while paying an ungodly amount?
@@timeforchange3786 sounds like it. Time to get rid of for profit hospitals? The church run hospitals are starting to look really good in retrospect.
@@timeforchange3786 That's *hardly* doing the work of a nurse, lol.
But most hospitals still won't let you do that Especially If both people have not had The shots
This video made me cry. My hospital is currently in contact negotiations. I think we are going to strike. The reason is exactly what you're talking about. We need the public to stand up with us because these gready profit making corporations DO NOT CARE ABOUT NURSES OR PATIENTS!
California nurses can’t relate. In our state the nurses lobby for safe staffing ratios and salaries. Mandated lunch and breaks, it’s truly a dream to nurses elsewhere. When you have strong unions they take care of you.
Maybe i should move to California!
I so so so hope that more states take this approach!
The only thing that sucks is the cost of living is outrageous
i've worked in multiple hospitals in california and Ca. hospitals still do crazy things with staffing. There was one med/tele floor just 2 months ago that had nurses splitting between 7 and 8 patients and one nurse took 10 because they don't have any staff and they refused to pay registry/travelers a competitive pay rate. The hospital is still having major staffing issues because they refuse to offer competitive rates.
There is no union at our hospital. I'm in Lompoc California.
Thank God I am retired. To me poor staffing was much more important than poor pay. The level of co-morbidities in most hospitalized patients dictates a high level of staffing. Meanwhile the nursing administration makes decisions on how many patients a nurse must manage from their ivory tower. I am so blessed that the two times I have been hospitalized, late in 2016, and early 2017 I got excellent care but I would truly need to be dying to go to a hospital since 2020.
Florida nurse here…don’t move here because they treat their nurses like crap! Pay their nurses like crap! See their nurses as crap! No one down here likes unions, so it won’t get any better any time soon.
Time to move!!!
I'm not sure where Nurses are valued. Oklahoma isn't better. The BON is a joke. Thank goodness for side hustles. I'm a 17 year MSN prepared RN and I want out... desperately.
And i was considering moving to Florida! Wow! Cause it looks so beautiful there.
i have worked in many parts of Florida and was shocked when I found the nurses in Lakeland have a union! I had to call my mom she couldn't believe it either
Also, it is not the nurses who don't like unions not sure how long you've been in Florida
Thanks for this insight! this aligns with what I've heard from others as well unfortunately. Such a bummer.
The fact that the girls’ running program I coach has stricter/ lower coach to girl ratios than what so many nurses are dealing with is abysmal.
FOR REAL. but it's always been clear in the US that we value things like sports more than the general populations health
@@NurseLiz OMG!!! I tell my husband all the time that if I knew how to run a ball I'll be wealthy but because I'm an RN.... no one cares
Wow and that’s a fact @NurseLiz.
One of the reasons LTC can cover up there abysmal ratios is because they count nurse leadership as “direct care staff “ it’s insane and until CMS mandates there will be no change - let me know if you want some inside info on LTC compliancy and background- sincerely a LTC nurse educator looking for an out
Omg what?! I had no idea. Can you email me @ nurselizyt@gmail.com id love to talk more with you and bring you on as a resource if you are willing when we discuss long term care things!
CNA s at places I have work count new hires on orientation as regular staff for state survey inspection
This is my 2nd year working in Fl as a baby hospital nurse and let me tell you. I work for supposedly one of the better hospital systems and it’s still horrible on our med surg unit. The quality of care just isn’t there. Stay away from Fl healthcare if you can 😢
i'm so sorry to hear this :( If you ever want to anonymously share I'd love to spread the word on how hospitals are failing their staff and patients
There are some good hospitals in FL. Try working in the tampa bay area!
They're non profit lol. I worked as a tech for 3 years and I was paid $8.50 an hour and the other techs with the same experience were paid $11an hour. Real Christian of them. They love to leave me with 13
patient on a ortho floor where almost no one could walk alone. A patient passed one night because of this.
Hahaha in my PCU I have had 7 to 9 patients. Active STEMI, TPa, stabile ventilated, afib rvr and yeah they dont care. I have an easier shift in ICU with 3 patients. It's unbelievable .
3 patients in the icu is unsafe! Unbelievable, California unions make it law you can’t have 3 in the icu.
oh my gosh. That is NOT safe. Ugh. I'm sorry
We have a union and a contract. That specifies ratios new york finally is passing a bill for ratios but isn't in effect until January 2023. So we wait... and see what miracles can come.
I work within catholic health in buffalo new york. We were on strike in October 2021, made no difference in reality feels like now administration hates us and is punishing us for the strike.
We need to come up with a petition
My Mom shortly worked at ORMC back in 1990. She was a RN. They paid horrible, understaffed like mad. Kept her over 48 hrs just to hand out meds. Tried to keep her 60 to 72 hoyrs with a few hours of sleep here and there. Even had her go to other floors to hand out meds. I finally went and got her out. Told them she was not going to sleep a few hours at a time, stay so long, make a mistake at handing out meds and be charged. They freaked! She can't leave, she's our only RN on 2 floors. I said hire from the staffing agencies, they have nurses waiting to work. This is illegal.
I work in healthcare but I’m working to get out in next 2 years. That’s my goal. It’s just to stressful. I might stay prn for extra money and it’s a good backup career bc your always needed. But way to stressful. I know someone has to do the job but I will be more then happy to get out
Love, love your content. I have two daughters in nursing, you are so right. I told them to not risk their lives or career, bc the higher up don't care.
Sadly, lobbying for ratio mandates will be met with even harder, or more financial 😉😉, lobbying by hospitals and unfortunately with our corrupt government.....money talks. I honestly don't know what the future for the healthcare industry holds in store anymore, but I think it'll be a major breaking point before our government even cares, sadly.
They will cut housekeeping and nurses aides. That’s the admin response to lower ratios. It happened at my facility. Told us to take out the trash, clean the rooms etc
I was hospitalized March 2021 with covid @ a small facility in a college town. I had excellent care and nursing staff was wonderful.
Guess I need to say Thank You. God once again.
My cardiac PCU consistently has 5 patients per nurse and we do cardioversions and TEEs at the bedside as well.
Dang. Is that your units baseline staffing? That seems...unsafe
@@NurseLiz was alot better when we had more travelers, used to be 3-4. Now my hospital is shutting down units and kicking out travelers and trying to have new grads like me run everything to save money after covid. The "seasoned" nurses of 1-2 years of experience are all leaving too. :(
YIKES!! How do the doctors feel about that?
@@ScrivenArt they're the ones ordering the cardioversions and TEEs. We drop everything to do them on their schedule. 😂😂😂
WTF. I work in Australia and every hospital that I have worked at required patients to be sent to cardiac Cath lab for cardio versions and TEE. Every case was at least 1:1 nursing care for procedures.
Thank you for addressing this!
of course!
During the COVID epidemic I was left alone in a hospital after surgery. My roommate and I were terrorized, TERRORIZED by a certain nurse and nurse assistant. We were literally hit, slapped, and they would push our food out of our reach. I went four days with little more than water, unable to move much or get out of bed to bring the food on my tray closer so I could reach it. When about day 3 I could ask the NA why are they not feeding us she responded, 'If you don't eat, you don't chit and we don't have to clean you'. I swear to God that is exactly what she said. After day four I was able to convince the Dr. to let me go home before the nurses killed me......he laughed but I was serious. Never again.
Wow. While unsafe staffing is a big issue , rude and dangerous staff are something that can be dealt with. I hope to heavens you followed this incident up with written complaints.
unless I'm dying, I'm not going.
I work in a Rehab Facility with no staff but sure bringing in pts Quantity over Quality it's awful, I work for a huge company that owns 500 nursing homes ALL ABOUT GREED and then the type of cna's they hire should not even be working with these types of pts we have a rehab unit a Vent unit and 2 long term units IT'S AWFUL
They're not even paying for nurses aids to clean up the patients so the nurses can focus on vitals and medications? As a former care coordomator I've reported situations where for instance a brain injured patient was falling out of bed and calling me every half hour and I'm located far away from these hospitals and only available by phone. This is terrible.
I wanted to move out to Florida...but 3 things stopped me
1. (hurricanes, tsunamis, high wing)
if they dmage your home or destroy it...home insurance there will fuk you over and won't cover anything and will deny it...will the Insurance Florida commissioner do anything in time when you don't have a proper home or don't have a decent roof over your head?
2. Lack of a decent hospital in all of southern Florida...like..I looked on Google maps...every hospital is 3 stars or less...like are there even docs and surgeons that save lives over there or do they just let the patient die?
3. No proper Medicaid
4. And expensive just like everywhere I guess to due inflation these days.
I had a family member in the hospital and another family memeber noticed they had not been bathed and ask the nurse when are they going to bath and the nurse said it depends what day of the week they was on for bathing i couldnot believe that
4:50 “that’s insane.” Said at the same time. ALWAYS PROTECT UR LICENSE! ❤️
I remember with my son who has chronic ulcerative colitis during one of his stays at Orlando them putting him in a tuberculosis room to isolate him because they needed to test him for it before they could get him on a biologic they needed to make sure he didn't have it. Then because it was weekend it took forever. Then when results did come in they were invalid and they needed to retest before they could put him on only medicine that seems to stop his immune system from killing him. I was terrified with him being in that room and he was in so much pain he keep telling me he was going to jump out the window if they didn't help him. It was so heartbreaking and frustrating.
The need of nurses always being an issue, because the healthcare facilities get greedy and only care about profits leaving nurses and other staff work under a big stress and the most important nurses work many times under unsafe environment leading to a high turnover
I am a FL LPN with a college degree. I switched fields. I have worked psych, LTC, rehab, wound care, assisted living and this past year I did travel nursing, and I am now doing Home health private duty.
Typically I have had from 25-30 patients. If they are all walkie talkies that's fine, but when 8 are Gtube, 15 are diabetics, 3 have ostomy, 2 have trachs, and EVERYONE has narcotics Q4 PRN then it's a nightmare. Assisted living with memory care is usually 30 patients with dementia or Alzheimer's high fall risk. I have literally been the only nurse 7a -11p with 120 patients. Imagine 2 critical incidents at 1 time, impossible. This is normal in Florida
Safe staffing ratios must take into account acuity. In LTC are they on IV, Gtube, trach, diabetic ? It's all about realistic safe expectations.
The good nurses get the hardest cases while those who don't seem to care seem to get all the walkie talkies.
I made almost 100k last year, but my quality of life suffered. I figured if I'm going to be understaffed, have to bust my a$$ to get everything done, then I might as well get paid well, thus travel.
I have stepped back now, do 12hr shifts 7a-7p 4 days a week now with 1 patient! I am no longer hating my life and questioning my future. I was working on my RN, but no more. Why put myself back into the nightmare?
If I had to do it over, I'd go OT, PT, ST. They seem to actually do their job and be happy.
All HOSPITALS are bad at this time. Nothing but new grads working, as all seasoned Nurses left after the CV crap. I was recently hospitalized in Phoenix area, after a emergency situation. When admitted after being Life Flighted I was in a Critical Care area and nobody could start an IV, after the one placed by EMT quit. I was shocked. IF my dominant hand had not been affected by the trauma, I would have asked for a needle and did it myself. I have excellent veins. My nurse and others on the floor tried 5 times and couldn't place one. I tried to coach them but they were oblivious. My immediate Nurse, new grad one year, did not even know how to hold the Needle properly. I pointed out the "wings" that you are supposed to hold it by to insert and she didn't even know that this was why they were there. She just said that she was "not trained to do it that way". Blind leading the blind in the hospitals now!! No business putting new grads in ICU/ER positions without experienced oversite. I have over 20 years experience as a Critical Care nurse and can't get a job because I refuse to be jabbed.
As a Canadian nurse I can speak to this happeinig here. I actually quite my RN position of 20 years, our government seems to be doing this on purpose. They state there is nothing they can do but there is so much, our union is in bed woth government. Staff working tell of 1:12 ratios on the daily. Hire back all of the nurses fired for their medical choice. None of thos happened evan at covid peak when no on ewas terminated at least not to this extent. We need to rise up.
This is exactly why I'm hesitant becoming a nurse. I finished all my prerequisites, but have not taken entrance exam. It just seems like healthcare is going to hell in a hand basket. But I'm not sure what else I'd be interested in as a career.
Medical Esthetician.
Be a dentist
I worked in a rehab hospital (no retired) and norm 8-9 to one nurse one CNA not unusual to have 11 pts I was not quite at the end of my orientation and was pulled to a team and my first solo was 11 pts. Talk about anxiety.