Medicine is Sick: Nurses describe why they've left the profession
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Those who care for sick patients know the system is in crisis. But if medicine is sick, how will healthcare workers take care of themselves so that patients can get better? Over the next several weeks WGN News will talk with doctors, nurses and administrators about medicine.
I'm a hospital nurse and completely disgusted with what has happened these past few years. Informed choice is gone.
Absolutely. Thank you for recognizing that and taking a stand.
I have *never* seen genuine informed consent happen, even before the coof.
I'd die in the peace of my own home before going to an American hospital. Death and rebirth are mere cycles of life, however, hospitals are horrible places for patients as well as nurses and any other caring staff.
Your nurse is in charge causing these situations you have a group with no hands trying to restructure the nursing field now mind you most of them never really work 8 or 16 hours on each floor so they can understand what it's like basically you have a bunch of RNs all they ever did was go to school for 6 years to get that Masters they didn't know nothing about working in the hospital thank you so much and you are be kind to each other
Agreed.
RN for 28 years, just got a job with the post office!
How is it ?
Good for you!
Just curious how did u see the patients in those 28yrs, do nurses care for the patients or just doing their job
It is sad so many teachers and nurses are leaving the profession
I was so desperate to quit nursing I would picture myself wrecking my car on the way to work to avoid the toxic sick care environment...Eventually I grew a backbone and quit and started my own business which was a blessing..So grateful for my wonderful life today...
What do you do, if you don’t mind sharing?
@@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123 Hello, Im a Realtor (have my real estate license) as well as created and developed a property management company where I serve my clients as well as manage my own properties that I have purchased and renovated..I feel very Blessed to be doing what I love to do.
Good for you! You deserve it. Glory be the God above
@@alyssarodriguez5865 Yes, I am extremely grateful for Gods guidance in my life, and how my fear was eliminated through his light and Love
@@tpowell3776 my mom was a 17 year old with two little babies (my brother & I) she was a dental assistant for 22 years getting $22 an hour for her 22 years of experience. She finally took a leap and left all she knew and got her real estate licensing. She is doing better than ever before and her only regret is wishing that she had left much sooner. I wish you all the best
I retired from nursing after 41 years. The lack of support and abuse from the system and others is overwhelming. I paid with my health…I would never encourage anyone to enter the field..
I agree with you totally Jill.
And being single, made me stay even longer - it's daunting to leave when you need the financial piece - not that it was what we deserved, but....indeed, and same -paid with the health. And I am disabled from being a "frontline" (every shift is front line..gimme a break) "hero" now zero, working urgent care (moved there after 20 years in hospital, and once Obama"care" took effect with all the mandates, I had to leave.. moral injury led to syncopal episode and they made me still, get back out on the floor and I? I did it. My fault. I wasn't as deep into my inner healing journey yet that was the reason I likely chose and was good at nursing and had a hard time leaving...we all know we got "something deeper" out of it....well, I reached rockiest of the rock bottoms and when I contracted severe covAIDS in March 2020 on the urgent care lines and my company said " take your Tylenol, get fever free and back to work".....I was just getting worse and worse from the inflammatory storm with no help since I refused the vent I didn't need -- the gaslighting was so bad, I really needed to be admitted to the burn unit.....) and I'm stuck now, but yes, I literally died to save lives, and I regret not one minute of it. It was never the patient's fault and always management. When you reach your liimt, and sometimes that limit is reached FOR you but catastrophic events? You don't, won't and can't go back.
Hmmm why did UA-cam cross out the most important part? ....
@Jennifer when you put a dash before and after sentences it creates a -strikethrough-
@@applejellypucci Thanks for letting me know this Jennifer ! I had no idea.
I use to be a healthcare professional and left. Personally, I found that the workload would have been more bearable if the team wasn’t toxic and more supportive. Doctors, PTs, OTs even SLPs were always frustrated and took out their frustration on others especially those who were nicer/positive as they were an easier target. They are the ones who end up leaving so no wonder we get horrible service since we are left with ppl who went into healthcare for the wrong reasons. Even my brother in law and his girlfriend who are doctors told me they see patients as dollar signs. He only takes 3-5mins per patient since they are paid by the act. How can you possibly get an accurate diagnosis in 5 mins…
Facts!! I’m planning on leaving and never looking back. The toxic coworkers are make so much worst and than the patients fuss too. It’s too much
This is so true! Healthcare is toxic.
And you are contracted with an ins company not the hospital. It's the ins company that pays you to practice in the hospital...not the actual hospital.
It is toxic for sure and I don't see it ever getting better.
@@midnull6009 so, what's your point? I still work for the hospital, even if I am contracted.
As a stage four cancer patient… I’ve seen how horrible our greedy healthcare industry is and it’s terrifying for me and I’m certain for everyone else and it’s just not fair and it’s wrong
I am so sorry I hope you get better.
Hi Ann, please if you have the time and energy, look into Rife machines. I just bought one from Spooky 2. Dr. Royal Rife was curing stage 4 cancers back in the 40s! Of course our crooked system has covered it up. Please let me know if you have any questions, I just got into this myself and am learning a lot. A non-invasive treatment that’s worth looking into
Evidence? Data? You can't just put your angry "opinion" out here and expect people to believe you. Look, I'm sorry for what you're going through, but it sounds to me like you want to blame someone, anyone, for your current condition. Maybe you should have laid off the Moon Pies and cigarettes.
@@allie9015z I love that you are sharing the above information. Medicine is focused primarily with pharmaceuticals and surgery, so of course anything that deviates from that will always be shunned, which is a shame.
@@maxalberts2003 For one thing: The United States charges money to see a doctor and for medical treatment. So if you had, say, c*ncer, and you couldn't afford treatment? You would just pass away. (Sorry for the censors; my comment might get deleted otherwise. 😅) Edit: in every other Westernized country, there's socialized medicine (Canada, Britain, Sweden, Denmark, and I believe Australia, too; etc). I was actually born with a medical condition (Hashimoto's Thyroiditis), and the only reason why I'm even able to get medication is because I live in a country with socialized healthcare.
I'm a registered nurse in the UK. The pay in the National Health Service (NHS) for nurses is insulting with many of my colleagues having to go to food banks to feed themselves and their families. I left due to burnout in 2018 after suffering with Postnatal depression and being bullied by my manager because of it. He tried to sabotage my career whilst I was at my most vulnerable. Honestly, those who smell blood and grab a knife are the worst and do not belong in healthcare. I didn't let it destroy me. I gained my prescribing qualification and I now run my own successful Medical Aesthetics business. I feel bad that I had to leave behind those who needed my skills the most but my family were suffering as much as I was and ultimately, I had to make the change for the good of my children and my marriage. No regrets. Life is short and should be lived. Be happy :)
I can't wait to leave too. Nursing is disgusting
Oh I have so many matching stories for that. I'm with you in spirit, from over the pond in NJ, USA where we're turning into Divided States of Communism. Well put and very well stated. Be holy, healthy and whole
I felt that way too. I was in the Education field and kept getting bullied. Even when others knew I was at my lowest, other people bullied me more. I don’t need to deal with that so I left the profession.
They pay in the USA isn't great either. At least not where I'm at
The bad ratios have been a problem even when I was a staff nurse way back in the mid-90’s.
I regularly had 8-9 surgical patients, fresh post-ops. With admissions you could go up to 13. Day shift in a Chicago area hospital.
I wound up transferring to registry critical care, and I can tell you, the public is completely unaware that ER’s were overwhelmed and going on bypass every week then.
This is NOT a new problem. Hospital system have been ignoring these issues for decades and the pandemic just made the public aware of it.
Nurses have long been treated by the systems as a consumer product. Used up and then discarded.
This was confirmed for me during the pandemic in multiple ways. I spoke to a doctor who told me that he was in charge of purchasing and maintaining the stockpile of protective equipment before the pandemic. They are mandated to have an emergency stock pile. Months before the pandemic began he ordered the mandated months worth of supplies. They never arrived. He discovered that someone in administration cancelled the order because it was too expensive. And then covid hit and the nursing staff had to wear the same masks for months and they were down to wearing trash bags instead of protective gowns. This doctor told me that these same admins would come to the hospital in N95s and pristine equipment while the people who were actually providing care were unprotected.
During the pandemic, the mayor of NY tried to get the US government to conscript doctors and RN’s. To FORCE them to work wherever they were placed, moving them around the country like slaves. He suggested this to save his own political skin and to save some of those sweet sweet covid dollars for himself and his political cronies. Why pay RN’s $150 an hour when we can conscript them and pay $30?
I always suspected that some day the nursing shortage would massively accelerate and that day has arrived.
We are in for bad times, people.
I'm a nurse and made a video about leaving to work at Target my first year. 21 years in, I now have 2 businesses, and I'm much happier ☺️
I saw that video wow!!
@@Citygal01 😃
I’ll have to watch that video. Hope you’re doing well.
@@janetmiller2980 thank you! I'm doing well! :)
@@Citygal01 what business did you started off it's ok ask?
2 physicians I work for now were sick of the corrup healthcare systems, especially the hospital systems. They opened up their own practice in functional/holistic medicine, added on two more integrative providers. Now a team of 4 and 2 nurses, we get people OFF medications, encourage correcting vitamin/mineral and other nutrient deficiencies mostly thru diet (keto and intermittent fasting) and exercise, and balancing hormones. We reverse type 2 diabetes every day, people are getting off cholesterol, BP, acid reflux meds...to name a few, they are finally losing Weight in a healthy way, and not feeling sick and tired of being tired. Ill never work for anyone else or be involved in traditional healthcare for any amount of money. Ive been offered a lot more, Ill never do it. If I can practice nursing in this way at any point in time, I will not be a nurse elsewhere.
I left nursing after almost 40 years.
Regulations pulled the rug out from under my feet. More time spent doing data entry, dotting i's and crossing t's and virtually no time to simply talk to my patients for a few minutes.
What's worse, is that I don't trust the healthcare system any longer.
After decades of being a patient advocate, healthcare providers, such as myself, are not afforded an advocate.
So I left.
Best thing I did for my mental health.
I just retired after 42 years as a full time RN.
My physical and mental health had gotten so bad that I actually hated getting out of bed to clock in to the he'll hole I worked in.
More bs charting, low staffing, abuse by patients and families, and the lack of support from management led to horrible work environment.
@@commancheheart420 Exactly. I used to become physically ill the day before returning to work. The last few years, I remember walking down our unit's hallway thinking, "I don't want to be here. I don't care about this anymore". Sad. When I resigned, I had people tell me that maybe I just wasn't cut out to be a nurse! Like WTF? Nearly 40 years and people infer that I just wasn't meant to be a nurse? I was a damn good nurse always with raving performance reviews.
How ignorant (and infuriating) for people to suggest that I was unhappy solely b/c they thought I didn't have it in me to be a nurse.(after almost 40 years....ya, right)
@@catbee1452
I was older and overweight, but a good nurse and helped young nurses.
Families went after older nurses and gave a pass to young nurses who actually spoke to them with disrespect.
The nail in my coffin was a patient that made fun of me after helping get him back in bed claimed I didn't use my strength to get him out of a chair. He praised the younger nurse, but made fun of me, when in fact over several years my fellow nurses came to me asking for help because I was strong.
I owned horses and this patient actually made fun of me riding horses because I was overweight, a rich loser patient who took his anger on an older nurse.
@@commancheheart420 Like most all professions, there is definitely ageism in nursing. I had a particularly manipulative patient who didn't like that I told him 'no'. So he called our nurse manager and said he wanted a "younger, prettier nurse".
Of course, our management always took the patient's side and our manager switched my assignment with a younger (albeit prettier) nurse. (one small example of management not supporting staff, especially SEASONED staff)
It was yet another nail in the coffin-of-my-leaving.
@@commancheheart420 Yes, yes, yes. I hear you!
Another 'final straw', a controlling, manipulative, demanding patient (known to us from many other admissions), really pushed me over the edge. He wouldn't get out of his clothes to put on a gown, said he'd do it when he felt like it. (The dude was going to surgery in an hour, he was controlling everyone around him). "Move my bed over...no, that's too much...no that's not enough. Bring my table closer. No, turn it inwards...not like that!!" Me (with upmost respect as I have always done): "Mr (insert name), they will be picking you up for surgery in 30 minutes. I need to complete the pre-op process and get you ready. I'm happy to assist you in getting changed into a gown." Him: "Not right now. I'll do it when I want to....get me another blanket...move my bed over more...bring me another pillow...". I am sure he saw that I was no longer smiling but robotically obliging his requests but after jumping through all his hoops I said, "Ok, how's that? Does this work for you?" . (I'm sure my frustration was showing through a bit)
He. Flipped. Out. Asked to see the nurse manager, said he wanted a different nurse. Just then, a nurse, half my age, came into the room to ask me something. The patient says, "I want HER! She's young and pretty. I want her to be my nurse."
To which I said with a smile, "We'll get another nurse for you..." Him: "NO! I only want HER!"
I left the room quietly, spoke with my nurse manager. I explained that I've done everything respectfully, but he won't get ready for surgery and is now being disrespectful towards me. This is all unacceptable. Please switch him over to (the young nurse)-he's requesting it".
Mind you, I have NEVER done this before, EVER, in my entire almost 40 year career. (I was also at a place in life where I had been fried for a couple years already)
I explained that the patient was escalating with me and that he should have the nurse he's most comfortable with. Nurse manager, hemmed and hawed saying she would speak to him. "Great, yes, please do. And please let him know that the other nurse will be taking over his care."
“It’s increasingly harder to do the simplest things for patients these days”
speaks volumes
Yes
No time to eat or drink while on duty no time for bathroom, call bells and alarm going off all the time. Disrespectful patients and families
On top of that carrying a bunch of keys in your pockets all day while you only get to use one particular key from that bunch. Dealing with ungrateful family members and demanding doctors. Literally everything is on the nurse shoulder. It's disgusting
Yes, the family and patients are horrible now. I think covid killed all the good patients.
Oh shat it you heartless c0ws
Our societies are traumatized and angry. It carries on like a domino effect. However, if we learn to be kind to one another, we heal. I'm sorry for your experience
The families and patients are demanding and the hospitals force nurses to put up with the abuse because hospital care is centered around patient satisfaction due to reimbursement rates. They don’t care about patients either is all comes down to money
First, where can I watch the rest of the series? I've been an ER nurse for almost 20 years and I'm almost 70. Survival in this profession has a lot to do with self care. Having a healthy diet, exercising and leaving work at work are keys to surviving being a nurse. COVID was just a blip for me because I never bought into all the hysteria. We are always working around all kinds of germs that we never really give much thought. Those who freaked out over COVID have forgotten this. C-Diff, MRSA, VRE, TB, Flu, parasites, people coming in with maggots on various parts of their bodies, etc. We are always surrounded by things, if not handled properly, can make us sick or even kill us. For 36 hrs a week, I'm trying to help people even when they won't help themselves. When I'm not working, I'm hiking, planting trees or working in my garden never giving work a second thought.
Exactly.
Thank you. I love this comment. Self care is my #1 priority, its just not going to work if I'm not going to give myself that "extra".
That's the way to do it. I'm an EMT and hope to become a nurse. I worked in human services before and got a degree in it. They drill it into our brains and school on self-care and leaving stuff at work.
I quit my job at a nursing home when I saw residents lives were deliberately terminated and the facility was protected from law suits. A nursing home is a dangerous place.
You're the 1st person online, ive seen say this. I know what you're seeing.
I’ve been a nurse 3 years- I don’t plan to stay much longer. I started nursing right before the Covid outbreak in 2020. I know that probably played a part in my burn out, but I think nurses and other healthcare professionals are generally empathetic, intuitive, selfless, and intelligent people. We can only deal with so much abuse from the system before we realize we deserve better. We would tell each other, “you deserve better”, we would tell our patients, “you deserve better”, and eventually we tell ourselves, “you deserve better”.
I promise you, you would’ve still burnt out even without Covid. I felt burn out by my 3rd year as well, that was in 2018
"covid outbreak".... PLANDEMIC. Nurse of 20 years here..and this ended it for me. I'm on disability right now from not getting the care I spent 20 years giving. Yes on the "so much abuse from the system" 100% precise and I wish some one on this video SAID THAT
What's really disgusting is I paid $90,000 I still have the student loan to only get paid the crap wages that I got paid and they're pulling people off the streets to do what we used to do after 2 years of schooling.
@@Jennifer-gr7hn wow! This is exactly how I feel burned out. I even tried working at retail stores and all I did was get sexually harassed by men. It's like can't go anywhere these days. I hope you feel better. I know that I do after reading all your posts I want to start a club.
I was a Registered Nurse who trained at a University Teaching Hospital from 1973 to 1975. I worked in Acute Care Medicine for 3 years. And then quit the profession.
Why?
Bullying from my co workers to an unbearable degree ( remember, we are in life and death situations ) No help from above, head nurses, etc. The stress was simply not worth it.
We were chronically short staffed. Daytime - 6 patients. Night Shift - often only 2 nurses for 38 patients!!
The entire system of the delivery of care needed changing then and still does. My Mom was so puzzled that I left Nursing until she went to work as a Ward Clerk. Then she understood. She said, they have to change the whole system - that was about 35 years ago.
I don’t see any change after being a patient or having my kids as patients. Everything falling apart during the Pandemic was no surprise to me. It was bound to happen. I have no idea what is going to happen to the delivery of care and I am including doctors who just don’t seem to have the same care for people. You need to have a “ meet and greet “ with a new doctor if your old one retires or moves away. And they can refuse to take you as a patient.
This is caring??
I’m going back to school in January for a degree that is unrelated to nursing and I can’t wait for the semester to start. Next week I will give notice to my manager that I’m leaving. I’m leaving NURSING.
I’ve given 8 years of my life to this profession and it’s time to gracefully bow out while I still can. There is nothing noble about allowing yourself to be abused.
what will you be studying?
@@xalbatross1 best of luck for your studies!
I’m so sorry ❤ nurses are such powerful and intelligent people. It’s just disgusting what’s happening
Congratulations on starting your new journey! I’m so happy for you! 🎉
I’ve only been a nurse in icu for 3 years but I’m over it. I’m studying for mcat to apply to med school on the next application cycle. I’m forcing myself to keep working for the clinical hours and letters of rec on my application.
@@seapinkoyster good for you!! I hope you do well. My dream is to never be responsible for a sick person again.
Thank you for this story WGN. After 44 years in nursing, I retired two years early. To the for profit health care CEO's, nurses are a money taker, and more patients and tests a money maker. Nurses are short staffed on purpose, to boost profits and best practices are not supported.
Yes so short staffed it's abusive to nurses AND patients! I'm in home care now making way less than the average RN pay for nurses in my state.
@@sunshinegirl1967 Well then go work in a hospital if you're so concerned about salary.
I’m one of them, planning my exit strategy. This has been going on way before the pandemic. Profit over patient safety always
Yes, it was. It's disgusting how patients and staff are abused by these corporate healthcare systems. Even if they claim nonprofit they are still about the profits.
I think about leaving nursing as well…I just don’t know what I will do. Good luck to you as you plan for your future! You’re not alone.
I worked as a lab tech while in nursing school during covid. What I saw and experienced was so upsetting, I quit nursing school and my lab tech job.
why did you quit being a lab tech?
@@hindbouchtout5989 I had to talk to nurses and doctors about their patients results. The amount of disrespect was awful. I get they were stressed because of covid and taking it out on me, but that's wrong of them. Also, at this hospital, if there are not enough people to draw blood from patients, I (lab tech) get sent out to draw blood. I'm Asian and the racism I experienced was very hurtful. It made me feel like I couldn't be a good nurse if I had to take care of someone racist, so I quit both. I've been happier ever since
@@choucobra That's sad. I HATE racism. You can't help what genes you were born into!
What are you doing now if you don’t mind me asking? I was interested in nursing and after volunteering at a hospital I said no way! Lost on what to do now as I took all the pre-reqs:(
Is lab tech a good job? In terms of payment?
I withdrew from nursing school due to the lack of care from my own proctors and educators… then worked at a hospital and saw the exact same mistreatment from all angles of the medical profession
You took a good decision,
The contract I'm at now has students on the floor, the instructor does nothing all day and plays on her phone. The students are learning nothing. It's scary what is happening. I hope I die before I end up in the hospital.
Same!
@@ellenscott6793wow this sounds scary …
After 20 yr as a cna I’m doing Homecare and Doordash I’m burn out from facility
I hope everyone who leaves is able to find something they are passionate about. After 20 years in healthcare and 17 years as an ICU RN I still love my job. I see the changes and am saddened by them but I can't leave the patients. They need us and I love helping them. I respect my patients' choices and teach them how to improve their health when they leave my care. I work hard to maintain a good work/life balance and stay grounded in my faith as a Christian. Prevents burnout and gives me a deeper purpose for what I do.
Amen! We need Christians in every workplace! We bring light and love to our customers, patients, and coworkers.
Umm, that's just it! We DO love and ARE passionate about it. That's the problem! We can't do it with out conscience anymore. It's CRAP and people deserve better. I mean the patients.
Keyword - Christian. This changes everything. God gives the strength to endure the most difficult circumstances.
Thank you !
Thank you sister in Christ ! God gives us strength and helps us be selfless for Him and others over our selves .. God Bless you and I pray He provides for your needs and protects you and your family! In Jesus Name !
I've been a bedside RN for 30 years. You have to be nuts if you want to be a nurse.
Absolutely a sham of a profession. It's a rotten industry from the top down and from the bottom up.
why did u stay in the sham for 30 years? Most nurses should not be in nursing at all, and most doctors should not be doctors. The reason why the quality of healthcare ij yhr US declined significantly is because the wrong type of people went into these fields, the people that are doing it for the money instead of the being passionate about helping others. I can tell from the faces of nurses and doctors if they truely care about their patients, and i concluded that almost all of them dont care what happens to their patients. there are only a handful of nurses and doctors that care, and almost impossible to find them.
Thank the CEO and Wall Street for that.@@archuk6058
28 years as a RN, I am quite capable of owning other businesses...With all my experience, hospitals in Cleveland want to pay me Less than I pay my housekeeper.. BYE
I am a Nurse about to leave the Nursing world. I am burning out of No time off because of we are too short of workers. Then again, no time off period. Staff to patient ratios are too high. I would have 30 to 60 patients and it was causing too much stress. Management does not hear you. Your family and the nurse don't matter we just need you here. I just can't do it anymore. I see patients going without proper care. I can't have that on my conscience. I am leaving Nursing because the system is broken.
30-60 😳
I interviewed for a nursing position and they told me I wouldn't be able to take time off until the following November, so almost a year, because they were upgrading from Cerner to Epic... I was like, yea, no, I'll pass!
@@Abmarp That's the standard nurse-to-patient ratio for nursing homes (30-60). In hospitals, it's less (about 5-7, depends on what unit) but still heavy workload.
This video confirms the blessing of not having a license. I saved myself a world of stress and drama
Lucky you.
I loved nursing 30 years ago when I first started the profession. Now, the thought of going in to work causes me such anxiety that it has led to physical problems-GI issues. I can’t continue working at a job that is literally making me sick. Greedy corporate health systems are ruining our ability to properly care for our patients due to fewer and fewer resources in order to “save money”.
That’s a shocking amount of workers leaving the field. I fear it will only exasperate the issue. We are in for a huge healthcare crisis in this country.
They will just employ them from overseas.
Been a nurse for 17 years and for the very first time in my career I cried the other night during my shift. My husband told me to quit.
So sorry. Hang in there. You are solid and needed. Many avenues for nurses. Please consider.
We allowed corporations to take over and now “healthcare” is all about profit. Healthcare being run under a corporate model…this is what we are left with.
Can’t believe no one brought up the ungodly amount of computer charting
You’re so RIGHT. I spend more time at a computer than with my patients.
Click click click click click
EHR/COMPUTER CHARTING promised to greatly reduce the time that paper charting took. Not so ! Charting became incessant and nonstop to the detriment of actual patient care
Yet another way modern medicine lies
I'm not even a nurse (I'm actually a patient in a hospital), and even I can understand why so many nurses are leaving. In my experience, nurses generally care about patients, but are often hindered by managers.
Edit: I've also seen good nurses getting pushed around by bad nurses. In my personal experience, the best nurses are the ones who aren't necessarily mean, but are capable of dishing out the same disrespect that they get from other nurses, patients, and family members of patients.
Edit 2: I no longer live there now. 😊
Thank you for thinking of us even in your own suffering. We really do care about our patients but it’s hard to properly care for you these days as greedy corporate health systems take over. It’s brutal. Best wishes for a full recovery for you!
I won’t go near a hospital at this time! No trust anymore! Good luck finding pure blood!
I was in ICU then had tubes to drain my lungs for a spinal infection and lung infection. They jerked the tubes out and sent me to an assisted living facility about 2 weeks to early. I’m still very ill. Hospitals are brutal slaughter houses.
The problem is that hospitals are run by managers and not doctors. Actually, that accounts to every industry. MBAs ruin everything because all they care about is numbers.
they dont care, if they did they wouldve give the patients poison medications everyday.
I’ve been a LPN for 14 years. Started my career in nursing homes and was absolutely devastated at the reality vs my romantic view of being a nurse. After a few years and two different facilities, I gave up bedside nursing. I lost too much weight and my hair was thinning; I was constantly worried and frustrated about the conditions, staffing and so much more. I found a telephonic nursing job 11 years ago and haven’t looked back. The hours are great and I talk to each patient as long as they need me. It was much less common back then, but now much more common. These telephonic nursing jobs are available in many sectors as well. If you’re in limbo about what to do next- can’t go on with where you are but do not want to throw away your education, it’s a great option.
I've lost all faith in the business of medicine
The plandemic exposed them all as the liars they are.
Yep. Like so many things, it should never have been a "business" to start with.
It's completely corrupt!
@@penyarol83 exactly what i was gonna comment, healthcare shouldn't be associated with business...ever.
I’m in school for this and feel so down all these signs makes me not want to do it sad sad sad everyone is sad in the medical field
I abandoned nursing when I realized I was going to be abused by my employer, my head nurse, and my patient, all at the same time. I really don't know what is keeping people in the profession. I understand that nurses are needed, but the human mind can only take so much abuse. By the time I ended my career, I was one broken piano string, upstairs, away from a complete mental breakdown.
I’m thinking about switching to nursing but man after reading so many cons about nursing I don't think it's a field for me. This reason I considered nursing is exactly what the first nurse in the video said, getting to interact with people, it's an active job you're not constantly sitting down, etc but I don't think the amount of stress it's worth any pay. Thinking about going into a business route or a tech route but every day as I do my research I lose hope in nursing.
@@kevk4908 You will have no problem getting hired in any city of your choice. That is the one thing no career can say!
I left nursing last year after 11 years of medical/surgical and OR/scrub.
Haven’t figured out yet where to go next but this respite has been wonder for my soul. The medical field has been corrupted and is not the same as it once was. At all.
Patients are not being treated as individuals. They are getting a cookie cutter ‘protocol’ for their (probably wrong diagnosis or side effect of a medication they are on). I remember as a new grad in 2010 I had 20 patients on 7p-7a with ‘rehab’ patients who are discharged from the hospital too early and are still medically unstable. I’d go home from work at 10am because I had to finish charting. It was ridiculous BUT I WAS PRAISED FOR MY DEDICATION. Then I was eventually ‘spoken’ to a month later saying I’ve had a month to acclimate so ‘why am in leaving late?’ 🤯😳
Why is that a ? . When you caring for patients most times understaffed.
Because you are so busy taking care of patients the only time you can get all your charting done is when the next shift is on duty.
Lol ridiculous 😂😂😂😂.
My boss just asked me what my expectation for nursing is… because I asked to be per diem after one year…
Well, I am quitting now lol
They expect you to half ass the charts, and keep the patients waiting while you're doing it.
It's all about metrics now. Gotta meet that magic number. It hasn't been about patient's for the past 7 years or so. So sad to see.
I cherish the last 30 years of my nursing career. Now at 60 I'm ready for a new chapter. Old school nursing kept me in. I declined the 12 hr shifts knowing it wasn't for me. I was hired in at 8...that kept me sane.
8 is great. You have time to do something every day. When working 12, it's really 14 or more. At least in my experience.
I am not a nurse but I am a CNA in LTC care, I've been a CNA 20 years, I left LTC 10 months ago, I couldn't take seeing my residents neglected because we had up 25 per one Aid, my love of residents I worked my blood, sweat tears for but it all changed after the pandemic.
You are a treasure to do that for 20 years. Thank you.
Being told to get a vaccine I wasn’t too comfortable getting until I did more research, or to be forced to quit my job which is my life line, is why i want to leave nursing. It’s not about pt care, its politics and money.
I retired from nursing January 2022. Burned out! I lived and breathed nursing for 30 years. Was in hospital, Health Department, FQHC clinic and finally Family Practice Office nursing. You just give all day , you have nothing left for self or family.
ICU nurse for 30 years. Just recently retired and LOVE IT! No more constant stress, BS politics and mandates, back-stabbing, demanding pts and family members, rotating 12 hr shifts, constant calls to work OT...do I sound upset about the state of hospital sick care? Damn right! So happy to be out of all that craziness. In the beginning I loved nursing but that was slowly beaten out of me. Was just barely hanging on at the end. Fortunately I am still healthy. Wish all you hospital workers the best.
Good luck.
Congrats!
Proud of you!
It's kind of funny I feel that way about teaching. I used to teach work with children. And I left because they just suck it out of you (school board, other teachers, management, parents etc). I'm an EMT now and I do want to become a nurse working with babies. Hopefully I can do it and hopefully I can do it for a little while so I can retire.
Yep, I left bedside and the 12 hours shifts. It was so draining mentally for me. The people we cared for were very sick. We would just bandaid issues(heart failure, diabetes, kidney, respiratory..). The job wasn't giving me what I wanted out of it. I stepped away march 2022 and then recently went back to nursing as a PACU nurse for outpatient Ortho. I don't have the mental drain and working 8 hours five days a week is a much better fit for the family life that works for me, my kids, and my significant other.
45 years as an RN/ CHICAGO. RETIRED. Would never do it today. Ever.
Thank you for helping others for so long!
Here is a labor question , why are nurses being tasked on 12 hour shifts ? Why aren’t the shifts more reasonable , 8 hours ?
That means they have to have another shift of nurses, which is costly to them, pay plus benefits 😂😂😂
Nurses you are our heroes. Thank you
Left nursing after 21 years.. I regret the time and energy I wasted for big pHARMa
I don't even talk about about the nursing profession anymore...It's just a job..I put in my time, clock out, go home and leave the job where it lay...at the hospital....
That's how it was when I was in the hospital. My parents knew not to ask me about my job.
It's funny you say that David, as a female nurse, I do find that male nurses do handle the stress MUCH better than us.
Watching this after working bedside for 6 years. I quit 3 weeks ago.
I quit too
I’m going to do my very best to prevent ever needing Rx, surgery or hospitals by making the health of mind-body & soul a priority. 💖
In my opinion healthcare is a business in America .Money maker hospital investors is not about well being, curing the health matabolic ailments is only about prescribing more pills RXeating only the symptons til the metabolic disease you have is triple .Noone is really investigating hospitals and doctors for proper care.Our nurses get the majority of the care.Nurses are overworked and underpay.Our polititians need to enforce and make sure all hospital administrations and doctors are doing what they are suppose to be. Doing in the name health,well being .Having good health and getting health. Care should be free for all and not get rich quick scheme that is allow in America.etc, etc.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "FREE" HEALTHCARE!! I wish people would get the idea that socialized medicine is free, you in fact pay with sky high taxes!!
Nursing killed my empathy. The system is broken, and I don't think it's going to ever get better.
Nothing can kill empathy in a true empath. What you're feeling is, moral burnout and injury reaching rock bottom because you can no longer satisfy that inner child need in a system that is more narcissistic abuse that is all too familiar from our childhood. Rock bottoms are great! They trigger new beginnings. Chin up, get that empathy back because a little self care in the mind and spirit, you'll see....
@@Jennifer-gr7hn Agree!!!
I'm retiring in March and I can't be happier. Nurses wear themselves out physically and mentally and no one gives a crap. During Covid we were "Healthcare Heroes". Now we are back to being just another expence for corporate healthcare. For years I have been verbally and emotionally abused by surgeons. We are told by management to just "write them up". We've written until our fingers are raw and the surgeons continue to escape disciplinary action because they bring in patients who in turn pay money. In the end money always wins!! Goodbye healthcare and good riddance!!
Writing them up just gives management a record of who is a trouble maker so they can make their lives more difficult in the hopes that the nurse will quit.
I agree with you 100%. They will always favor the physician, no matter how abusive. It's sick.
This is the worst Ive seen in Nursing after 27yrs. I wonder if they’re doing it on purpose to cause another health crisis.
I am about 29 years in. This job barely resembles the one I trained for in the early 90s. Thank God I invested in creating my own business 15 years ago
This is so sad and depressing. I have been an RN for over 30 years and left the hospital(MSK in NYC) 28 years ago to Home Infusion Nursing exclusively. I have some patients for over 25 years and i feel a part of their family and vice versa to many of my patients. Driving around the Tri-state area to different places each day takes away any boredom. I also have such a diverse population in diseases and culturally/socio-economically that its very exciting and i miss my work when i am off. I feel very honored and blessed to be so fulfilled both monetarily and so so lucky to have such a great rewarding career and have never been out fo work for even 1 day over the last 30 years of my life. I feel so down seeing all these Nurses saying their career is toxic and harmful to their mental and physical health and i see some of that when i precept younger nurses.
As the whole world ages, but especially the US the Nursing shortage will only worsen and we need great people to care for the sick. I knew hospitals had gotten very corporatized but not that it was this bad. Bless you all and Good Luck no matter what you decide to pursue.
Good for you ! Is that through a home health agency or the hospital ?
@@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123 Hey my friend. I work for over 10 company's so i can stay PerDiem to choose my own cases to do or not do. So, 1 hospital and 10 agencies.
Change their shifts. No Nurse or Dr should be having to work a 12 hour shift. That is insane to expect them to work at the same level of awareness/compassion/present in the moment mindset that they must be in from the start of their shift until the very end of it. It's not right. Nurses are pivotal to patient care and healing, we owe so much to them. They should get good pay, quality RN to patient ratios and a reasonable working day, all of these could go a long way into keeping nurses around and attracting the next generation.
it's an option. 12 hour shifts three days a week? that's a 36 hour week, paid for 40 with four days off....stfu....you don't know what you speak.....
Nah, leave it as 12 hours. No way I'm coming in 5 days a week to get my full-time hours.
The 12hrs isn't the problem, plus, hours are flexible for a lot of nurses.
its easier for the Hospital to staff 2 nurses for a 24 hour period. Their profits and ease are paramount
12hours aren’t the issue
Patient's are not even called patients anymore but Consumers. So strange to me & what does this say?
they call them customers in my hospital…
For profit healthcare.
At my nursing school, they call them clients.
Medicine is there not to make people well but to keep them in the hospital.
I met a traveling nurse @ Lowe’s nursery watering plants. She said she was taking a lil break & loved watering plants not stressing about anything at all.
I’ve been a nurse for 22 years. I now work only in home health and when the two patients I have no longer need me I’m leaving nursing. There is no amount of money that could be paid to me for me to work in a hospital again.
This situation is so demoralizing. I enjoyed my job, loved my patients. I miss what it used to be. 😢
My problem with continuing to be a part of the “healthcare” system is the corruption. After I was professionally trained as a nurse I did investigations into the art of healing on my own. Then discovered that we purposefully do things to undermine the health of our patients. Even what we were trained and required to teach as far as diet was and is damaging. I cannot in good conscious recommend these things to my patients. I cannot any longer allow myself to be abused for money just because I have a nursing degree. To my way of thinking the “profession” of nursing has returned to what it was originally before it was made reputable by Florence Nightingale. We are abused by each other, by patients, by families of patients. Well that is sometimes understandable. But then we are abused by the bureaucracy. Accrediting agencies are constantly making up unscientifically substantiated new rules in order to justify their existence and which ultimately make the jobs of healthcare workers even more difficult than they already are, and really do nothing to help with patient safety, which is their stated goal. Somehow, I am competent enough to inset a Foley catheter or change a central line dressing, but not competent enough to have a drink of water available to me during my 12 hour shift for fear that this may cause contamination of my drink. So is for my own good that I am required to be dehydrated? Then we are abused by administration. The gaslighting is masterful. The realities of their policies put the patients, the nurses and their licenses at risk. They demand ever more work to be done in the 12 hour shift to the point that even the 30 minutes allowed for a lunch break is an impossibility. Meanwhile they get paid ever increasing high salaries and bonuses instead of allowing more staffing. Census is low, therefor you will be taking your usual load of patients with no CNA to help you and other nurses also will be sent home so do not count on any help there either. Being a nurse doesn’t have to be abusive……but it is.
I couldn't have articulated what you said any better. I agree with everything you have stated. I resented the government coming in and telling us how to do our useless care plans (we no longer had freedom to do them the way WE thought was best, but what the government dictated and it was cookie-cutter). Care plans are a waste of time. I honestly have never referred back to a care plan for my job. Plus, who has time?? We are forced to create one to cover ourselves, but none of us look at it unless forced to make an update or closing them out upon discharge. The Epic system is expensive and so the care plans should automatically be created from the information already placed in the system. It's hard enough to find time to read up on each patient and double check labs and medications and future tests. The abuse in nursing is so rampant and can be unbelievably stressful. Also, now since we have wokeness, our admissions are that much longer. "How do you identify and what are your pronouns?" "Oh, so you identify as an mammalian organism and wish to be referred to as Neptune and your they/them friend is wanting to be called Uranus?" I feel like it's become a circus. I quit in October of 2021 and am really enjoying my respite. I hope to find a part-time job from home soon, while working on building my own business. I've worked in hospitals since 1992 and am done.
I’m leaving also and becoming a nurse coach. Been a RN for 25 years. We need to challenge people to have more personal responsibility about their health and I want to help people get there.
Nursing is a over saturated profession im tired of women my age in their 30s saying that it’s the best when we all know it isn’t . It’s too much responsibility and too much over worked and underpaid !
It almost seems at this point that we need to prepare to stay home and be sick and die. Hospitals are no longer safe for so many reasons.
I’ve been nursing going into my 34th year. I’ve progressively seen it become more and more laborious and more and more dangerous. I’d hoped that administrators would see how much they depend on us and our true value. But 2 yrs after the pandemic I’m seeing just the opposite. I saw nurses at Aspirus Health Care in Wisconsin STILL eating their own rather than supporting one another. I’m nearing the end of my career and with everything coming to a fever pitch, I fear nursing shortages will become more extreme (even greater than was predicted by WHO prior to 2020) and there won’t be anyone to care for me once I need it. Hospitals are asking for it with their strict budgets and bottom lines and colleagues stabbing newer nurses in the back before they truly understand their job. There’s not a shortage of nurses just bedside nurses. I work ICU and the sheer volume is creating a new standard of 3:1 ratios which will only cause death and detriment among the patients. The nursing staff will always be blamed when it in actuality is the fault falls squarely on administrative shoulders. People who barely understand what the floor is like commanding how the ship is run. Nurse managers have to stride between administrative and their nurses. Each one remembering their recent job as a nurse but having to cater to these people who have unrealistic expectations and wonder why people die. It’s not a mystery. You over work people and they leave…simple as that. Only they move to another huge hospital system trying to rake in profits only to find themselves in the same situation they left. I tried years ago to find a new profession but couldn’t afford to stop work so I could re-educate. I even tried a degree as a nurse practitioner. It’s low pay high work and thankless. So I came back to ICU where I make a little more money…yet less than I made in 2008. So yes nurses can’t always get ahead and they burn out. It’s a sad sick story but it’s repeated every in this country and new nurses are just not wise enough to see it…yet.
Nurses you are the heroes. You want to stand up for what is right. You want to honor your oath, First do No Harm. Thank you. Wish more doctors would stand up.
They can be the heroes if they want. Same with doctors. Same with media. Same with lawyers. Everyone. But it seems many are just routinely following orders and instructions having lost the ability to question anything in life. Then it gets to the point where saying anything at all that questions the narrative is condemned. Livelihoods, legal repercussions, good societal standing are placed at the expense of human lives without a second thought. What is perhaps the most difficult is admitting to oneself that just maybe something is wrong..maybe something is off.. maybe we were mistaken and mislead. That's the worst part. Nobody likes to sit with remorse or guilt especially when thinking it was meant to be good for everyone. We hang onto pre-conceived beliefs until the very end, clinging onto every tiny little word that strengthens that belief system even more. Absolutely anything to avoid confronting the self belief system programmed over generations.
Sad to witness this in real time
@@vallivergano239 I left bedside nursing after 20 years. I worked in Pediatric ICU, Med/Surg, Oncology, Float, Travel, PCU/ICU just trying to find the "right" place to do the job I wanted to do. I've gotten written up for making a protein chocolate ice cream shake for a teenager that didn't like the taste of the hospital food and they were just trying to get calories and protein in him. I got wrote up for not asking the kitchen to open at 3am because a patient wanted to order and have her breakfast at that time of the night. I've gotten written up for not providing a patient (that should have gone home from day surgery) Fentanyl, but what they didn't take into consideration was my charting that she was desaturating, needed to be placed on oxygen during the night because she was so borked out from the anesthesia, pain medications I was giving her along with the sleeping pill she just had to have. Nursing isn't about quality or SAFE patient care anymore, it's about how much money can the CEO take home every year, how much money the managers get as bonuses.
Doctors are drug dealers with a degree.
@@anastasiawolfeheart468 gotta love how those patient satisfaction scores dictate patient treatment.
Yeah right! Nurses worries about losing their license. No matter what they witness, they keep shut and mind their business..
ER nurse for 17 months, and ive averaged being assaulted once a month. People are sicker, in larger numbers, and rude.
Looking at going back to school to elevate myself out of bedside nursing. Done with being beaten by patients and used by admin.
The main issue for me is hospitals have become about business and profit and less about patient care. If I hear one more time we have to do more with less I'm going to pull my hair out. My saving grace is I'm 18 months or less away from retirement. I dont know if would recommend a career in medicine to anyone anymore unless you don't mind being physically and mentally exhausted all the time everyday.
@Happy Dog I have been in surgery since 1987. The push for faster case starts. They think if we can push the people hard enough maybe each room can fit one more case and make money for the hospital. I moved to night shift in 2005 as charge so I am out of most of the fray but it still makes it down my way. I just purchased my retirement home with what money I had inherited so at least I will not have a mortgage. I'm 58 but plan to be out no later than 60. 59 1/2 if I can swing it. I am moving from Cali to PA near my family and will probably work part time to cover health benefits.
@Happy Dog that's great. I am also a veteran but only did 4 years in the Air Force. Thank you for your service.
I left in 2016 after 30 years... it's very sad that nurses can be so toxic towards each other... my son who just started nursing last year and loves his job I pray that he lasts...
When you have a medical system that cares more about profits and political agendas than they do about people, then expect that system to collapse under it's own weight.
The worst thing about nursing is how people keep wanting to gaslight you into believing that it's "not about money, a good nurse should love her job". But it IS about the f*** money. What the hell man, how am I supposed to pay my ever growing rent? With the love of my patients? Also, with a job that takes so long to get a valuable degree in, I might as well want to belong to a group that can pay for vacation in summer without having to work full time, all shifts on all days of the year. Gosh I am so happy to have left this job. I am now attending medical school and basically within a decade I will probably work at the same spot again, only then I will earn double the money, if not more.
When I graduated nursing school in 2003, the instructors literally told us that when we were applying for jobs we should not ask what we would be paid because we were just supposed to love being a nurse so much that the money doesn’t matter. As a single mom I found that advise to be impractical.
see thats all you care about. the money is your priority, thats why healthcare in the US is shit. the wrong type of people entered the field.
Dental assisting is also a horrible profession. I understand it requires less academic preparation than nursing but DAs are also overworked and very much underpaid. Doctors and managers really abuse their power and play psychological games to try and squeeze the most out of their employees.
We need need more home care nurses.
They can’t treat us if we’re not sick, y’all. They keep us sick. Not nurses, DOCTORS. Recommending carcinogenic diets and poisonous drugs instead of cleaning up the gut flora. NURSES have my upmost respect. They are patient advocates.
I am a home health nurse and since COVID started, I noticed that the poor and elderly patients are being neglected by the healthcare field. Paramedics trying to talk poor elderly patients out of going to the hospital. Even after being evaluated by the nurse and getting orders from mds. Literally went ahead to head with a paramedic about a patient that lived in a house that was more like a shed and had classic signs and symptoms of being septic. The paramedic was bullying my patient telling him "didn't I just take you to the ER 2 days ago? Who says you need to go to the ER?" My poor patient responded " well my nurse said I need to go" the paramedic then turned to me with disgust and I told him Dr so and so gave orders. Then the paramedic then said " well syou will be waiting there for a long time" after they loaded my patient up. I pulled him to the side and let him know it isn't his place to try to talk my patient out of seeking the care he needed. The patient was transfered to another hospital with sepsis and passed away a couple of days after that. Broke my freaking heart. I have so many stories like this I could tell. And to be honest was really debating leaving the healthcare field because it has gone to crap. It's not about caring for people anymore. No matter who they are or how much money they have. Basically the poor and elderly are pushed to the side. It's a shame and once my youngest son (16) graduates and goes to college or whatever he wants to do, I will definitely walk away from a career I once loved. 😢
Thank you for caring, we need more people like
I respect paramedics. But..... and I say BUT, they can become jaded and know-it-alls at times. You have to be cautious and when in doubt, send them out.
Geesh these comments have me seriously rethinking starting nursing school...
LOL
Honestly, don't do it, do something out of healthcare!!!!!
❣💯💯Just subscribed to this much-needed platform for healthcare professionals. My college roommate was a nurse and the program is very hard to get that credential. As an allied helping professional, I know "burn out" is extensive after about 8 years. Keep telling your story, nurses of the year. Many blessings!
I left bedside nursing to be nurse practitioner over a decade ago. Now I deliver my knowledge of 24 years into people's homes. I take my time and there is no rush. It is a win-win. Healthcare is changing.
I would avoid a hospital at all costs. I love my small town doctor who does few Pharma products.
Nurse Practitioner here. A huge number of patients don’t take care of their own health. Obesity, Diabetes, and hypertension are overwhelming. Then they think we’re going to fix them in a few days.
Preach. People choose to eat junk, do drugs, drink poison, have kids and animals that they neglect, and now they show up a mess and expect us to solve all their problems?
Back whenI was in nursing school, I had a nursing instructor screaming at me beacause she said my hair style scared the patients. I should of left then.
I've been done with hospital nursing.
I quit bedside nursing in 2016. I worked mainly in SICU. The last few years I was in management at a nursing home. It was all about money, how much could we pile on the nurses and CNAs. I was told I care too much, literally. I miss my sweet residents, seeing their smiling faces every morning. Im sure many of them are no longer here sadly.
When I left I didnt work for awhile and then went back to school for ARNP. Completed the program but have not taken the test.
I could barely do it. Made a switch to studying herbalism which is healing for myself and eventually others!
I’m burn out and I dread going to work 😢 I fight to get through each shift and I bury everything inside me. I never show my patients my pain and suffering 😢
Sis, I'm so sorry. Instead of burying everything inside of you, have you sought emotional support? For example, sites like Therapy for Black Girls and Black Female Therapists. You may be able to find someone who resonates with you, and can support you through your journey.
So sorry!
20 years as a nurse, I’m now a gardener , better pay, better quality of life , and appreciated more , weird
A few years ago a family member of mine used to complain about the bed side manner of the medical field. This was before 2020. I told her that it's makes sense that their is a complaint. Because when you're young if you're smart, ambitious, or want to make a decently salary people encourage you to go in to the medical field. They say stuff like, you're going to make good money, or you'll always be secured a job. People don't seek out, good, kind, caring, healing, philanthropic youth and tell them to go into the medical field because of their personality or their ability to heal or care for things. So in turn you have lots of people in medical just for money, or a secure career, or the title.
as a medical student, I can attest to this!!! I get shell-shocked when I meet compassionate residents/attendings and it shouldn't be that way.
I am a nurse aide that left my profession of 23yrs to work in a casino. I am paid better treated better and have better benefits
I left the bedside 7 years ago. I knew I had to be outta there by 40 and I did it. I miss it sometimes, but I know they don’t treat us right.
Nursing was wonderful in the 70s and 80s. I stayed at the bedside (critical care) for 40 years. It was so much better before computers and electronic medical records and before hospitals became for profit businesses. So happy to be retired.
I'm a hospital nurse and the hospital now is trash I left years ago and now I own my own pet store. Nursing especially hospital nursing is abusive as hell. Something happens the first person they're looking at is the nurse and start placing ALL the burden on the nurse its disgusting
I'm a student nurse, and i don't know wtf I got myself into in a year i maybe graduating, idk if it's too late to get out or not but I'm here already, surprised that i got this far, maybe I'll just try my best out there in the field.
Thing is my country has worse abuse for nurses than western countries i don't know if I'll survive it.
Try it out. You can also have it well if you are at a good hospital.
If you’re facing burnout, try working in a clinic or doctors office. Working in the hospital is mentally draining. Try travel nursing, it gives you flexibility and you’ll be better compensated. It’s all about maintaining a healthy work life balance. If you’re struggling, don’t be afraid to reach out for help. Nursing is a really fulfilling and wonderful profession. Do it for the right reasons please. ❤
If the jab wasn't forced .
@@denisetorres707 Yes!
@@denisetorres707 if you don’t believe in Science you DEFINITELY shouldn’t be a nurse, or anywhere near healthcare
@@denisetorres707 toxic clot shot that would kill me in 24 hours since my natural immunity from severe covAIDS in march 2020 working urgent care and getting no care when I went down, because I refused the vent? Precisely. My antibodies are still >13000......even if they were 0....NOT right, and this too is part of the plan[demic].
@@inshallamiami if you don't understand the basic right to refuse medical treatment, then you don't need to try to come at healthcare workers sideways
Count me in. I resigned after 8 years of working in a chronic hemodialysis unit in New Jersey. I'm burnt out.
ive been working in a chronic dialysis center in the bronx (my first nursing job btw) for a year and already feel burnt out.
@@melanielopez8346 i agree.. long hours, no enough staff.... i cant blame you
@@Czech801 I work on a dialysis medsurg unit in NY and im at my one year and I’m throwing in the towel. It’s too much stress. The patients are extremely sick and they expect you to care for 7-8 of them.
@@kraziikiim i can't blaim you. No enough staff, micro management, etc etc the reason why nurses come and go
Acute Dialysis here-work minimum 12 hours-but still on call for 24 hours-put in many 24 hour days no break-quit in 2021 now just travel and in my contract NO 24 hour days!
I was just, rather rudely, rejected for a such a job. Thanx for the confirmation- I don't feel so bad, now.
So much truth here…I had to leave a few years ago…there’s just not enough time to give the patients what they need and deserve!
…or any value for the huge costs they pay.
We just started 12 hour shifts for med surgery right at the start of the pandemic. I'm 60 years old and have worked as a hospital nurse for over 35 years and I'm telling you 12 hours is too ling for med surgery nursing. The young people like it because it gives them 4 or more days off in a row but they are zombies a lot of the time. They complain of being tired and burnt out on the days they work..sometimes they have to work 4 12 hours in a row...its too much. The old lady has more energy than the young ones at times..I only work 2 days a week...12 hours is nice for that but anything more is too much...they just dont get enough sleep and their responsible for 5 patients...its just too much.
Nurse here, I’ll never work a hospital again
My burnout started before Covid. That and a rotator-cuff tear convinced me to leave bedside nursing in 2017. I now work at an outpatient clinic where the pressure has eased immensely. I could really relate to the nurse in this video who said it becomes about just keeping your patients alive. I just couldn't take that kind of anxiety anymore.
The road to universal healthcare in the states is starting to take shape.