I never forget after having the most STRESSFUL morning and the Nurse Manager had the nerve to tell me she notice I only updated 3 of my patients White Board in their room. The other board needs to get done. I Choose PEACE ☮️ and not War, because I was this 👌🏾close to cuss her out! I chose to not answer her! I walked away…AS a true Jamaican Blood 🇯🇲..I have multiple jobs for this very reason. I’m not dealing with management that doesn’t help & picks on minor things. I resigned immediately at the end of the shift. They begged me to stay or to at least consider to go to per-diem. I said “Absolutely NOT interested! I hope you can start helping with minor things especially when you see your staff working short and overworked! Good Day!” I walked away Smiling from ear to ear 😊. My peace of mind is priceless ❤
Same here, manager was leading some suits around showing off the new boards. I'm in my 3rd week with 7 patients, she interrupts me IN THE MIDDLE OF PREPPING AN IV MED to update my white board. I also chose peace in that moment. The look on her face...
Unfortunately this will be a continual problem due to nurses (RN) leaving the bedside. Older nurses are retiring. Nursing Schools should address this issue for new nurses entering the profession. I have known nurses that have left the bedside, never to return because it is a thankless profession. I left, I came back. I am glad I will retire 2025. I wish all nurses, new and old to the profession, the best.
I love my job,I love being an ER nurse but the gas lighting is legitimately unreal. It got to the point when my manager (who was an old ER nurse) told me," you have it easy,we used to ALWAYS take 5 patients and they would be in the lobby and hallways 24/7." I said to her "Wow that sounds unsafe and inefficient, I am glad I am too invested in myself and my license to work in an environment that unsafe."
The older nurses would always try to invalidate my feelings by telling me how much worse it was but people weren’t as sickly, they were not as litigious, and there was not as much documentation required.
Kendra, I agree with you 1000% percent regarding time management in Healthcare. Time management is only effective in a work environment where tasks are repetitive and emergencies are very very far and few in-between. What ever idiot came up with time management in Healthcare setting has obviously never worked at the bedside or they just don't care and again, trying to gaslight in order to point the finger away from incompetent upper management.
I just completed clinicals for an RN re-entry program in the ICU and had to report my clinical instructor- she was unbelievable. Not only did she continually gaslight and criticize, she also put her patients in danger by having to be “right” when she was absolutely wrong. Her mission was to prove herself smarter than me, even to the detriment of her patients. She had far less experience than me and let her ego get in the way of any suggestion I made. It was a nightmare.
Nursing schools do not talk about gaslighting in the hospital or the toxic environment in which they fester because too many nursing schools actually introduce you to the toxicity. I’ve always wanted to work in the healthcare field. When I finally got into nursing School, I was so elated and grateful and honored. During my time there, it may have been one of the toughest mental health situations that I had encountered to date. We have a nursing shortage for a plethora of reasons, but please know that most students truly want to help care for others. I understand that this is a weeding-out process; however, the classroom is not the place to belittle or trauma dump on other individuals. Please teach how to care for patients as if it were you or someone you loved deeply if life should have you to trade places with that patient. Thank you so much for this video 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Yes, the gaslighting is real! I always say a nurse is given 12 hours of work to accomplish in an 8 hour period. Then you will hear you didn't do a small task! Lots of this is about money, insurance companies and top CEO's control staffing levels. I appreciate you speaking about this, as a nurse cannot control when a patient will have an event.
My attitude towards that kind of gaslighting when I was a critical care nurse was to ignore it. I didn’t care if my evaluation was poor due to not adequately maintaining unrealistic expectations…I didn’t care if I didn’t get the full “pay increase” (which is ridiculously low anyways) -I knew it was rigged and figured that I could always pick up extra shifts. I just focused on PATIENT CARE and let the rest go if I had to, but did the best I could to complete everything. The one time a supervisor questioned my staying late to document was the LAST time I was questioned due to my unfiltered reply.
They will always give subpar evals in an unworkable scheme so they don't have to pay bonuses or give pay raises. That goes to the CNO, CEO And CFO that keep it all in place.
@@catherinehazur7336 When they asked me to take a rapid response position they offered it with a pay cut… when I complained they came back with a raise of .01 cents. I took the position, and later was recruited to the House Supervisor position…a week after accepting the position, they announced the House Supervisors would now be considered “salaried positions”, and any hours over 36 hours would simply not be paid. We worked 12 hour night shifts, weekends, and holidays, and although we still received shift diffs, our paychecks were cut off at 36 hours. I couldn’t believe they could get away with this. We were clocking in and out and were obviously shift workers. Also, any required education (clocking in for classes, etc.) was paid from taking from our PTO bank (like we wouldn’t notice). We complained and no one listened. I went part time for a while and then quit.
This is why I CANNOT with bed side nursing no more. The ABUSE and GASLIGHTING are TOO MUCH. No thanks, this profession got me questioning my whole life. At one point I considered quitting and working in a grocery store for a peace of mind because woooo child, we are SUFFERING. Outpatient has been a saving grace.
Actually let’s talk about when the state survey time comes and all of a sudden there’s enough staff, supplies and resources. And all the other departments are doing their job so we are able to do ours!
You hit a very important point. When it’s time for survey, everything just magically appears to be great. We become overstaffed, the floors are cleaner, etc. This is how we know it’s a game they are playing. Thank you for making this point.
Omg, this is my job right now. Went from 6 patients 1 primary to 6 patients 3 primaries. Why am I having to be the care partner/tech and the nurse. Then your constantly telling me what I'm doing wrong on top of that! You literally described my department. It's criminal the kind of pressure these hospitals are putting us under. First year as a nurse and I hate my job. Looking for a new hospital and I'm praying God gives me the strength to endure for the next 3 years while I get my PMHNP 🙏🏾
I found out the hard way all hospitals are the same. I decided to go for a masters in nurse education to get away from the bedside. I also decided to stay in the hell hole I'm in instead of leaving just because I know this hell and didn't want to try to learn a new one while in school.
Ong 😢😂😂, I'm a recent RN and I'm just now discovering how real all this is... It's a constant mental struggle with me giving myself pep talks and praying to feel okay... Definitely not loving bedside nursing with the way the system currently is @@paulasage3611
And it’s often the patients that don’t need as much medically are alert and oriented that are able to talk to management and say “hey ya it’s been more than an hour since the nurse rounded on me” when management does “leader rounding” which is sitting and talking to patients a bout their care instead of rolling up their sleeves and helping!
I’m a nurse in a subacute rehab facility. We get gaslit and treated like we’re not real nurses but I’m the bedside nurse for 16 patients who are hurt/sick with all kinds of issues to try to manage. Chronically short staffed, while pushing for those satisfaction surveys from patients.
The gaslighting has made me change my career. I'm a CNA and full-time student the way we are worked short, staffing, and not caring about your feelings or thoughts. I just notified them of my 2 weeks' notice, but that's if I make it they don't care they only care about the bottom line.
I remember in my last post, just when you start doing PICC medications, the patient asks for a commode and maybe they will take 1hour in and out of it because bowel movements are just resuming post surgery. At this point, there’s literally nothing you can do and it’s so beyond you.
Kendra you are so funny! The camera calling you out 😂 I’m not a healthcare worker by a long stretch but how can you manage unpredictability? These people are wicked! Humans are not robots and there is no instruction manual nor guarantee that a person is going to respond well to something or that external things won’t happen! Do we tell the government or farmers even to have time management when it comes to the weather? Kmt! People are ridiculous and they are playing with peoples lives, including healthcare workers and their families!
Time management fights happen in the classroom, beep beep beep of the intercom calling for a student, a teacher came in looking for so and so, a drill of some sort, we had a lock down drill i had 4 4 of the roughest, toughest 7th graders of the entire grade all together LOCKED DOWN FOR 1 HOUR 45 MINUTES these kids shouldnt have even been in the same class together (why and how that occurred is another story for another day) we were brought out of lockdown when the principal and cop passed by each classroom and released us. They came in and commented on "how loud our room was." The principal herself being present wasnt even enough to tame these four. They WERE EVEN LOUDER AND ROWDIER!!! She was so embarrassed. The sight of the cop in full uniform brandishing a firearm on his hip wasn't even enough!!! It mad him livid. He said he would toss them out for the gunman to shoot and spare the rest of us in a real event it pissed him off so bad yet they were trying to say that it was I who was incompetent and didn't know "proper lockdown procedure" before seeing those 4 in action. I was like yeah, id like to see how you would have handled these 4 for an hour and 45 minutes straight and lived to tell about it. What you talk about Kendra is so real in both professions.
Don't talk 2 me about time management.🤷🏿♂️ It doesn't exist, esp 4 nurses on day shift. Too many factors come n2 play when providing care. Let's not talk about family & loved 1s worried about the wrong things, or administration walking thru critiquing things that r irrelevant n the moment. How about Dr's putting n random new orders & discontinuing orders while ur busy with pts? Did I mention PT/OT taking ur pt without u knowing ur pt is gone? Oh, but now I have that pt that has 2 go 2 CT & MRI accompanied by the nurse. @ night, we have 2 transport them bc there is no transport after 11pm sometimes. I'm done when I get done. If u leave me a laundry list of things u couldn't do during the day, I take over & continue the care. That is what 24hr care looks like. I walk n2 madness & admissions @ night with no report from the ED. All I know is I have a pt coming n2 a room & transport is asking who the nurse is. I have no feeling on time management that doesn't exist.
Time management is a scam. This struck a nerve! They used to say “stop being so task oriented!” Well, quit continuously adding on extra freaking tasks to my job! Everyone is wondering why they are losing their ER nurses are going to urgent care. 🤔
Give us the part 2 please before you ghost us again (for good of course!). I love your chats sooo much, even though I have my RN now I needed your perspective and thoughts when I became a LPN in 2014. I had such a difficult time entering nursing and experiencing the unrealistic expectations and feeling incompetent. You are truly invaluable and thank you for what you do.
When they tell you “well maybe YOU….” Need to make changes in your schedule I think you should request they work along side you or along side other nurses during they day. Not just watch, but actually do the work themselves. But they won’t because that’s below their pay grade.
Kendra -- you are correct. What you discussed in this video is also applicable to other career fields as I can attest to. I pray your last semester of PA school will be fruitful and abundant for you. You're going to make a priceless physician's assistant. May the Holy Spirit keep you covered while doing his work. God Bless You.
You are a superhero! I tried finding you on social media couldn’t find you! So excited for you as a new NP.. if I was you to make the hospital pay is urgent care you don’t need ACNP anymore..you have your emergency medicine experience and less work! Praying you find the perfect place for you as a NP 👩🏾⚕️ 🙏🏿❤️
Wtf? Time management as a nurse??? Theres no time in between lol! Its a boom boom boom job! This is why im a home health nurse. We may not even get a break or lunch for that matter. We are working through our lunch! Fyi you are doing great dont let anyone bring you down.
Yes as far as time management when I worked at the hospital on med-surg. My shift was scheduled for 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. I would get into the break room to clock in anywhere between 6:50 to 6:55 a.m, my manager will it be in the hallway watching the break room door. She would then later tell me that I was late, and that I need to get there at least 15 minutes before my shift because I'm new and need time to look up my patients. Legally we could not log into epic until we were punched in, and we were not allowed to punch in early even if we were working. Make it make sense.
I just left an assignment where one nurse told me she worked 105 hours on her two week check. I’m a scrub so I know she wasn’t lying bc I was working like crazy. I didn’t resign bc I don’t wanna work like that anymore. I enjoy family time. Those 13 weeks I dreaded. I should’ve have left when they did not honor my contract. The contract that they signed
You are so right. They nitpick RNs for stupid unimportant details like white boards, this box not being clicked, you didn’t have the patient sign the fall or valuables contract, you didn’t initial the board on your hourly round and the list is never ending, they keep adding stupid little tasks! And the nitpicking has gotten worse. And they focus on stupid nitpicky details and every week there’s some new nitpicky change that they focus on. They focus on small unimportant details more than real problems like dangerous situations like you describe, or short staffing causing delays in noticing changes in patient condition or intervening and preventing patients from declining, or patients sitting in poop or urine for hours because staffing is not enough for the acuity and needs of patients! If those in management/auditting would manage their time better, they would use their time to roll up their sleeves and help on the floor instead of asking you why your white board is not updated!
And I only say something because the patients suffer when the focus becomes all these nitpicky details and excessive charting which interfere with and delay quality and safe patient care .
In addition to all this we are expected to second guess the doctors to make sure that they dont prescribe any med or treatment that would go counter to the patient's best health outcome. Because, worse case scenario, should the patient wind up getting injured by whatever the doctor prescribed, blame can be shifted to the nurse for administering it. And... Voila!!......The doctor is off the hook. Is this one more function that nurses serve?
time management, haha... glad I left bedside nursing , step down, after two years in level 1 trauma center in a major city! I loved my job, it but it was a scam :)
Tell it, girl! Time management is such a joke. I work on the obs unit. We have admits and discharges all day and all night. And we get the BH patients who aren't medically stable enough to go to the BH unit. It is a constant struggle just to get even 5 minutes of documentation done every hour. Then my manager comes to me and tells me I probably wouldn't be running so much if I were better at managing my time. All the while, he be sitting in his office catching up on his modules. Time management...NO such thing. 😅
I knew the culture was toxic when in my first week as an orientee a nurse asked me to train a student (my first day), my preceptor was furious at me for delaying a test (and averting disaster) because the patient was incoherent (glucose was 48), a doctor prescribed pain meds and then yelled at me for giving them, another nurse took offense to my expressing concern about her patient's mental status (??how was I supposed to know he actually had bees in his room??), and yet another insulted me for asking which needle I should use for a medication I had never given. This was only a continuation of what I experience in school. A number of good students who would have made excellent nurses quit because they couldn't handle all of the eat-your-young attitude. And then the gaslighting commenced....
Ha! For every hands-on nurse, there are three supervisors to discuss the mistakes. The manager, pt liaison officer, educator ... name the titles, all who touch not a pt. They make them rules for 'those' nurses and then monitor. New rule: Do not put a draw sheet under a patient, they cause bedsores. Chaks will do.
This is coming from higher up . This is every where . They want people to work 9 jobs to make up for all the pay they have to give to employees. There is alot narcissism going on in job now and day
I love ro see you back and love, love, love your clarity, no nonsense approach and constructive ways. Praying for you to have rest and ease while having three jobs and a family to raise. Sending my love ❤
I think Kendra is amazing with all the things she is juggling like being a mom, working and school full time, blogging, etc. I hope she can slow down some time soon.
I worked as a CNA on med/surg & the ratios and grid was always off. The acuity of the pts was ridiculous. I constantly complained but always told the grid is correct. Me and the manager left the same day😮 THEN boom new manager and now the ratios are better and pt acuity are appropriate for that floor. We always had rapids on that floor 😢
Kendra!!! That whiteboard not being completed is what causes our patients to go into crisis and die, that there is the root cause of everything. (At least that's what I was told.) If you believe that I've got a bridge in Brooklyn, I'd love to sell. By the way, congratulations on being close to graduating NP school. I'm rooting for you from Spokane! 🎉
And don’t forget to update the white board for patients who are visuallly impaired. And especially make sure to write it in English even though the patient doesn’t speak English.
Love this video. So true! Workload on our unit is always heavy, hospital administration keeps adding more tasks to the overloaded nurses. The latest one a scanner that looks like a supermarket scanner that can predict risk of pressure ulcer on heels and butts 5 days before they happen. And of course they want us to supermarket scan every patients butt and heels every day😡. And not just the bed bound patients. So let me get this straight, we don’t have time to turn patients and change incontinence as often as we should & you’re adding another task that takes us away from patient care. We can look at a person and think hey she can’t move maybe we should turn her and float her heels. We don’t need a scanner And scanning someone’s butt is kind of humiliating. We are trying to fight it from bring implemented but administration says they want to listen to us but something like this they’ve probably already bought and will decide that it’s helping and come and tell us they don’t see the Butt scan documented. Let’s just pray that it doesn’t catch on nationwide!
Hey Kendra good day. How do you be bold about choosing your self and career and even leaving a facility to another to pursue what you want? I have a question and concern. I’m considering going to CRNA school so I applied for a nurse externship position for CVU/ICU in the hospital where I work as a pct. I was offered a geriatric floor instead and majority of my classmates got where they wanted. Except me and one other girl that work there already. I feel like we’re not being considered or taken seriously anymore because we already work there and have a scholarship contract to work there as do some others(only they don’t work as nurse aids). I feel like if I keep settling for their there’s no other availability, there’s nothing we can do I’ll be dimming my dreams and doing what I don’t want.
IT IS NOT ALL ON THE NURSES OR TEACHERS WHEN TEACHERS CALL OUT AND SUBS DON'T SHOW UP. They already know about the shortages and it isn't coincidental nothing is accidental cleary its by design i guess AI is going to take over both fields
I am not the problem is the mindset that we need to have because sometimes you wonder if you did something to deserve it. I refuse to be bullied and I prioritize myself because who is gonna take care of me if not ME?
Yes i was gaslighted in the ER soooo far as to the facility blaming and incident plus another on me and then they lied to the state board of nursing. I had to work a year under probation...smh
I was a CNA for four years, the nurses were mostly rude and disrespectful to good aides but nice to aides who slept with residents. And after an aide was caught sleeping with a resident, she was still working there! The nurse was scared to look at her aide in bed with her resident. Everywhere you work is short staffed but then your hear that management isn’t hiring lol😂
I love your channel and thank you for your boldness and courage. I love heal care but haven't the nerve and stomach for it. In the education field. They go so hand in hand. This gaslighting exists there. I hope you don't say girl shut up get off my page and go to a teaching page. They are soo so similar. Admin will tell a teacher you aren't managing time when you have 7 classes of 37 or 38 kids plus and 1 you. 20 minutes to eat and haven't used to RR. It's just not right. Thanks again for your fearlessness & channel.
I would never say or think that. Apparently nursing and teaching share similarities. One of good friends is a teacher and I did not realize how much you all get the blame for things that are out of your control.
In a sutuation as described, is there a form that nurses can use to document unsafe situations? If there are missed breaks, can that time be goven back? I agree, the gaslighting with time mngt seems to be the bullet point to pass blame to bedside nurses.
We have an objection to asssignment form that we fill out on days that we are short staffed or have a bad assignment . We notify supervisor that we are going to fill it out as soon as Situation is bad and then keep one copy and one copy goes to the union. It’s supposed to help protect your license.
I truly hate the way they weaponize "time management" against nurses...especially with new nurses. I really thought the issue was with ME as the nurse not being able to handle the assignment, but as I gained experience I realized it's really not about time management at ALL. It's just another way to pin the blame of a broken system onto the nurses. Go figure
If you have time to complain to a nurse when he/she is busting their ass, you have time to help lol. Pick up the pen and update the whiteboard for me then. Be helpful before you sit there and complain to me…
Exactly! That work ethic existed years ago in hospitals that I’ve worked at. Our assistant head nurse would take an assignment on the floor if we were short.
What I dislike about it mostly is how NASTY these professionals can be when it comes to caring for individuals that trust them to properly care for them.
Do you think patients are all kind and trusting? Violent evil people get sick all the time and being sick doesn't automatically make anyone a saint or that others should put up with their bs. Nurses deal with violence, kicking, spitting, verbal abuse, sexual harassment at work often. And we get compared to cops when we don't have weapons and get fired for self-defence.
So much has changed and it will continue to change for the worse! The new nurses can’t handle it because they are not properly prepared for the floor or what to expect once they are done with school. The old heads like myself are trying to find less stressful jobs where we do get a lunch and bathroom break..even if that means less money! Do hospitals even still have CNAs or techs??? They can make more at Target or Starbucks…why do that job for pennies unless of course they want to use some type of employer tuition assistance. I don’t even encourage people to go to nursing school…I know it’s wrong but it’s not glorious most of the time and it’s a thankless job! So much I could say but I will end it now 🫤
You’ve said everything most seasoned bedside nurses are saying. They’re all over it. It’s become a job that is even causing people to be mentally and physically unwell.
@@KendraRN yes heavy on that mental and physical wellness! We out here pouring from empty cups! It needs to stop!!! Mostly ALL benefited jobs offer STD/LTD! It’s time nurses start going out on leave for mental anguish and get paid with STD or take an unpaid leave for maybe 30 days or save up $$ if possible and take an unpaid sabbatical like I did for 6 months just to heal and reflect and rest!! It’s wild out here…
Yup! I’ve been off for 3 months and making plans to not have to return. I’m a worthy of being safe, happy, and respected. Most importantly I am not sacrificing my health mental, physical, emotional for a check. They can’t pay me enough for me to self destruct. I love being a nurse but I am finding a better way.
@@fuzzyspirals I love that!!!! People better take their health seriously in this profession! And the patients better too because there won’t be nurses to care for them in the future at the capacity that is happening now!
It sound crazy but I was off for a year in 2020 with Cancer and once o started seeing that the chemo and radiation were working, I was much less stressed getting chemotherapy and losing my hair than working full time on a med/surg unit! Thanking God for no more Cancer. But it just shows how stressful nursing is, even my photos after Cancer treat my ent before I went back to work look less stressed and healthier!
Kendra, why aren't you using your platform for solutions? This is all happening because of nurses. Nurses are to blame for allowing administrators and companies to practice this way. We nurses out number them. Instead of complaining, gossiping, scrolling on social media, and keeping heads down, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. If you haven't left to a better and safer work environment or if you aren't active in collective bargaining, aka unionizing with a nurse-based organization, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. There are plenty of hospitals across the nation where nurses and residents are unionizing successfully. Kendra, you shld be using your platform to solutions based content. Stop this whiny nonsense, we already know what's going on and nurses are to blame for playing themselves, knowingly putting their license that they worked so hard for at risk and most importantly, putting patients at risk because they feel there is nothing to be done. Tell them to contact NNU, 1199, SEIU and more. Stop this pitty party and unite! If not, stop talkin' and bear it till you break and/or become numb. The public should actually be suing nurses for allowing their license to be compromised and putting their health and safety at risk.
There are plenty of other nurses doing the content you are speaking of on a variety of platforms. No one will dictate what I chose to talk about on my channel. Am I on here claiming to know solutions as it pertains to unions, collective bargaining, etc? I am not, because I am not well versed to speak on it. You seem to have a very good understanding, so why don’t you step in and fill that gap?
@KendraRN No one is saying to be an expert, but to advance and motivate the RN community to unite and stand up to corporate. Information is easily accessible to the public. Instead of talking about what we already know is wrong. What is you answer to the problems you present? This is simply a b**ch fest. And frankly I'm over nurses complaining and not doing anything to change it. That's why nurses ARE at fault. Underestimating their power and deflecting their frustration to their fellow nurses. I am doing the work where I am, and there are many who want to take a back seat. Be mad at me all you want, but I'm not the problem. I've been thinking about going on my own platform...probably in time I will go through.
@@susiq1121Again, you are very capable of doing what you think should be done, do so! You’re in the comments doing a “b*tchfest” by telling me what you think I should do. If you’re doing the work, share with us. Each one teach one right. As I’ve said, there are a lot of nurses doing exactly what it is you speak of, engage with their content and do the work.
This is no b*# ch fest, just calling a spade a spade. The topic isn't making change to the work environment. We're already in networks to get the hospital active....if you're really open in understanding the process, I definitely can share. But only to those who are willing to be active to change.
Susiq must be in management… lol…. One can still vent but that doesn’t mean a call to action for change must ensue. Sometimes it can be cathartic to release thoughts and opinions on social media… what if every time you went to see a therapist they told you to stop whining and do something about it… I wonder if susiq spends their time trying to solve world hunger, war and how to bring about peace to human kind.. maybe even a cure for cancer… better get a jump start on figuring that out Susiq rather than just sit around.
Despite all the work and mental stress, they still make the nurses feels like the are not doing enough.
So true!
They need to teach this during the ethics lecture, it’s always us needing to be ethical and not the system
Exactly!
I never forget after having the most STRESSFUL morning and the Nurse Manager had the nerve to tell me she notice I only updated 3 of my patients White Board in their room. The other board needs to get done. I Choose PEACE ☮️ and not War, because I was this 👌🏾close to cuss her out! I chose to not answer her! I walked away…AS a true Jamaican Blood 🇯🇲..I have multiple jobs for this very reason. I’m not dealing with management that doesn’t help & picks on minor things. I resigned immediately at the end of the shift. They begged me to stay or to at least consider to go to per-diem. I said “Absolutely NOT interested! I hope you can start helping with minor things especially when you see your staff working short and overworked! Good Day!”
I walked away Smiling from ear to ear 😊. My peace of mind is priceless ❤
Same here, manager was leading some suits around showing off the new boards. I'm in my 3rd week with 7 patients, she interrupts me IN THE MIDDLE OF PREPPING AN IV MED to update my white board. I also chose peace in that moment. The look on her face...
Well said!
There is no time management witth sick people. It's a scam
Unfortunately this will be a continual problem due to nurses (RN) leaving the bedside. Older nurses are retiring. Nursing Schools should address this issue for new nurses entering the profession. I have known nurses that have left the bedside, never to return because it is a thankless profession. I left, I came back. I am glad I will retire 2025. I wish all nurses, new and old to the profession, the best.
The white boards killed me when I was a bedside RN. I have priorities and the white board is NOT one of them LOL
I love my job,I love being an ER nurse but the gas lighting is legitimately unreal. It got to the point when my manager (who was an old ER nurse) told me," you have it easy,we used to ALWAYS take 5 patients and they would be in the lobby and hallways 24/7." I said to her "Wow that sounds unsafe and inefficient, I am glad I am too invested in myself and my license to work in an environment that unsafe."
Exactly that shit ain't cute 😂
BRAVO👏🏽🙌🏽💪🏽🙏🏽💫❤️
The older nurses would always try to invalidate my feelings by telling me how much worse it was but people weren’t as sickly, they were not as litigious, and there was not as much documentation required.
Excellent point.
Good for you standing up for yourself!
Honey it’s the gaslighting and the automatic lunch break deducted off our hours either way that really throws me
Kendra, I agree with you 1000% percent regarding time management in Healthcare. Time management is only effective in a work environment where tasks are repetitive and emergencies are very very far and few in-between. What ever idiot came up with time management in Healthcare setting has obviously never worked at the bedside or they just don't care and again, trying to gaslight in order to point the finger away from incompetent upper management.
The gaslight starts from some nursing schools especially during clinicals. 😢
This!
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I just completed clinicals for an RN re-entry program in the ICU and had to report my clinical instructor- she was unbelievable. Not only did she continually gaslight and criticize, she also put her patients in danger by having to be “right” when she was absolutely wrong. Her mission was to prove herself smarter than me, even to the detriment of her patients. She had far less experience than me and let her ego get in the way of any suggestion I made. It was a nightmare.
Nursing schools do not talk about gaslighting in the hospital or the toxic environment in which they fester because too many nursing schools actually introduce you to the toxicity.
I’ve always wanted to work in the healthcare field. When I finally got into nursing School, I was so elated and grateful and honored. During my time there, it may have been one of the toughest mental health situations that I had encountered to date. We have a nursing shortage for a plethora of reasons, but please know that most students truly want to help care for others. I understand that this is a weeding-out process; however, the classroom is not the place to belittle or trauma dump on other individuals. Please teach how to care for patients as if it were you or someone you loved deeply if life should have you to trade places with that patient. Thank you so much for this video 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Yes, the gaslighting is real! I always say a nurse is given 12 hours of work to accomplish in an 8 hour period. Then you will hear you didn't do a small task! Lots of this is about money, insurance companies and top CEO's control staffing levels. I appreciate you speaking about this, as a nurse cannot control when a patient will have an event.
My attitude towards that kind of gaslighting when I was a critical care nurse was to ignore it.
I didn’t care if my evaluation was poor due to not adequately maintaining unrealistic expectations…I didn’t care if I didn’t get the full “pay increase” (which is ridiculously low anyways) -I knew it was rigged and figured that I could always pick up extra shifts. I just focused on PATIENT CARE and let the rest go if I had to, but did the best I could to complete everything. The one time a supervisor questioned my staying late to document was the LAST time I was questioned due to my unfiltered reply.
I am the same way. I don’t read evals because I know it’s all a game. I focus on Patient Care always. Thank you for reaffirming me❤️
They will always give subpar evals in an unworkable scheme so they don't have to pay bonuses or give pay raises. That goes to the CNO, CEO And CFO that keep it all in place.
@@catherinehazur7336 When they asked me to take a rapid response position they offered it with a pay cut… when I complained they came back with a raise of .01 cents. I took the position, and later was recruited to the House Supervisor position…a week after accepting the position, they announced the House Supervisors would now be considered “salaried positions”, and any hours over 36 hours would simply not be paid. We worked 12 hour night shifts, weekends, and holidays, and although we still received shift diffs, our paychecks were cut off at 36 hours. I couldn’t believe they could get away with this. We were clocking in and out and were obviously shift workers. Also, any required education (clocking in for classes, etc.) was paid from taking from our PTO bank (like we wouldn’t notice). We complained and no one listened. I went part time for a while and then quit.
This is why I CANNOT with bed side nursing no more. The ABUSE and GASLIGHTING are TOO MUCH. No thanks, this profession got me questioning my whole life. At one point I considered quitting and working in a grocery store for a peace of mind because woooo child, we are SUFFERING. Outpatient has been a saving grace.
Actually let’s talk about when the state survey time comes and all of a sudden there’s enough staff, supplies and resources. And all the other departments are doing their job so we are able to do ours!
You hit a very important point. When it’s time for survey, everything just magically appears to be great. We become overstaffed, the floors are cleaner, etc. This is how we know it’s a game they are playing. Thank you for making this point.
And….. people came out of their offices to pass trays and feed patients! 🫢
RMA. Funny how that works. It's a Fascist game that the Hospital corporatocracy plays with the State and they think nobody sees.
Congrats on being in the last semester for NP. I have been a NP for 5 years and I love it.
Omg, this is my job right now. Went from 6 patients 1 primary to 6 patients 3 primaries. Why am I having to be the care partner/tech and the nurse. Then your constantly telling me what I'm doing wrong on top of that! You literally described my department. It's criminal the kind of pressure these hospitals are putting us under.
First year as a nurse and I hate my job. Looking for a new hospital and I'm praying God gives me the strength to endure for the next 3 years while I get my PMHNP 🙏🏾
I’m glad to hear you have a plan. Being at the bedside isn’t sustainable.
I found out the hard way all hospitals are the same. I decided to go for a masters in nurse education to get away from the bedside. I also decided to stay in the hell hole I'm in instead of leaving just because I know this hell and didn't want to try to learn a new one while in school.
Good luck in school!
Ong 😢😂😂, I'm a recent RN and I'm just now discovering how real all this is... It's a constant mental struggle with me giving myself pep talks and praying to feel okay... Definitely not loving bedside nursing with the way the system currently is @@paulasage3611
You always upload when I’m driving 😂. Now I gotta find a Walmart to park and watch this.
Ya you have all that going on meanwhile you get a complaint that you didn’t attend to someone who wanted a turkey sandwich
All the time!!!!
And it’s often the patients that don’t need as much medically are alert and oriented that are able to talk to management and say “hey ya it’s been more than an hour since the nurse rounded on me” when management does “leader rounding” which is sitting and talking to patients a bout their care instead of rolling up their sleeves and helping!
I’m a nurse in a subacute rehab facility. We get gaslit and treated like we’re not real nurses but I’m the bedside nurse for 16 patients who are hurt/sick with all kinds of issues to try to manage. Chronically short staffed, while pushing for those satisfaction surveys from patients.
I am NOT A NURSE however I can relate to this with my corporate job.
Flawed system!!!!! You spoke the truth
Thank you!
The gaslighting has made me change my career. I'm a CNA and full-time student the way we are worked short, staffing, and not caring about your feelings or thoughts. I just notified them of my 2 weeks' notice, but that's if I make it they don't care they only care about the bottom line.
I remember in my last post, just when you start doing PICC medications, the patient asks for a commode and maybe they will take 1hour in and out of it because bowel movements are just resuming post surgery. At this point, there’s literally nothing you can do and it’s so beyond you.
Yes you did say time management was a SCAM before!!! Tell them Kendra!!!
Ms. Kendra you’re so pretty!!! It’s the clear skin for me!! 🥰🥹🫶🏾🌺🩺👩🏽⚕️
Kendra you are so funny! The camera calling you out 😂
I’m not a healthcare worker by a long stretch but how can you manage unpredictability? These people are wicked! Humans are not robots and there is no instruction manual nor guarantee that a person is going to respond well to something or that external things won’t happen! Do we tell the government or farmers even to have time management when it comes to the weather? Kmt! People are ridiculous and they are playing with peoples lives, including healthcare workers and their families!
The sad part is, a lot of nurses buy into their system. So many nurses bust their behinds to try and meet these unrealistic expectations.
Time management fights happen in the classroom, beep beep beep of the intercom calling for a student, a teacher came in looking for so and so, a drill of some sort, we had a lock down drill i had 4 4 of the roughest, toughest 7th graders of the entire grade all together LOCKED DOWN FOR 1 HOUR 45 MINUTES these kids shouldnt have even been in the same class together (why and how that occurred is another story for another day) we were brought out of lockdown when the principal and cop passed by each classroom and released us. They came in and commented on "how loud our room was." The principal herself being present wasnt even enough to tame these four. They WERE EVEN LOUDER AND ROWDIER!!! She was so embarrassed. The sight of the cop in full uniform brandishing a firearm on his hip wasn't even enough!!! It mad him livid. He said he would toss them out for the gunman to shoot and spare the rest of us in a real event it pissed him off so bad yet they were trying to say that it was I who was incompetent and didn't know "proper lockdown procedure" before seeing those 4 in action. I was like yeah, id like to see how you would have handled these 4 for an hour and 45 minutes straight and lived to tell about it. What you talk about Kendra is so real in both professions.
Don't talk 2 me about time management.🤷🏿♂️ It doesn't exist, esp 4 nurses on day shift. Too many factors come n2 play when providing care. Let's not talk about family & loved 1s worried about the wrong things, or administration walking thru critiquing things that r irrelevant n the moment. How about Dr's putting n random new orders & discontinuing orders while ur busy with pts? Did I mention PT/OT taking ur pt without u knowing ur pt is gone? Oh, but now I have that pt that has 2 go 2 CT & MRI accompanied by the nurse. @ night, we have 2 transport them bc there is no transport after 11pm sometimes.
I'm done when I get done. If u leave me a laundry list of things u couldn't do during the day, I take over & continue the care. That is what 24hr care looks like. I walk n2 madness & admissions @ night with no report from the ED. All I know is I have a pt coming n2 a room & transport is asking who the nurse is. I have no feeling on time management that doesn't exist.
Time management is a scam. This struck a nerve! They used to say “stop being so task oriented!” Well, quit continuously adding on extra freaking tasks to my job! Everyone is wondering why they are losing their ER nurses are going to urgent care. 🤔
😂😂😂 the excessive productivity is wild. I’m writing a paper on this in school now.
Give us the part 2 please before you ghost us again (for good of course!). I love your chats sooo much, even though I have my RN now I needed your perspective and thoughts when I became a LPN in 2014. I had such a difficult time entering nursing and experiencing the unrealistic expectations and feeling incompetent. You are truly invaluable and thank you for what you do.
When they tell you “well maybe YOU….” Need to make changes in your schedule I think you should request they work along side you or along side other nurses during they day. Not just watch, but actually do the work themselves. But they won’t because that’s below their pay grade.
Kendra -- you are correct. What you discussed in this video is also applicable to other career fields as I can attest to. I pray your last semester of PA school will be fruitful and abundant for you. You're going to make a priceless physician's assistant. May the Holy Spirit keep you covered while doing his work. God Bless You.
She’s in Nurse Practitioner school, not Physicians Assistant school.
You are a superhero! I tried finding you on social media couldn’t find you! So excited for you as a new NP.. if I was you to make the hospital pay is urgent care you don’t need ACNP anymore..you have your emergency medicine experience and less work! Praying you find the perfect place for you as a NP 👩🏾⚕️ 🙏🏿❤️
I'm glad you here speaking up! Cause Lord knows! 🥴🥴🥴🥴
Wtf? Time management as a nurse??? Theres no time in between lol! Its a boom boom boom job! This is why im a home health nurse. We may not even get a break or lunch for that matter. We are working through our lunch! Fyi you are doing great dont let anyone bring you down.
Yes as far as time management when I worked at the hospital on med-surg. My shift was scheduled for 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. I would get into the break room to clock in anywhere between 6:50 to 6:55 a.m, my manager will it be in the hallway watching the break room door. She would then later tell me that I was late, and that I need to get there at least 15 minutes before my shift because I'm new and need time to look up my patients. Legally we could not log into epic until we were punched in, and we were not allowed to punch in early even if we were working. Make it make sense.
The video abruptly ended…I don’t know if that was intentional or not, but I loved what you were saying
I’m not sure what’s happening but only the first 10 minutes uploaded. I’ll edit the remainder and put it out asap. Thank you for the heads up.
Without even listening to this. Heard the patients are meaner, sicker, and bigger. Heard some RNs working 60 hours plus OT.
I just left an assignment where one nurse told me she worked 105 hours on her two week check. I’m a scrub so I know she wasn’t lying bc I was working like crazy. I didn’t resign bc I don’t wanna work like that anymore. I enjoy family time. Those 13 weeks I dreaded. I should’ve have left when they did not honor my contract. The contract that they signed
I don't know how you make the time for these videos but thank you!
You are the best! You're a great teacher and should go into academics when you're ready to slow down ❤ thank you from one nurse to another
You are so right. They nitpick RNs for stupid unimportant details like white boards, this box not being clicked, you didn’t have the patient sign the fall or valuables contract, you didn’t initial the board on your hourly round and the list is never ending, they keep adding stupid little tasks! And the nitpicking has gotten worse. And they focus on stupid nitpicky details and every week there’s some new nitpicky change that they focus on. They focus on small unimportant details more than real problems like dangerous situations like you describe, or short staffing causing delays in noticing changes in patient condition or intervening and preventing patients from declining, or patients sitting in poop or urine for hours because staffing is not enough for the acuity and needs of patients! If those in management/auditting would manage their time better, they would use their time to roll up their sleeves and help on the floor instead of asking you why your white board is not updated!
And I only say something because the patients suffer when the focus becomes all these nitpicky details and excessive charting which interfere with and delay quality and safe patient care .
Let’s talk about gaslighting from the other departments.
In addition to all this we are expected to second guess the doctors to make sure that they dont prescribe any med or treatment that would go counter to the patient's best health outcome.
Because, worse case scenario, should the patient wind up getting injured by whatever the doctor prescribed, blame can be shifted to the nurse for administering it. And...
Voila!!......The doctor is off the hook. Is this one more function that nurses serve?
time management, haha... glad I left bedside nursing , step down, after two years in level 1 trauma center in a major city! I loved my job, it but it was a scam :)
Tell it, girl! Time management is such a joke. I work on the obs unit. We have admits and discharges all day and all night. And we get the BH patients who aren't medically stable enough to go to the BH unit. It is a constant struggle just to get even 5 minutes of documentation done every hour. Then my manager comes to me and tells me I probably wouldn't be running so much if I were better at managing my time. All the while, he be sitting in his office catching up on his modules. Time management...NO such thing. 😅
I'm a semester 1 nursing student they definitely don't talk about this🤣
I knew the culture was toxic when in my first week as an orientee a nurse asked me to train a student (my first day), my preceptor was furious at me for delaying a test (and averting disaster) because the patient was incoherent (glucose was 48), a doctor prescribed pain meds and then yelled at me for giving them, another nurse took offense to my expressing concern about her patient's mental status (??how was I supposed to know he actually had bees in his room??), and yet another insulted me for asking which needle I should use for a medication I had never given. This was only a continuation of what I experience in school. A number of good students who would have made excellent nurses quit because they couldn't handle all of the eat-your-young attitude. And then the gaslighting commenced....
Need to see part 2. Love the convos you start and speak on. ❤
Ha! For every hands-on nurse, there are three supervisors to discuss the mistakes. The manager, pt liaison officer, educator ... name the titles, all who touch not a pt. They make them rules for 'those' nurses and then monitor.
New rule: Do not put a draw sheet under a patient, they cause bedsores. Chaks will do.
Do you mean the chicks that rip when you use them to pull up a patient and create more friction on a patients bottom than a draw sheet🤔
This is coming from higher up . This is every where . They want people to work 9 jobs to make up for all the pay they have to give to employees. There is alot narcissism going on in job now and day
I love ro see you back and love, love, love your clarity, no nonsense approach and constructive ways. Praying for you to have rest and ease while having three jobs and a family to raise. Sending my love ❤
Great topic per usual 👏🏾 Kendra! Speak!
There should be MORE thumbs up to match her views!!!!
I also hate fellow nurses who say, “I’ve never been fired by a patient.” Great for you, you are SOOOO much better than me 🙄
I think Kendra is amazing with all the things she is juggling like being a mom, working and school full time, blogging, etc. I hope she can slow down some time soon.
I worked as a CNA on med/surg & the ratios and grid was always off. The acuity of the pts was ridiculous. I constantly complained but always told the grid is correct. Me and the manager left the same day😮 THEN boom new manager and now the ratios are better and pt acuity are appropriate for that floor. We always had rapids on that floor 😢
I love your point of view, your always spot on.
I appreciate that 🩷. Thank you!
Kendra!!! That whiteboard not being completed is what causes our patients to go into crisis and die, that there is the root cause of everything. (At least that's what I was told.) If you believe that I've got a bridge in Brooklyn, I'd love to sell.
By the way, congratulations on being close to graduating NP school. I'm rooting for you from Spokane! 🎉
And don’t forget to update the white board for patients who are visuallly impaired. And especially make sure to write it in English even though the patient doesn’t speak English.
Not me rushing over when I see you have a new upload!
Love this video. So true! Workload on our unit is always heavy, hospital administration keeps adding more tasks to the overloaded nurses. The latest one a scanner that looks like a supermarket scanner that can predict risk of pressure ulcer on heels and butts 5 days before they happen. And of course they want us to supermarket scan every patients butt and heels every day😡. And not just the bed bound patients. So let me get this straight, we don’t have time to turn patients and change incontinence as often as we should & you’re adding another task that takes us away from patient care. We can look at a person and think hey she can’t move maybe we should turn her and float her heels. We don’t need a scanner And scanning someone’s butt is kind of humiliating. We are trying to fight it from bring implemented but administration says they want to listen to us but something like this they’ve probably already bought and will decide that it’s helping and come and tell us they don’t see the Butt scan documented. Let’s just pray that it doesn’t catch on nationwide!
Hey Kendra good day. How do you be bold about choosing your self and career and even leaving a facility to another to pursue what you want? I have a question and concern. I’m considering going to CRNA school so I applied for a nurse externship position for CVU/ICU in the hospital where I work as a pct. I was offered a geriatric floor instead and majority of my classmates got where they wanted. Except me and one other girl that work there already. I feel like we’re not being considered or taken seriously anymore because we already work there and have a scholarship contract to work there as do some others(only they don’t work as nurse aids). I feel like if I keep settling for their there’s no other availability, there’s nothing we can do I’ll be dimming my dreams and doing what I don’t want.
Apply out. Other facilities have scholarships. You got this!
IT IS NOT ALL ON THE NURSES OR TEACHERS WHEN TEACHERS CALL OUT AND SUBS DON'T SHOW UP. They already know about the shortages and it isn't coincidental nothing is accidental cleary its by design i guess AI is going to take over both fields
Same thing we have in the UK 🇬🇧
I am not the problem is the mindset that we need to have because sometimes you wonder if you did something to deserve it. I refuse to be bullied and I prioritize myself because who is gonna take care of me if not ME?
Sounds like working at children services- high caseloads, not enough time in the day. It’s a set up for failure.
You are right on time management kendra
Thank you. We should focus on efficiency.
That’s why I left my job in the ED after three weeks lol I had to GO!
Look at my Kendra😬💪🏽. Proud of you Lady.
😬😬😬 thank you.
Perfectly said!!! It's true insanity. I often have said that I'm being gaslit.
The gaslighting is real for us.
Yes i was gaslighted in the ER soooo far as to the facility blaming and incident plus another on me and then they lied to the state board of nursing. I had to work a year under probation...smh
These jobs set us up to fail. You constantly have to cover yourself or they will throw you under the bus. I hope you work at a better facility now.
My home health agency gaslights on a regular basis.
I was a CNA for four years, the nurses were mostly rude and disrespectful to good aides but nice to aides who slept with residents. And after an aide was caught sleeping with a resident, she was still working there! The nurse was scared to look at her aide in bed with her resident. Everywhere you work is short staffed but then your hear that management isn’t hiring lol😂
I love your channel and thank you for your boldness and courage. I love heal care but haven't the nerve and stomach for it. In the education field. They go so hand in hand. This gaslighting exists there. I hope you don't say girl shut up get off my page and go to a teaching page. They are soo so similar. Admin will tell a teacher you aren't managing time when you have 7 classes of 37 or 38 kids plus and 1 you. 20 minutes to eat and haven't used to RR. It's just not right. Thanks again for your fearlessness & channel.
I would never say or think that. Apparently nursing and teaching share similarities. One of good friends is a teacher and I did not realize how much you all get the blame for things that are out of your control.
Gossiping everyday about someone. There are lots of good cnas around that have your back . Team work .
No lies told.
In a sutuation as described, is there a form that nurses can use to document unsafe situations? If there are missed breaks, can that time be goven back? I agree, the gaslighting with time mngt seems to be the bullet point to pass blame to bedside nurses.
We have an objection to asssignment form that we fill out on days that we are short staffed or have a bad assignment . We notify supervisor that we are going to fill it out as soon as Situation is bad and then keep one copy and one copy goes to the union. It’s supposed to help protect your license.
Wonderful video as always! 😊
I truly hate the way they weaponize "time management" against nurses...especially with new nurses. I really thought the issue was with ME as the nurse not being able to handle the assignment, but as I gained experience I realized it's really not about time management at ALL. It's just another way to pin the blame of a broken system onto the nurses. Go figure
I know, it dawned on me about 3 years into
Working as a nurse that it was a total scam and a way to gas light nurses.
Speak 🗣️
The truth is a lie and the lie is the truth
It cut off?
You're a good nurse ❤
I really do try to do my best. Thank you ☺️
If you have time to complain to a nurse when he/she is busting their ass, you have time to help lol. Pick up the pen and update the whiteboard for me then. Be helpful before you sit there and complain to me…
Exactly! That work ethic existed years ago in hospitals that I’ve worked at. Our assistant head nurse would take an assignment on the floor if we were short.
@@Cariicarky123 that’s the way it should be! As nurses we have to help each other out, it’s hard enough as it is!
Can you talk about AI in nursing and the potential for job?
I always enjoy listening to you
unrelated but youre glowing
Glad to see you😊
Come back you this video gurl, too short want to know more💐🥰
Preach it!
Yessssss
You cut off, it was getting interesting.
I think she ran out of storage. 😂
Are these union hospitals where your stories take place?
No!!!
I’ll never work at a hospital that isn’t unionized after this
Why is it always your video abruptly stops. 😡
What I dislike about it mostly is how NASTY these professionals can be when it comes to caring for individuals that trust them to properly care for them.
Do you think patients are all kind and trusting? Violent evil people get sick all the time and being sick doesn't automatically make anyone a saint or that others should put up with their bs. Nurses deal with violence, kicking, spitting, verbal abuse, sexual harassment at work often. And we get compared to cops when we don't have weapons and get fired for self-defence.
🗣️🗣️🗣️ Kendra …. 😧 Come back …. finish :/
So much has changed and it will continue to change for the worse! The new nurses can’t handle it because they are not properly prepared for the floor or what to expect once they are done with school. The old heads like myself are trying to find less stressful jobs where we do get a lunch and bathroom break..even if that means less money! Do hospitals even still have CNAs or techs??? They can make more at Target or Starbucks…why do that job for pennies unless of course they want to use some type of employer tuition assistance. I don’t even encourage people to go to nursing school…I know it’s wrong but it’s not glorious most of the time and it’s a thankless job! So much I could say but I will end it now 🫤
You’ve said everything most seasoned bedside nurses are saying. They’re all over it. It’s become a job that is even causing people to be mentally and physically unwell.
@@KendraRN yes heavy on that mental and physical wellness! We out here pouring from empty cups! It needs to stop!!! Mostly ALL benefited jobs offer STD/LTD! It’s time nurses start going out on leave for mental anguish and get paid with STD or take an unpaid leave for maybe 30 days or save up $$ if possible and take an unpaid sabbatical like I did for 6 months just to heal and reflect and rest!! It’s wild out here…
Yup! I’ve been off for 3 months and making plans to not have to return. I’m a worthy of being safe, happy, and respected. Most importantly I am not sacrificing my health mental, physical, emotional for a check. They can’t pay me enough for me to self destruct. I love being a nurse but I am finding a better way.
@@fuzzyspirals I love that!!!! People better take their health seriously in this profession! And the patients better too because there won’t be nurses to care for them in the future at the capacity that is happening now!
It sound crazy but I was off for a year in 2020 with Cancer and once o started seeing that the chemo and radiation were working, I was much less stressed getting chemotherapy and losing my hair than working full time on a med/surg unit! Thanking God for no more Cancer. But it just shows how stressful nursing is, even my photos after Cancer treat my ent before I went back to work look less stressed and healthier!
Kendra, why aren't you using your platform for solutions? This is all happening because of nurses. Nurses are to blame for allowing administrators and companies to practice this way. We nurses out number them. Instead of complaining, gossiping, scrolling on social media, and keeping heads down, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. If you haven't left to a better and safer work environment or if you aren't active in collective bargaining, aka unionizing with a nurse-based organization, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. There are plenty of hospitals across the nation where nurses and residents are unionizing successfully.
Kendra, you shld be using your platform to solutions based content. Stop this whiny nonsense, we already know what's going on and nurses are to blame for playing themselves, knowingly putting their license that they worked so hard for at risk and most importantly, putting patients at risk because they feel there is nothing to be done.
Tell them to contact NNU, 1199, SEIU and more. Stop this pitty party and unite! If not, stop talkin' and bear it till you break and/or become numb.
The public should actually be suing nurses for allowing their license to be compromised and putting their health and safety at risk.
There are plenty of other nurses doing the content you are speaking of on a variety of platforms. No one will dictate what I chose to talk about on my channel.
Am I on here claiming to know solutions as it pertains to unions, collective bargaining, etc? I am not, because I am not well versed to speak on it. You seem to have a very good understanding, so why don’t you step in and fill that gap?
@KendraRN No one is saying to be an expert, but to advance and motivate the RN community to unite and stand up to corporate. Information is easily accessible to the public.
Instead of talking about what we already know is wrong. What is you answer to the problems you present? This is simply a b**ch fest. And frankly I'm over nurses complaining and not doing anything to change it. That's why nurses ARE at fault. Underestimating their power and deflecting their frustration to their fellow nurses. I am doing the work where I am, and there are many who want to take a back seat. Be mad at me all you want, but I'm not the problem. I've been thinking about going on my own platform...probably in time I will go through.
@@susiq1121Again, you are very capable of doing what you think should be done, do so! You’re in the comments doing a “b*tchfest” by telling me what you think I should do.
If you’re doing the work, share with us. Each one teach one right. As I’ve said, there are a lot of nurses doing exactly what it is you speak of, engage with their content and do the work.
This is no b*# ch fest, just calling a spade a spade. The topic isn't making change to the work environment. We're already in networks to get the hospital active....if you're really open in understanding the process, I definitely can share. But only to those who are willing to be active to change.
Susiq must be in management… lol…. One can still vent but that doesn’t mean a call to action for change must ensue. Sometimes it can be cathartic to release thoughts and opinions on social media… what if every time you went to see a therapist they told you to stop whining and do something about it… I wonder if susiq spends their time trying to solve world hunger, war and how to bring about peace to human kind.. maybe even a cure for cancer… better get a jump start on figuring that out Susiq rather than just sit around.
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