ICU Nurse Talks About Misconceptions Of Travel Nursing And What It Was Like During Covid
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- 0:00 - Introduction
2:42 - The Reality of Travel Nursing During COVID-19
6:01 - Changing Role of Nurses Over the Years
8:54 - Navigating Challenges as a Long-Time Nurse
10:59 - Responding to COVID-19 Deniers with Education
14:50 - The Importance of Communication in Nursing
17:13 - Balancing Professional and Personal Life During COVID-19
20:14 - The Emotional Impact of Nursing During the Pandemic
22:15 - Staying Resilient and Avoiding Burnout
24:24 - The Role of Family Support in a Nursing Career
27:02 - Eugenia's Cultural Background and Its Influence on Nursing
30:45 - Community Involvement and Volunteer Work
33:22 - Balancing Faith, Family, and Nursing Career
35:38 - Eugenia's Dedication to Nursing and Community Service
37:05 - Conclusion and Acknowledgement of Eugenia's Impact
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Eugenia is currently a travel nurse in ICU where I work. I am glad I’ve had the privilege to know her and work with her. She’s a wonderful person and nurse. Well-deserving of this award.
In October 2020 I came very close to dying from Covid. I was taken care of 98% by travel nurses and doctors. Thank you for your service.
Who is this wonderful lady? She is the epitome of the profession we call “nursing”. She is so much more! Psychologist, warrior princess, hand maiden, angel with healing in her wings! She is your heart when yours is broken. A hand to pull you up when you can’t stand any more. A celebrant when you recover! A patient would be so honored to have her by your side! She is what all nurses should be! Thank you for bringing her to our attention!❤
She is a QUEEN!!!!
You are so right! I have been a CNA for many years and have seen nurses like her disappear, and health care losing its soul. God bless her and people like her who realize that it is a sacred profession.
My uncle is a mortician. He was burying dozens of people a week. Arrange funeral where only three blood relatives were allowed and death certificates were taking upwards of six months. All while people were saying its a hoax and none of this is real. It was a horrific.
My wife is a travel nurse (3 years before covid is when we began)
We were mid contract in Omaha when Covid hit.
As the husband of a travel nurse I’m very protective of travel nurses reputation.
I’ve honestly found that travel nurses are MORE up on protocols due to their rep = their quality of contract.
People also forget that we have to duplicate expenses.
We still have our bills at home as well as where we are staying.
After hitting the working with covid part of the conversation I can say my wife was one of the first in the hospital that she worked in to volunteer to work the unit.
We put in a full process for when she got home.
We both have long form covid repercussions from it, but that’s the price you pay for following your dreams.
@@mordsytheI'm so sorry to hear that. Keeping you in my prayers 🙏 ❤️.
@@micheleparker3780 it’s not too bad tbh.
Shortness of breath is the main issue. Don’t even notice it until we actually think about it.
This is the new norm and when people realise that, we can move forward with our lives fully.
That’s good information to know. Many of us don’t think about that or know that you all have to pay to stay wherever you’re traveling to.
@@kamiw5864 if it’s less than “X” miles we get fully taxed on our stipend.
If we move away (we are in Indiana and live in Florida rn) then we get a stipend that isn’t taxed. Allowing us to be able to actually (maybe) have some savings at the end.
It all adds up…
This beautiful lady doesn't look almost 60 years old!
When my MIL was dying from COVID, this lady reminds me of her nurse. So sweet, helpful, understanding and sensitive. She helped us say goodbye too...
This is what we need still in healthcare nurses people who have been in healthcare long enough to question a doctors order’s because they are in tune with the patients . The kind of compassion this woman has is sorely needed in healthcare when all of the healthcare staff are so fresh off the block. “Educated Southern Dialect.” I love the way that sounds.❤
Well, Steveioe,, thanks a lot for making me cry today. Last thing I wanted to do. I'm 64. My mother was an R.N. when my older sister was born, in 1957. When I was 5, 6, 7, etc. years old she would sometimes take me to work with her on a Saturday or Sunday, and for the most part, stay quietly in the nurse's cubicle. Mom worked Med/Surg until about 1970, then transferred to pediatrics at LaRabida Children's Hospital and Reserch Center, perched right on the lakefront. I became a unit secretary there the summer prior to my junior year of high school. My elder sister became a physical therapist and then an R.N, and I became an R.N. by 1988. I say this to show that nursing is in my blood; I literally grew up surrounded by the magnificent University of Chicago, and it's affiliated pediatric center (LaRabida).
I wanted to point out the scope of change in not just nursing but in the medical profession. The biggest thing I've noticed is the lack of autonomy for both doctors and nurses. The government has made it so that doctors must follow follow their guidelines and those of the insurance companies or risk losing their licenses. Mandated length of stays determined by procedure or particular diagnosis limits the doctor's ability to treat patients individually. It also affects who and when they can admit to the hospital. Regulations severely limit treatment of patients who are in pain, whether acute or chronic. These 'regulations ' limit how doctors treat many other diseases, such as various cancers, heart/lung disease, diabetes - obesity is a big one, as well as orthopedic patients who usually require extensive rehabilitation. Speaking of rehab, patients with substance abuse disorder and mental health issues suffer greatly under the new 'guidelines ', which they say are just recommendations, but watch what happens if you don't follow them. All this, of course, trickles down to the nurse, who must follow doctor's orders. But NEVER was I EVER told to blindly follow orders that I knew were wrong. If the doctor wanted a particular order followed that I strongly disagreed with, he could do it him or herself, it's not worth the lawsuit for me.
Sorry this got so long; I just feel so strongly about this. This particular nurse is absolutely a bad ass MuFKR, and a stellar human being. ✨️. My mom would have been so proud of her and she's exactly the type of nurse I'd want to work alongside any day of the week. Congratulations to her, and thanks for this series, love it!!!🎉❤❤
In October I spent 5 days in the hospital on two occasions. The first time was absolutely horrible with staff that didn't care about the patient. My second admission was totally different especially on the 7pm-7am shift, I had a traveling nurse who was exceptional. In my opinion traveling nurses in the hospital are way more polite and actually listen to the patient.
Agreed!
I used to work in a hospital and I think that I only met 1 travel nurse, long before covid. I liked her, she was nice, but I didn't work in the department she was in, I was just doing my job running in and out, several times a day. I now have a Facebook friend who was a travel nurse during covid and she traveled all over the world to help.
I just saw my mom this week for the first time in over a year. She's been diagnosed with advanced alzheimer's and didn't know me. I have a lot of health issues that make mobility difficult for me, but I needed to see her. I know that she doesn't have much time left. I cried the entire visit. I have experience with family with the same diagnosis, and it's hard, but I'm more accepting of what's going on. My dad passed away suddenly last year, and losing him has been harder. The staff at the memory care facility are fabulous with mom.
Finally a nurse that voices the true meaning of being a nurse. What a lovely human being and one I would have loved to have worked with in my years of nursing. To add a personal side note - while doing my genealogy and viewing ancestors pictures - there is a chance that the Native American line of my maternal side were Lumbee have never been able to track that down. Roxboro, NC.
I loved this one it was fantastic! I couldn't help but notice she was in an RV. I know this is pretty common for traveling nurses. Living in an RV full-time myself, I got to thinking about the crazy things that can happen. There can be a lot of maintenance like emptying your own sewer tanks, the culture at rv parks, the fact you get to take your home with you. Also some find it to be claustrophobic. Others find it liberating. I know the show is about the Healthcare side of things but for traveling nurses in curious to hear how they choose to travel. Are they renting houses/apts, staying in motels, air bnb's, or rving. Just food for thought on topics that could be discussed. I love your shorts and now the podcast. Keep up the amazing work.
Eugenia, It really hit home hearing you talk about having your patient's family see them from the window and how the patient passed. I was an RN for 25 years until my own medical journey took me away from my job as a Postpartum nurse, with all my experience being in OB,PP, WBN ANTE, &GYN. I had been inpt for 10 days with "pneumonia" in March just before starting to hear about Covid, I now believe may have been covid. During that year I would end up admited at least 3 times with pneumonia, and 1x definitely Covid. When I was admitted with covid, I had called 911 with a fever of 105° they talked me out of going to the hospital, a couple days later my 15 year old son was calling family and telling them to come help me because I was not completely lucid, they came and called 911 and told them that I had a stroke ( I had prev in 2018) so that way they would have to take me. I got admitted and put on a floor converted into a covid floor. In just a few hours I would be moved to stepdown because of my O2 level with max out on BNC &mask. The nurse said I was put in the room just at the door next to the ICU because I was likely about to get moved there. At that moment my nurse brain kicked in enough to start praying and 2 to set my life goals which was to keep breathing long enough to get home, 2 to keep breathing to get to graduation( my 15yo only chid) 3 keep breathing until graduation again and/or wedding which ever came first and 2nd and on until grandbabies because if I couldn't work anymore I had to get my baby fix somehow. I am proud to say we are in senior year and already accepted in his 1st choice. But back to my covid episode when I was discharged my nurse whom I had when 1st admitted to step down said I don't know how to discharge a covid patient... you want to talk reality much like the patient with family at the window. I was a hair from buying myself and do not pass go. So thank you for your professionalism in the most trying of times and I completely understand the reason you are there still because had my health not taken a huge hit and I carry O2 with my walker i would be back in a heartbeat. It actually has caused me a lot of depression giving up my license was the hardest thing I have had to do. I was blessed with 25 years in and I never had to search for the right job I new in school after OB that was it for me. I want to THANK ALL NURSES AND HEALTHCARE WORKERS FOR EVERY DAY THAT YOU SHOW UP YOU CAN MAKE A DEFERENCE IN SOMEONE'S DAY THE KIND SMILE MAY BE WHAT THEY NEED. BUT I WANT TO CHALLENGE EACH OF YOU TO PRACTICE THAT KIND OF KINDNESS WHEN YOU ARE OUT AND ABOUT BECAUSE OUR WORLD NEEDS IT MORE NOW THAN MAYBE EVER BEFORE. NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE IN THE WORLD. MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL 🙏🏽 ❤
We have travel nurses in our hospital, and honestly, most of them are great and very experienced and just want to do a good job like everyone else. Also, keep in mind that, even though they get higher wages, often they are away from their families and friends, and they do not get medical or dental benefits or vacation pay.
We also have to double our expenses.
The bills at home don’t stop because we are traveling.
Add on the fact we have all new bills where we are staying….
If I have to be in the hospital I want her for a nurse!
If you have a longer cut, I would love to see it. She's a special person.
Thank you Eugenia and Steve. I'm from Toronto. 2020 was the second time we were confronted by SARS. My blood ran cold in Jan 2020 when I heard covid called SARS. My friends thought I was nuts but I knew what that meant. My mom was in intensive care in Toronto in 2003 during the SARS outbreak. It was not in her hospital but all of the hospitals went on full quarantine lockdown anyway. My dad was the only family member allowed to visit her. We were told that if a case of SARS showed up, he would be banned from the hospital too. Covid/SARS is devastating. My current neighbourhood was hardest hit. Over 100 crosses on the lawn of my local long-term care facility alone. Thank you for for sharing your experiences.
Maybe it's different at my hospital, but I've had the opposite experience with having autonomy as a nurse. There's no way I'll give a medication if it's contraindicated. I'll hold it and let the doctor know why...if the doctor still wants me to give it, I ask for a clarification order and make sure to do plenty of CYA documentation. We also have quite a few standing orders and protocols to use when appropriate, giving us the freedom to use our education and experience.
This has been my favorite interview so far! Eugenia sounds genuinely sweet and such a great person. She's passionate about her work and career as a nurse and is involved in her community. She's great all-around.
I’m a student looking to apply to nursing school this spring, I really look up to nurse Eugenia. I will remember this video and her outlook because she is the exact kind of nurse that I want to become. Thank you for posting this, it is inspiring to hear her stories 💕
I would have guessed 55 just due to the long career but she looks much younger. Thank you for reminding me that there are still professional nurses around. I still meet a few but too many get into it for the wrong reason and it shows.
I was a covid unit nurse for 2 years in a red state and I could write a book about all the ridiculous things I heard from patients and their loved ones. It was beyond frustrating to know that we cared more about their lives than they did, and as we fought to save their lives, they'd insult us. I was called a "liar", "stupid", "brainwashed", and my favorite, a "deep state operative". Although at times I felt like walking out or taking a flying leap off the hospital roof, I never did. I'd excuse myself, go to the bathroom and scream into the memory foam travel pillow I kept with me for the times I had to sleep there, then go back and do everything in my power to treat our patients with the same respect, care, and dignity any other patients deserve. It was a rough couple years for everyone and I hope it never happens again. 🤞
As for travel nurses...I absolutely love them, and they're some of the finest nurses I've ever been fortunate enough to have worked alongside! Thank you for your help and kindness!
If you were in India this misbehaviour wont happen with you. So sorry you had to go through this.
You must be proud of you! I’m a nurse and changing hospitals even floors is hard for me. I believe I cannot do a travel without jet-lack all the time! My appreciation to you and your hard job! ❤🙏
We don’t travel back and forth :)
We move to a 3 month (13 weeks) lease or a hotel.
My primary care provider is a PRN. She left hospital after a back injury. And she's awesome, I adore her care level and her ability to listen to me that I have not found from MDs. (edit) The entire practice has the same attitude and kindness level. I always feel welcome and have never felt rushed. Let me highly recommend Dedicated Senior Services, and recommend that this be the template for family practices.
I feel nursing (specifically in hospital) used to be more personal. Not as many nurses have a passion for care, they have a passion for science.
Anamosity was HUGE (at some places, not all)! At one place I worked, all the nurses were angry and took it out on Travelers as the company had started their own travel nursing agency and many of the local RN's converted to traveling for more money during COVID, and I was told that some had their hours cut to fulfill the Travel nurse contracts. Local RN's made comments about how, "Pretty soon, we'll all be Travelers." Anyone who was nice to me as a traveler got treated like crap by the local charge RN, to the point that at least 2 PCA's quit because of her while I was there. Another place I worked, they were just happy I was there and treated me awesome. So it really did vary in my experience. I did get the "big bucks" and "You're just here for the money" statements too, even though I did local traveling for 5 years, they assume you just jumped in. Good video. Thanks for sharing. :o). God bless!
Well spoken, beautiful inside and out and just amazing heart. Thank you for all you do for your community and in the health care setting 🎉❤
Working as a nurse and as state staff for infectious disease, I am nodding my head to the stories. God bless these nurses! I worked both as a nurse and for a health department during COVID. It's so true that education starts with the heart to gain trust and share knowledge. Nurses are not in for the money. They are in it to save and improve other's lives.
Great woman, a hero
35 years of one of the most draining, nerve-destroying jobs that exist and her heart is still full of love and patience. What a wonderfull lady! And so beautifull, stunning.
Wow, she is awesome! Loosing a patient is so heartbreaking, and unfortunately I am sure she lost many during COVID. She has been through so much, and sounds like she is a blessing to so many. Great example of how to get through it: Prayer, and meditation and the support of family. God bless her and her family!!! I know the M-word is part of your thing, but I really wish I didn't have to hear the actual word. It makes me cringe. Otherwise, I like you, your humor, and this interview. God bless!
Eugenia is such an amazing person in so many ways! She is so incredibly well rounded I can only dream about being more like her.
It's ok to do a job because it makes good money! You do a skilled job and deserve to be rewarded. And if you're willing to live an itinerant lifestyle, which is very hard on your health and welfare, then you deserve to be paid for that too.
My grandmother got COVID at 79. There was a nurse that would let my uncle and aunt face time my grandmother while in ICU. My grandmother was healthy and full of life till she got COVID. She was in the hospital attached to tubes and machines. She was also placed on dialysis. I can say God is good. She is now 83 with minimal complications from COVID. I love that lady so much. Dont know what I'd do without my garnny. 😢😢
It's people like Ms Eugenia are the reason my mom is still alive. Thank you.
I was a nurse for 27 years-no longer practicing as I moved to France in 2017. I’ve worked with many travel nurses and some were fantastic and SO not in it for the money. Really enjoyed this podcast. Her accent was lovely and brought me back to nursing school in 1990 at Emory University.
I was in the hospital in June 2020 for 2 weeks after having a mild heart attack, then a 3xCABG. It was certainly a lonely stay being in the room by myself and not being allowed any visitors. I looked forward to the visits from my nurses. There was a funny Filipino nurse named Nulisa and an older white nurse named Sandy that stuck out in my mind. Nulisa made me laugh, and Sandy came by to watch/help me as I walked around a bit after surgery. It made for a nice break from the room. Eugenia sounds like the kind of nurse that everyone would love having. Thank you nurses for doing what you do
This lovely woman is absolute light and compassion embodied. Listening to her and knowing her background, she was born to be in the field she works in. Talk about humanitarian. Thank you so much for all you do ❤️🩹
She is absolutely Amazing. ❤She is my go-to for Healthcare advice.
I wish the travelers I worked with in the early 90s were half as competent and caring as Eugenia is. God bless you for all you do. I worked with some who couldn’t or wouldn’t do IV’s. I worked with some who told me they wouldn’t work with more than a certain amount of patients, giving me double the normal number. I worked with one who started at one end of the hall and went from room to room without prioritizing patients. Even if if was someone with chest pain or a trach patient who needed suctioning, an NPO patient with a crashing BG, etc etc, she wouldn’t alter her routine. After one guy died because she didn’t suction him, the aides always got me to take care of her critical patients. I worked one night shift with a traveler who insisted she had to take a 45 minute lunch off the floor. At our hospital we got paid for lunch because we were required to stay on the floor. It was illegal for us to have less than 2 RNs on the unit at all times. Me, and aide, and 24 patients. I do understand where some of the bad comments about travelers come from. In my career I only worked with 1 competent traveler. I commend all of the great nurses who worked during 2020-2021 when they had no idea what worked and what didn’t, whether they would have supplies or not, protection or not, and when information seemed to change from day to day. I retired with an injury before Covid hit, but a lot of friends and colleagues had prayers said for them every night.
Eugenia is an amazing woman. The profession and the world are so lucky to have her.
I wanted to say turn browsers I'm really happy that you're doing this. You have those really serious moments to explain things to people stilbirth was one of them. This is so important because there is some horrible misconceptions about this. I hope you open some hearts more importantly some closed off minds.
I have a travel nurse units I rent out. All the spoons were gone when they moved out. I wonder why? It's not cost effective for me and I'm decommissioning the unit next spring.
All because of missing spoons? Lmao😂😂😂😂
@@jamesspencer1463 not so much.
Don’t let the odd ones ruin it for you.
I’m sure you made more than enough to cover a 5 pack of spoons from Walmart.
@@lucycan6363
It's a completely furnished unit, all the other utensils, dishes, pots and pans are there. It's rented for 3 months at a time.
@@lucycan6363
Not worth the hassle, it's not about the spoons.
We have been babied into not being able to not making our own decisions but medication still has the same warning on it and the client is taught to follow those when taking it at home
I worked with some amazing travellers in the ICU. One in particular really took me under her wing when i was brand new to ICU and taught me more than any nurse i have ever worked with, even thought she was never my preceptor (travellers were not allowed to precept). I would say some of the best nurses i have worked with were travellers.
Covid changed things, though. We got several really bad travellers, who clearly lied about having critical care experience in order to get the higher wages and/or meet demand. They were dangerous, and we non-travellers ended up doing double duty caring for our own assignments while also watching them like a hawk. They ended up getting reassigned to medsurg and stepdown eventually.
I also feel like the attitude changed during Covid. Many travellers acted like they were better than staff. Started throwing fits over assignments (they werent getting horrible assignments), would throw fits if they got floated, and would not do adequate patient care.
I have been out of bedside for a while now, so i am hoping the bad ones have gotten out and the amazing ones like
Eugenia are still workng contracts!
I was a travel RN for about 9 years, retired in 2012 from the VA. I had been accused of making big $$$. I was quick to point out it was the agency making the big bucks. I had mostly great experiences as a traveler. I had heard horror stories from other travelers.
Again, I'm moved to tears...
I honestly had some of my own family members telling me the shot is going to hurt you. It's not going to help. When I was in the hospital when I was pregnant over high blood sugar. I tried to do my own research about it. In the end I asked one of the nurses. She was unsure about it as we all were. This was in the beginning of the shots coming out. My husband and I got the shots just to protect our little ones.
I think you made a good decision. And, hey, you're still here to talk about it, so win/win!🎉
Like Michele, I think you made the right decision too. Everyone in my family (except my uncle and cousin who are members of the MAGA Cult) and I, got the vaccine, and I encouraged all of my patients to do the same. Although there have been bad reactions in a small number of people, the vaccine has been shown to be safe and an actual lifesaver.👍
My daughter in law has been a travel nurse. They get paid well but they put out loads of money on travel and housing.
Not sure what I was expecting watching my first of your long format videos but you are a very generous interviewer and I enjoyed this a lot. Eugenia sounds like an amazing role model for all the young medical professionals working with her working on advancing in their careers.
I was in HR for hospitals and didn't realize the stereotypes. Dude, we love travel nurses! People who give up stability to be there when and where they're needed? Heck yeah!
And in it for the money? Why not? I've encouraged a few people to pick up travel nursing young when you have more flexibility. Build a little nest egg, have the money for a down payment on a house. That's being smart, not greedy. My brother and his wife are in nursing/PT and have an Airbnb specifically for travel nurses. They're mostly great guests and it's nice being able to provide a cozy, inviting space to support them.
I had my twins at laurel hospital in 2002❤
It was wonderful to hear your story! I’m glad you went into travel nursing with good intentions and weren’t in it for money. However, this isn’t the case with everyone. I have worked with many nurses and surgical techs who leave for the money. They come back to the same hospital making twice what the staff nurses and tech make. When asked, they outright admit that they did it for the money. 😞
This nurse is indeed a unique human being, fiiled with an altruistic soul, living to serve the will of Christ Jesus. She is educated, well spoken, articulate, compassionate, empathetic, disciplined and wise with a strong work ethic. Her personality is welcoming, warm, pleasant and uplifting. She is the type of individual we could use a lot more of in society. She reminds me of how people in America in the 1950's, 60's and 70's used to be and how they would take care of one another. There was honesty and trust in those days and more people possessed integrity, respect, good moral values, manners and politeness. People were not spoiled or felt entitled, like currently. My wife and my respect, love and prayers go out to this woman and her family. Besides all the wonderful characteristics and traits she possesses, she as well is a very attractive, genuine, soft spoken, humble and sophisticated lady that upholds dignity. God Bless, stay safe and be well.
I suspect that not every hospital does things the same way in a specific department, so some sort of training needs to happen for a traveling nurse to start work at that station. Many hospitals aren't offering training such nurses and patient care is impacted. Can you talk about that?
Might be worth starting with an explanation of what travel nursing is. I'm not in the US, so I am completely lost and don't understand what they are talking about.
A travel nurse is one who works for an agency, going to hospitals that have a need for outside staff to meet the needs in their area. We often work away from our homes, duplicating living expenses, thus necessitating higher salaries.
Many hospitals have now formed internal contracts that pay a higher salary but without benefits.
My granddaughter is a traveling nurse in ICU..
This is a great interview!
Do you ever look at someone and hear what they say and think to yourself ,, I wish there were at least another *insert number* of you working in the ( in this case ) Healthcare profession.
Some college , university or what ever needs to get a hold of her ,, offer her what ever it takes and get her Teaching.
So many of these healthcare professionals at the senior end of their carers, who have massive experience to tap into ,, get them teaching !!.
Shes 1 among many who are just awesome.
I hope she writes a book. Our society and Native American indian children will benefit so much inspiration from her successful career and outlook.😊❤ I read too much about the disadvantages many American Indian tribes are suffering from.😢
I've been a nurse for 42 years!
My brother is one of those covid deniers even after catching covid. For a week before he learned he had covid he was complaining that this is the worst he's ever felt in his life and it felt like he was dying. After he learned it was covid he acted like it was no big deal and said he's had worse. And now he's back to covid being a government hoax. Thankfully the rest of my family isn't that stupid and we all got vaccinated
Thank you Eugenia.
So interesting!
What an absolute amazing and beautiful soul. I enjoyed listening to Eugenia' story and the passion she has for healthcare. We need more Eugenia's in the world
Im working skilled ltc, in 3 buildings. 40 had covid 2 weeks ago and 11 staff. Im a PAC
super amazing lady
But on the flip side, if doctors and nurses have no one regulating the cate they give, they can become s loose cannon. I went to my local small town hospital a couple of years ago with serious symptoms of allergy related asthma with COPD as a mitigating factor. The emergency physician there at the time was a traveling doctor. She had s terrible bedside manner, was stern, and had no empathy whatsoever. After arriving at the ER by ambulance and being shoved into a very small patient room st the back of the ER, I pushed the call button for a nurse, which I've never done before in the ER, and explained to her my symptoms and the fact that being in a small office closed off from the main ER was causing me extreme anxiety and thus aggravating my asthma symptoms. I asked if I could be given a breathing treatment snd she was very nice snd said she would be with me shortly. This nurse was a holdover from the days when our little rural hospital was all community based, and the doctors at the one clinic we had here rotated through the hospital. Everyone knew everyone, and you could walk in and adk for a breathing treatment before you ever saw and MD or respiratory therapist. So in she came with the medicine, preparing to give it to me, when the traveling docter whooshed in. The doctor gave the nurse one disapproving, stern look, and she nurse scurried out with my medication, never to be seen again. So the doctor tells me that they have to do tests snd blood draws, and that she did hear sounds of decreased breathing in one lung.Well, ok, i get that. But six blood draws and four hours of tests later, I was not so amenable. So after all that, she comes into my room and tells me that there's nothing wrong with me and that hospital policy was not to treat allergy triggered asthma. Well, I was furious and immediately went home and wrote a strong letter of complaint to the hospital which had changed from community based care to being a part if a large healthcare HMO. They sent me a letter two weeks later saying that while they had investigated the matter thoroughly, they stood behind the care,-or no care- the doctor had felt was appropriate. I was horrified that this hospital would stand by and let a patient suffer because of a "policy." Not only that, I was also left feeling that I would have nowhere to go if I should happen to suffered another serious asthma/COPD incident. So I ended up finally getting the meds I needed two days later through a telehealth appointment with my doctor. But at the time, I was having frequent incidences of asthma/COPD symptoms, and I was very upset and worried that I had no backup healthcare should I have another serious incident. So that went on for a few months, then, on a weekend when my own doctors weren't immediately available, I had what I would term another serious asthma episode. So after letting my doctor know that I was going to go to the local ER again, I steeled myself for another rejection, and marched in. This time, everything and everyone was totally different. I was immediately put in the care of a very knowledgeable and awesome ER nurse whom I had been in the care of the previous year when I had contracted "walking pneumonia." I told her everything that had happened and asked if she knew this particular doctor, and she said she had worked alongside her, and agreed that she did not have a stellar bedside manner, and ordered way too many tests, and was soo slow. I told her what I had been told about the policy of not treating allergy triggered asthma, and she said that was ridiculous, and that she had never heard that, and that of course they would provide treatment for any cause of asthma symptoms, allergy related or not. She also told me that this doctor had parted ways with the hospital and no longer worked there. So that is my problem with doctors who have no one to answer to, who can do exactly as they please, with no immediate consequences.
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I had a question for Eugenia Did you ever do home nursing care for a patient the reason why I’m asking because he looks very familiar because I was treated by Bob more than one nurse and most of the time they work for a company my other company or were independent that came to your home to help you that’s why am asking because you look so familiar?
Just ask her for me if she knows a patient named starts with a P. ends with M
My mom has Cherokee but I’m not sure about her father side that I never knew her father and I never met her mother cause her mother passed away from cancer.
Oh, and this would be in Maryland to mention that
Yes I have done home health nursing, but not in Maryland.
@@eugeniabishop2493 🫶🏾👊🏾thanks you sure remind me of a Home nerves I had 💕
A true nurse. Valuable human being and a beautiful interview.
To the interviewer, would you consider changing name of your "company." Just asking kindly..
Even if someone goes into travel nursing for the money, what's the problem??? I say "good for you, nurse, for finding a situation where you can be compensated for as much as possible.".
comments gonna be spicy on this one. new ER nurse and i'd prefer to be working with Staff more than travellers. Staff usually at least knows our procedures better so leaning on that knowledge at least works better. I dunno how to feel about it, we lost a LOT of nurses to travelling during the pandemic and honestly I think we're kinda worse off for it everywhere.
not saying travellers are bad or anything but I think the travelling culture is problematic.
I understand your misgivings about working with some travelers; most hospitals require an orientation that includes learning modules are completed before even going to the facility. Most on-line modules include pertinent policies to the area one is assigned, but also hospital specific policies. Once these online modules, and post-test, are completed there are, typically 1-3 days spent in a classroom environment.
I've been in some facilities that don't even have written policies but encourage the use of AACN or Elsevier procedural guidelines for reference.
There are standards of care that should guide all Healthcare professionals; in following these standards, there's little room for error or malp.
Im not in any way trying to diminish this woman's words and accomplishments. But holy crap i want to know her secret for staying so young looking!
Girl! You make almost 60 look very attractive and beautiful. I could only wish I had looked that good at your age. I’m 64 and look and feel it lol. 28:08
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She is 60, and have a 44 year old daughter???
My daughter just turned 42 yrs old......I married young, was a stay at home mother and went to nursing school after my babies started school.
Heard of teen moms?
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Try nursing from 1975 and ask about changes 😮
The name of your podcast promotes doing WHAT to mothers?
I get it, people who safe lives, the idea is “bad ass Mfers” are not sensitive personally, only when it comes to the care of themselves and others. It keeps people focused on the work not the sensitivities of the verbiage. I get it thi
Omfg that is what you took from this? Ok, Karen. It's a punchline from his short skits "tips from the ER." And honestly, a motherfker is having a better time in life than you
Probably any mother entertaining it as well. He is not literally referencing people having sex with someone who has given birth to a child at some point in their life. It's more towards dumb ppl, like.. seemingly you. Are mothers banned from having intercourse? Lol. Just because someone is a mom, doesnt mean they are banned from consenting activities. You seem to need some. Because, damn. If that is all you tookfrom this episode, I feel for you. Life must be dry.
I wish the travelers I worked with in the early 90s were half as competent and caring as Eugenia is. God bless you for all you do. I worked with some who couldn’t or wouldn’t do IV’s. I worked with some who told me they wouldn’t work with more than a certain amount of patients, giving me double the normal number. I worked with one who started at one end of the hall and went from room to room without prioritizing patients. Even if if was someone with chest pain or a trach patient who needed suctioning, an NPO patient with a crashing BG, etc etc, she wouldn’t alter her routine. After one guy died because she didn’t suction him, the aides always got me to take care of her critical patients. I worked one night shift with a traveler who insisted she had to take a 45 minute lunch off the floor. At our hospital we got paid for lunch because we were required to stay on the floor. It was illegal for us to have less than 2 RNs on the unit at all times. Me, and aide, and 24 patients. I do understand where some of the bad comments about travelers come from. In my career I only worked with 1 competent traveler. I commend all of the great nurses who worked during 2020-2021 when they had no idea what worked and what didn’t, whether they would have supplies or not, protection or not, and when information seemed to change from day to day. I retired with an injury before Covid hit, but a lot of friends and colleagues had prayers said for them every night.