Pediatric ER Nurse Reveals Craziest Patient Encounters in Oakland (ep. 11)
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2024
- Meet Kevin Bronson, Pediatric ER Charge Nurse in Oakland, celebrated for his exceptional clinical skills and calm under pressure. Known for handling the chaos of pediatric emergencies with unmatched expertise, Kevin is the epitome of a Badass MuFKR. We talk about the demanding world of emergency nursing through his experiences, shedding light on the critical impact of his work on children and their families.
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My older son was riding his skateboard and took a tumble and broke his collarbone. While he was in the ER, at least 4 healthcare workers thanked him for wearing a helmet.
What a beautiful interview! I think this is my favorite one so far. My daughter struggled with self harm and suicidal ideation, and first responders like this have saved her life. The most amazing thing was when a social worker pulled me aside and said "How are YOU doing? How can we support you?" Nobody had ever asked me that before, and it meant so much to me.
My oldest stepson nearly dies skateboarding because he wasn't wearing a helmet. He survived, but my husband came home and sobbed.
My daughter was born with congenital scoliosis. She had titanium rod's screwed into her spine. When she was 13, one of the rods broke. She had x-rays done and I took them to work to prove why I needed to take time off work. I showed the first photo to my boss and said well, everything looks normal. He was floored at the images.
My sister has the old Harrington rods for her scoliosis. They are now twisted. My scoliosis is, thankfully, not as severe.
@@swtlisa if I can ask, how does it feel for you? I'm pretty young, 16° scholiosis, and it's not the best so.. just wondering how it is for other people
Nurses make the world go round guys
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Growing up on the other side of the Bay from Oakland, yeah that area can be a LOT! Kudos to Kevin and all of the staff for doing what they do for the community.
15:30- working with kids who have trauma ❤ felt this so hard. Continuation school teacher in Compton. Kids are still kids. They need to be treated with kindness
My FIL had on a helmet and a full suit of Kevlars when his motorcycle was hit by an inattentive driver. His bike gas tank exploded and he nearly died from smoke inhalation.
31:20 Once in the 80s or 90s, my dad was in the ER for something. While he was sitting on the bed waiting to be seen, he heard a woman on the other side of the curtain say, "You will NEVER put an M&M up your nose again."
That stuff about getting your kid to wear a helmet when bicycling or skateboarding really hit home. My son was riding down a steep hill on his bike and a car ran a stop sign right in front of him. He jammed on the brakes and flipped over coming down head first and putting a huge dent in his helmet. He was taken by helicopter unconscious to Children’s Hospital and he was ok, just a bit concussed. The doc gave him his helmet and told him “You’re alive because of this. Go home and get another one.”
I was waiting to get a snow cone by a main road in my hometown.
I was right behind a woman with her 4 or 5 year old daughter when a motorcycle rider passed with no gear on.
The mom leans over and says "do you see that? That's called an organ doner"... lady was clearly aware of the dangers.😅
Worst pediatric burn I encountered was a toddler who reached up and pulled the pan of frying chicken down. He was completely drenched in oil, and mom, thinking to soak it up, dumped 5 pounds of flour over him. He just cooked. It was awful!
I was a pediatric psych patient and, because of my earliest disability (Cerebral Palsy due to premature birth), still am a patient of primarily-pediatric specialists. Some of the stories that I’ve heard and experienced crack me up (even though they were not funny at the time).
My wife works with this guy and can vouch for his badassery! She was there for some of those cases. But she's not a nurse nor an MSW, but she yells at those guys to take care of themselves on the regular!
Thank you both for your service to humanity. You take on an enormous physical and mental strain for others. Thank you. Thank you so very much.
I worked lab at a trauma 1 hospital here in SoCal HD, Apple Valley, an OMG, I have so many stories 😂😩
Oh man, I’m from HB, but got shipped off to my bio father for a year and went to VVHS in ‘92… I have some stories just from attending public school and being a free range kid in the freaky world of the High Desert! Seriously weird shit! As an RN, I don’t even wanna know how creative some of those people got with their orifices! I’ve already had a dude with a full salt shaker elbow deep in his butt. Pretty creative use of a condiment, going for ketchup may have been better since it tries to have a kinda flared base. Definitely don’t go to dinner at his house!
I really would wonder where you think psych patients would go if the ER were to turn them away and how dangerous that would be for them. As someone with a history as a patient,, it really upset me the way you talked about this but Kevin's passion for the psychiatric patients really touched me
The maddest I've ever seen my mom, was when my dad bought a motorcycle from a guy at work, and brought it home without asking her. I swear people could hear her yell in the next county. "Jake W. Smith, you are not going to leave me a widow with two kids to take care of! You get rid of that thing right now, or I'm leaving!" The bike was gone within the hour. (Not his real name)
Ben Taub hospital in Houston has a psychiatric emergency room.
I went there in crisis some years back. I needed to be there.
It sucks to be there, but it's a safe place.
I work at a hospital in Oakland. One of the nurses was held ip yesterday. Luckily, the security ran the off. But the damn clerk on my floor was like, "That was this morning calm down." I had to tell her, "You've been here too long."
Medical workers are like military people, they are badass MF's. So are all first responders like policemen, firefighters. Also hell yeah for teachers.
When I was 2, I stunk. I stunk to high heaven. I was bathed, changed, my mom cleaned out my ears, brushed my teeth. I was the youngest of 6 and my mom had never encountered this issue. You don't say that often by the time you get to kid #6. My mom finally capitulated and took me to the doctor. I'd shoved a pea so far up my nose, in that warm and wet environment, it fucking SPROUTED! The doctor had to stick forceps up my nostril and pull it out. I was 2, so I screamed and showed ZERO gratitude. By the following week, I'd done it again. My mom had to learn how to triage the situation and handle it, preferably, before it got to the "doctor visit" level of emergency.
This was fast moving and moving and entertaining as well as educational. Thank you for sharing a day in the life... Or something like that
Woooo we love Kevin!!! Badass MuFKR for sure 💪 thanks for highlighting such a great nurse!!!!
As far as the problem with the psych units and everything in Michigan in Ann Arbor specifically University of Michigan hospital has a specific psych ER
@Steveioe ! Please do a BAMF with an OBGYN. I'd love to hear those stories of women needing help & finally getting it, &the rampant misinformation!
Severe concussion from horseback riding at age 10. Had to re-learn numbers and letters. Put a helmet on. Afterward, I wasn't eager to learn to skateboard or ride on a motorcycle. Had to get used to the idea of driving a car, which terrified me at first. Not so sure we shouldn't wear them while driving. Farm kids either live, or they don't. VERY few safety concerns. We were "adults" as soon as we could do chores. Conversely; we had little difficulty transitioning years later. So there's a grey area.
I understand the cussing can be a lot for people. But work in medical (I've worked as a counselor, a case manager, and a social worker in addiction treatment and mental health) and you'll not only tolerate the cussing, you'll likely participate. Google correlation between cussing and intelligence.
Ok this is a wacky wild dream of mine that I am ok with not happening cause it’s so out there, but oh man if Dan Flynn from Nightwatch was ever on here. I’d love to hear about his nursing career since his EMS career was the main focus of Nightwatch
I had this buddy in undergrad, she was a cardiac ICU nurse who worked fri-sun night shift, then came all week to class to change careers, she was insane, I don't know how she did that then went home to her kiddo.😊
We are lucky in that we have separate psych ER for adults in our area. Idk about children.
The onion thing pairs well with the potatoes in the socks to ‘cure’ a cold/flu. The only thing worse (you’ve already covered this) is do NOT use food on a burn! Not butter, not mayo, not mustard. This includes a sunburn.
In an adult ER where I was doing rotations in PA school, we would occasionally see women who shoved potatoes in to be a pessary...and they can grow vines.
Thanks!
My aunt was a trauma surgeon at a level 1 trauma center in Portland, Oregon and she would call motorcycles; donorcycles and murdersickles
I always wanted one but becoming a parent killed that idea
I really hope that the psych part of the er gets worked out. I was a psych patient about a month and a half ago and I'm 14, I was supposed to go to a cbat (Community Based Acute Treatment) but I had to stay in the er for 2 and a half days and my thing was not behavior, I was really struggling and it was my idea to get a psych evaluation bc I knew that I needed it. The first night I was in the hallway, but then the second I was put in adult section 12 (lockdown) and I was told that I was getting a room finally and then was locked in an empty room with a stretcher. I was told that I was there since I didn't have a room and that was the only one available, I was triggered and my dad came and was calmly advocating for me and they said that he can take me out ama but that then I couldn't go into a cbat, so we stayed there and then a social worker was upset that my dad was advocating and tried to get security to escort him out but the head of security said that he didn't do anything wrong and let him stay with me. I was then put into an inpatient and after a week of being there for no reason and waiting for a cbat I finally got one. But when I was in the er I wasn't allowed off my stretcher or allowed to shower, then I was very traumatized at the cbat as well. I really hope that the treatment for psych patients improves soon for psych patients.
God bless you, honey. Being a teenager isn't easy. Hang in there.
I need a helmet just walking around my house! I don't know how many times I have tripped over my own 2 feet and given myself a concussion. Oh, and the time I gave myself a black eye because I forgot I put a shelf above where my shoes were and I bent over to put my shoes on, raised up and the corner of the shelf stopped my face from going straight up.
I'm graceful like you! 😊
@@TarsaMom-2 so is my husband. Lol
Hey first time tuning in to the podcast I've watched a lot of shorts.
The issue when it comes to psych Care if there is any sane person that cares for a person who isn't ends up going insane themselves. that's what we saw when there were dedicated places for psych patients.
Debriefing is critical in an ED or any critical care environment, especially when things go sideways. I've been an RN for 50 yrs. ( retired) & I had such a traumatic experience in the NICU, that I couldn't go back to that NICU again. There was NO debriefing after this traumatic event and everyone was traumatized- to the point I ran into another RN that was in the room 12 yrs. later and that event was the first thing she wanted to talk about.
(It involved open cardiac massage in an infant.)
I almost rode a bike without a helmet one time, but instead I fell on my patella and broke it. So, while it wasn't the lesson I thought I'd learn, I'm definitely not getting on a bike anytime soon.
What if I choose not to give Ibuprofen/Tylenol so the fever can do it's work? Sometimes I just want to know whether it's contagious, not necessarily to help them "feel better". Not that I want my child to suffer, but if it's not a big deal, don't make it one.
To a point..it can come to the point of febrile seizures, though. They can also get so miserable they can't drink, can't sleep - it prolongs the illness and can make them weaker. If the fever is over 101.3 meds can make the illness more tolerable, eases the pain, too.
Where have you been Steve--O😅
I niece just became a paramedic. She is 30 and has a 11 year old and 5 year old. She is working a 48 hour shift in a rural community. She gets 4 days off which works for her to be with her family. I don't know how she can do this.
growing up my parents were bikers they had a friend who was riding his motorbike he had a helmet and full leathers on got hit off flew over the top of the car slid a long road and was dead straight away paramedics arrived couldn't see a mark on him assumed he died from shock until they unzipped his jacket and all his lower abdominal organs had broke through the skin.
Old Italians put hot onions in socks around a coughing persons neck , to ease a congested chest. The smell must have went right up a stuffed nose too!!😂😂
don’t mess with unions; unions are important. if you don’t like yrs, change it. shortterm loss for longterm gain for the greatest amount of people, that’s whyfor a union.
sign me,
very epileptic but can still sing you the old union songs i grew up on ~
~ or @least i could had i not been intubated about ten days ago when i fought off four nurses & a security guard &, believe you me, i am pretty small
Are u still working in medical?
I lived in Oakland for 24 years. Is East Oakland, like around 82nd and Bancroft, still murder ground zero? 52nd and MLK? That was never a great neighborhood.
As a person from Europe GSWs are unfathomable. Butt it's not roses here. After strong winds a couple of kids died under falling trees, mostly because of irresponsible parents. :/
The person cussing (not the nurse from children's hospital who seems to be very respectful and competent) was an er nurse at Alta bates in Oakland when a family member had panciatitus this nurse was so full of him self that he couldn't be bother to actually examine him. He was very condescending and degrading and because the person was in extreme pain he accused him of faking being ill to get pain medication. He was sent home without being examined and collapsed at work the next day. Thank God he was close to Marin general...my loved one was in the hospital for two weeks had surgery and was very lucky to have survived. I wonder how many people this person has murdered because of his arrogance. This was a few years ago. He seems to have gotten worse. If this guy is you nurse be very scared.
If u r talking about Steve, he wasn't the ER nurse who examine pts. He worked as med tech, i.e. ER nurse assistant.
Steve was an ER Tech (EMT), not an RN. They do not do assessments. Additionally, he never worked in Oakland. He worked at Stanford in Palo Alto and UCLA in LA. So there’s that. Sorry your family member went through a rough time and got really sick, however it isn’t Steve’s fault. In fact, you’re misidentifying him entirely.
Donor bikes = meat crayon = squid
7:26 u say trauma bonding in passing tfw wut. the way he talks about restraints is much different to yours his is more compassionate yours is more basically time and money and bitches lols. tfw = that face when i do think about i think about how nursing seems to be a idk a large percentage of watching ppl die for money. how does that not effect u? 35:05 narcistic systems and u keep talking about it in passing of ahh trauma bonding just another day at work. tfw there is somthing wrong here. caffeine nothing to see here a acceptable addiction? happy disfunctional family more like narcistic family and systems and people. wtf are u guys talking about. it hurts my brain. u have training and words and u dont use them. why?
43:45 i have to say that point is true. so when i went to hopsital i found only person really there for me was actually a security guard. he was a nurse in philippines before he came to canada and didnt want to do it anymore. and basically even though that whole expirences fucking sucked and narcissistic people in police. and yet he was there and present and held space. its not calm confidence its somthing more its holding space.
call out patients as narcissistic will not call out ppl u work with on the dayly as narcissistic fucking double standards. and basically thin blue line. bs
these are too hard
You got a sister?
Too much extreme cussing for me and a lot of others, I’m sure. The info might be really good but Can’t seem to block out the irritating language with my mind. I enjoy your “make light of it” shorts, but…. 😮😢
🙄 I've heard worse. Also, the title of his video is "Bad Ass Motherf*ckers". You should assume it's going to have lots of cussing.
Grow up! They are just words!
The name of the podcast might have been a clue…
It pains me how calmly they talk about it, because they see this almost everyday. it genuinely hurts. I hope all nurses realize we appreciate you so so much, and we thank you. I can’t imagine how traumatic it is, working in the medical and police field.❤️🩹❤️🩹