I knew I was a real nurse when I was eating potluck, stopped to change a nasty code brown amd then went right back to potluck without a second thought.
Watching this after a terrible, HORRIBLE 14.5 hour shift with no lunch. I am so emotionally drained that I started crying when you talked about how much you love nursing. And nurses are caring and love our community. That is why I got into nursing. Thanks for that reminder!
Rachel Weber girl I feel this was stuck at work during a snowstorm and ended up being on the floor from 7am to nearly 1am because the person who was supposed to relieve me called out 13 hours in advance. Even worse, they knew they had no one to relieve me but didn’t tell me to the last second. On top of that was supposed to finally leave the floor and my pt fell of the floor into the Mat. The understaffing on my subacute ventilator unit is insane
@@Laurinska08 That was very horrible and exhausting. I couldn't imagine myself surviving that. I don't know you but I feel like I want to give you a hug. But it's because of people like you, that nursing has become such a noble profession. The system sucks especially the understaffing in your unit. They should really try to fix that because we, nurses, deserve better. I hope you recover from that. Wishing you all the best!
I was raised by a nurse. At one point she worked the graveyard shift. Sometimes, I'd be leaving for school as she was just coming home. And yes, she did share nursing stories. And yes, she loved her coffee.
I’ve been a nurse for 29 years. I started in a cardiac ICU. What has allowed me to avoid burn out is reducing the number of hours I work. I’ve known nurses who work 4 & 5 - 12 hr shifts per week. By the 4th shift they’re a mess. Not me! Two 12 hr nite shifts & one 8 hr evening shift was perfect when I had a school age child. Now I work 4 - 8hr shifts in cardiac rehab. At 67, I absolutely love my job & do not plan to retire anytime soon.
Dating a nursing student, I myself am an EMT/Fire major. I think our two careers are the best because we both have these same traits and we both will understand each other and be there for each other
When I was a new nurse, I would call my husband on the ride home, crying about how mean the older nurses could be, how the doctors could be such jerks, and how hard the shift was...He would just put me on speaker and watch TV while I cried and complained...fast forward 20 years later...I am glad that I stuck with it, and God bless my husband's soul for being my practice patient, my shoulder to cry on and my best friend for all of those years!!!!
After 32 years as an RN, my idea of a good day off is: #1: 3-4 hours at my favorite Barnes & Noble. #2: No company whatsoever. #3: No company whatsoever. #4: NO COMPANY WHATSOEVER! The money is good; the career blows. I laugh when I hear various nurses complain about money. I had to leave Pittsburgh to make serious money, but my girlfriend and I were traveling Operating Room nurses for years. We made "stupid money" working throughout New England. Our best assignments were working small O.R.s up and down the coast of Maine. I made well in excess of 100k annually in those years. For a single guy without children living in Pittsburgh, I saved and invested enough to be comfortably retired by the time I turned 55. And we never worked 12 months a year - not even close.
Stephen Pruszenski that’s awesome!! I hope one day I can be that way with finances. I’m trying to budget and save but I do have kids 5 of them! So it’s a lot harder for someone like me.
Amber Gray , wow! 5 kids?! Yeah, that will be hard to replicate what the original commenter has managed to do! And to be honest, not many nurses would be able to do that anyway. Usually the best money to be made, working as a nurse, is through an agency. Or work as a casual employee. At least that is my experience working as a RN in Australia. Agency nurses get paid way more than nurses who have a contract to work either full time or part time in a specific hospital. And with 5 dependants, it is better to have the consistency of a contract and guaranteed regular shifts. At least in my opinion. However, I would be very happy for you if you somehow managed to make enough money as a nurse to retire at 55. I don’t have any dependants/kids or husband, and I can’t imagine how I would be able to retire early. Although, that would be an absolute dream! That would be so good!! 😃
Leanne Paxton lol!! It would be amazing!! I don’t know I’ll be able to come close but at least I will support my kids! That’s good to know about agencies! Thanks for that information. And yes 5 kids is hard work on top of school and a full time job while going to school full time! But I’m doing it with the help of my husband thank god! If it weren’t for my husband I don’t think I could pull it all off!! He’s absolutely amazing and so helpful and so supportive! He knows how much I love medicine and working in the medical field!!
@@amberdean374 , I'm really pleased that you have a supportive husband, because it would be so incredibly difficult to do everything you are doing, along with having 5 kids to look after without that support. I can only really speak of agency work in Australia, it may be different in other countries, however, one of the reasons why agency work is so well paid over here, is that through an agency you don't get paid holiday leave or paid sick leave or paid maternity leave. Also you are not usually guaranteed shifts or a set amount of hours to work per week. But if you are willing to work in any area of nursing, and you live in an area with plenty of hospitals close by, you should be able to get plenty of work. If you specialise in a specific area, one that not just any agency nurse could go work in for a day, you will be even more in demand. For example, I have worked as a RN in renal dialysis for 12, almost 13 years, it's an area that only experienced dialysis nurses can work in. No dialysis unit would accept any nurse to work there without the experience. Also having experience in intensive care nursing is a huge bonus. Emergency room nursing experience will always be a benefit. Find an area of nursing you love and go from there, get experience first. But if it happens that your passion is in a specialized area, not just on a regular ward (not that there is anything wrong with that , ) you will be in demand. One last thing, I know you have kids, but if you are willing to work public holidays, weekends, nights or even just the evening shift, you should get a higher rate of pay, depending on what country you live in. Especially public holidays. Where I work, agency and casual staff get double time and a half for working public holidays. So if your hourly rate is normally $40/hour, on a public holiday you would earn $100/hour. That's a decent amount of money for one day of working! Anyway, good luck out there. I hope you do really well. 😀
I have no intent of being a nurse but you all have my respect 101%. You guys seriously are heroes, tough as hell, and I more than appreciate all of your hard work!
#8-- MANY times I didn't sit down to chart until 7:30 when the next shift took over my patients--- ALL 18!!!!! of them and I had to WRITE my notes with pen and paper!!!!! I very often didn't leave until 9: 00 or later.... sooooooo glad after 35 years, I have pasted that point in my career!!!
I’m lucky that my boyfriend is in it for the long haul. I’ve just started prereqs for nursing. Second semester starts this month. And we’ve got a long road ahead of us. And he’s 100% supportive of me and my career and I couldn’t be more grateful for him and his support. ❤️
I literally had a guy tell me I'm too much for him or too stressful for him because i told him I need me time after I leave work at the hospital since I need time to decompress -_-
You’re answering call lights, running with a crash cart, giving report, last-minute code brown and pumps beeping at you all the way down the hall and almost to the time-clock. You can’t go from that straight to watching The Voice and eating popcorn. You need CISD. A (critical incident stress debriefing) and a cocktail to unwind all that!
Thank you. I’m pre-nursing I felt kinda bummed out about how much I’m missing out with life but you really brought me back to how much I’m passionate about this subject and how I thrive to learn more about nursing. Thank you!
@@NurseBlake I thought you were going to say just kidding after you said that one. I make alot of money and am ebarrassed each time we have to renew our contract and we ask for MORE money!!!
The sleep is SO TRUE... And I feel like maybe its because we spend so much mental energy thinking at a critically high level for such a very long time that it can take hours to DAYs of sleeping to truly process and sift through it all enough to where we feel like we are healthy humans again.
@@NurseBlake Talking about working 5 12 (well more like 13.5 without lunch) shifts in a roll, slept for 29 hours until my cat started to bang the door and thought I was dead. LOL
One time I was so tired and just came home after my morning shift and as soon as I entered the door ( girl, I didn't even put down my bag yet ), my bf asked me if we have food!! Dang I swear I lost it and he saw the side of me he never wanted to see! 😅
2 major summer and 2 winter holidays, rotated weekends, mandatory overtime. After 3 12 shifts, we need a day to recover. We strip down in the garage, shower before we do anything, and launder our scrubs separately. Shifts are 12 hours of work and two hours of charting after report. When working, I can triple my calories and not gain weight. And dont expect me to cook when I get home.
The irony of it: doctors, nurses, and trainers recommending us not to have caffeinated drinks because of the risk of kidney stones. Doctors and nurses NEEDING caffeine. 😒😒
Don't forget telling patients that "several to nine hours of sleep per night is mandatory for good health, not a suggestion". Then never experiencing it. Lol
I am a nursing instructor and plan to show this to the graduating seniors. I think they need a "pick me up" during Covid-19. This video is perfect! Thanks Blake, this fits with my class on "transition to the profession!" Your enthusiasm is so special! I think my students will give you five stars!
Wow, this is amazingly accurate worldwide. I’m a registered nurse and have worked in both the UK and Australia and every single thing you have said in this video applies to me 100%. I have to share this video with my family and everyone who is in my life, because I think they believe that it is just me that is like this. But to have this validation that this is just what a nurse’s life is like actually means a lot to me. Thank you so much for making this great video, Nurse Blake. I appreciate you. 😃😘
When you said you like to eat life savers and you got that excited look on your face I really thought you were going to spot the irony in that . You are what you eat ! Life savers !
LOL story time, yes! I just had my gallbladder taken out 2 days ago, and while I was in the recovery room I heard ALL kinds of stories (most of them complaining about irresponsible patients that gave them extra work) that the nurses were telling each other. I managed to remember them (I was very loopy with all the meds), brought them home and entertained my family for these 2 days with those 5 hours worth of stories. It was great. It made the misery of post op pain worth it.
True, true, true...All raw truth! I’m glad you’re educating others on our lifestyles as in being nurses. People could take our natural responses personal, interpret them as ignoring them. I didn’t really think about how some of these things I do in being a nurse effect those around me in my personal life :Especially the greeting after work( as much as I love hugs, I don’t want any right after a shift: I head straight home, strip my scrubs off in the garage before walking into the house and go straight to the shower.... germaphobe!) Also, the need for decompression, sleep , the longer than 12 hour shifts, missing out on holidays and weekends. Kudos to you for your videos.
I’m a Cna and I work 3 times a week double shifts, and even weekend. And I also have college and family. And yes I love sleeping when ever I can. My husband and kids know when I sleep, don’t bother her. 😂
Nursing student here 🙋 Former crisis psychotherapist, I see patients as they come, no ratio 😥. Charting keeps me at least 1 unpaid OT. You nailed it. Work every other weekend and I treasure sleep and lazy days. Most romantic first date, a guy meeting me at my local Starbucks to hand me over a venti almond milk latte and a plain bagel, as I rushed to school 😍
My mom works 5-6 12 hour shifts a week :/ she hasn’t had thanksgiving or christmas off for 6 years and always has to pick up overtime so we can afford college. Appreciate your nurses!
PREACH!!!! 👍 Spot on, Nurse Blake...I was a lab tech for 100yrs (it feels that long!). I had to do cultures on some really gross, infected wounds...you know what I’m talking about without going into details! Clipping 4” nasty curled-under, 78yr old toenails harder than granite, that haven’t seen the light of day in the past 20rs, for fungal studies! Working as a Pathology tech was my favorite!!! Like you said, we can be at a fancy night out/dinner, everyone’s eating, and it’s so normal for us (ppl in the medical field) to talk about the amazing teratoma we got in from OR and all the teeth/hair, etc. that we found upon sectioning it! Or, the really interesting post (autopsy) we did that day! I think it’s hard to socialize at times with “normal” ppl not in the medical field...bc we spend SO MUCH time with our “own kind” and it’s how we exist, and why we rarely get invited out with non-medical ppl or they quickly learn NOT to ask about our day after awhile! Lol ❤️👍😇🤕🤒😷🤢🤮💩😬
This is so relatable.. I remember when my family was not used to me having overtime. My father went straight to my supervisor and ask me to go home on the dot. It was so embarrasing after explaining to my family about we make sure our patient is safe before we off to work they became more understanding a little bit😅..
Nurse Blake..is the reason I owned my name as Nurse Guda..I watched you a whole year and this year I started my channel..I always believe I will get there
My mom is a retired nurse, retired in '21, and growing up, I always LOVED the stories!!! She spent most of her career in end of life care, so it fascinated me what she'd said dying patients were seeing as they were dying (not all of it peaceful, by the way) or when she worked pediatric hospice, I loved to hear about some of the talks she had with her, usually 8-13 year old patients about death. Those stories really helped me in my journey as a patient, so I'm ALWAYS up for a crazy, somewhat morbid, or grotesque story!! That was our family dinners back in the day!! Edit: Not to mention, as a frequent flyer around the hospital complex in my city, I have plenty of weird, crazy, and grotesque stories of my own with the 36 surgeries I've had. For reference, I'm 39.
It can be especially hard for the nurses who have kids. My aunt has a little boy and used to work night shift. So it was very hard for her to find time to hang out with her son because during the day, she was usually too busy recharging for her next shift.
So, I live in Australia and half of the stuff you were talking about (working 12-13 hour shifts and not having a break) thats illegal here lol so glad I don't have that issue.
it is illegal. one hospital has to pay their employees big tme for every minutes that they missed to pay their employees thats including those missed meals and overtime when they were reported to the Department of Labor,
In nursing school and I'm already the nurse for the family! >.< And the snacks! We're doing 12h clinical days and SNACKS ARE THE THING!!. I love my snacks.
My fav nurse is Barry; I "think" his specialty was/is something like (I'm sorry I can't remember exactly!) But he was the nurse who took care of my dad after he had a massive brain tumor removed- he was a surgical nurse of some kind- he retaught Dad how to do everything before PT & everybody else ever got ahold of him! I mean, this dear man taught him to swallow his meals, how to use a straw again, got him up & walking...took out his main line (it was intense!) I mean- & made us all laugh! Then, he's chatting to us, teaching a nursing student to be excellent- then a pt next door starts screaming, swearing, and seizing- he runs over there & takes care of that poor guy! (There's A LOT of swearing on the brain trauma/surg floor, folks- pts just swear a lot & don't care- they have damaged brains on that floor) but we just adored him & still talk about him. I think God gave him the best post op, surg nurse! He carried a fanny pack on his waist full of everything including a flash light- he was just so cool! ❤❤❤Thank You, Barry. We never forget your awesome care! You inspire excellence in skill, care, and kindness!
You are hilarious! It so real. I touched my first patient in 1969 and being a nurse hasn’t changed. Especially #4. My kids learned to tolerate my stories.
Home health nurse here 👋🏻 I work between 60-72 hrs a week. I’m the primary nurse in the home. Money’s good, days are long. May not be as hectic as the hospital, but still takes a toll. I used to work in a nursing home and that was a lot to handle.
Stories is definitely me. They always seem to pop up in my head at the weirdest times and I have to share. And details, I HAVE to get into graphic details, especially if it involves any type of sebaceous cysts.
New sub here I just found you. CNA work is not easy either. I was a CNA for over 10 years. Working in a nursing home is no joke. Hard work yet very rewarding.
I love you and your videos. I’m a CNA/ Unit Secretary in the OR and what you said in this video is so true. Keep the videos coming I share them with all my friends and family even if they are not nurses. 💕
💯% You are spot on! I've been a nurse since 1998. I love your videos. Thank you for adding some realness and humor to our profession. Keep up the great content!
My girlfriend is a nurse and I am about to start a 2nd degree nursing program, which she has helped me get to this point. It's funny though, I already have a lot of these traits and I'm not even a nurse yet. It was meant to be😂
I always love to sleep in. When I took vacations with family and friends, they complain I slept a lot. I told them I felt I was on holidays when I watched commercials with them. Lol.
OMG...I laughed SO hard at this video because it's SO accurate!!! My husband and I are both night shift RNs...I am SO lucky & thankful to have him because we know how hard being a nurse is. But literally everything you said is SO true!! (Ex. Coming home after work we avoid each other like a plague, get pretty much naked in the garage and hose down every morning before touchin because we have literal pee, blood and MRSA on us😅)
I can totally relate to the snacking and coffee, and sleep. I am always on my feet, and after a long 12 hour or longer day, my body is wiped out, so coffee helps! Also because we are always on our feet, sleep is my best friend. haha
NURSE BLAKE AND DOCTOR MIKE COLLAB. PLEASE. PRETTY PLEASE.
marielle navarro omg that’d be a DREAM. My two favorite you tubers.
I'd watch that
YES
Omg yass
marielle navarro
Ikr
Married a nurse and found that the best way to get through all of these was to just go to nursing school myself.
I knew I was a real nurse when I was eating potluck, stopped to change a nasty code brown amd then went right back to potluck without a second thought.
HahahHa yes!!!!
Yep
Yup!
How about chewing gum with a chest cracked open looking at a GSW in the pulmonary artery directed by a very excited ER doc
😂
Watching this after a terrible, HORRIBLE 14.5 hour shift with no lunch. I am so emotionally drained that I started crying when you talked about how much you love nursing. And nurses are caring and love our community. That is why I got into nursing. Thanks for that reminder!
Rachel Weber girl I feel this was stuck at work during a snowstorm and ended up being on the floor from 7am to nearly 1am because the person who was supposed to relieve me called out 13 hours in advance. Even worse, they knew they had no one to relieve me but didn’t tell me to the last second. On top of that was supposed to finally leave the floor and my pt fell of the floor into the Mat. The understaffing on my subacute ventilator unit is insane
I understand because I work as a housekeeper at saint Francis medical center
@@Laurinska08 That was very horrible and exhausting. I couldn't imagine myself surviving that. I don't know you but I feel like I want to give you a hug. But it's because of people like you, that nursing has become such a noble profession. The system sucks especially the understaffing in your unit. They should really try to fix that because we, nurses, deserve better. I hope you recover from that. Wishing you all the best!
Yes we definitely need reminders why we became nurses in the first place... I think he sums it up well.. because we're amazing!!
That should be illegal.
“Don’t marry us for the money, cuz we ain’t got no money” 🥰
Second that emotion
The accuracy is surreal
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Exactly. We are not rich.
“We don’t spend money wisely, we spend it on shopping.” 🤣
True
Cause we know how fragile life is, but bills ain't going nowhere.
Yes. It was a question on the NYCLEX. 😉
hahah this part killed me bc it sounds like my friend who’s a nurse lmao
When people wake me up while I'm sleeping after a 12 hour shift it's the worst thing in the world. It's my worst nightmare.
Shonge Chekenyere I HATE being woken up!!! I am such a bear when I get woken up!! My poor husband 😂
I do back to back 16’s on the weekend and I want to smack anyone who wakes me up or moves me or even dares to breathe near me the following day
I was raised by a nurse. At one point she worked the graveyard shift. Sometimes, I'd be leaving for school as she was just coming home. And yes, she did share nursing stories. And yes, she loved her coffee.
I’ve been a nurse for 29 years. I started in a cardiac ICU. What has allowed me to avoid burn out is reducing the number of hours I work. I’ve known nurses who work 4 & 5 - 12 hr shifts per week. By the 4th shift they’re a mess. Not me! Two 12 hr nite shifts & one 8 hr evening shift was perfect when I had a school age child. Now I work 4 - 8hr shifts in cardiac rehab. At 67, I absolutely love my job & do not plan to retire anytime soon.
Married for 20 years a nurse for 19 years, and MY HUSBAND STILL DOESN’T UNDERSTAND I NEED SLEEP! 🙄😂
How about a nurse dating a nurse? My wife and I are both RNs
Jon Jeys are y'all wealthy?
@@Namronnnn45 money isn't everything
Really cool did you guys meet at school or work? Or was it just something else.
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Dating a nursing student, I myself am an EMT/Fire major. I think our two careers are the best because we both have these same traits and we both will understand each other and be there for each other
Nurse and police/fire are a good match!
mmmm... maybe I should date a fire fighter
That’s great!!
I have a question
If a person has a headache what’s the best way to get rid of it and what’s the best thing to do for it ?
I was wandering if we can talk on the phone and about nursing I volunteer but I love to tell u about it just ask for my WhatsApp number if u want?
“When I talk to my dog I talk about nursing” 😂
When I was a new nurse, I would call my husband on the ride home, crying about how mean the older nurses could be, how the doctors could be such jerks, and how hard the shift was...He would just put me on speaker and watch TV while I cried and complained...fast forward 20 years later...I am glad that I stuck with it, and God bless my husband's soul for being my practice patient, my shoulder to cry on and my best friend for all of those years!!!!
After 32 years as an RN, my idea of a good day off is: #1: 3-4 hours at my favorite Barnes & Noble. #2: No company whatsoever. #3: No company whatsoever. #4: NO COMPANY WHATSOEVER! The money is good; the career blows. I laugh when I hear various nurses complain about money. I had to leave Pittsburgh to make serious money, but my girlfriend and I were traveling Operating Room nurses for years. We made "stupid money" working throughout New England. Our best assignments were working small O.R.s up and down the coast of Maine. I made well in excess of 100k annually in those years. For a single guy without children living in Pittsburgh, I saved and invested enough to be comfortably retired by the time I turned 55. And we never worked 12 months a year - not even close.
Stephen Pruszenski that’s awesome!! I hope one day I can be that way with finances. I’m trying to budget and save but I do have kids 5 of them! So it’s a lot harder for someone like me.
Amber Gray , wow! 5 kids?! Yeah, that will be hard to replicate what the original commenter has managed to do! And to be honest, not many nurses would be able to do that anyway. Usually the best money to be made, working as a nurse, is through an agency. Or work as a casual employee. At least that is my experience working as a RN in Australia. Agency nurses get paid way more than nurses who have a contract to work either full time or part time in a specific hospital. And with 5 dependants, it is better to have the consistency of a contract and guaranteed regular shifts. At least in my opinion.
However, I would be very happy for you if you somehow managed to make enough money as a nurse to retire at 55. I don’t have any dependants/kids or husband, and I can’t imagine how I would be able to retire early. Although, that would be an absolute dream! That would be so good!! 😃
Leanne Paxton lol!! It would be amazing!! I don’t know I’ll be able to come close but at least I will support my kids! That’s good to know about agencies! Thanks for that information. And yes 5 kids is hard work on top of school and a full time job while going to school full time! But I’m doing it with the help of my husband thank god! If it weren’t for my husband I don’t think I could pull it all off!! He’s absolutely amazing and so helpful and so supportive! He knows how much I love medicine and working in the medical field!!
@@amberdean374 , I'm really pleased that you have a supportive husband, because it would be so incredibly difficult to do everything you are doing, along with having 5 kids to look after without that support.
I can only really speak of agency work in Australia, it may be different in other countries, however, one of the reasons why agency work is so well paid over here, is that through an agency you don't get paid holiday leave or paid sick leave or paid maternity leave. Also you are not usually guaranteed shifts or a set amount of hours to work per week. But if you are willing to work in any area of nursing, and you live in an area with plenty of hospitals close by, you should be able to get plenty of work. If you specialise in a specific area, one that not just any agency nurse could go work in for a day, you will be even more in demand. For example, I have worked as a RN in renal dialysis for 12, almost 13 years, it's an area that only experienced dialysis nurses can work in. No dialysis unit would accept any nurse to work there without the experience. Also having experience in intensive care nursing is a huge bonus. Emergency room nursing experience will always be a benefit.
Find an area of nursing you love and go from there, get experience first. But if it happens that your passion is in a specialized area, not just on a regular ward (not that there is anything wrong with that , ) you will be in demand.
One last thing, I know you have kids, but if you are willing to work public holidays, weekends, nights or even just the evening shift, you should get a higher rate of pay, depending on what country you live in. Especially public holidays. Where I work, agency and casual staff get double time and a half for working public holidays. So if your hourly rate is normally $40/hour, on a public holiday you would earn $100/hour. That's a decent amount of money for one day of working!
Anyway, good luck out there. I hope you do really well. 😀
Leanne Paxton thank you so much! I have thought of PEDs and PICU and NICU as well as OR and trauma. There’s so much to think about!
I have no intent of being a nurse but you all have my respect 101%. You guys seriously are heroes, tough as hell, and I more than appreciate all of your hard work!
I died when he paused and then said “I eat a lot of snacks”. IF THIS ISN’T ME 😂😂😂
Couldn’t be more accurate. My partner of 11 years (9 while I was in school; 2 as an RN)agrees 100%.
If not for him, I wouldn’t be a nurse today.
Aw! :)
My profs always play your videos in class to break up lectures😂😂❤️
That's so awesome!!
Please don't say profs it's so cringe
My profs totally should😩😩
@@Dbf1339 It's cringe that you spelled survivor wrong in your username >_>
#8-- MANY times I didn't sit down to chart until 7:30 when the next shift took over my patients--- ALL 18!!!!! of them and I had to WRITE my notes with pen and paper!!!!! I very often didn't leave until 9: 00 or later.... sooooooo glad after 35 years, I have pasted that point in my career!!!
I’m lucky that my boyfriend is in it for the long haul. I’ve just started prereqs for nursing. Second semester starts this month. And we’ve got a long road ahead of us. And he’s 100% supportive of me and my career and I couldn’t be more grateful for him and his support. ❤️
Been an RN for 53 years. You are spot on. Retired now and miss it
Being with a police officer is like dating a nurse. I’m married to a Captain Police Officer whose always at work 24/7
I literally had a guy tell me I'm too much for him or too stressful for him because i told him I need me time after I leave work at the hospital since I need time to decompress -_-
I'm not a nurse, but I do understand the need to decompress after work. I actually thought it was a normal thing, so screw that guy. 😂
He is not the right one.
He definitely isn't the right one.
You’re answering call lights, running with a crash cart, giving report, last-minute code brown and pumps beeping at you all the way down the hall and almost to the time-clock. You can’t go from that straight to watching The Voice and eating popcorn. You need CISD. A (critical incident stress debriefing) and a cocktail to unwind all that!
I'm starting nursing school in August and I'm so excited
Still excited? lol
2nd semester w/ med surgical....it’s murder now.
I too wonder how the excitement level fares 😭😂😊
I started in August. I'm still excited. I'm just dead inside and sick. 🤣😂
I'd love to hear how you're going now 😂 I find out tomorrow how I got on in my exams, if I did well enough hopefully I start in September 😬
Thank you. I’m pre-nursing I felt kinda bummed out about how much I’m missing out with life but you really brought me back to how much I’m passionate about this subject and how I thrive to learn more about nursing. Thank you!
"We ain't make that much money" lol favorite line!! 😂😂
LOL
but we SHOULD I mean what would the world do without us
@@NurseBlake I thought you were going to say just kidding after you said that one. I make alot of money and am ebarrassed each time we have to renew our contract and we ask for MORE money!!!
I love sleep!!! 🤣 No one understands what it’s really like to be us nurses haha thanks for sharing!
Haha! Thanks for watching.
The sleep is SO TRUE... And I feel like maybe its because we spend so much mental energy thinking at a critically high level for such a very long time that it can take hours to DAYs of sleeping to truly process and sift through it all enough to where we feel like we are healthy humans again.
I absolutely love sleep too!! Haha
@@NurseBlake Talking about working 5 12 (well more like 13.5 without lunch) shifts in a roll, slept for 29 hours until my cat started to bang the door and thought I was dead. LOL
Gurl, u are so right. Especially the part about nurses ONLY talk in about nursing all day..drives me nuts!
One time I was so tired and just came home after my morning shift and as soon as I entered the door ( girl, I didn't even put down my bag yet ), my bf asked me if we have food!! Dang I swear I lost it and he saw the side of me he never wanted to see! 😅
That's one of the biggest downfalls to nursing. I LOVE what I do... but why do we only get a 30 minute lunch when we work 13 hour shifts??? 🤦🏻♀️
Or it’s just “eat when you can”
@@nude_cat_ellie7417 or “eat if you can”. 😂
You should also get 1 or 2 15 minutes breaks. But good luck in trying to do that as well
2 major summer and 2 winter holidays, rotated weekends, mandatory overtime. After 3 12 shifts, we need a day to recover. We strip down in the garage, shower before we do anything, and launder our scrubs separately. Shifts are 12 hours of work and two hours of charting after report. When working, I can triple my calories and not gain weight. And dont expect me to cook when I get home.
The irony of it: doctors, nurses, and trainers recommending us not to have caffeinated drinks because of the risk of kidney stones. Doctors and nurses NEEDING caffeine. 😒😒
Don't forget telling patients that "several to nine hours of sleep per night is mandatory for good health, not a suggestion". Then never experiencing it. Lol
Love it!!!!! Especially the part of tying any conversation back to a nursing story. My husband hates that 😂
Nurses are the best people EVER. I’m not a nurse but really enjoy your videos. Thank you to all the nurses.
This also applies to teaching. Love your videos. It’s not just 8-5. We do so much more.
Allison’slibraryknook i always said nurses, teachers & first responders are soooo under pair & under appreciated!!! Very grateful for you teachers.
As a nurse, this is 100% true!! ❤
You need a PO box so we can send you some love and snacks!
Yes!!! Sleeping is my favorite thing in the world!!!! My husband finally figured this out!!!!
You popped up on my feed today! Loveee this! 😁
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Me, a nursing student hearing that nurses get to eat snacks throughout the day instead of meals, which is what I do anyway: 👁👄👁
I am a nursing instructor and plan to show this to the graduating seniors. I think they need a "pick me up" during Covid-19. This video is perfect! Thanks Blake, this fits with my class on "transition to the profession!" Your enthusiasm is so special! I think my students will give you five stars!
What Nursing program and school?
Nursing is a lifestyle.
Wow, this is amazingly accurate worldwide. I’m a registered nurse and have worked in both the UK and Australia and every single thing you have said in this video applies to me 100%.
I have to share this video with my family and everyone who is in my life, because I think they believe that it is just me that is like this. But to have this validation that this is just what a nurse’s life is like actually means a lot to me.
Thank you so much for making this great video, Nurse Blake. I appreciate you. 😃😘
Our bodies will naturally wake up. For real!!! Don't wake me up early. 🙄
you can have one doritos but not all my doritos lol
Kimberly Rojas no wiser words have been spoken! 😂
I love the "it says 10 servings, but for me it's about 1 serving" omg I can totally relate
When you said you like to eat life savers and you got that excited look on your face I really thought you were going to spot the irony in that . You are what you eat ! Life savers !
My fiancé needs to watch this video three times 😂😂😂😂
Mom: how was work today
Me: starting a graphic story
Mom: STOP!
LOL story time, yes! I just had my gallbladder taken out 2 days ago, and while I was in the recovery room I heard ALL kinds of stories (most of them complaining about irresponsible patients that gave them extra work) that the nurses were telling each other. I managed to remember them (I was very loopy with all the meds), brought them home and entertained my family for these 2 days with those 5 hours worth of stories. It was great. It made the misery of post op pain worth it.
True, true, true...All raw truth! I’m glad you’re educating others on our lifestyles as in being nurses. People could take our natural responses personal, interpret them as ignoring them. I didn’t really think about how some of these things I do in being a nurse effect those around me in my personal life :Especially the greeting after work( as much as I love hugs, I don’t want any right after a shift: I head straight home, strip my scrubs off in the garage before walking into the house and go straight to the shower.... germaphobe!) Also, the need for decompression, sleep , the longer than 12 hour shifts, missing out on holidays and weekends. Kudos to you for your videos.
I used to work 16 hour shifts as a caregiver in a retirement home and took care of two floors with just 1 other person😕
Just met a nurse, that is awesome, watching these to get a real perspective on what its like. Thanks for the video.
I’m a Cna and I work 3 times a week double shifts, and even weekend. And I also have college and family. And yes I love sleeping when ever I can. My husband and kids know when I sleep, don’t bother her. 😂
This is so true--I'm married to a nurse and one of our daughters is a nurse!
Nursing student here 🙋 Former crisis psychotherapist, I see patients as they come, no ratio 😥. Charting keeps me at least 1 unpaid OT.
You nailed it. Work every other weekend and I treasure sleep and lazy days.
Most romantic first date, a guy meeting me at my local Starbucks to hand me over a venti almond milk latte and a plain bagel, as I rushed to school 😍
My mom works 5-6 12 hour shifts a week :/ she hasn’t had thanksgiving or christmas off for 6 years and always has to pick up overtime so we can afford college. Appreciate your nurses!
PREACH!!!! 👍 Spot on, Nurse Blake...I was a lab tech for 100yrs (it feels that long!). I had to do cultures on some really gross, infected wounds...you know what I’m talking about without going into details! Clipping 4” nasty curled-under, 78yr old toenails harder than granite, that haven’t seen the light of day in the past 20rs, for fungal studies! Working as a Pathology tech was my favorite!!! Like you said, we can be at a fancy night out/dinner, everyone’s eating, and it’s so normal for us (ppl in the medical field) to talk about the amazing teratoma we got in from OR and all the teeth/hair, etc. that we found upon sectioning it! Or, the really interesting post (autopsy) we did that day! I think it’s hard to socialize at times with “normal” ppl not in the medical field...bc we spend SO MUCH time with our “own kind” and it’s how we exist, and why we rarely get invited out with non-medical ppl or they quickly learn NOT to ask about our day after awhile! Lol ❤️👍😇🤕🤒😷🤢🤮💩😬
aaaaah! I needed your energy and smiles😄😄👏💕 Just a 2nd semester nursing student trying not to freak out 97% of the time😱
I loved the 30 seconds where you listed the snacks you eat
Aka junk food pollozza!
This is so relatable.. I remember when my family was not used to me having overtime. My father went straight to my supervisor and ask me to go home on the dot. It was so embarrasing after explaining to my family about we make sure our patient is safe before we off to work they became more understanding a little bit😅..
Number 6 goes for all healthcare people. The hospital becomes the conversation...period.
Preach Nurse Blake! You definitely speak the truth. Sleep is my bestest friend!
OMG you kill me haha I love this so much! "You can have one Doritos but not all my Doritos".
hahaha!!
“You’re married to all our snacks” cracked me up! 😂
My health assessment prof introduced me to your channel and now i can’t stop watching
Or.. how about dating in nursing school?
Don't do it unless you're ready for the consequences of it not working out. Pros vs cons, seriously
Other students? Yeah, no. Don't do it.
Yup....
I mean my relationship is pretty good but like he said we sleep when we hang out Bc I’m so drained from school 😅
I got the job as a nurse today... So happy 😊.... I 🙏 for this
When the rice pudding you're eating reminds you of this wound you cultured... Makes for GREAT story time on date night
Still watching this 4 years later and STILL making me laugh out loud. Can't wait to see Blake live August 26th!!! ❤❤❤
Nurse Blake..is the reason I owned my name as Nurse Guda..I watched you a whole year and this year I started my channel..I always believe I will get there
Story time!! Definitely my favorite. And he's right, can't stop my mouth when it starts
My mom is a retired nurse, retired in '21, and growing up, I always LOVED the stories!!! She spent most of her career in end of life care, so it fascinated me what she'd said dying patients were seeing as they were dying (not all of it peaceful, by the way) or when she worked pediatric hospice, I loved to hear about some of the talks she had with her, usually 8-13 year old patients about death. Those stories really helped me in my journey as a patient, so I'm ALWAYS up for a crazy, somewhat morbid, or grotesque story!! That was our family dinners back in the day!!
Edit: Not to mention, as a frequent flyer around the hospital complex in my city, I have plenty of weird, crazy, and grotesque stories of my own with the 36 surgeries I've had. For reference, I'm 39.
Sharing this with my boyfriend haha! This is great!
Hahaha.
Total doll. Thx Blake 😘
Lol I work like most holidays 😭 and my 7 to 7 is more like a 7 to 8-9pm with all the documentation..the understaffing is wild out here y’all 😂
It can be especially hard for the nurses who have kids. My aunt has a little boy and used to work night shift. So it was very hard for her to find time to hang out with her son because during the day, she was usually too busy recharging for her next shift.
Why are you just like my favorite youtuber ever!!!!!
I had to hit subscribe once you talked about snacks... I knew you spoke truth lol
So, I live in Australia and half of the stuff you were talking about (working 12-13 hour shifts and not having a break) thats illegal here lol so glad I don't have that issue.
it'sOllie it’s actually illegal here I think but...
Kalimba Hamilton It’s illegal here to no have lunch breaks but there are nursing loopholes. Unless you in Cali
it is illegal. one hospital has to pay their employees big tme for every minutes that they missed to pay their employees thats including those missed meals and overtime when they were reported to the Department of Labor,
In nursing school and I'm already the nurse for the family! >.< And the snacks! We're doing 12h clinical days and SNACKS ARE THE THING!!. I love my snacks.
HAHAHA! Me too! I LOVE SNACKS!
Get some pens mate. We loose them like we loose our minds in telling stories with no filter.
My fav nurse is Barry; I "think" his specialty was/is something like (I'm sorry I can't remember exactly!) But he was the nurse who took care of my dad after he had a massive brain tumor removed- he was a surgical nurse of some kind- he retaught Dad how to do everything before PT & everybody else ever got ahold of him! I mean, this dear man taught him to swallow his meals, how to use a straw again, got him up & walking...took out his main line (it was intense!) I mean- & made us all laugh! Then, he's chatting to us, teaching a nursing student to be excellent- then a pt next door starts screaming, swearing, and seizing- he runs over there & takes care of that poor guy! (There's A LOT of swearing on the brain trauma/surg floor, folks- pts just swear a lot & don't care- they have damaged brains on that floor) but we just adored him & still talk about him. I think God gave him the best post op, surg nurse! He carried a fanny pack on his waist full of everything including a flash light- he was just so cool! ❤❤❤Thank You, Barry. We never forget your awesome care! You inspire excellence in skill, care, and kindness!
You are hilarious! It so real. I touched my first patient in 1969 and being a nurse hasn’t changed. Especially #4. My kids learned to tolerate my stories.
Home health nurse here 👋🏻 I work between 60-72 hrs a week. I’m the primary nurse in the home. Money’s good, days are long. May not be as hectic as the hospital, but still takes a toll. I used to work in a nursing home and that was a lot to handle.
Thanks for all the help I’m going to school for nursing start in January 2019
How's it going?
I'm married to a retired nurse. He worked on the same floor, same hospital for 25 years. I'm glad to have him home.
Stories is definitely me. They always seem to pop up in my head at the weirdest times and I have to share. And details, I HAVE to get into graphic details, especially if it involves any type of sebaceous cysts.
New sub here I just found you. CNA work is not easy either. I was a CNA for over 10 years. Working in a nursing home is no joke. Hard work yet very rewarding.
I love you and your videos. I’m a CNA/ Unit Secretary in the OR and what you said in this video is so true. Keep the videos coming I share them with all my friends and family even if they are not nurses. 💕
Yep, we like sleep and food! Also that supportive friend, who's not a nurse and can text anytime.
💯% You are spot on! I've been a nurse since 1998. I love your videos. Thank you for adding some realness and humor to our profession. Keep up the great content!
My girlfriend is a nurse and I am about to start a 2nd degree nursing program, which she has helped me get to this point. It's funny though, I already have a lot of these traits and I'm not even a nurse yet. It was meant to be😂
I always love to sleep in. When I took vacations with family and friends, they complain I slept a lot. I told them I felt I was on holidays when I watched commercials with them. Lol.
OMG...I laughed SO hard at this video because it's SO accurate!!! My husband and I are both night shift RNs...I am SO lucky & thankful to have him because we know how hard being a nurse is. But literally everything you said is SO true!! (Ex. Coming home after work we avoid each other like a plague, get pretty much naked in the garage and hose down every morning before touchin because we have literal pee, blood and MRSA on us😅)
I adore your videos! I am not a nurse by registered license, but I am a nurse by dedicated career.
3:35-4:10 make me smile sooo much cause you literally described me and my life. You crack me up 🤣😂😩😭💀
Dating a nurse = Dating a Police Officer. Same 🙋🏻♀️👮🏻♀️ love my nurses. You guys rock. 😘
I can totally relate to the snacking and coffee, and sleep. I am always on my feet, and after a long 12 hour or longer day, my body is wiped out, so coffee helps! Also because we are always on our feet, sleep is my best friend. haha
I’m studying to work in a hospital lab and this is all super applicable to us too lol. Thanks for the great video!!