The gaslighting of nurses | nurse blaming | Things nurses are NOT doing in 2023

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  • Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
  • Happy New Year!
    This video was inspired by ‪@TheeJessieWoo‬ . She recently posted a video talking about things she does not want to see in 2023 and I was like, hmmm, I can do a nurse edition of that same idea. Thank you seester ‪@TheeJessieWoo‬
    Nurses are the largest workforce in healthcare and yet we are dumped on constantly. There is power in numbers, nurses! We must stand up for ourselves and the profession. #nursing #toxicworkplace

Комментарии • 478

  • @Martha-iz9lr
    @Martha-iz9lr Год назад +12

    And they wonder why they can’t keep people in nursing.

  • @chularn1
    @chularn1 Год назад +168

    In 2023 we’re being supportive to our fellow nurses. Stop the gossiping and trashing of fellow nurses. Stop the cliques. When you learn, you teach-Maya Angelou.
    Thank You Kendra for your informative videos and keeping it real!

    • @chrystallee1563
      @chrystallee1563 Год назад +8

      As a CNA I will no longer work in Retirement homes. I didn’t ‘fit it’ with everyone else on the unit- bullied me and blamed me for anything and everything that went wrong. Even when I was on lunch break or even on my day off!

    • @jenniglenn3433
      @jenniglenn3433 Год назад +2

      Yep

    • @erinnorwood6124
      @erinnorwood6124 Год назад +1

      Yes! This one!

    • @abriaevans757
      @abriaevans757 Год назад +1

      Amen!!!

    • @DiUnadulteratedTruth
      @DiUnadulteratedTruth Год назад +1

      Preach!

  • @DailyWear
    @DailyWear Год назад +132

    I'm not a nurse nor do I aspire to be one but I am addicted to these nursing content.

  • @diamonddivat6919
    @diamonddivat6919 Год назад +15

    Another form of gaslighting example: You and another team member get into a slight debate about a pt and the conversation becomes passionate. After the conversation it gets settled between the two of you. Next the 1 RN you had the debate with goes to the Nurse Manager and says you were to aggressive and things of that nature. The manager calls you into the office and hears your side of the story. The manager then tells you to watch your tone and that you shouldn’t have approached that RN in that manner and disregard your feelings. That’s a form of gaslighting because it’s like the manager believed the other RN side and has already made premeditated judgment about you therefore making you feel like you were wrong.

    • @Brainjoy01
      @Brainjoy01 Год назад

      they make that judgement because they only got one complaint. its definitely okay to document and tell someone. snitching isnt real in the workplace, she could have had your job

  • @judyrobinson3348
    @judyrobinson3348 Год назад +133

    I became a nurse in 1973 and I can tell you after 40 years of nursing the issues did not change . In the beginning we would have been assigned a nursing aide to help us then they got rid of all the aids and decided to go to total patient care RN‘s only. The salary has increased over the years (I started at $2.50 an hour)but the issues are still there. Good for you for speaking out.

    • @denise8783
      @denise8783 Год назад +4

      I enjoy this video...u should send this list to management too. Speak up girl..

    • @iceprincess825
      @iceprincess825 Год назад +5

      So roughly $100 a week???😮

    • @evonjohnson7355
      @evonjohnson7355 Год назад +4

      You go girl. I am in agreement with you.

    • @iceprincess825
      @iceprincess825 Год назад +3

      @@PinkYellowGreen2023 100% true. You have to make nursing work for you. Always put your own interest first.

  • @janetvansky3621
    @janetvansky3621 Год назад +52

    77 y.o. retired RN here. It saddens me that not much has changed since I retired in 2010. I watch your videos in SOLIDARITY. Bless you all.

    • @KendraRN
      @KendraRN  Год назад +4

      Hi Janet! Happy New Year and yes, it’s only getting worse.

    • @janetvansky3621
      @janetvansky3621 Год назад +3

      @@KendraRN Please don't give up, Kendra - nurses like you may very well save the profession.

    • @janetvansky3621
      @janetvansky3621 Год назад +3

      Maybe you could start your own business
      doing trainings for hospitals on how to retain their staff by changing how they manage their nurses???

    • @KendraRN
      @KendraRN  Год назад +3

      @@janetvansky3621 they’re not interested in that. Lol

    • @janetvansky3621
      @janetvansky3621 Год назад +1

      @@KendraRN That's very sad!

  • @BeautifulandRichEmpire
    @BeautifulandRichEmpire 4 месяца назад +1

    I can’t wait to leave this BS profession!

  • @brandillysmom
    @brandillysmom Год назад +6

    As expensive as healthcare is, and this freaking country, there should not be a shortage of any type of hospital staff. I just don’t understand why nurses have to work under these circumstances, and be practically perfect in every way.

  • @toshanasue816
    @toshanasue816 Год назад +6

    Written up for overtime WTH!! That’s crazy

  • @dellwilkson9009
    @dellwilkson9009 Год назад +12

    My daughter is a CNA she is great at it.... the bullying has made look for career change...she has been in the field since 2017…..and I have lived it with her...the highs and lows..my God!!!

  • @tmvernon12
    @tmvernon12 Год назад +66

    Listen up young nurses and learn.
    Old nurse here, retiring soon. Kendra is making some valid points.

    • @EdaRaine
      @EdaRaine Год назад

      Thank you for your work and dedication

    • @SYWH-TruthisReal
      @SYWH-TruthisReal 10 месяцев назад

      I am a new subscriber. I will be an older new nurse, lol! I hope you are enjoying your retirement.

  • @Cariicarky123
    @Cariicarky123 5 месяцев назад +1

    I work in California on the opposite side of the country. Things are so much the same out here… “why aren’t your white boards updated”huddle at the beginning of the shift more important than you concentrating on reviewing patients orders.”don’t tell patients you are short staffed”. “No incidentals overtime” Which means your supposed to leave patient in stool or urine. Last night overheard family complaining to nurse that patient had been waiting in urine for 2 hours to be changed.( because it happened at change of shift time and they won’t allow the day nurse to stay 10 minutes to help change this patient!) and they even fired a nurse in our hospital system for answering the phone when she was off the clock and was trying to help because no one else was answering the phone. You are so right, nurses need to be allowed to prioritize and take care of the most important things for the patients and stopping criticizing us for not updating white boards or checking the hourly round box on the white board like it’s a bathroom at a gas station!

  • @haydie36
    @haydie36 Год назад +53

    I have been a nurse for 20 years and I completely agree with you. As a new nurse I use to go home crying all the time because of all the bs, now I don’t take crap from anybody. My patients come first, if management doesn’t like it, hasta la vista bby

  • @oihcam22
    @oihcam22 Год назад +3

    They love that “don’t tell the patient we’re short staffed” sh*t. So what, I’m supposed to look bad instead of the facility who is actually causing this problem? Yeah no, I’ll tell them in a second that we’re short staffed so they understand the blame is not mine to shoulder.

    • @KendraRN
      @KendraRN  Год назад

      🤣🤣🤣 same. I don’t like to burden the patients with the hospital’s problem but what should I say????

  • @eleonorabartoli2225
    @eleonorabartoli2225 Год назад +74

    I am a CNA and I feel exactly the same way: thank you for speaking out! 💛💛💛

    • @karenkeyser4020
      @karenkeyser4020 Год назад +7

      When I first started being a CNA.....I wanted to be a nurse. No more! We don't want anymore pizza & bowls of candy! Lololo

    • @mariahsisneros7572
      @mariahsisneros7572 10 месяцев назад

      Same. I'm a cna, too, and I'm hoping all of this BS prepares me for when I hit the floor as an LVN. What I've come to learn is that EVERYTHING is the cnas/nurses fault, no matter what! Management/admin suck.

  • @johndoe-wv3nu
    @johndoe-wv3nu 9 месяцев назад +3

    I am a 60 y/o man who has been a nurse for 12 months. I also worked in healthcare in other capacities for 17 years. I understand the struggle. I want to do the right thing for my patients and community. I was taught to question my own views and responsibilities in any given situation. All this healthcare mess would have never happened without us (healthcare workers). We ALLOWED this to happen by being compliant. I dropped out of the workforce for 4 months so far. I will never work in a hospital again. I will not take part in the piss poor care being delivered. If we all did the same things would change! Furthermore, physicians are getting the screws, they need to do the same. Healthcare needs to be governed by people who care about people. It's presently being governed by people who worship the almighty dollar. Solidarity. Support. I'm just a bit demoralized.

  • @paulburry593
    @paulburry593 Год назад +4

    Gaslighting is such a huge problem!!! Be nice to each other please! The elephant in the room is consistently missed when it comes to caring for our nurses. Try witnessing multiple deaths, emergencies, sick people, mental illness, questions from your friends and family about health related issues constantly! Then on top of it have colleagues spread fictitious rumour's about other team member's, people talking smack about you. Trust vs mistrust is a continuim throughout the profession!! The job is hard enough. Please respect your nurses, this RN has a point!!

  • @christinesoderlund4491
    @christinesoderlund4491 Год назад +36

    LOL. You are right on ! I have been a bedside RN for almost 24 years. I am leaving nursing because it is too toxic! Everything you said is so true. At the hospital I work for they mandate you. No secretary, no HCT, and most of the time the RNs have to empty the trash and dirty linens out of the patients room. Management is so out of touch. Huddle is long, always telling us to keep the place clean and yes the almighty white boards! OUR magnet status and Press Ganey scores are all that really matter! If you are a new nurse , be confident in who you are and your ability. Always document and write a note about what you did when your patient has gone bad. That way you can protect yourself if someone accuses you of being incompetent. Kendra you are right on ! Love you! I wish that I could have worked alongside of you! Who ever does is blessed! As are your patients and employer!

    • @KoreaMojo
      @KoreaMojo Год назад +4

      You said it. For mgmt it's all appearance while the core is rotting out.

    • @yvonnebrownlee2025
      @yvonnebrownlee2025 Год назад +1

      Many illnesses we experience-ie hypertension, diabetes, overweight etc part of the many occupational hazards nursing! Then to tell them to clock out then return to finish their work…..?! to eliminate ot!?15:02

    • @livin4menow422
      @livin4menow422 Год назад +2

      Yep! I've been a nurse for 23 years. I'm out.

    • @Brainjoy01
      @Brainjoy01 Год назад

      so we shouldnt enter nursing right now?@@livin4menow422

  • @kaylahood1000
    @kaylahood1000 Год назад +1

    Nurses need to stop talking down on the CNA’s and being rude. I use to be a CNA in a nursing home and I encountered a nurse who was really rude I wanted to cuss her out so bad. Because I don’t care what extra initials you have behind your name your not going to talk to me or anybody else in a rude way. When I become a nurse I don’t want to be a rude nurse towards my aides because I was a CNA although I wasn’t a CNA for years. I took care of my grandmother for years. And if she was living today I would do it all over again. I enjoyed taking care of my grandmother in her home. I will never work in LTC anymore. Thanks for the video.

  • @bxbee1100
    @bxbee1100 Год назад +6

    Not taking the blame for short staff!!!! I felt that. I NEVER STAY LATE ( MY clinic doesn't pay overtime) and I get attitude from management and others nurses who choose to stay late FOR FREE...lol. ask me if I care!

    • @KendraRN
      @KendraRN  Год назад +1

      I hear that and I am not mad at all! Stay strong and Happy New Year ✨

    • @Juicingwjade
      @Juicingwjade 6 месяцев назад +2

      I tell people all the time that this job is not a volunteer position; therefore, I don’t work for free!

  • @mvlogs_from_youtube
    @mvlogs_from_youtube Год назад +39

    I’m an oncology data manager and work with some of the most incredible nurses! I will pass along your notes for nurses week.

  • @sweetnessvk85
    @sweetnessvk85 Год назад +1

    This is when you find out wose the Boss, verses whose a real Leader.
    1.Bosses hand down the orders and leave you hanging,
    2. Leaders roll up their sleeves/pant legs and dive in helping the staff to get it done. 💪🏾💪🏾

  • @DeliahAyala.2.14.91.
    @DeliahAyala.2.14.91. 5 месяцев назад +1

    Im shocked at the underpay and lack of support for good nurses

  • @awarren06
    @awarren06 10 месяцев назад

    Please take your breaks the other things we can’t control you can control taking your breaks! They are UNPAID in most instances

  • @chrisk4053
    @chrisk4053 Год назад +19

    I totally laughed out loud about the candy. That is exactly what they do at my hospital!!!!!

    • @KendraRN
      @KendraRN  Год назад +8

      The candy gotta go. Bring us some grapes, cantaloupes, iced coffee, something!!!!

  • @mistermilkman
    @mistermilkman Год назад +11

    1 thing nurses r not doing n 2023 is making new nurses feel like less than bc of their lack of knowledge & experience. Each 1 teach 1. Let's build them up.
    1 thing travel nurses r not doing n 2023 is taking trash assignments on the unit bc ur counting pockets.
    1 thing male nurses r not doing n 2023 is all of the chest compressions & lifting bc ur not doing it. Jump n there & help out.

    • @chularn1
      @chularn1 Год назад +2

      I believe it’s the lack of support and the cattiness that some floors have that make nurses leave

    • @travelnurseadventures3225
      @travelnurseadventures3225 Год назад

      Male nurses lol, you guys are 10%, Nursing is still almost 90% female and I rarely work with male nurses-they usually quit nursing and go into better careers like engineering, IT, travel etc-Nursing unfortunately is PINK GHETTO-until there are more males the pay and work conditions will improve-sad, but many still see Nursing as MOM jobs-it has to change! sorry don’t see many male nurses so the ‘lifting’ etc is done by 90% female-🥸

    • @mistermilkman
      @mistermilkman Год назад

      @@chularn1 That needs 2 stop n 2023, but it's not 4 obvious reasons. It has nothing 2 do with conditions n nursing.

    • @mistermilkman
      @mistermilkman Год назад +2

      @@travelnurseadventures3225 Males r going 2 stay leaving. Better is relative. It's not so much about the percentage 2 me, it's when there's a situation...that's what it is. I'm still never gonna not help though. The lack of solidarity n nursing is going 2 keep nurses losing. Many come 2gether 2 complain, but not enough 2 support.

    • @travelnurseadventures3225
      @travelnurseadventures3225 Год назад

      @@mistermilkman I agree, there is no support. In my nursing world it’s rare to see a male nurse lol. Take care my fellow nurse and happy new year 🎉

  • @melissabrodie1484
    @melissabrodie1484 Год назад +8

    AMEN!!!!
    I've been a RN for 13 years and have now left bedside/direct patient care about 2 years ago with a psych diagnosis of PTSD and major depressive episode.
    I was completely and horribly gaslighted by my previous boss, constantly, buyt the last time broke me.!
    The 1st week I was back after being sick with covid myself for 4+ weeks.(thos was before vax came out, and we were still using the SAME masks for weeks on end)
    During the peak of the pandemic when my caseload was approximately 30-50% higher than normal, my boss (who was newer to nursing and NEW to nursing management) gaslit me for 1 charting mistake! And being that she was a new manager, she felt she had to "make an example of me" and went overboard with constant micromanaging , nit-picking, write up etc.
    I had worked for that hospital/company since 1999 as other roles before becoming a RN.
    I NEVER had had a SINGLE write up until I come back from having covid and made a mistake my 2nd day back .... No patient was harmed or had poor care because of my mistake. (God forbid--I am also a human and we make mistakes!)
    ( i miswrote my narrative note on a pt).
    It was the "straw that broke the camels back" and COMPLETELY BROKE ME emotionally, psychology, spiritually and as a person for a while.
    I almost left nursing completely, and because of this constant gaslighting by this 1 new and VERY inexperienced manaager .
    (I was working as an in home hopsice care RN for 4-5 years when this hospice manager came into my life....and shamefully I let her break me, completely. I left hospice nursing which was my calling).
    I took 6-7 months off work , broken and alone.
    Finally found a job wth flexibility and less pay but now I am NOT at bedside! And SOOOO much happier!!!!

  • @debigodsey
    @debigodsey Год назад +3

    This doesn't just happen in nursing. It happens in other fields as well!

  • @iceprincess825
    @iceprincess825 Год назад +2

    Girl… your manager needs to take some courses in administration. The fact that she wants her nurses to look incompetent is ridiculous. Then, how does one get off work on time when morning huddle is 15-30 minutes long?? I have never been written up for leaving work late. It is generally understood that nurses are given a few minutes to tighten up on charting.

  • @brega6286
    @brega6286 Год назад +1

    Not to mention over expanded bladders !

  • @nicolelane7572
    @nicolelane7572 Год назад +6

    The refrigerator!!

  • @wanishaw9408
    @wanishaw9408 Год назад +53

    Thanks so much for "things nurses are NOT going to do in 2023." I'm planning on keeping my mental health intact on and off the shift. You hit the nail on the center of the head. Mic drop. 👏

    • @KendraRN
      @KendraRN  Год назад +4

      Yes, please prioritize yourself. Thank you for watching and commenting! Happy New Year!

    • @cheryljanzen6468
      @cheryljanzen6468 Год назад +2

      We fought for a ward clerk! We did pt care,admit pt's,admit pt's. during the shift.

    • @ilovethiswoman7055
      @ilovethiswoman7055 Год назад

      @ wanishaw9408
      All of what you said...that part!!!
      Yes!

    • @Nurseratched9274
      @Nurseratched9274 10 месяцев назад

      It is not impossible - I agree with you.

  • @vivienne2413
    @vivienne2413 Год назад +7

    Kendra I agree with you 💯I don’t understand why facilities assume everyone eats pizza 🍕. I am one of those nurses who refuse to indulge in the foolishness.

  • @SammeeDee25
    @SammeeDee25 Год назад +20

    VIP patients NEVER existed when I did bedside. Great video Kendra. I hope fellow managers who frequent this video take adequate notes to take back to their organizations.

    • @KendraRN
      @KendraRN  Год назад +2

      Some might not be too happy about this kind of content 🤷🏾‍♀️. Thank you Sammie!

    • @TiktokBurnedMyCrops
      @TiktokBurnedMyCrops 7 месяцев назад

      VIP patients sounds so dystopian

  • @mizzchuz.6413
    @mizzchuz.6413 Год назад +9

    Wait .... in a 12 hour shift, American nurses get 2 15 and a 30 minute? I am in Ontario - we get 90 minutes. Usually a 30 minute break mid day and then an hour late afternoon. And given there's no downtime over ....it still isn't enough of a break. I agree ...take the breaks!

    • @KendraRN
      @KendraRN  Год назад +3

      Wow, really????

    • @mizzchuz.6413
      @mizzchuz.6413 Год назад +3

      I think our labour code says bare minimum is 30 minute break every 5 hours. I am pretty sure all hospital nurses at bed side are unionised so I think they must have added the extra minutes. Lol still feels like not much of a break.

  • @evonjohnson7355
    @evonjohnson7355 Год назад +1

    The short staff comments are corrected. Why does stupid management say, "Don't tell." I agree. I always let them know when we are short staffed. They act as if the patients/residents won't notice. Idiots

    • @KendraRN
      @KendraRN  Год назад +1

      They want us to take the fall. Not me though, lol 🤣

  • @damariscampos4006
    @damariscampos4006 Год назад +7

    Yaaassss! I agree with the no VIP patients. Everyone should receive same treatment.

    • @brianne1547
      @brianne1547 Месяц назад

      until Van Halen comes thru the ER back in the 70s Daytona Beach Florida

  • @kayabe856
    @kayabe856 Год назад +1

    Girl!!! Yes!!! Stop with the food!!!!😂😂😂 let’s not start on the donuts 🙄🙄🙄😂😂😂

  • @Day-xp1eg
    @Day-xp1eg Год назад +3

    I think it is soooo disrespectful to give adults pizza.

  • @koquicoqui
    @koquicoqui 2 месяца назад

    the motivational quote of the day burns me

  • @cindi7228
    @cindi7228 Год назад +6

    I’m sharing this with every nurse I know and on every platform I can.

    • @KendraRN
      @KendraRN  Год назад +2

      🤩🤩🤩 thank you.

  • @thelowdownwithmikeyb
    @thelowdownwithmikeyb Год назад +4

    You hit the nail on the head. Incompetent non-caring administrators and managers fail to adequately staff the unit and then want the nurses to shoulder the blame. No. Nurses should tell the patient, “Normally we have 5 nurses for 40 patients. Today we have 4 nurses for 40 patients. So due to the staffing that has been provided, I have 10 patients which allows me to see each patient for about 5 minutes per hour not accounting for documentation and walking between rooms. When you get your survey, please reference the minimal amount of staffing.”

  • @johnwilkes01
    @johnwilkes01 4 месяца назад

    they know exactly what their doing.

  • @wenlaw9911
    @wenlaw9911 Год назад +56

    Im not even a nurse and I love your videos ❣❣I often call myself a professor patient since I've had 4 spinal cord surgeries and have been in a wheelchair for 20 years! I've had the best and worst care possible. I'm forever thankful for all the nurses who took care of me , bathed me, took the time to explain things to my family and made sure i stayed strong mentally while i dealt with being newly disabled 💞💞 thankyou is not enough! Nurses deserve the best of everything and definitely not cold pizza and passed over halloween candy😅😅

  • @deannawitt9376
    @deannawitt9376 Год назад

    I use to have to clean the nurse bathroom before i could use it. I mean i brought in the cleaner and paper towels.

  • @kjwdeuce88
    @kjwdeuce88 Год назад +21

    CNA here, also a certified medical assistant....my positions differ from an RN, but I definitely felt everything you said. In 2023, what I AM going to do is focus on my mental health, as this field definitely attacks it daily. Although I am not an RN, Thank you for advocating for us cus I fit in there somewhere lol

    • @KendraRN
      @KendraRN  Год назад +4

      Yes you do! I was a CNA for 5 years while in nursing school. Mental health is def a huge focus, I’ll speak in that in the next video.

  • @BellaVidaMercy
    @BellaVidaMercy Год назад +7

    Mic Drop 🎤 what we're NOT doing is...! Respect nurses! Love nurses 🩺💗
    All of these points are valid! 🌼🌹🌺🌷🌸

  • @owaywakan79
    @owaywakan79 2 месяца назад

    Here we are in #2024 🎉 been a nurse for 18years and started my very first hospital job in. SELECT Specialty Hospital and OMGEEE I'm they give us 5 patients which are very very sick😢. It's a heavy heavy load and now I know why this place has a high Nurse turn over and depends on travel nurses...😱😱😨😨😨 . I'm taking it one shift at a time..

  • @fromcnatonp
    @fromcnatonp Год назад +4

    😅😅😅😅 Kendra not the broken refrigerator!!! Girl I agree 💯 percent. I am dying laughing!!!
    Girl you know we get no breaks!! Sad but true
    Girl I NEVER DID VIP PT! period they used to tell me I was rude! 🤷🏾‍♀️ when I said I don’t want to hear that (kiss my teeth)

  • @Journeyofthehouse
    @Journeyofthehouse Год назад

    That part! 4:08 YOU.BETTA.PREACH LOL

  • @2liter
    @2liter Год назад +2

    I’m a patient transporter working my way to become an ER tech. The things I see is some of the things my nurse friends share openly with me. I don’t understand, it’s down right neglectful. Some of the nurses here have 8:1 ratios. Absolutely not okay

  • @KMHess
    @KMHess Год назад +1

    We got free hot dogs. We responded with "um, we're adults."

    • @KendraRN
      @KendraRN  Год назад +1

      HOTDOGS???? No way

  • @danicahonrado
    @danicahonrado Год назад +6

    thank you Nurse Kendra, we nurse advocate for patients but nobody advocate for us.

  • @sonjasimone8244
    @sonjasimone8244 Год назад

    Thank YOU!
    THE CAFETERIA 😢

  • @shadabadaful
    @shadabadaful Год назад +26

    You on point sis! When you were talking about the Nurses vs Dr.s break rooms (and you said (“we too”), made me think that Nurses should start a “We Too” movement!!!

  • @chimwemwechiundira6002
    @chimwemwechiundira6002 11 месяцев назад

    Obsession of the whiteboard....

  • @elecha4254
    @elecha4254 Год назад +11

    To be told that you are doing a good job makes you work hard and appreciate what you are doing at the end of the day. A compliment goes a long way.

  • @queenbeemoon10
    @queenbeemoon10 Год назад +4

    I’m glad i’m going into something else. I hated being a CNA

    • @KendraRN
      @KendraRN  Год назад +2

      It’s in under-appreciated job. I worked as one 5 years before becoming a nurse.

  • @chichidaniels2677
    @chichidaniels2677 Год назад +3

    Wats with the pharmacists against nurses? they think we eat gloves and other medical supplies wen they run out but they always undersupply.

    • @travelnurseadventures3225
      @travelnurseadventures3225 Год назад +1

      Everyone is a ‘professional’ except NURSES who are just an occupation-without NURSES-the hospital has to divert the pts-We have too many pharma, too many dieticians, too many PT, too many administrators, office managers etc-but the staff-RNS/CNAS are drowning on the floor-no one cares, no one helps and the hospital diverts 🙄

  • @DJ-yy8iz
    @DJ-yy8iz Год назад

    I cracked up at the vip. Part. We hear the same in the pharmacy. Funny thing one of our vip received his chemo before his friend that was there before him. That caused some issues. I mean we have to check labs, allergies, calculate the dose, make sure the regimen is correct for the diagnosis before anything is made on top of the constant phone calls so what make that person so special to receive it faster? Smh

  • @wobina
    @wobina Год назад

    hahaha about the overtime thing, im not even anything CLOSE to a nurse, i am a yard hostler/truck driver and even at my job at amazon they nickle and dime you about the overtime minutes. So I know that EXACT feeling!!

  • @mariahsisneros7572
    @mariahsisneros7572 10 месяцев назад +2

    Lol, yes, the whiteboard not being filled out while im picking up from where night shift left off. Smh. I have 9/10 pts, have to pass out breaskfast trays, someone is falling off of the bed, someones BP is dropping, etc. CNA here and ive seen it all...cant wait till i become a nurse. Im binging your videos, btw, and youre so spot on with ALL of this!

  • @sweetnessvk85
    @sweetnessvk85 Год назад +1

    We as CNA's feel the exact same way for CNA week, we want massages as well. Nor do we want V.I.P patients either😮🤔

    • @KendraRN
      @KendraRN  Год назад +2

      I was a CNA prior to being an RN. I completely agree.

  • @stellacherotich
    @stellacherotich Год назад +29

    do you know what Kendra,am a nurse and i love the way you are advocating for us. loving your content.

  • @amandasimon2681
    @amandasimon2681 Год назад +18

    You nailed it Kendra. You spoke on lots of things I stopped tolerating long time ago. All of this and more needs to be addressed. If only, all of us nurses/healthcare professionals team up and say enough is enough. Wishful thinking I guess.

  • @Therealissa98
    @Therealissa98 Год назад +10

    The vip patients part hit me bc at my job certain ‘special’ patients get lead way. Great video

  • @BbtubeRNskool09
    @BbtubeRNskool09 Год назад

    That nurse manager/educator/ whatever designated "whiteboard patrol" for the shift needs to update it in their rounds. You took the time to find me to tell me about my whiteboard not being filled out, while you see me in my patients' room post code, assiting central line insertion, chest tube or whatever life saving activity i'm in involved in, you obviously know my name and plan of care for the patient so, fill it out ma'm or sir or jump in and do my dressing change real quick and i'll get your whiteboard.
    Correct - regarding nurses' week - I DO NOT NEED SOCKS!!!! Did i tell you my feet were cold???? Administrative Assistants getting massage packages, roses, spa days, gift certificates to lunch at Carraba's!
    Over it!!!!!

  • @noramosesgoddey
    @noramosesgoddey Год назад

    Nursing, my bitter-sweet love🥲🤦🏼‍♀️

  • @nancypierre-louis7102
    @nancypierre-louis7102 Год назад +1

    Why do I love this girl so much!

  • @brianne1547
    @brianne1547 Месяц назад

    I feel like the Mr Hollands Opus of nursing . My first hospital job would be one RN pretty much at the desk an patients divided up among LPNs only which came out to 7 patients each.They would do their own meds & Txs its was not the grueling work it is now.I loved watching your videos you are so accurate!!

  • @Tammy70101
    @Tammy70101 Год назад +9

    As a CNA, I can relate to some of what you said. I work in a LTC. I believe at the beginning of every shift residents should be informed of exactly how many staff members are on hand. If they knew the facility is understaffed, maybe the residents will practice patience instead of giving us dirty looks when a cna doesn't answer their call light in a "timely" manner. I totally agree with the breaks; however when you are severely understaffed, I'm not willing to place a bigger load on my fellow cnas especially when I know they are working just as hard as I am and they're not going to take their breaks either. I will definitely get off the floor if it is affecting my mental health or my patience has taken a dive. Lastly as a cna, I will no longer feel like I have to take responsibility for the irrational behaviors/complaints of residents. It is beyond my scope of practice to know why some residents are displaying certain behaviors especially when we have a limited amount of knowledge of their background. For the complainers, I will keep concern/complaint forms on my clipboard. It is up to them to fill one out or not because frankly, I don't want to hear it. I had enough of people having unrealistic expectations from us. I cannot give more than what I have.

    • @purplebutterfly7257
      @purplebutterfly7257 Год назад

      Oh I already know what your karma is going to be. You will be one of the old people living in a nursing home needing or wanting assistance and being ignored by the nurses for God knows how long. 🙄🤣😂

  • @reginamcclung4671
    @reginamcclung4671 Год назад +9

    I agree with everything you said, and I am glad nurses are FINALLY standing up for themselves!! Things have ALWAYS been this way, ALWAYS!!!! We need to unionize and be like police officers and firefighters, retire after 25 years on the floor!!!

  • @charlenecalvin9066
    @charlenecalvin9066 Год назад +3

    Great ideas. My comment to the nurses I worked with “we as nurses can work all day without a therapist but they can’t work one hour without us”. I would always tell my patients when we worked short and they were very understanding. You are strong with good ideas. You should start having conferences for nurses but I guess this is like attending a conference for inspiration

  • @pamami1227
    @pamami1227 5 месяцев назад

    Excellent content! Nurses won't agree to be used against fellow nurses.

  • @indigodolphin687
    @indigodolphin687 Год назад +1

    You saying it, girl! I got out of that toxic environment. I had enough!! Disrespect from management, peers, esp. Doctors!, family, housekeeping, and the list is exhaustive!!
    Please don't work here in the South...that submissive female role is live and well!!

  • @cindyarn9497
    @cindyarn9497 Год назад +11

    Thank you! I have been saying this for many years. Sadly, I got burnt out and left the hospital in July 2021. I’ve been in healthcare for 16 + years and I couldn’t handle the gaslighting anymore. Nothing was ever good enough; not to mention I never had breaks or coverage for a break. I can’t even count how many times I was left alone without an aid or tech. 😢 It was the most upsetting and painful thing I’ve ever had to do because I felt I was abandoning the thing I loved second to my own family.

    • @KendraRN
      @KendraRN  Год назад +5

      I know that feeling, however you have to take care of yourself first. Leaving was probably your only option.

    • @susanbrown7185
      @susanbrown7185 Год назад +1

      I hear you ❤

  • @jazzyjennshighway
    @jazzyjennshighway 9 месяцев назад

    I love your style of articulation with straight raw experiences of how us nurses REALLY feel ! You are the voice of nurses

  • @nanaakosuah4833
    @nanaakosuah4833 Год назад +34

    Can’t wait to pass my boards . You inspire me so much to learn and experience what it takes to be a nurse. Love your videos keep it up 🥰🥰🥰

    • @kaylalee3428
      @kaylalee3428 Год назад +4

      Good luck! I’m currently studying now for the NCLEX, and it’s taking me out 🥴🙃🤪

    • @nanaakosuah4833
      @nanaakosuah4833 Год назад +3

      I passed my boards . I’m a Registered Nurse now 😍

    • @kaylalee3428
      @kaylalee3428 Год назад

      @@nanaakosuah4833 so happy for you! I ended up failing but just retook it Thursday and found out I passed! It is the best feeling in the world l! Wishing you a long and fruitful career! 🥰

    • @nanaakosuah4833
      @nanaakosuah4833 Год назад +1

      @Kayla Lee Im happy for you too . Wishing you all the best too as we begin this career 🥰

  • @Kim-J312
    @Kim-J312 Год назад +3

    And also if A patient asks me if we are short staffed or NO bed issue, I always tell my patients the truth 👍

  • @ranchoboomerang
    @ranchoboomerang Год назад +2

    Kendra, thank you. I'm not a nurse, but your advice is so full of life that it applies across the board in all these types of situations .

  • @crprn
    @crprn Год назад +1

    I wish nurses knew how to stick together. We could 👏🏽shut👏🏽this👏🏽sh!t👏🏽down!! I’ll never work bedside outside of Northern California ever again.

    • @KendraRN
      @KendraRN  Год назад

      There is power in numbers!

  • @ellenscott6793
    @ellenscott6793 Год назад +12

    Amen to everything you said! I wish all the nurses out there would listen to this advice.

  • @cgrin3284
    @cgrin3284 Год назад +2

    👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
    Also if there could be a shift that the computers and scanners would actually work and not breakdown.

  • @Rose2gard
    @Rose2gard 11 месяцев назад

    I'd love to go to a Staff meeting with her......YES!!!!

  • @katorriaharrisbey8956
    @katorriaharrisbey8956 Год назад +1

    Went for a job orientation and they offered a fb or Google raffle for new hires and because I rated below their standards.. HR actually approached me for me to change their ratings from a two to at least a four to be included in the raffle for a new hire prize. Didn’t know anything at all about the community or nursing experience yet but was being manipulated to change my own views for their own benefit.

  • @DiUnadulteratedTruth
    @DiUnadulteratedTruth Год назад +2

    I'm tired of these damn huddles, too. I would rather be doing my work. Talk about those gifts for nursing week. LOL. I'm with you about the VIP patients. I treat them all the same.

    • @KendraRN
      @KendraRN  Год назад +2

      No VIPs over here.

  • @DNCleaningServices-s4v
    @DNCleaningServices-s4v Год назад

    I am telling you are so right I love everything you are saying I am a CNA I say this all the time they don’t respect staff only when they get there job done and get there big bonus

  • @Madlyne4Christ
    @Madlyne4Christ Год назад

    We are not accepting low wages. We deserve much more!

    • @KendraRN
      @KendraRN  Год назад

      Let the church say Amen!

  • @chucko12
    @chucko12 11 месяцев назад

    I've been working in ICUs for almost almost 29 years. 2 years as a tech then almost 27 years as an RN.. Been focused on retirement issues lately. The 401K system is a horrible failed system. It is cruel gaslighting to pretend the a match of 5% of base salary, minus years of negative returns with a few years of large market losses thrown in, is adequate to retire on. Nurses work their bu**s
    off and have the highest rates off injury and danger of any profession. I have so many government employee relatives that have retired with PENSIONS such as 90% of there salary for life and can STOP GOING INTO WORK every again starting in their mid 50s (or earlier) just for pushing a pencil across a desk and attending
    pointless meetings and going to lunches at restaurants. They were all considered "public workers" but oh so sorry, Nurses, unless they work for the VA, a prison, or a county hospital are "not public workers " so it's the pathetic little 401K piggy bank for us. I'll be 59 soon and there no end in site for me. I work with several nurses in their mid 60s who are simply to old to still be doing it so they either roar like a lion or almost burst into tears if you ask them to help do anything because they are already overtaxed with their own assignment and often working in some type of ortho pain. If only we were "public" health workers we could get those delicious pensions but no suck luck.

    • @KendraRN
      @KendraRN  11 месяцев назад +1

      This is a problem. So many nurses aren’t aware that for all of the hard work, injuries and disrespect, we get nothing, NO PENSION. Thank you for highlighting this issue, it is not talked about enough.

  • @junebugg2602
    @junebugg2602 Год назад

    Nurse going on 17 years....
    PREACH 🙌

  • @wisdomlife
    @wisdomlife Год назад

    Such a super nurse, you should write a book... All you have said applys even in Kenya my country, unfortunately we are enemies of our own, we don't support each other

  • @MNAdelle
    @MNAdelle Год назад +3

    I’m not even a nurse but I’m here for it 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 yes ma’am

  • @cindi7228
    @cindi7228 Год назад +1

    ❤you are awesome!!! You go girl!!! I nominate you for president!😂

  • @Sam-jh3ji
    @Sam-jh3ji Год назад +13

    Wow! I’m not an nurse! I am retired military and so I understand how important first responders and civil servants are to the world. I try my hardest to let my kids teachers, drs, dentist, etc how much they are appreciated and respected and if you ask me nurses, teachers ! DO NOT get enough appreciation. So thank you and all nurses for allll that you do! I appreciate you guys beyond words and will make sure whenever I go to doctor and ER , etc. I say that! Hope they don’t think I’m a weirdo though😅. I agree and support absolutely everything you said.

  • @WounderWoman-q1o
    @WounderWoman-q1o Год назад

    Gurrrl spent 20 plus years in ltc we were told not to say we were short staffed as this is patient abuse!

    • @KendraRN
      @KendraRN  Год назад +3

      I mean, it’s the reality. Im not going to self sacrifice and be viewed as inefficient💁🏾‍♀️

  • @susanbrown7185
    @susanbrown7185 Год назад

    I could never leave in time …
    $$$$$$$$ all that matters .. so in trouble for doing job

  • @nurseadrianern
    @nurseadrianern Год назад +14

    “White Board” is a trigger phrase 💯- love this whole video. Also get paid for all your work. It’s federal law. Even the time to start up a computer in order to login n clock in is paid time per federal law. ❤

    • @KendraRN
      @KendraRN  Год назад +4

      The thing is, they won’t even attempt to fill it out either after pointing out discrepancies 🤦🏾‍♀️

  • @HeyMsVal
    @HeyMsVal Год назад +4

    I have not even finished watching this video. On number 3. I love it already !

  • @ltnewsome
    @ltnewsome Год назад +2

    VIP patients have always sent me. We used to have a lot of those types but the good old doc who used to bring them in passed away. I never got how it was fair.

  • @kelleysingleton8467
    @kelleysingleton8467 Год назад +13

    This is SO true! Thank you for speaking up for us! I really appreciate you!