I’m a nurse. It has been awful. 6-7 patients and you can barely keep up. Patient’s often want to chit chat with nurses, but tbh, we don’t have the time. I would tell anyone thinking about becoming a nurse, to re think it. Until they start making changes to how much we can actually take on, stay away from this profession.
An RN myself in Michigan. I have seen up to 72 patients on night shifts. The work load is beyond insane and very dangerous. Every rule and safety measure is either missed or just ignored in order to get the job done. I have personally witnessed mandating of nurses up to 24 hr shifts. Because the owners don’t have staff and threaten nurses with reporting them to the state. The state ignores and moreover, is complicit in this system. Resident are left to sit in their own filth for hours because the CNA staff is in hiding or out smoking in their cars. Management turns a blind eye and defends their action. The entire system is F.U.B.A.R. !! I am out on the first opportunity I get ! And every nurse I know is actively seeking an exit !!!
Yeah, nursing is nightmare everywhere. Doesn’t matter if it’s the hospital, LTAC or LTC. It’s all the same. Low staffed, unsafe conditions, safety measures out of the window and we even have to worry about security. Yeah… im done with healthcare
It’s corporate greed ! Plain and simple !! You will never see an owners family member in that bed. They know the horrors and pain they are responsible for inflicting on your parent . And they just keep counting the 💰💰💰💰💰
More important than that, the only way to fix the constant exodus is for federal safe staffing ratios like CA has. LIterally the only state in the nation with safe ratios! Also eliminate mandatory overtime. Pilots, bus and truck drivers have limits and can't be forced to work OT, but nurses mandatory overtime there is no limit! Then they wonder why they can't keep nurses! Over a million licensed nurses aren't working! I'm one that took early retirement because of the unsafe conditions not covid! No matter how many new grads they make, it won't fix the problem as most will quit some within 6 months and many by 5 years will leave nursing entirely! Fix the staffing issues with safe ratios, fair pay, and respect and then you will be able to retain nurses and get some of the million on the sidelines to come back to work at least part-time!
@@artfochs3240out of 27 students in my LPN program. I can only see 3 students who has a potential to be a nurse. The rest of us and my classmates I’ve seen are just book smart but has no capacity or skill to be working as nurse.
A (relatively) new nurse - graduated in 2020 - chiming in here. It's a lot of work and it's mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually exhausting. It often leaves you with little left for your friends and family because the job requires you to give so much. There's a lot of pressure to do a lot with a sometimes impossible patient load and this increases the worry of making a mistake that might hurt someone and/or cause you to lose your license. If you're becoming a nurse to make a genuine connection with a lot of people, looking into another profession might be better. You literally don't have time and you'll find a lot of nurses don't have the time or patience to help you because they're also exhausted and/or behind in their work. It makes the transition to the floor as a new grad frustrating and terrifying, as there's not always the kind of support there to nurture a new nurse.
Hello, I'm considering nursing and I would like to know whether new grad nurses can choose to work 3 12 shifts and have the rest of the days off, or do they have to work more shifts cause they're new nurses? Also are 3 12 shifts manageable or do they burn you out? Please let me know if you can, it would be very helpful for me
@@autumn399 You can find jobs that offer three 12 hour shifts. Depending on where you work and their shortages, they may ask (or beg) for you to work more shifts often. But typically, you can expect to have four days off. Like any job some days will be better than others. When you're looking for work, make sure to jot down questions for interviews. Finding out things like your average patient to nurse ratio, aide to nurse ratio, and expected tasks of the nurse are good ones to ask. Feel free to check resources like Glassdoor to get a feel for the company, but keep in mind people are more likely to leave a review when they're dissatisfied. Sometimes what you read there can help you form more questions. I mention this because it will help with overall burnout. If you have a high patient load and/or a low aide count, you'll become very tired and burnt out much more quickly. If you're not good at standing your ground, you'll find yourself working extra shifts you didn't plan to because you feel bad for the patients or coworkers. Just remember you have to take care of yourself to take care of others. If you feel yourself getting tired, take that rest you need to recharge and don't feel guilty about it. I hope this helps; I wish you the best of luck with your consideration! 💜
I stared working as a nurse early this year and you are 100% correct in everything you say. People don’t always have the time or energy to help you because they have problems of their own to solve . They are behind in med pass , and so on . I have already decided that being in healthcare isn’t for me long term . It’s just too much of a workload as a nurse . I come home very exhausted each day . My managers could care less if I am alive or not . There is a picture in my floor of a nurse that died 4 years ago. In a matter of days they found a new nurse to take her place . I look at that picture each shift I work to remind myself of one inescapable truth….. you can be replaced in your job in a split second but your family members can’t replace you .
@@autumn399 some medical facilities have 12 hour shifts, some don't. I had a friend who worked at a hospital near Milwaukee..she worked 10 hour day for 1 full week, but then had the next full week off..except they required you to serve on committees or attend a mtg. If I were you - I'd think of another profession. I've been in the profession for 30 yrs...it's never gotten better.
I am in nursing school now, wanting out actually. I’m okay with wasted time because I know now this isn’t for me after all. Can i ask you what career you’d like instead if you weren’t a nurse?
@@kristoonz if I could redo my life. I’d be an engineer. Either civil or something that had job security. Or if I wanted to stay in medical a PA hands down.
i was excited to see students again but having a hard time w the workload and speed i must work while trying to teach. i end up speeding and not teaching or sending them to another nurse. i felt bad for a few shifts i wasnt a real good teacher because of how busy we are. doctors should say something too. if you never see nurses at the station and you need help. you wonder why? cuz our charge has to take patients also. maybe help us advocate as well. i dont want a christmas lunch or cookies. i want better staffing and more training programs for new nurses. and again some new nurses new generation are not trying to be martyrs. they wont work extra shifts . i dont blame them. i wish i can say no more too.
I bet that foreign nurses will be a boon for these hospitals... far less hassle, better obedience, and better work ethics than over the strung Americans! /S! Kidding, I find that people who work in healthcare have it really tough! Please have better working conditions before its too late.
patients and families are more anxious. healthcare system is hard to navigate. understaffing is just getting worse. nurses are retiring if they can, young nurses dont want to work like a martyr and quit too. weve not trained any new nurses for 3-4 years!!!
All Full time and experienced nurses are long gone. We only have travel nurses and new grads. Even the ICU charge nurse is a new grad. Please do come to hospitals if you wanna die early.
If you work for the Dignity Health hospitals within AZ, you should be mostly fine. Working for Banner however, is another matter. Banner Baywood is a very dangerous hospital in which not only nurses are not being taken care of, but even the patients suffer greatly as a result of poor treatment, care, and management. The hospitals systems really need to pay attention to how nurses are doing as well as other medical staff so that the care they give to patients excel and succeed.
lol I was left with 30 pt passing 30 trays and changing diaper. I don’t even know how I’ve done it. I’m glad none of the pt during that time (6pm dinner) were acting weird so I get the chance to passed the trays one by one and changing them after dinner.
I’m not belittling your job. But you’re not legally responsible for what happens. And I work without CNAs so do all that plus my RN jobs. Plus RT, PT, OT, Case manager , and security.
By taking part in the culling of Americans. They administered Remdesivir and other drugs that killed covid patients. They didn't speak out when they had the opportunity to do so. They just played along, and became complicit in the murdering of millions of people. @@erica6488
Nope, too many nurses have blood on their hands. Too many of them went right along with the deadly CDC protocols instead of speaking out.@@copperpenny7639
I’m getting my real estate license apparently people that are hurting as a nurse don’t care about you I care for my patients …for years the same patient when there mom and dad dies they take every Penny they don’t think about the person that cared for your mother or father for years when they were in other countries or other states, do you understand that we’re not trying to get your inheritance but can’t you remember the people that actually blessed yo ass so you could travel be with your kids and You need to be ashamed of yourself for not remembering the person or people that were there as a blessing because that’s why nothing good comes to those who don’t bless others.
Are you kidding me? They wouldn’t bypass a nurse if she had one working eyeball! If you’re bypassed it’s because you’re either incompetent or a lousy employee. They can’t afford to bypass anyone halfway decent.
You wouldn’t yawn if you knew that ALL the nurses working in the unit you’re a patient in are travel nurses who got only a 12 hr orientation before taking over. Your yawn could be your last.
I was an OBGYN surgical oncology RN and I have left the profession. I was in love with nursing until Obama Care came in. It became a numbers game at that point. Obama Care came with a scale of how hospitals would get reimbursed for Medicare, Medicaid, and uninsured patients. This was based on patient satisfaction scores. The top 5% in the state would get 100% reimbursement, 6-10% would get 90% reimbursement, and so on with the bottom 20% getting no reimbursement. So how did this effect nursing? The hospitals knew they had a greater chance of not getting fully reimbursed so they had to make changes to cut costs. They also pushed nurses for perfect patient satisfaction scores and threatened termination if scores were not high enough. They cut back on staffing nurses and (in my hospital) they did away with on-call nurses. They took away overtime completely so you had 15 minutes before your shift started to run a race to get report from the previous nurses of your assigned patients. At the end of your shift, you had 15 minutes to give report to oncoming nurses and finish up any charting. If you went over these times on three occurrences, you were fired. In order for doctors, physicians assistants, and nurse practitioners to see more patients, which was needed due to the new pay structure, they had to spend less time at the bedsides so procedures that previously would have been done by the above mentioned were now given to RNs to do, increasing our workload. I should point out that our charting was critically important. Not just because it involved the patient’s care but because the forms we filled out also effected the hospital’s reimbursement. If we didn’t mark some meaningless box, the whole claim would be denied and the hospital wouldn’t get paid at all. So that was also an area that we could be fired over. Between passing medications, administering chemo, giving blood or platelet transfusions, starting IVs, cannulating ports, putting in catheters and NG tubes, drain care, wound care, etc. where was our time to do all this charting? In the past, we would stay after our shift to finish our charting and make sure everything was filled out correctly and all boxes were marked. Now, we can’t do that so we chart at lunch, at breaks, at a patient’s bedside who is receiving a transfusion when we should be paying attention to the patient and looking for a reaction. We leave at the end of a shift with our fingers crossed that we charted everything right. Most nurses go into the profession because we are caretakers at heart, we spend our years at university learning the techniques of caregiving and the therapeutic models to support good nursing increases the patient outcome. With this new satisfaction rating, it’s all about making the patient happy and not about what’s best for the patient. The specialty I was in had very sick patients that would undergo very invasive surgeries. I know, as a RN, that 24 hours after surgery, I need to get this patient up and starting to move. There’s a long list of complications if this patient doesn’t get up and moving. Go figure, most patients do not want to move because it hurts so will push back and fight it. Before I would put on a stern face and voice and insist that they are doing this and not give them a choice. Now as they are up and moving, I would be their biggest cheerleader, I am not a mean nurse, but I know what has to be done. Now, we aren’t allowed to pushback. If the patient says no to getting up, we say ok and will try again later. Patients just coming out of surgery would usually be on a pain pump or heavy doses of scheduled IV pain meds. Before as they were nearing their discharge date, we would start to alternate IV pain meds with oral pain meds with the goal that by discharge, they are completely on the oral pain med they will have at home. Now, if we try to give oral pain meds and the patient refuses and wants the IV pain med, we can’t pushback and have to give them the IV meds. We were discharging patients who had never taken an oral pain med the entire hospital stay but were given a prescription for oral medication at home. So what we started seeing in high numbers was patients being re-admitted. We saw uncontrolled pain, restricting scar tissue formation which required surgery to correct, intestinal problems which required interventions and sometimes surgery, wound infections including necrosis around the surgical site requiring surgery, bed sores, etc. I spent the majority of my nursing career before Obama Care changed everything (they never did away with these changes) and I absolutely loved nursing and caring for my patients. I spent about 2 years under the change before I left. It was too much of a demand on us, the patient care was no longer the center of focus, the absolute defeat when you see your patients coming back in for things that could have been prevented, the constant threat of termination at every angle, and the looming knowledge that you can be criminally prosecuted if something goes wrong and in an environment like what I left, it felt like a wing and a prayer were all that was keeping that from happening. That’s my perspective and why I will never go back unless it could go back to how it once was which I don’t see happening.
@@cherie5133 Wow, thank you for telling your story. Very informative and interesting. Almost everything in society is being destroyed now because of gov't. lawsuits, money, "mental health", etc.. I asked the question, because I've been around nurses due to family relations, and most seem like they are living an easy life, are very wealthy, and always on vacation. Would you agree nursing is varied, and what your experience is, may be far different with another employer; say being a school nurse, traveling nurse, etc.?
@@oldhickory4686 Absolutely. I know a lot of ER nurses in the same hospital I worked at didn’t have the same experience that I did because they were “turn and burn” nurses, they weren’t responsible for long term care. I saw a lot of new graduate nurses leave within 6 months to go work as a corporate nurse for lawyers, insurance companies, etc. There are so many avenues nurses can work in. For me, I fell in love with direct patient care, it’s all I wanted to do. I tried a few other areas after I left the hospital setting but I found them to be monotonous and unfulfilling. Stepping away from nursing was the best decision I made. As for the nursing shortage and why nurses are leaving the profession, it’s the hospital or bedside nurse that they are referring to and when that is the area of nursing that you are drawn to, it’s hard to become a paper pusher nurse. Something has to give in the hospital setting or nurses are going to continue to be a shortage.
@@cherie5133 Thank you for sharing the information and your experience. I thought there was some agenda with this (immigration, etc.), but apparently not. I hope you find what you are looking for if you haven't already. I love your honesty and integrity. With those qualities you can't fail. God bless you. Ecclesiastes 9:10 KJV Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might...
@Cherie good narrative. But to blame Obamacare is far fetched. States Need and MUST be forced to pass safety rules of nurse to patient ratio. That is the ONLY way to help nurses. Otherwise we will continue to blame wrong bodies until Kingdom come!
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I’m a nurse. It has been awful. 6-7 patients and you can barely keep up. Patient’s often want to chit chat with nurses, but tbh, we don’t have the time. I would tell anyone thinking about becoming a nurse, to re think it. Until they start making changes to how much we can actually take on, stay away from this profession.
An RN myself in Michigan. I have seen up to 72 patients on night shifts. The work load is beyond insane and very dangerous. Every rule and safety measure is either missed or just ignored in order to get the job done. I have personally witnessed mandating of nurses up to 24 hr shifts. Because the owners don’t have staff and threaten nurses with reporting them to the state. The state ignores and moreover, is complicit in this system. Resident are left to sit in their own filth for hours because the CNA staff is in hiding or out smoking in their cars. Management turns a blind eye and defends their action. The entire system is F.U.B.A.R. !! I am out on the first opportunity I get ! And every nurse I know is actively seeking an exit !!!
Is this long term care?
Yeah, nursing is nightmare everywhere. Doesn’t matter if it’s the hospital, LTAC or LTC. It’s all the same. Low staffed, unsafe conditions, safety measures out of the window and we even have to worry about security. Yeah… im done with healthcare
@@johnberry2877what state are you in?
Buy yet here you are, still in it
It’s corporate greed ! Plain and simple !! You will never see an owners family member in that bed. They know the horrors and pain they are responsible for inflicting on your parent . And they just keep counting the 💰💰💰💰💰
The government should make college tuition for these professions be free. Makes sense. Don't it?
lol, it sure as hell should!
More important than that, the only way to fix the constant exodus is for federal safe staffing ratios like CA has. LIterally the only state in the nation with safe ratios! Also eliminate mandatory overtime. Pilots, bus and truck drivers have limits and can't be forced to work OT, but nurses mandatory overtime there is no limit! Then they wonder why they can't keep nurses! Over a million licensed nurses aren't working! I'm one that took early retirement because of the unsafe conditions not covid! No matter how many new grads they make, it won't fix the problem as most will quit some within 6 months and many by 5 years will leave nursing entirely! Fix the staffing issues with safe ratios, fair pay, and respect and then you will be able to retain nurses and get some of the million on the sidelines to come back to work at least part-time!
@@artfochs3240out of 27 students in my LPN program. I can only see 3 students who has a potential to be a nurse. The rest of us and my classmates I’ve seen are just book smart but has no capacity or skill to be working as nurse.
No. That's wouldn't be fair. Remember, nothing is free and Nursing students shouldn't get free tuition...
@@Michael-gs8og then call it a grant
Why would anyone go to college to make just above poverty level now? That’s literally how it is now.
A (relatively) new nurse - graduated in 2020 - chiming in here. It's a lot of work and it's mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually exhausting. It often leaves you with little left for your friends and family because the job requires you to give so much. There's a lot of pressure to do a lot with a sometimes impossible patient load and this increases the worry of making a mistake that might hurt someone and/or cause you to lose your license.
If you're becoming a nurse to make a genuine connection with a lot of people, looking into another profession might be better. You literally don't have time and you'll find a lot of nurses don't have the time or patience to help you because they're also exhausted and/or behind in their work. It makes the transition to the floor as a new grad frustrating and terrifying, as there's not always the kind of support there to nurture a new nurse.
Hello, I'm considering nursing and I would like to know whether new grad nurses can choose to work 3 12 shifts and have the rest of the days off, or do they have to work more shifts cause they're new nurses? Also are 3 12 shifts manageable or do they burn you out? Please let me know if you can, it would be very helpful for me
@@autumn399 You can find jobs that offer three 12 hour shifts. Depending on where you work and their shortages, they may ask (or beg) for you to work more shifts often. But typically, you can expect to have four days off. Like any job some days will be better than others. When you're looking for work, make sure to jot down questions for interviews. Finding out things like your average patient to nurse ratio, aide to nurse ratio, and expected tasks of the nurse are good ones to ask. Feel free to check resources like Glassdoor to get a feel for the company, but keep in mind people are more likely to leave a review when they're dissatisfied. Sometimes what you read there can help you form more questions.
I mention this because it will help with overall burnout. If you have a high patient load and/or a low aide count, you'll become very tired and burnt out much more quickly. If you're not good at standing your ground, you'll find yourself working extra shifts you didn't plan to because you feel bad for the patients or coworkers. Just remember you have to take care of yourself to take care of others. If you feel yourself getting tired, take that rest you need to recharge and don't feel guilty about it. I hope this helps; I wish you the best of luck with your consideration! 💜
I stared working as a nurse early this year and you are 100% correct in everything you say. People don’t always have the time or energy to help you because they have problems of their own to solve . They are behind in med pass , and so on . I have already decided that being in healthcare isn’t for me long term . It’s just too much of a workload as a nurse . I come home very exhausted each day . My managers could care less if I am alive or not .
There is a picture in my floor of a nurse that died 4 years ago. In a matter of days they found a new nurse to take her place . I look at that picture each shift I work to remind myself of one inescapable truth….. you can be replaced in your job in a split second but your family members can’t replace you .
Thanks for the warning!
@@autumn399 some medical facilities have 12 hour shifts, some don't. I had a friend who worked at a hospital near Milwaukee..she worked 10 hour day for 1 full week, but then had the next full week off..except they required you to serve on committees or attend a mtg.
If I were you - I'd think of another profession. I've been in the profession for 30 yrs...it's never gotten better.
Currently looking for a way out of nursing
I am in nursing school now, wanting out actually. I’m okay with wasted time because I know now this isn’t for me after all. Can i ask you what career you’d like instead if you weren’t a nurse?
@@kristoonz if I could redo my life. I’d be an engineer. Either civil or something that had job security. Or if I wanted to stay in medical a PA hands down.
@@kristoonzplease listen to your gut. Wish I would of done the same
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Probably due to the wide toxic culture behind the profession.
Burnt me and other colleagues out long before COVID. Double wham if you still there.
i was excited to see students again but having a hard time w the workload and speed i must work while trying to teach. i end up speeding and not teaching or sending them to another nurse. i felt bad for a few shifts i wasnt a real good teacher because of how busy we are. doctors should say something too. if you never see nurses at the station and you need help. you wonder why? cuz our charge has to take patients also. maybe help us advocate as well. i dont want a christmas lunch or cookies. i want better staffing and more training programs for new nurses. and again some
new nurses new generation are not trying to be martyrs. they wont work extra shifts . i dont blame them. i wish i can say no more too.
I bet that foreign nurses will be a boon for these hospitals... far less hassle, better obedience, and better work ethics than over the strung Americans! /S! Kidding, I find that people who work in healthcare have it really tough! Please have better working conditions before its too late.
patients and families are more anxious. healthcare system is hard to navigate. understaffing is just getting worse. nurses are retiring if they can, young nurses dont want to work like a martyr and quit too. weve not trained any new nurses for 3-4 years!!!
All Full time and experienced nurses are long gone. We only have travel nurses and new grads.
Even the ICU charge nurse is a new grad. Please do come to hospitals if you wanna die early.
Bingo!!! That’s exactly how it is where I am. Travelers and new grads who don’t know their butt hole from a hole in the wall. Smh
If you work for the Dignity Health hospitals within AZ, you should be mostly fine. Working for Banner however, is another matter. Banner Baywood is a very dangerous hospital in which not only nurses are not being taken care of, but even the patients suffer greatly as a result of poor treatment, care, and management. The hospitals systems really need to pay attention to how nurses are doing as well as other medical staff so that the care they give to patients excel and succeed.
i'm about to go in!!!!!! smh.
Try being a cna with 20 residents to get up dress and fed in 2 hours. Then you can start complaining.
lol I was left with 30 pt passing 30 trays and changing diaper. I don’t even know how I’ve done it. I’m glad none of the pt during that time (6pm dinner) were acting weird so I get the chance to passed the trays one by one and changing them after dinner.
I’m not belittling your job. But you’re not legally responsible for what happens. And I work without CNAs so do all that plus my RN jobs. Plus RT, PT, OT, Case manager , and security.
Australia by law 4 patients during the day.
A lot of nurses who worked in covid wards have blood on their hands.
How ?
By taking part in the culling of Americans. They administered Remdesivir and other drugs that killed covid patients. They didn't speak out when they had the opportunity to do so. They just played along, and became complicit in the murdering of millions of people. @@erica6488
@@libturdcrusher1776nope. Many nurses have saved tons of people during covid. Please. Smh
Nope, too many nurses have blood on their hands. Too many of them went right along with the deadly CDC protocols instead of speaking out.@@copperpenny7639
I’m getting my real estate license apparently people that are hurting as a nurse don’t care about you I care for my patients …for years the same patient when there mom and dad dies they take every Penny they don’t think about the person that cared for your mother or father for years when they were in other countries or other states, do you understand that we’re not trying to get your inheritance but can’t you remember the people that actually blessed yo ass so you could travel be with your kids and You need to be ashamed of yourself for not remembering the person or people that were there as a blessing because that’s why nothing good comes to those who don’t bless others.
Please take lessons in grammar as well.
No periods or commas, no nothin'.
Fu
Completely unreadable. Wtf did I just read.
If you need Nurses so badly, stop bypassing well-qualified BLACK Nurses.
Are you kidding me? They wouldn’t bypass a nurse if she had one working eyeball! If you’re bypassed it’s because you’re either incompetent or a lousy employee. They can’t afford to bypass anyone halfway decent.
Another day, another crisis, another war, another something to be scared of or fear. Yawn.
You wouldn’t yawn if you knew that ALL the nurses working in the unit you’re a patient in are travel nurses who got only a 12 hr orientation before taking over. Your yawn could be your last.
I don't buy this narrative. Any nurses out there care to comment, so I can hear the real truth?
I was an OBGYN surgical oncology RN and I have left the profession. I was in love with nursing until Obama Care came in. It became a numbers game at that point. Obama Care came with a scale of how hospitals would get reimbursed for Medicare, Medicaid, and uninsured patients. This was based on patient satisfaction scores. The top 5% in the state would get 100% reimbursement, 6-10% would get 90% reimbursement, and so on with the bottom 20% getting no reimbursement. So how did this effect nursing? The hospitals knew they had a greater chance of not getting fully reimbursed so they had to make changes to cut costs. They also pushed nurses for perfect patient satisfaction scores and threatened termination if scores were not high enough. They cut back on staffing nurses and (in my hospital) they did away with on-call nurses. They took away overtime completely so you had 15 minutes before your shift started to run a race to get report from the previous nurses of your assigned patients. At the end of your shift, you had 15 minutes to give report to oncoming nurses and finish up any charting. If you went over these times on three occurrences, you were fired. In order for doctors, physicians assistants, and nurse practitioners to see more patients, which was needed due to the new pay structure, they had to spend less time at the bedsides so procedures that previously would have been done by the above mentioned were now given to RNs to do, increasing our workload. I should point out that our charting was critically important. Not just because it involved the patient’s care but because the forms we filled out also effected the hospital’s reimbursement. If we didn’t mark some meaningless box, the whole claim would be denied and the hospital wouldn’t get paid at all. So that was also an area that we could be fired over. Between passing medications, administering chemo, giving blood or platelet transfusions, starting IVs, cannulating ports, putting in catheters and NG tubes, drain care, wound care, etc. where was our time to do all this charting? In the past, we would stay after our shift to finish our charting and make sure everything was filled out correctly and all boxes were marked. Now, we can’t do that so we chart at lunch, at breaks, at a patient’s bedside who is receiving a transfusion when we should be paying attention to the patient and looking for a reaction. We leave at the end of a shift with our fingers crossed that we charted everything right. Most nurses go into the profession because we are caretakers at heart, we spend our years at university learning the techniques of caregiving and the therapeutic models to support good nursing increases the patient outcome. With this new satisfaction rating, it’s all about making the patient happy and not about what’s best for the patient. The specialty I was in had very sick patients that would undergo very invasive surgeries. I know, as a RN, that 24 hours after surgery, I need to get this patient up and starting to move. There’s a long list of complications if this patient doesn’t get up and moving. Go figure, most patients do not want to move because it hurts so will push back and fight it. Before I would put on a stern face and voice and insist that they are doing this and not give them a choice. Now as they are up and moving, I would be their biggest cheerleader, I am not a mean nurse, but I know what has to be done. Now, we aren’t allowed to pushback. If the patient says no to getting up, we say ok and will try again later. Patients just coming out of surgery would usually be on a pain pump or heavy doses of scheduled IV pain meds. Before as they were nearing their discharge date, we would start to alternate IV pain meds with oral pain meds with the goal that by discharge, they are completely on the oral pain med they will have at home. Now, if we try to give oral pain meds and the patient refuses and wants the IV pain med, we can’t pushback and have to give them the IV meds. We were discharging patients who had never taken an oral pain med the entire hospital stay but were given a prescription for oral medication at home. So what we started seeing in high numbers was patients being re-admitted. We saw uncontrolled pain, restricting scar tissue formation which required surgery to correct, intestinal problems which required interventions and sometimes surgery, wound infections including necrosis around the surgical site requiring surgery, bed sores, etc. I spent the majority of my nursing career before Obama Care changed everything (they never did away with these changes) and I absolutely loved nursing and caring for my patients. I spent about 2 years under the change before I left. It was too much of a demand on us, the patient care was no longer the center of focus, the absolute defeat when you see your patients coming back in for things that could have been prevented, the constant threat of termination at every angle, and the looming knowledge that you can be criminally prosecuted if something goes wrong and in an environment like what I left, it felt like a wing and a prayer were all that was keeping that from happening. That’s my perspective and why I will never go back unless it could go back to how it once was which I don’t see happening.
@@cherie5133 Wow, thank you for telling your story. Very informative and interesting. Almost everything in society is being destroyed now because of gov't. lawsuits, money, "mental health", etc.. I asked the question, because I've been around nurses due to family relations, and most seem like they are living an easy life, are very wealthy, and always on vacation. Would you agree nursing is varied, and what your experience is, may be far different with another employer; say being a school nurse, traveling nurse, etc.?
@@oldhickory4686 Absolutely. I know a lot of ER nurses in the same hospital I worked at didn’t have the same experience that I did because they were “turn and burn” nurses, they weren’t responsible for long term care. I saw a lot of new graduate nurses leave within 6 months to go work as a corporate nurse for lawyers, insurance companies, etc. There are so many avenues nurses can work in. For me, I fell in love with direct patient care, it’s all I wanted to do. I tried a few other areas after I left the hospital setting but I found them to be monotonous and unfulfilling. Stepping away from nursing was the best decision I made. As for the nursing shortage and why nurses are leaving the profession, it’s the hospital or bedside nurse that they are referring to and when that is the area of nursing that you are drawn to, it’s hard to become a paper pusher nurse. Something has to give in the hospital setting or nurses are going to continue to be a shortage.
@@cherie5133 Thank you for sharing the information and your experience. I thought there was some agenda with this (immigration, etc.), but apparently not. I hope you find what you are looking for if you haven't already. I love your honesty and integrity. With those qualities you can't fail. God bless you.
Ecclesiastes 9:10 KJV Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might...
@Cherie good narrative. But to blame Obamacare is far fetched. States Need and MUST be forced to pass safety rules of nurse to patient ratio. That is the ONLY way to help nurses. Otherwise we will continue to blame wrong bodies until Kingdom come!