I don’t get why people are exhausted. I’m a nurse and most my co workers are over weight, don’t workout, and try to sit as much as they can while techs do the work.
You’ve got a new subscriber. I’m also FNP, I put in resignation with no job lined up because I’m burned out. I think as nurses now in a provider role we give 100% of ourselves to our work/patients and we care so much until we have nothing left. Good luck and focus on your overall health and everything else will fall into place.
You showed up randomly on my RUclips page. I worked with you at upstate in the ED. I know exactly how you feel. I had to leave after being there for 5 plus years because I literally could not do one more shift. It’s completely utterly exhausting. It’s so true about having to be perfect. We have to work so hard and so fast because of the crazy work loads and we have no room for error. On a positive note, You are one of the best people I have ever worked with. You are absolutely amazing at your job. You are a bright light in a really dark place. Keep up the good work. This is a really good video you made. It really hits home.
Peter, thank you. You are one of the most caring and compassionate nurses I've known, and you did it within an extremely difficult environment. You should be very proud of the work you've done, and continue to do. You are the real deal my friend. This channel is becoming an outlet for me to express the joys and the frustration of working in a business you and I know all too well. Thanks again, and stay well.
I’ve been a nurse a long time too. Over 40 years. Worked hard. Studied lots. But one job really caught me out. I was a palliative care nurse working with children with cancer. It broke me but at the time it was hard to easily see what was happening to me. It was a job I’d loved for six years then I started feeling really anxious on Sundays before Mondays work. I stuck it for another couple of years but just one day just couldn’t do it any more. I went back to university, worked in a tea shop, was broke for a while regrouped and found a new role. Very hard at the time though
This video just popped up for me. I hope you are feeling better now. I am an ER nurse for ten years and NP for almost three- one in ICU and two in ER. The last 2.5 years have been rough and I haven’t really enjoyed it. It’s hard to tell if this is from the pandemic or if this role as an NP is not my cup of tea. Seems like we get dumped on a lot and are an isolated misunderstood role. The stress is real.
Thank you for sharing. I left my NP role in rehab/LTC/assisted living due to burnout. I am working as nurse in the OR now. I feel as an NP we care a lot and do more because of our background in nursing. I was playing the role of NP and nurse educator in the facility that I worked. It very hard for me not to give 100 percent of myself in caring for my patients and make sure you are doing everything the right way. I am not sure what I will do with the NP but I would like to go back but maybe in a year or two as part time in a different area in healthcare. I do not know where as I am still trying to figure it out. I wish you all the best. Millie
Loved this video. Yes, burnout is real. The pressure to be "perfect", the pressure from the corporate healthcare system, the pressure from patients (and yelling before you can even say 'hi')... You've helped so many lives throughout your career. I hope you will find something less stressful that will bring peace in whichever work environment you choose
The pandemic is hard on health professionals. I'm dealing with the loss of my mother and I had to quit my job as an nurse assistant. I needed help in a lot of ways. My psychiatrist adjusted my meds and I hope that it helps. Hey if you leave you can always go back. Life is not permanent!
Hi Will. Just coming across your channel. I can relate to the emotions and questionable burnout/compassion fatigue as a RN of 17yrs. I just graduated from Acute Care NP, and was so excited to change roles. However, now that ive graduated, I almost feel "stuck" with overwhelming feelings of what if Im not ready for this? Or what if I hurt someone? This has hindered me from studying for my boards like I would like and rescheduling my date 2 times now. Ive changed roles in the hospital to very prn to working with hospice and soon a government job. I am super excited for the government role, however, I want to also try working prn in the ED as a provider. I dont want to get burned out any further, but just to tap into my Acute care role. I offer to you to consider maybe looking into Hospice as a provider role. It is totally different, and the patient and family are so appreciative. Just a suggestion. I wish you well in your career path. New subbie here!
Thank you. Since I made that video, it's been very much up and down as far as my satisfaction. I believe there's a 10 year window where it is all glory; resuscitations, traumas, procedures, you know...what some consider hero stuff. That wears off over time. and you're left with the human side to it all, which is rewarding and soul-sucking at the same time.
im a nursing student..its like im going through the journey you'v been through ....i dont know what to say i always thought that the hardships of this job will get easier seems like it will not!! so thanks for your service hope i will be a goo nurse or NP like u in future
hello Will, 10 year RN here about to start grad school! Going for ACNP and FNP. Healthcare is general is exhausting right now. The hospital setting, especially in the ER is stressful as hell. Perhaps you should do urgent care or primary care? Big change of pace I know, but a whole lot less stressful. Just a thought! God bless. U earned a follow from me today as well!
Thanks Marlon! I’ve done a lot of urgent care in the past, but all our urgent care centers have abandoned caring for folks who have complaints beyond a sore throat! Im in the ED now, and hopefully it will remain a good day!
@@DrWilliamMartinPhD Wow, that's so interesting! We had to take all kinds of patients in UC. Chest pain, respiratory distress, etc, etc. Nurses were ACLS and PALS trained.
As someone that currently in school for their dnp, I love your channel name. I understand how you feel. Just talk about what’s on you mind. You’ve earned yourself a follow.
It is very real. I left nursing leadership entirely to return to professional development. It is more peaceful, less demanding and I am actually thinking of enrolling in a PhD program at some point. Thank you , Dr. Martin for all that you've given to us.
Are you working in a major urban setting? I hear a lot of these horror stories but I wonder what life is like for an ENP at a rural emergency department. That’s where I would like to work
sorry for the late reply. Yep I'm still surviving the ED, but I started doing wound care and hyperbarics about 10 years ago and recently finished the undersea and hyperbaric medicine program and will hopefully be focusing on hyperbarics and wounds and just a couple shifts in the ED here and there.
Im a RN in a ER, I completely get it. Over the holidays I think I had to restrain like 7 ETOH cases. I was getting really burned out in a bad way. On top of it im healing from surgery of a ruptured distal bicep tendon. Imsterrified of ripping it again working as a nurse. How health care lets the patients walk all over us is sad.
Just came across this. Been in hc for 23 years. Took 1 year away to work from home (still medical). Went back. We are needed. We have to address how big corporations and big pharma dictate how we care for people🤯.
You know, I did that video a while ago, and my current view is the lack of courtesy and respect our patients give us. Its unlike anything I've seen in my nearly 3 decades in EM. That has certainly worn me down
It is odd that YT is only now recommending your vid, but hello, glad to have you on YT. But burn out is real and it is impacting a lot of people across a lot of industries. 2020, 2021 and going into 2022 a lot of people are realizing that their jobs are broken. People are overworked, underpaid, and our employers seem to have zero loyalty to their production staff. I hope you find your way and know that you don't have to put up with the corporate/capitalistic machine that seems to literally eat people. I'm not anything amazing, an accounting/business administrative clerk type, but I made the decision to find another job with an employer that wasn't going to work me 50+ hours a week. The time I have back I am developing my art into marketable products. So far I have made about $300 in two months without even really promoting myself. It isn't enough to stop working for the man, but it proves to myself that my passion in life does have monetary value.
@@DrWilliamMartinPhD You can do it, whatever it is you want to do. Just always remember that you, yourself, with your own intellect, your own two good hands and two good feet have more autonomy and personal power than society wants you to believe you have. Also, I hope that if/when I am in need of serious medical care I have a kind and caring nurse like you.
This video is an answer to my prayers. Years in nursing: 27 years staff including 14 years MICU.10 years NP. I work in a small busy family practice. My Boss forgets she is an FNP/DNP. Went to Medical school and graduated. She treats NPs like garbage. Trashes me daily, berates and Humiliates me in from of the staff and medical students. She withholds my pay, no breaks, no vacation, work 6 days and very long hours. I get home at 12 midnight and must finish all the charts for the day. There is much more. This is burn out. The smallest mistake, she makes it into a mountain. I thank you. #me too.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🌹🌹
Thanks for commenting. To be fair, I have to rewatch that video and see where I am now. We go through stages, and I'm probably in a different place today from where I was.
truthfully you dont deserve this in any way id heavily consider trying to find a job elsewhere make sure to document and get evidence of this if you can, this would easily be a mistreatment/ harassment lawsuit
WHAT are you doing as an ER nurse with your credentials? I think many nursing faculties at major universities would be delighted to have you. I've worked in hospital HR (the University of Minnesota and Fairview University Medical Center)and can almost guarantee that there's something MUCH BETTER for you just around the corner. There's absolutely no shame in finding something different. In fact, following your passion can be a wonderful thing.
Thank you Max, I appreciate your insight. As you probably know, nursing faculties have their own set of "issues", and although I've had some experience as an adjunct I still believe my place is in the clinical setting...at least for another day maybe!
Fellow nurse here, I am tired of the abuse from patients. What we do is never good enough for some of them. I’m also tired of administration. They could care less about us. Id like to see them work a day in our shoes. I also feel that we aren’t getting paid what we deserve. We are exposed to so many diseases, awful emotional trauma…. Admin will do anything but pay their nursing staff more money.
I am glad that you shared the racist comment because alot of people of color do not trust nurses or doctors with caring for their health, but you explained you had just worked a certain amount of hours, had so many patients and this resonates that you are human too and was doing the best job you could even though that parti ular patient did not understand the demands you had prior to working with her.....way to go and thanks for all you do!!!💖💖
Treating you that way is unacceptable and you do not deserve to be treated that way. Take your talents elsewhere. What you have done in your career is extraordinary. You could be a consultant or a public speaker. If they do not appreciate you, your RUclips channel tells me that you could have your own show and consulting company. You are awesome!
Im a CNA. Low guy on the pole here. Since nobody will come out and say this, I will. When I began feeling like you do, I found out I had low testosterone. I'm not saying low T is the only issue, as I'm sure you are over worked and tired. Have you had it checked?
Let me tell you, there are no "low guys on the pole" in this business. There is a hierarchy created by administrators, but you rely on me, and I rely on you...that's the truth! As far a low T? I have a PA buddy who is going thru prostate cancer treatment, and part of the tx is suppressing his testosterone. I sometimes joke that if he gets to zero, I'll still be lower than him!
Thanks Elfreda! I appreciate that. The art of video making remains new to me, and I appreciate the constructive criticism. I hope to do better as time goes on.
Lol, sometimes it can! I am amazed at the number of videos from nurses who quit their jobs. In fact, I'm making an editorial video about that right now!
This video just popped up for me. I hope you are feeling better now. I am an ER nurse for ten years and NP for almost three- one in ICU and two in ER. The last 2.5 years have been rough and I haven’t really enjoyed it. It’s hard to tell if this is from the pandemic or if this role as an NP is not my cup of tea. Seems like we get dumped on a lot and are an isolated misunderstood role. The stress is real.
Thank you. Since I made that video there have been a ton of ups and downs. Trying to change focus a bit to the admin and academic side of things. Not my favorite, but doing different things sure helps!
All of my nurse friends are exhausted and battle weary. This is therapy. What you are doing matters. Thank you for your service!
You are right. In many ways, just speaking about it helps.
I don’t get why people are exhausted. I’m a nurse and most my co workers are over weight, don’t workout, and try to sit as much as they can while techs do the work.
You’ve got a new subscriber. I’m also FNP, I put in resignation with no job lined up because I’m burned out. I think as nurses now in a provider role we give 100% of ourselves to our work/patients and we care so much until we have nothing left. Good luck and focus on your overall health and everything else will fall into place.
Thanks Vanessa. Burnout is such a complicated issue with so many factors at play. I appreciate your advice, and please do the same for yourself!
You showed up randomly on my RUclips page. I worked with you at upstate in the ED. I know exactly how you feel. I had to leave after being there for 5 plus years because I literally could not do one more shift. It’s completely utterly exhausting. It’s so true about having to be perfect. We have to work so hard and so fast because of the crazy work loads and we have no room for error. On a positive note, You are one of the best people I have ever worked with. You are absolutely amazing at your job. You are a bright light in a really dark place. Keep up the good work. This is a really good video you made. It really hits home.
Peter, thank you. You are one of the most caring and compassionate nurses I've known, and you did it within an extremely difficult environment. You should be very proud of the work you've done, and continue to do. You are the real deal my friend. This channel is becoming an outlet for me to express the joys and the frustration of working in a business you and I know all too well. Thanks again, and stay well.
Thank you for your commitment to the profession and your honesty. You are not alone.
Thank you!
I’ve been a nurse a long time too. Over 40 years. Worked hard. Studied lots. But one job really caught me out. I was a palliative care nurse working with children with cancer. It broke me but at the time it was hard to easily see what was happening to me. It was a job I’d loved for six years then I started feeling really anxious on Sundays before Mondays work. I stuck it for another couple of years but just one day just couldn’t do it any more. I went back to university, worked in a tea shop, was broke for a while regrouped and found a new role. Very hard at the time though
Thanks Dorothy. It takes a special soul to do that work for any length of time. Be well.
This video just popped up for me. I hope you are feeling better now. I am an ER nurse for ten years and NP for almost three- one in ICU and two in ER. The last 2.5 years have been rough and I haven’t really enjoyed it. It’s hard to tell if this is from the pandemic or if this role as an NP is not my cup of tea. Seems like we get dumped on a lot and are an isolated misunderstood role. The stress is real.
Hi, can you please explain the isolated and misunderstood role?
Thank you for sharing. I left my NP role in rehab/LTC/assisted living due to burnout. I am working as nurse in the OR now. I feel as an NP we care a lot and do more because of our background in nursing. I was playing the role of NP and nurse educator in the facility that I worked. It very hard for me not to give 100 percent of myself in caring for my patients and make sure you are doing everything the right way. I am not sure what I will do with the NP but I would like to go back but maybe in a year or two as part time in a different area in healthcare. I do not know where as I am still trying to figure it out. I wish you all the best.
Millie
I am feeling the same! Glad I am not alone in this.
Loved this video. Yes, burnout is real. The pressure to be "perfect", the pressure from the corporate healthcare system, the pressure from patients (and yelling before you can even say 'hi')... You've helped so many lives throughout your career. I hope you will find something less stressful that will bring peace in whichever work environment you choose
Thank you. I have to re-examine where I am right now. I think its definitely changed. Time for an update!
Family is opposite of Emergency tho rite?
Unless its a family emergency...
The pandemic is hard on health professionals. I'm dealing with the loss of my mother and I had to quit my job as an nurse assistant. I needed help in a lot of ways. My psychiatrist adjusted my meds and I hope that it helps. Hey if you leave you can always go back. Life is not permanent!
Thanks for commenting, and I'm very sorry for your loss Alia. Please take care of yourself.
@@DrWilliamMartinPhD thank you.
Thank you I feel totally the same. I am np in urgent care and long term care.
We have good days and bad days. Since I made that video, I've had thankfully more good than bad
Just keep talking we will listen tuff time for our health care community. Look forward to the next video 📹.
Thanks Bruce! I appreciate your comment.
I put in my notice on Friday as NP in an urgent care after three years of working there!! I don’t have anything lined up!
Will, definitely continue, please! Thank you for your honesty and such a raw vulnerability. You're not alone.
Thank you Bob! I certainly will continue.
All jobs are front line in the class war now
Hi Will. Just coming across your channel. I can relate to the emotions and questionable burnout/compassion fatigue as a RN of 17yrs. I just graduated from Acute Care NP, and was so excited to change roles. However, now that ive graduated, I almost feel "stuck" with overwhelming feelings of what if Im not ready for this? Or what if I hurt someone? This has hindered me from studying for my boards like I would like and rescheduling my date 2 times now. Ive changed roles in the hospital to very prn to working with hospice and soon a government job. I am super excited for the government role, however, I want to also try working prn in the ED as a provider. I dont want to get burned out any further, but just to tap into my Acute care role. I offer to you to consider maybe looking into Hospice as a provider role. It is totally different, and the patient and family are so appreciative. Just a suggestion. I wish you well in your career path. New subbie here!
Thank you. Since I made that video, it's been very much up and down as far as my satisfaction. I believe there's a 10 year window where it is all glory; resuscitations, traumas, procedures, you know...what some consider hero stuff. That wears off over time. and you're left with the human side to it all, which is rewarding and soul-sucking at the same time.
im a nursing student..its like im going through the journey you'v been through ....i dont know what to say i always thought that the hardships of this job will get easier seems like it will not!! so thanks for your service hope i will be a goo nurse or NP like u in future
Thank you so much for the kind words. I wish you the best in your nursing and academic endeavors!
hello Will,
10 year RN here about to start grad school! Going for ACNP and FNP. Healthcare is general is exhausting right now. The hospital setting, especially in the ER is stressful as hell. Perhaps you should do urgent care or primary care? Big change of pace I know, but a whole lot less stressful. Just a thought! God bless. U earned a follow from me today as well!
Thanks Marlon! I’ve done a lot of urgent care in the past, but all our urgent care centers have abandoned caring for folks who have complaints beyond a sore throat! Im in the ED now, and hopefully it will remain a good day!
@@DrWilliamMartinPhD Wow, that's so interesting! We had to take all kinds of patients in UC. Chest pain, respiratory distress, etc, etc. Nurses were ACLS and PALS trained.
I’m here with you brother. You are seen. ❤️
Thank you Adam! I truly appreciate when one takes the time to comment. We are in this together!
As someone that currently in school for their dnp, I love your channel name. I understand how you feel. Just talk about what’s on you mind. You’ve earned yourself a follow.
This comment gets my Friday off to a wonderful start! Thank you.
You're a warrior. Stay strong.
It is very real. I left nursing leadership entirely to return to professional development. It is more peaceful, less demanding and I am actually thinking of enrolling in a PhD program at some point. Thank you , Dr. Martin for all that you've given to us.
Thank you for your kind words!
Are you working in a major urban setting? I hear a lot of these horror stories but I wonder what life is like for an ENP at a rural emergency department. That’s where I would like to work
So you made this video almost 2 years ago, and I'm curious what you're up to nowadays or if you changed your mind?
sorry for the late reply. Yep I'm still surviving the ED, but I started doing wound care and hyperbarics about 10 years ago and recently finished the undersea and hyperbaric medicine program and will hopefully be focusing on hyperbarics and wounds and just a couple shifts in the ED here and there.
Im a RN in a ER, I completely get it. Over the holidays I think I had to restrain like 7 ETOH cases. I was getting really burned out in a bad way. On top of it im healing from surgery of a ruptured distal bicep tendon. Imsterrified of ripping it again working as a nurse.
How health care lets the patients walk all over us is sad.
Please be careful!
Don't be a martyr, you'll regret it when you're older! You shouldn't be restraining patients with a ruptured biceps!
Just came across this. Been in hc for 23 years. Took 1 year away to work from home (still medical). Went back. We are needed. We have to address how big corporations and big pharma dictate how we care for people🤯.
You know, I did that video a while ago, and my current view is the lack of courtesy and respect our patients give us. Its unlike anything I've seen in my nearly 3 decades in EM. That has certainly worn me down
I absolutely understand! Burnout is real! Take care of yourself please. I am taking a break and it sounds like you need one too! We are so tired!
Thank you so much!
You are just tired of the BS of short staffed ER ❤❤❤❤ greatness awaits good luck and feel better again
It is odd that YT is only now recommending your vid, but hello, glad to have you on YT. But burn out is real and it is impacting a lot of people across a lot of industries. 2020, 2021 and going into 2022 a lot of people are realizing that their jobs are broken. People are overworked, underpaid, and our employers seem to have zero loyalty to their production staff. I hope you find your way and know that you don't have to put up with the corporate/capitalistic machine that seems to literally eat people. I'm not anything amazing, an accounting/business administrative clerk type, but I made the decision to find another job with an employer that wasn't going to work me 50+ hours a week. The time I have back I am developing my art into marketable products. So far I have made about $300 in two months without even really promoting myself. It isn't enough to stop working for the man, but it proves to myself that my passion in life does have monetary value.
Thank you for your comment!
@@DrWilliamMartinPhD You can do it, whatever it is you want to do. Just always remember that you, yourself, with your own intellect, your own two good hands and two good feet have more autonomy and personal power than society wants you to believe you have. Also, I hope that if/when I am in need of serious medical care I have a kind and caring nurse like you.
This video is an answer to my prayers. Years in nursing: 27 years staff including 14 years MICU.10 years NP. I work in a small busy family practice. My Boss forgets she is an FNP/DNP. Went to Medical school and graduated. She treats NPs like garbage. Trashes me daily, berates and Humiliates me in from of the staff and medical students. She withholds my pay, no breaks, no vacation, work 6 days and very long hours. I get home at 12 midnight and must finish all the charts for the day. There is much more. This is burn out. The smallest mistake, she makes it into a mountain. I thank you. #me too.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🇩🇲🇩🇲🇩🇲🌹🌹
Thanks for commenting. To be fair, I have to rewatch that video and see where I am now. We go through stages, and I'm probably in a different place today from where I was.
truthfully you dont deserve this in any way
id heavily consider trying to find a job elsewhere
make sure to document and get evidence of this if you can, this would easily be a mistreatment/ harassment lawsuit
WHAT are you doing as an ER nurse with your credentials? I think many nursing faculties at major universities would be delighted to have you. I've worked in hospital HR (the University of Minnesota and Fairview University Medical Center)and can almost guarantee that there's something MUCH BETTER for you just around the corner. There's absolutely no shame in finding something different. In fact, following your passion can be a wonderful thing.
Thank you Max, I appreciate your insight. As you probably know, nursing faculties have their own set of "issues", and although I've had some experience as an adjunct I still believe my place is in the clinical setting...at least for another day maybe!
Fellow nurse here, I am tired of the abuse from patients. What we do is never good enough for some of them. I’m also tired of administration. They could care less about us. Id like to see them work a day in our shoes. I also feel that we aren’t getting paid what we deserve. We are exposed to so many diseases, awful emotional trauma…. Admin will do anything but pay their nursing staff more money.
100% true. Thank you, and stay well.
I am glad that you shared the racist comment because alot of people of color do not trust nurses or doctors with caring for their health, but you explained you had just worked a certain amount of hours, had so many patients and this resonates that you are human too and was doing the best job you could even though that parti ular patient did not understand the demands you had prior to working with her.....way to go and thanks for all you do!!!💖💖
Thanks for understanding!
Treating you that way is unacceptable and you do not deserve to be treated that way. Take your talents elsewhere. What you have done in your career is extraordinary. You could be a consultant or a public speaker. If they do not appreciate you, your RUclips channel tells me that you could have your own show and consulting company. You are awesome!
Thank you for your kind words Sylvia!
Im a CNA. Low guy on the pole here. Since nobody will come out and say this, I will. When I began feeling like you do, I found out I had low testosterone. I'm not saying low T is the only issue, as I'm sure you are over worked and tired. Have you had it checked?
Let me tell you, there are no "low guys on the pole" in this business. There is a hierarchy created by administrators, but you rely on me, and I rely on you...that's the truth! As far a low T? I have a PA buddy who is going thru prostate cancer treatment, and part of the tx is suppressing his testosterone. I sometimes joke that if he gets to zero, I'll still be lower than him!
good luck there are plenty of thankless jobs out there, many pay minimum wage.
Thanks!
Start gaming please and thank you
start streaming please and thank you
The music is too much. I truly want to listen to what you have to say but the music is just too much.
Thanks Elfreda! I appreciate that. The art of video making remains new to me, and I appreciate the constructive criticism. I hope to do better as time goes on.
Nursing sucks dude. Quit !!!
Lol, sometimes it can! I am amazed at the number of videos from nurses who quit their jobs. In fact, I'm making an editorial video about that right now!
This video just popped up for me. I hope you are feeling better now. I am an ER nurse for ten years and NP for almost three- one in ICU and two in ER. The last 2.5 years have been rough and I haven’t really enjoyed it. It’s hard to tell if this is from the pandemic or if this role as an NP is not my cup of tea. Seems like we get dumped on a lot and are an isolated misunderstood role. The stress is real.
Thank you. Since I made that video there have been a ton of ups and downs. Trying to change focus a bit to the admin and academic side of things. Not my favorite, but doing different things sure helps!