Hi, I'm Lucy, a producer with Opinion Video. When I first started hearing about a nursing shortage, I thought that I understood why that was happening: Burned-out nurses were finally succumbing to exhaustion after a two-year battle with the virus. But after reaching out to over 50 nurses I learned I was wrong. In reality Covid had just exacerbated a problem that existed long before the pandemic. in our video, five of the nurses I spoke with explain in their own words how corporate greed has created a critical shortage of bedside nurses, and what can be done to solve this crisis. I'd love to know what you thought of our film, and answer questions about how we reported and produced it. Leave your comments below
@@SolaceEasy What's wrong with a universal healthcare system? Why do you guys take so much pride in going bankrupt for healthcare services in the US? It should be available to all and considered a right, not a privilege, no?
@@blurycode many Americans agree with you. It is the Republican Party who has convinced its base that universal healthcare is gov over reach and they scare them saying it’s socialism ( which conservative Americans equate to communism and maybe losing their precious guns somehow). The Republican Party has also preyed on their sense of pride saying “if you need help from the government you’re weak and not hard working”. It’s embarrassing. My family thinks universal healthcare is terrifying 🤦🏼♀️ because they won’t stop watching Fox News.
$300 million a day was spent in Afghanistan over the course of 20 years. Billions and billions and billions of dollars was just spent by the telecommunications companies to purchase invisible radio frequencies. Nearly 800 billion dollars was put aside for the military budget in America for one year. One year!
Where I live we do have using and doctor shortages. Many have retired most here retire at 65. We had people get covid and decided that they have just hD enough. Jobs are are plentiful and maybe it is a good time to change carreers. We have I ivetsal health care so people do not hesitate to go to emergency instead of clinics. Dollars are being put into health care for training of nursing. So far I have not heard of a use of staff.
@@davidxavi1848 then prove it. Sounds like a communist caste system move to not allow someone to advance beyond their service 🙄. Are you going to make someone flipping burgers remain in that position as well?
@@dwilson6769 prove what? If you want to make medical decisions, go to medical school and actually learn the stuff instead of going to an online NP diploma mill. It's a danger to patients.
Every time you hear about a worker shortage (be it fast food, nurses, teachers, IT, etc.) know that there really isn't a shortage. It's always due to horrible working conditions.
Lol don't know if I'd go that far. It depends on alot of things. Teachers for example, it depends on the area. In New York there are too many unemployed teachers because the districts can't afford to pay their salaries. In a place like the Carolinas, communities are growing so fast that they can't fill the jobs fast enough.
No, there is a shortage of workers. I'm not sure what you've been smoking but birthrates are on the decline and have been for years now. The U.S. is almost at the critical 1.4 (last check was at 1.5) per woman. 2.0 is a stable working economy and anything less is a net negative to the future of that economy. Though, this doesn't take into account those who are born with disabilities. So, more realistically a net positive would need to be 2.1 or higher for continuous growth and for people to replace those who are leaving or then needing to retire. As the work-life of the average person is expected to be 20-60 and a retirement at 61-100+ (in a healthy economy). Meaning there needs to be a constant supply of able bodies to replace them, otherwise people have to work beyond 60 in an attempt to keep the economy functioning. Problem is that this is only a short term solution and will still lead to a failing economy if birthrates don't increase. It's why China is only one step away from kidnapping women and making breeding farms at this point. They realize their one child policy has done immense damage to the future of their economy. Meanwhile in the U.S. they are still pushing for abortion rights when the primary age range for women having kids is between 16-24, the age at which most would say it was a mistake and would more likely choose abortion as they don't yet have their lives worked out, a stable job, a home etc. tl;dr: We are screwed.
@@KaoruSugimura This is not a fact driven opinion. US total fertility rate is currently 1.7. What you also don't consider is that more women are working than ever before, and with less children to take care of, so the dependency ratio of working US adults to eldery/children in the US is at one of its lowest points in history.
Nurse here ✋🏽I love my job. But if you think hospitals are bad, wait til you hear about Skilled Nursing Facilities (nursing homes). The working conditions are incredibly unsafe for everyone.
@@jociamponelli1008 yep. I worked in one as an OT, and can attest to the fact that most nursing homes are severely understaffed with nurses. They work so so hard and really are pushed past their humane limit
@@batshevabecher5848 I’m really struggling, our family is thinking of having a family member settle into a nursing home but it is so hard. The expense and the quality of care just don’t match up, even if the resident is in great health.
Dont know how my dad did it without caffeine. Said it made his fingers shake. No one wants a shaky surgeon! When my father in law was having surgery my mother in law was happy that it was in the morning because the doctor would be fresh. I did not say a word. He or she could have been up all night!
@@iusbucktig that's not healthy and isn't something to promote to others ultimately 😕 my cult used to say "you can sleep when your dead" to justify child labor and 20 hour days.
Exactly !! Couldn’t agree more. And nurses receive all sorts of punishments and criticism from management in addition to all these dangerous working conditions.
And even if you walk out without taking the assignment in the first place, you could get charged with patient abandonment and stripped of your license.
I have been a nurse for 15 years and left the bedside because the staffing levels were incomprehensible. Expected to care for 9-10 patients on an acute care floor. You feel like you can’t give the care that patients deserve and it takes a huge toll on your mental health. It’s also not safe at all.
That's stretching it as a patient per doctor ratio, let alone as patient per nurse! I'm a doctor, we had our bad patches over the last two years, but one thing we got was for the hospitals to hire more nurses. With 3 to 4 patients per nurse, we doctors can cover 15 patients, even 20 if needed be, but without nurses? People die. The hospital didn't like it when we pointed it out, but patients died more from the lack of nurses than from the lack of doctors in the darkest days of last year. They sure didn't like it, but they barely hired any new doctors while hiring about 100 new nurses for the entire place.
@@Threemore650 I don't. In ideal settings, the nurses I work with do. Usually, nurses get 6 patients. This isn't in the US, but I assure you that they do plenty. During the worst days of the pandemic, we really pushed for the 3 to 4 patients per nurse ratio, as doctors, because we could be stretched very thin, but our nurses never failed us. I could arrive at the hospital and ask "which one of yours needs my attention first?". Each nurse would let me know, and I could prioritise patients out of my mixed assortment of about 20. That's five nurses that, although tired just like me, could be my eyes and hands while I took care of too many patients altogether. They spent more time with them, they knew them better and I trusted them entirely. If I got a call about Mr X with Nurse Y half way through my rounds, I knew it was serious, I could drop what I was doing, sort it and then pick up where I'd left. I made it through week after week of twice as many patients as I should have (I was an intern) because of my nurses. I don't know where you live, but here (Portugal, in Europe) our nurses carry the hospitals on their shoulders.
@@pipitameruje I was an NHS nurse back in the day when two of us were expected to deal with a ward of 30 patients. I was often alone on night duty too... as a second year RN student! But I suppose in those days there were fewer machines to deal with. Manners have also taken a steep decline on both sides. Imho. The ‘nurses’ who pumped my paralysed husband’s abdominal cavity with so much pink gloop that his heart and lungs had no more room to work were, in addition to being incompetent, extraordinarily uncaring. They ignored me when I persistently asked about the loose duodenal feeding tube. They roughly flipped him back and forth whilst discussing their mortgages... in front of me! Staggering to witness such callousness towards a man who hadn’t even had time to come to terms with his awful condition.... which the ward sister had cruelly whispered into his ear after I told her that I would be the one to tell him. I had to employ someone to come in and give him food whilst I couldn’t be there because they would rather just change the food bag than be bothered. Despite his having undergone an op to put in a titanium plate specifically so he could sit up a bit and eat normally. So there’s two sides to every story. Btw... we would in my day, I hope, have died of shame before we made a TikTok of us dancing during a pandemic. I left the profession I loved because the bitchiness of a female hierarchy was intolerable to me. They’re not all saints.
@@Threemore650 Please stick to one argument and support it thoughtfully. You are all over the place, which makes the fact that you are picking on this nurse for having a lighter patient load incredibly infuriating.
As soon as they said 'flex staffing' my heart dropped. I work for a big retail company and they do the exact same thing, even the same phrase. I can't believe they're implementing it in HOSPITALS of all places. The level of corporate greed is at an all time high and yet there are people who still believe that it's laziness driving the great resignation - no! It's the refusal to get exploited and say enough is enough. The US needs something or someone to relieve this huge amount of tension, I don't think it's going to turn out pretty otherwise...
Some companies are having to "make nice" now to retain what employees they have left. I know this is literally killing them. Many companies I worked for had a strong anti employee attitude, compounded by layers of hatchet men, always looking for the slightest problem, often imaginary, so they could come down on an individual or unit, for more production and less compensation. Often the phrase was heard "you're lucky to have a job". I'm retired. but, take grim satisfaction in seeing the tables turned.
Because it’s the stockholders and administrators they hire to “implement” strategies to maximize their profit margin that is priority 1, NOT DECENT CARE. Notice I didn’t say quality? BC quality care hasn’t happened in America for decades. They take profits for strangers more important than the well-being of patients their families and the professionals who are tasked to care for them. Sad situation in American healthcare.
This is late stage capitalism. We need to take back power and we do that with solidarity. There has never been a middle class. There always was and will always be 2 classes, the rich and the working class. Solidarity amongst the working class is how we fight back the exploitation. unionize and vote
Became a nurse in 2016. My wife and daughter are nurses. The amount of corruption, waste, incompetence and greed is astounding. I and my wife are looking for different fields away from nursing.
Would be nice if we had more people on the ground working towards healthcare reform and its education to recruit more people to work towards healthcare reform. We need to redirect the value of profits to the value of HUMANITY and MENTAL HEALTH for ALL.
@@homedoghappiness The reins of control are in government, the big insurance companies, and hospital admin uppers. None of them have healthcare backgrounds usually, but they dictate how the job gets done on the ground and dictate to nurses and doctors. Go after these big entities first. A healthcare worker, heck even a strike of an entire hospital does nothing to put a dent in this crap that comes from above. Healthcare needs to be controlled by the providers and patients, not the pencil pushers and govt.
@@jercasgav yes!! Agreed!! What are your thoughts about private hospitals? Are they still influenced by the gov, and if so, how? I still think the (main) culprit is the mindset of putting profits before people.
@@homedoghappiness private hospitals are a dying breed but are still very much controlled by the govt. Medicare sets the rules for reimbursement and thus private insurance follows so therefore, there's your govt control. Mandates like JCAHO are also across the board. You are absolutely right though, profits before people is a huge problem. I work in a non profit hospital now and there is a vast difference than that of a for profit chain. It's mainly how the employees are treated from what I've seen. For profit hospitals are happy to drop an employee at the drop of a hat.
When my wife was in a terrible way in the hospital I had to step outside the room for a second only to find a nurse crying in the hall. I held her, (years before covid) and asked her what was so terribly wrong. She had 15 minutes left on her shift and three more patients to see and there was absolutely no overtime allowed and she didn't know what to do. A few years later at another hospital, my wife seriously ill again with flesh eating bacteria on her entire leg, the nurse came running into the room saying she had to be to xray immediately but the wound required a special dressing before she could be moved that takes a bit of work. She pulled back the sheets and I had already done the complete wrapping (many times throughout the day due to massive fluid leakage) and the nurse cried out loud and hugged me. I too had no idea how terrible hospitals are treating the staff. And this was 10 and 15 years ago. This is the immoral and criminal behavior of the profiteers who have crossed all borders of decency and compassion. No corporate profits are worth even a single life. God help us all if this is allowed to continue.
Thank you from a retired nurse. We've been saying this for decades now---and being told we are simply inefficient. Surveyors also no longer actually survey the care provided, they sit in the office with adm and look at data...what we say goes unheard, It is just as bad, sometimes worse, in long term care and skilled nursing, any facility really. It is all for profit. Nurse's aide are at the bottom...understaffed and paid so poorly they may qualify for benefits at full time.
And the elites have used Covid to make millions as well instead of letting the information out that there ARE therapeutics that work and can keep many people out of the hospital and out of the furneral home! CRIMINAL!!!! Alll for the almighty dollar!!!!
“Immoral and criminal behavior of the profiteers who have crossed all borders of decency and compassion.” You said that so well. I hope everyone can read your comment, it adds a lot to understand the situation.
Being a nurse, knowing this is so true. America Healthcare System sucks. I’ve even change my career direction because I am tired. Prayers for all my nurse colleagues 🤍
“Servant Servant, get me some coffee” one patients kept yelling at me & then I even got spat on 🤦🏽♀️ So when he said “ The H is for hospital, not hotel” than really hit the nail on the head for me. This video was really needed. I don’t think enough people actually understand what our role is and how much we go through in the field.
Why do you want it to get it easier? Screw getting easier! I got paid double because you want it easy! I say get it harder eh? I want more money and get it harder and harder every day! The harder it gets, the more RN don't want to work! The more RN don't want to work... the more leg up I can negotiate to the said "greedy" hospital! Gets it?
When I was a kid I remember there used to be CNA‘s/aides in the hospital setting as well, at least where I lived. They were the ones that got your drinks and all the other stuff that wasn’t medical related
@@jamuraisack5503 but in it's original form, nurse and doctor is a servant. She just doesn't like it the patient treat them like a lowly servant, but in reality, she is there to serve and nothing else!
Very informative. When they mentioned the 25 million dollars spent in one state to defeat a ballot measure that would've created a staff/patient ratio law, I couldn't help but to think "I wonder how many nurses salaries could be paid with that 25 million..."
Exactly. I quit working as a nurse in 2016. The stress was just not worth it. And if we screw up the blame is on us and they will take away our license...
My dad was an air traffic controller in NYC and he explained to me that before the national strike in the the 80s controllers were not allowed to say they couldn't take anymore airplanes and were just forced to handle as much traffic as was thrown at them. Now, they are allowed to halt traffic they are responsible for whenever they feel they're maxed out. A similar kind of massive rule change is clearly need in hospital administration.
@John Kaplun. I agree, however there are an army of lobbyists ready to prevent putting the interests of human/worker safety over the excessive profits of a few.
The difference is air traffic controlling isn't really a profit seeking business but a government service... Hospitals are a government service in many countries but in the US only in some parts of the military pretty much.
The problem is nurses are often reluctant to strike because they fear it puts patients at risk. They are in a position their opponents happily exploit.
Sounds similar to what they expect nurses to do they give short staff nurses expect one nurse to the job of three And still, they have the audacity to under pay them and refuse overtime
I’ve been a psychiatrist for 20 years and this is what drove me away from working in hospitals: Constant pressure to understaff inpatient units. If our census went down even for a few hours, they’d immediately start sending nurses home. Later, when we got slammed, we’d be horribly understaffed. Some of the places I worked even had a grid which directly linked the number of nurses on staff to how big the administrators bonus would be (less staff = more bonus). Obviously this nonsense should be illegal, and belongs on a used car lot, not in a hospital.
I just went back and have over 30 patients to one Nurse [me] ..Already I feel stressed...I was taking care of one patient in home care before now back to this....Hoping I get another home care case ...Been a Nurse a long long time...You have to be really good with multi -tasking....
It's really not. Those healthcare "professionals" played along with the entire scam-demic since Day One, yet when the vaccine mandates arrived to bite them in the butt, they decided to no longer follow "the rules" of the hospital and tucked tail. If these "professionals" were speaking out against the millions of patients murdered by being placed on ventilators, forced to mask up, denied visitors, etc. etc. they would have a point, but that isn't the case here.
This is why I ignore people who say: "It happens everywhere." We know that. And it's still not acceptable either way. So, let's stop justifying it. And start finding ways to resolve this.
I am a nursing student. No one in my cohort wants to become a bedside nurse and if they do, they only want to do it for 2 years max. We all want to specialize and leave the bedside as soon as possible. It’s crazy how no one wants to do bedside anymore due to the abuse that nurses face. It’s really saddens me because patients need our help. But I have to take care of my mental and physical well being first before I can help others.
Too bad for our LPN program. Those of us who were former CNAs and that are good with patients and hands-on labs are the one flanking the course work exams and those who aren’t so good on both handling patients and hands-on nursing lab were the one doing good on the exams. We understand the materials but it was just the NCLEx style questions that were having trouble with. Majority of these good nursing students are only excellent by the books and exams but other than that, none of them knows how to handle skills in the nursing real world
It's not necessarily true, I am a student now. I was a PCT on med surg and EMT, I average over 90% on exams. You just have to do more practice questions to get used to the style and know exactly what they are asking you. And TBH, I have more of the opposite problem because not having a real patient in front of me makes me not think about anything other than seeing a plastic dummy (assessing plastic instead of flesh, bones and organs) so I have to really focus to pretend like it's real lol @@lasvegasnevada7514
Maybe if people were paid more, they would be willing to deal with more But you know where all the pay increases are going to administration Administration is over paid because they get to decide how much they get And then they decide how much the nurses get in if they want more money they will fire a couple of first year nurses just so they have less staff to pay Administration expects nurses to do the job of two people. Some of them expect you to do the job of three or four people like how are you supposed to be at for places at the exact same time when you’re expected to have a minimum of 10 people in the hospital and there’s only like five nurses and two doctor And you need a minimum of 10 nurses and five doctors Administration is greedy, destroying our medical industry
That's interesting because Government Obamacare Subsidies are $500 per month per person. That guarantees that healthcare for the average person must cost at least $500 per month per person. That standard was set by GOVERNMENT. The problem was that government got involved. The quote you mentioned "to maximize profits" was NYT propaganda meant to push you further into mindset that the problem is that everyone is greedy, when the very people pushing that narrative to you ARE THE GREEDY SOBS THAT YOU DESPISE!
@@trentp151 fun fact the most my health care can cost me is 120 bucks a month and thats if im making 50k or more. At some point it becomes free because you know canadian medical
As an RN of 34 years who left the profession, I can attest to the fact that hospitals have been putting patients lives in danger for years by understaffing on shifts. This is true no matter if the hospital is for profit or non-profit. This must change!
For profit healthcare only works for the CEOs and Directors ...not sure how is nurses can join together and CHANGE the forced neglect and corruption inside the system , but we NEED to figure it out and get it done!!! ALL of us deserve better situations...too many giving our all and still it's a huge chance taking risk situation every day at work...it's truly terrifying sometimes
Seize the daytime, all of healthcare in the US is pre set for a "profit" system...so even if a hospital isn't necessarily paying for huge board salaries, it still has aspects within them that require a large usage of money...like pharmaceuticals/equipment/insurance, and our wonderful government is just waiting to find a loophole to stop payment for some service provided 1 year earlier...that's why we have MOUNTAINS of paperwork that must be done to ensure that it looks like care was done even if it's just on paper...so many DONs /managers don't care how it gets done, just make sure the paperwork says it was completed...(I know this because I worked in nursing management for 1 yr, and saw a lot of dirty manipulation)...all I really know it the system needs to be OVERHAULED
@@medahenderson3055 Find the source of the radiation, shut it down, Covid ends. Simple as that. Instead they have everyone chasing their tales with the 'gain of function' Wuhan nonsense. It is radiation sickness! Everyone is too compartmentalized to ever see the truth and put a stop to it.
I’ve worked 25 years as a nurse. While on night shift in a critical care unit at a university med center, there were only 3 ICU beds open in the ENTIRE hospital. All 3 open beds were in my 8 bed cardiac ICU. We started out the night with 5 patients, so we were staffed with 3 nurses for the night. We pointed out to the nursing supervisor that we would almost certainly get admissions, as the only major hospital in the city. We were told, “We can NOT staff for what MIGHT happen.” During the night we admitted 3 POST-CODE patients! These pts were highly unstable & required 1 to 1 nursing care. It was a nightmare shift with 3 nurses dealing with 3 pts, who were actively trying to DIE. There was no way we could help each other. Our five stable pts got virtually NO CARE during that night. Administration’s response to our distress: “You handled the situation. No one died.” My response: “I QUIT.”
Very informative thanks for sharing. I quit my job as an RN last two years ago after almost 17 years in the field. It was not an easy decision, but life is too short to dread going to work everyday. No amount of money can buy real happiness, but friends I'm not asking you to resign from your job or abandon your business but be wise!
Thanks for sharing your story. I don't really like my job but I love what it provides for me and my family. This pandemic has people rethinking working.
right now I run my own business and While I was still in service I planned towards early retirement, making about 2k weekly from my retirement investment portfolio trying so much to build more side hustles and extra income
wow impressive you're making quite a fortune speaking of investing I have heard many people talk about it but I don't really know how to start and make a good investment, can you explain?
This was an issue in every aspect of Nursing. For decades. I worked Home Health. For years and I WAS REPRIMANDED MANY TIMES for, refusing to take over a certain amount of patients. YEARS PRIOR TO COVID. Then you are labeled insubordinate. Because, I refused to put my patients lives in danger because, my supervisor ( the company REALLY) wanted to see increased $$$$$$$$. However, if something is missed or you do not have enough time to provide QUALITY CARE, YOU will be the person to lose your license. THE EMPLOYER / COMPANIES/ HOSPITALS who, are PUSHING too many patients on you will let it all roll into the Nurse.
@rscmrcmd You are not an authority on nurses day to day job because you have been to the hospital once. you realize your experience is just as Anecdotal as this movie right?
Ever since “medical became publicly traded” and “allowed to advertise” (president nixon) , the system is overall of no value to society (the total sum of positives + negatives)
I have been and still am a cardiologist. Started private practice 1995. What you are seeing here is true. I have seen the entire, slow and steady, change from stand alone hospitals to multi-billion dollar corporate hospital chains. These corporations are using the inherent dedication and oath of nurses, doctors (all staff) to their advantage. Corporate care is policy driven at the expense of its own care givers. My patient load is at max and every minute of the day is packed with "just one more patient." This has gone too far, risky. During the pandemic I found it disgusting and patronizing for a hospital corporation to industrialize the saying; "HEROS WORK HERE." What they were really saying was; "SUCKERS WORK HERE."
Well said. I’ve been an RN since 1988 and an advanced practice psych NP since 1993. It’s getting worse and worse. The last hospital I worked at didn’t even have a medical director or nursing director.
The primary goal of Obamacare was to wipe out private physician's practices & hospitals. I didn't realize that was necessary to maximize the death of the New World Order's Scamdemic.
I have been in the hospital five times. The last time was five years ago after a near fatal head on collision caused by a junkie. My nurses kept me alive for nine days in the CCU untill I was stable enough for major thoracic surgery. I'm alive today because of my nurses, they are angels and they deserve to be treated with the respect they fully derseve.
@@ColocasiaCorm driving with an altered mental status is illegal and dramatically increase people endangerment and fatalities. Terry smith was an example of what can happen no matter how careful u are when others do action such as.
@@peacefulrobin4369 Thank you ! I don't know why that needs explaining unless it hits a nerve. Unbelievable. Wonder how he would feel if he lost a loved one because of an addict.
One of the things that i struggled the most in the first years as a social worker was the open acknowledgement and acceptance of burying us with a high caseload. Like it was so normalized and joked about. Like social workers can do great work in the lives of the people we touch but the amount of work that we are given makes us practically useless.
My limited experiences with hospital social workers has been awful. I had an elderly relative be admitted (various cancer treatments during covid protocols) who also had dementia and kept changing her mind about what treatments she would accept, reject, or imagine. In a short amount of time, we were unable to reach this relative, and even her primary care doc couldn’t (or wouldn’t?) get to her. Instead of letting me (or other relatives) talk to this relative on the phone or visit in person, we kept getting social workers on the phone. Or, we would try to stop by in person to sort out what was happening, only to be sidetracked by social workers. Couldn’t even get basic information that this relative’s health directive said we were supposed to get. Obviously, hospitals use administrators and social workers as buffers and for delay tactics… which is not exactly social work.
This is why I withdrew from my MSW program. Normalized overload and abuse. Even as a student I could see us being conditioned to accept these subpar work conditions. A snake eating it’s tail.
I graduated from nursing school in the fall of 2019, shortly after, I started my career working in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. As a new nurse, I was given assignments that went beyond my level of experience simply because I was another licensed professional who was legally allowed to take care of patients. After working in these environments, I became extremely anxious and at times letting that anxiety fog my critical thinking. Making a mistake is a nurses worst fear, not only because it’ll affect you as a nurse personally and professionally, but could possibly harm the patients that you care for.
I worked 6 months....new career path for me.....as soon as my 6 weeks was up I was up to 5 patients and 1 aid on the floor so we had to do tech job for 4 of the 5 because it was only 2 rns on floor 1 aid......and we were min 20 min from any rapid teams because of our old building location.....absolutely made my anxiety increase so severely and the distrust I have in healthcare runs deeper than it ever did.....its sad
I definitely did things I wasn't supposed to do back when I was nursing in the early 2000s, but it had to be done and their was no one else available to do it. Thankfully, there were no negative results, but nurses have to be doctors all the time.
My mom has been trying to convince me to get into nursing for the past year and this is exactly why I couldn’t do it. I’m not physically, mentally or emotionally strong enough to deal with this in all honesty. These nurses deserve better and I really hope things change because they are doing a job that we all need to survive in society.
Don’t do it. This video hit the nail on the head, our healthcare system is built like a business, not focused on saving lives. Patients and staff become numbers on a spreadsheet and the fallout is heartbreaking.
If you truly want to do it, there are so many other nursing venues, the hospital is not the only place where nurses work. I love it I don’t regret it at all
It's not gonna change. And fyi this is the new corporate way of doing things. This is everywhere. It's a manufactured labor crisis. And then they get to blame it on the workers. When in reality it's not that people don't want to work, it's that most work is getting closer to endentured servitude
@@dunkdamonk I love my job, they go above and beyond, I couldn’t be more happy. I love my patients. But hey that’s just me I guess everyone is not that lucky. Next I’m thinking about being a aesthetics nurse, can’t wait
As a nurse I have no words to express how true this is. I've been the nurse crying on the way home because I couldn't handle another day of risking my patients' lives, I couldn't handle the corporate greed that was focused on "customer satisfaction" and would punish us when patients abused us because they weren't satisfied with their experience. We are tired, demoralized and done.
My nursing director once yelled at me for “not filling out my new admission’s whiteboard”… I had just come out of a different patient’s room, who was dying, and had to perform CPR, bring the patient back, and transfer to ICU… so, how was I going to greet my new patient?? I asked her this. Her response??? “Manage your time better!” Oh, sorry, I’ll just tell my patients they can’t die when I’m getting a new patient. That makes sense.
Hospitals in the US are a joke!!! I’ve been an RN for over 20 yrs. If the general public knew what went on behind those doors they would stay home! The conditions we are forced to work under would be considered torture in any other field.
Oh no, they would not... Who do you think is responsible for the national healthcare assault numbers??? PATIENTS. 3 nurses in the US get assaulted EVERY HOUR. By today's LOSER PATIENTS.
My girlfriend used to work in the emergency room. Recently, the hospital was purchased by a venture capital firm. ALL ER doctors working there 10+ years were fired because “they were paid too much”. Doctors who had saved lives in the hospital for 30 years were fired or forced to take a 80% pay cut. Who replaced these doctors? New college grads with no experience. Fatalities in the emergency room increased 4x. There is a lawsuit in San Diego about this currently.
Yeah but the CEO got a sweet new golf course in his back yard so all those needless deaths were worth it. He's gotta keep up with his short game after all.
OMG this is the first video I’ve seen that FINALLY summarizes how I’ve been feeling as a frontline nurse!!!!! Everything else I have seen posted on social media or by media outlets does exactly that - blames the pandemic as being the sole reason for exhausting the nurses. NOT TRUE! We signed up for patient care, and by this point in the pandemic, we should be able to do this! What we DID NOT sign up for are dangerous patient ratios and limited medical supplies all because of corporate greed! Thank you for finally shining a light on this!
This is what is called a rude awakening. Things aren't what your entitled fantasyland think it is. Did you not think this is what the attempt of "flattening the curve" was about?
@@louf7178 Your initial response doesn't even make any sense because: 1. She's a nurse so unless she's an anti-vaxx nurse she's not in fantasyland. That's her job and she knows the reality. 2. Flattening the curve was simply a concept about masking, distancing, and vaccinating to reduce the hospital / death count numbers. That has absolutely no connection with what she said. She's talking about understaffing.
The nurse talking about the patient soiled in urine. I can’t tell you how many car rides home I’ve cried because of this. Something so simple as helping someone to the bathroom and I just couldn’t do it because I was too busy. It breaks you down after awhile and makes you feel like a bad person.
One of my patients managed to pull a bedpan from under her full of bloody feces and threw it across the room. Poop and everything else was everywhere. When I walked in after taking report, her answer to my hello was, “I called so many times and my back was hurting from that thing under me….I still need to be cleaned up.” Thank god her HH was normal…..the previous nurse didn’t even know she was having bloody stool.
Thank u for saying this, I was feeling like a bad person just this past week I couldn't get my work done and I'm crying in front of my co workers feeling insane
It never made me feel like a bad person because I know I would have done it if I could have. It just made a angry for being put in that situation in the first place and mistrustful of administration. Unfortunately, it's the patients who suffer most. Other jobs can be found but if someone is sick or injured then they are pretty much stuck in the situation. It's like if they want good patient outcomes, then stop setting up the place for failure and hire some people.
Maybe you feel like a bad person because a good person would refuse to accept a paycheck from a predatory medical system that monetizes the sickness, suffering, and death of human beings. It's called "blood money" everywhere outside the medical industry and the good people have quit already.
I've been only a nurse for 14 years and I want to quit today. This is the only job that i went home with a shiner and concussion and was told by the manager that it's just part of our job. In the hospital, i was taking care of 6-8 patients. In the nursing home, I'm responsible for 30-40 patients.
Sorry to hear that - it's unthinkably horrible and it's not something young people are told about when they sign up for nursing school. I once met a lovely Christian girl who was about to start nursing school (she said God wanted her to do it), and my first thought was whether she'd be prepared to be called the F and C word by angry, drunk patients and junkies. She thought she'd be reading bedtime stories to sick kids.
When I first became an RN in '96 a man tried to strangle me with a towel while I was putting his shoes on for him. In what other profession is this allowed? I'm currently not working as a nurse and doubt that I'll ever go back. I'd rather wait tables and drive uber/lyft to make the same or more money with better working conditions and more control over my environment. I see it has been a while since your comment so I hope you are in a better work situation now
I'm a Christian and I def didn't expect this. But I'm still gonna go be a nurse. I know I'm needed still because there are others who leave. @@caravanlifenz
I retired early as an RN for this exact reason. I convinced my daugher NOT to go into nursing because of this - she is a speech therapist now and very happy with her career
My mother desperately tried to find a way out of nursing during her 30-year career. I lost track of how many hobbies she tried to turn into a business as her ticket out. She called nursing The Golden Handcuff. She made six figures, but hated her job. I wish I had taken her attempts to leave more seriously, now I am a nurse who dreams of a way out.
I am there. RN for 25 years at bedside. When Covid hit, I quit my job. I was going to do medical transcription from home because I had some experience with technical writing. When that didn't work, I did travel nursing. I love taking care of patients, I really do. Leaving nursing is harder than one thinks, because I didn't choose a career that is enjoyable AND pays well. I live in a small town and there aren't many options.
I left the RT profession for a public school teaching job at a time when teaching was awesome. Then the education field became heavily politicized so I left for the lesser of the two evils after 8 years. I had a ticket out of the medical profession for sure but ended up at another profession that became even worse. If you must choose wisely, don't make the same mistake I did and get a teaching job. It'll be the even worse, trust me on that.
The nurses are the ones giving really skilled care and honestly saving lives. I value them incredibly whenever I'm a patient, and I'm outraged that hospitals treat them like they are disposable.
Well, that extends to the general public too. We get treated like we're slaves to them when they are admitted, and this was before the pandemic, and now because of the anti-vax/Q'Anon/my freedom comes first movement, a lot of you have taken your anger and frustrations out on us....... It gets harder each day trying to convince ourselves that not all of our patients are going to behave like that when they come to us for help, but you guys have such unrealistic expectations when coming to the hospital. Like the one of nurses said, the H stands for Hospital, NOT Hotel.
They really do too. They would rather us experienced nurses just leave, because they can pay new nurses less. But pretty soon you have entire floors run by all new nurses... and it shows in the mortality rate.
Because our economy is based on capitalism. We're taught that greed and profits are good instead of treating people humanely and looking at the much bigger picture than the short term benefits of profits.
I will never forget during my orientation at my first nursing job out of school the administrator said “nurses are our biggest expense”. Hospitals look at nurses as an “expense” that’s what we are to them. What is a hospital without its nurses? I would like to see them go a day with no nurses… an hour… how about just 15 minutes with no nurses.
Doctors can be replaced by AI or robots. A nurse cannot be replaced by a machine or technology. But that administrator never realises that basic thing. That is the tragedy.
How about calling us their biggest revenue maintainers? When you get a HUGE return on that expense, it's not really a drain - THEY PROFIT OFF US AND THEIR CEOs GET FAT!
As an ex ER Nurse who left the profession 18 years ago I’m ashamed that our hospitals still practice the same staffing BS as when I was at the bedside. Best advice I ever gave people was to live at your loved ones bedside to make sure they are getting the care they need. With COVID, it’s a broken model
insane. edit: not talking about you, the conditions. lol. drs, nurses, and staff should be trustworthy. not somebody that your family needs to be wary of. to the point of them having to guard you. them being there to make sure you even get some water, let alone more complicated things.
We did with my father.. I knew though because I was in school to be an HCA.. sad. The nurses dreaded our room because we wanted the best for them. I tried always getting flowers and gift cards for my nurses afterwards but it isn’t enough. As a patient’s family, we could still see all the the nurses struggling. Hospitals need reform, bad.
I don’t even have words .. I am a nurse and I’ll tell you what .. nursing school never prepared me for the near constant verbal abuse, physical abuse, and sexual abuse I receive from patients not to mention the god-awful staffing they nobody seems to care to fix… and sadly the one doctor on our unit who advocated tirelessly for us -even writing the chief of nursing etc warning them that morale was low and that staffing was egregious and something needed to be done got fired bc the other MDs felt threatened by his advocating for us nurses ..
My heart goes out to all the nurses out there. Ya know the ones that have a heart for humanity and wiped butts for years as a cna just to be spread thin by hospital admins. Don’t let them take advantage of your love for people. I know I couldn’t do that, so I commend you for everything you do.
I am a critical care nurse with 43 years of ICU experience. I retired 4 months before covid hit and I thank god everyday that I did. There has ALWAYS been staff shortages and horrible nurse:patient ratio's. Nurses make up the bulk of a hospital's budget and without us nurses the hospital cannot function. It is always the first budget to be cut when the hospital claims to be in the "red. It is a well documented fact that a patients outcome in the ICU is directly related to the nursing care received. Less nurses = increased mortality. Nurses are ALWAYS understaffed and we are told to do the best we can, but if something does go wrong we are the first ones hung out to dry. Nurses are the ones that are expected to do the jobs that no one else wants to do whether it's cleaning a bed, floor, fixing equipment malfunctions, transport patients. I have even used my own money to run across the street to the deli because the cafeteria is closed and a patient is hungry. Perhaps the management at the top need to take a pay cut and less financial perks. When the CEO or CFO retire they get the best healthcare insurance, stock options and generous bonuses. Every nursing contract we fight for includes fighting for better nurse:pt. ratios and nothing ever changes or improves and I've been doing this for 43 years. I see and hear what my fellow nurses are going through with covid and it breaks my heart. Nurses want to give excellent nursing care, it's why we chose nursing. Covid has killed many of us and made even more sick. We are verbally and physically abused and there is no other industry that this would be tolerated. If a nurse were to talk back to a patient or their family who are abusive we would be reprimanded by a supervisor or even fired. Things need to change and maybe the government needs to do something to force hospitals to change.
I worked as a speech therapist for 23 years in a public school. Loved it until my workload became so unbearable . What hurt more than anything was not being able to give my students all the time and care they deserved. Retired earlier than I wanted to for the sake of my health, felt heartbroken. Greed is at the bottom of so many evils in this world.
@@cstuartdc I work12 hour shifts and prefer them. Most nurses I know do as well. The biggest problem with 8 hour shifts is the 3-11 shift. It is really hard to staff. Only people without children will work them. If you have school age children you would only get to spend 2 days a week with them. The problem isn't the 12 hours it's having to work extra shifts because there aren't enough staff or having to stay late to catch up on charting you didn't have time for. I worked at a hospital that the staff badges recorded whenever you were in the room. I used to joke if they could just record audio while I was there I wouldn't need to be stuck at a computer. I always call out medications as I open them so if patients have questions or concerns they can say so as I open them. My meds would then be charted as well. The only problem would be the patient with 15 pills that listens as I carefully call the med name, dose and what it's prescribed for and wait til I have all of them in the cup, look at them then ask "which one of the white ones is the fluid pill? I don't want to take that one." as I mentality face palm.
Speech therapist overload!!!....how about being a teacher workload compared to speech therapist …Teachers with 150 students , report cards, parent conferences, accountable for test scores, having mainstreamed students and required to have a separate lesson plan for each, bus duty, lunch duty, recess duty, PTA meetings. When a speech therapist was absent the classroom teacher had the student for that time period. When a speech therapist's student was absent the speech therapist had free time at that time slot. None of the speech therapist at the 10 different schools I have worked at had any of the above.
@@cpgone Health and Human Resources controls our hospitals. Have a family full of nurses who've all retired or left the profession since ACA has been fully implemented.
Yes! I'm a Therapist and it's getting overwhelming with agencies putting more and more clients on us and saying we just can't find people or my favorite, "We're saving lives, you can't leave your clients." Gaslighting at it finest.
Home Health Agencies, as an HHA, some patients complain we do nothing, want us to Mop, Sweep, cook for entire families, laundry, clean the mess of others who are cooking, all in one shift, and we get verbal abuse, some physically abused and get bullied by both Coordinators and the Patients, and other Home health aides. Light housekeeping is not cleaning years of gunk that came before us, yet Coordinators don't even treat us with respect, and Agencies do not quantify or define lighthousekeeping when some of those same agencies have Housekeepers with their own salaries and not just HHA's or PCAs. At least Nurses are in the public setting with other nurses who they can talk about the things that happen to them while on shift.. while HHAs have to be alone on their shifts and if any physical thing happens, we are on our own, once 4 P.M or the weekends appear there isn't any kind of help or anyone backing us up. I feel it's the lack of awareness to humanity that is the root of the problem, and the greed of healthcare in general, not just in Hospital settings.
Started crying while watching this because right now my staff to nurse ratio is 14:1 and sometimes I don't see a patient for hours if they're not actively dying. It feels like I only have time to throw pills at my people and run to the next. Sometimes an entire day goes where no nurse is on the schedule at all and we're having to be begged to come in on our days off, having to weigh our own health vs our patients, and calculate if we can even give decent care after 50 hours a week. Every day I see the girls I went to nursing school with post on Facebook that they're quitting the profession. And every day I get told we're getting another admit despite my CNA being out sick with covid and me being 2 hours behind on the morning med pass. But somehow I have to get it all done because if not me, who will?
The dreaded word Admission!!They throw this at you when you’re already buried in work only to have to go through everything involved in admitting someone. Do your nurse managers help with this? When you’re passing meds there is no time to admit someone by yourself. These places just abuse the staff to no end and wonder why people quit. The last LTC place I worked as CNM had 16 LPN’s quit and I went on medical leave after only 6 months and never worked again. They will push you to the breaking point. I hope that you’re able to ask for help or make a complaint if there’s no help. Then when the state comes in for surveys, all the big wigs stay and help answer lights that they never do normally and blame the staff for deficiencies when they have to cut corners or the work would never get done.
My best friend and brother who was an RN in Ohio who deceased in 2021. He was a great nurse. Staffing shortages were exposed greatly when the pandemic hit here. There were times he would see 16 patients in one shift and then have to pick up a second shift. I recall his wife saying he was just getting stretched so thin. He turned to sleep aides to help him get through with little to no sleep. Then the stress of the pandemic started. He started seeing more patients die than what he was ever trained to deal with. It ate him alive. When he went to the hospital admin, for help, he was denied leave. To an extent, I understand why time off was denied during a pandemic. Yet I don't understand why a hospital would deny leave or sick time to one of their nurses that they saw was struggling. He committed suicide in October of 21.
I am so glad this is FINALLY coming to light. I have been a nurse for 10 years. I had nightmares almost every night, severe anxiety before going into work. I thought I was just weak. The truth is we were all feeling it. We were abused from all sides. Yelled at and sometimes physically abused by patients, forced to work severely understaffed, have management gaslighting us, calling us at 5am begging us to come into work on our days off, belittling us. I left and I am now a nurse care manager working from home. Something needs to be done asap. It’s a felony to attack a bus driver in NYC, but if a patient attacks a nurse, management asks us to write incident reports on what we did wrong. There needs to be staff limits and laws in place to protect us. We are not hero. We are human . We need to be treated as such or the future of bedside nursing is not looking too great. They are offering us all this money begging us to come to work and most of us who left would NEVER go back to bedside.
I am a retired nurse and I would have anxiety about the workload and wether I could manage to struggle through it before every shift for 40 years. What other profession does this happen to?
Absolutely! I would have a feeling of dread and cramping in the pit of my stomach walking into the hospital,every experienced nurse had the same symptoms! Other than law enforcement officers ,firemen,I can’t think of another profession that does this to your sprit and body!
Of course it's rough - health care or long term care or hospital care - money is the priority = maximum profit , like anything or anywhere else. One way to maximize profit is to minimize payroll. If it can be done ... if it can be gotten away with , then it'll be done.
Another good point to touch on is what the hospitals pay the nurses. I have been a nurse for six years, you will be working in unsafe conditions for your patients and your license. I know of a few hospitals that wouldn’t even give nurses a 1% raise the year of 2020. When COVID initially spread through the country, each nurse was terrified in COVID rooms. Most doctors wouldn’t even go into them. While we were out of N95 masks, being told it’s okay to wear a bandanna, hospitals couldn’t even care to give a 50 cent raise of compensation. I worked as a nurse in PA and was living paycheck to paycheck and each year in the newspaper we saw that the CEO would be walking away with millions. Hospitals have the money to pay nurses they chose to leave them understaffed and underpaid.
I agree with you. HOSPITALS PAY TOO MUCH TO NURSES. TWO YEARS AND A CERT DOESNT EARN YOU 70K in ANY OTHER FIELD IN ANY COUNTRY ON ANY PLANET. HOSPITALS CHARGE TOO MUCH AS WELL. THE ENTIRE USA MEDICAL SYSTEM IS ALL A BUNCH OF SCHEMING MARTIN SHKRELIS
@@davidanalyst671 Most hospitals require a four-year degree. If nurses have a two-year degree, it is not a certificate. If you had any idea what nurses do, you would never say what you said. I hope you’re never in a position to have a nurse be the one saving your life.
@@davidanalyst671 lol 2 years is an associate degree and you have to take a licensure. I have a bachelor's degree. I get 123G a year we should get more than that. Life in danger constantly, covid, prisoners, tb, etc
I'm an ICU nurse from Massachusetts and this video really encompasses what nurses are going through. I quit my job in December of last year and left for a travel position because I figured if I was going to suffer, at least I should be compensated properly. There is NO nursing shortage, only a shortage of nurses willing to work at the bedside. Why? because of the unrealistic, ridiculous, and dangerous expectations placed on nurses at the bedside. An impossible amount of multitasking, an absurd amount of documentation in place to protect hospitals from lawsuits, and a lack of support staff. It's unbelievable that my main goal in my career is to somehow position myself financially to leave my profession.
Multitasking is supposed to be some kind of asset. Or, that’s what we are told. However, it is an invitation to disaster. The human brain is designed to focus efficiently on one thing at a time. Nursing is a multitasking 💩show.
@@johnberry2877 Thanks for that knowledge... the human brain is designed to focus on one task at a time. Very important for me, I use my brain a lot and thought I should train it to do so much, and it hurst. So, thanks!
I was a ICU RN for 13 years and I quit at the beginning of the pandemic because Kaiser initially told nurses they would fire them if they wore masks to work because it would scare the patients. I was DONE! You take so much abuse as a nurse from everyone. Your coworkers, patients, families, management… the list goes on. I would feel guilty taking my breaks and lunch. I would leave every day feeling like I messed something up because I was so busy and stressed throughout the day. I’ve had glasses thrown at me, called all sorts of names, yelled at, spit at, pinched. It’s just too much. I couldn’t do it anymore. I was exhausted. There was one day when I was flexed between 8 different assignments in one day. I will never go back to nursing unless I’m absolutely desperate.
I used to do security at Kaiser San Jose during thefirst year of Covid and I remember them telling staff that. Ridiculous how a workplace would sacrifice worker health along with their families to save face and retain profits (I mean clients 😂)
My mother is a case manager, used to just be an RN. She has been in close contact with Covid patients on so many occasions, came home feeling not well, and she’d be at work the next day. They don’t care if you come in with a cough, sore throat, anything goes. She has come home in tears because she watches so many people die a day. Just a week ago she came home telling me just as she was talking to a patients family about his recovery, he seized up and died in front of them. All while she is saying she herself doesn’t feel good. I’m at home nursing my RN mother because she doesn’t have the time to take care of herself in or outside of work. She’s exhausted and just a human, so I bring her water and help her get to bed, make sure she gets her meds before falling asleep. She is a superhero, just overworked, overwhelmed with competition in a sexist and toxic environment. I’ve told her for years “be a traveling nurse” because she’s qualified. More money, less permanent stress. But she never took that advice and I can see the wear and tear of nursing on her face. Since Covid peaked, I’ve watched my mother crumble at every foundation and still pick herself back up for work the next day. If you have been a nurse in the past or you are now, you are the beating heart of society, and I can’t thank you enough for working where you’re not always appreciated or even acknowledged for your hard work. It gets overshadowed by the bad every time.
Great documentary! When I was an LPN, many people were shocked when I tried to explain that there is no nurse shortage in the US. It's literally a shortage of positions caused by corporate greed. This is not a problem isolated to hospitals. There are RN graduates who have to move to towns 3-4hrs away just to find full time jobs. I had no problem leaving the medical industry and never looked back. Some of my patients cried because I was caring and good at my job. But the level of corporate greed I faced daily was absolutely demeaning and disgusting. Patients are nothing more than assembly line products to bill insurance. If you spend too much time on a critical patient who needs more care than others, then you are a liability. Meanwhile you are still accountable for the care of patients, even if the medical directors/staffers make it literally impossible to administer treatment safely. They will throw you under the bus without hesitation. One NP left because the company wanted to make her signature into a stamp so that other employees could simply sign off on things for her. They weren't interested in hiring other doctors or NPs to take on the load. Just finding more shortcuts.
The system is rigged against the people who actually want to help people and benefits people who want to hurt people for the sake of profits. What to do now?
Very well stated “patients are assembly line items to bill insurance.” That is perfectly stated!!! Also, Insurance reimbursements dictate the “level of care” patients receive. This includes whether or not they see a doctor or a mid level, how long they wait for an appointment and how long it takes to schedule surgery. Corporate greed has created a two tiered customer service line that’s looks a lot like coach verses first class. And providers are nothing more than the machines private equity firms invest in to produce $$$ to line someone else’s pockets! Why it is legal for private practices and hospitals to sell to PE firms is baffling!!! It goes against all medicine and nursing are supposed to stand for. How is reducing a person’s right to treatment based on their insurance plan doing no harm? How is not accepting Medicare fair and justified? Doctors have been bought and so have many midlevels in private practice but at least the doctors received HUGE cash payouts when they signed over their rights.
As someone from Asia who worked in healthcare let me say, this is a global issue. Corporate greed and extreme capitalism has taken over making the working conditions terrible for everyone else
Our country is failing because these nurses want easy life. Look everyone else in world. Look in China and india, the nurses work much harder and for less money.
Oh, that's easy! MONEY. And who is going to get it. Managers decide, not doctors or nurses. Guess who makes out the best? Managers, owners, and stock holders, NOT patients. That's how it happens; greed. In America, healthcare is a business first and only. They only pretend to care about patients with all the surveys and lying. Then they send any nurse home once they meet the minimum number for their staffing.
I wonder if some of the Filipino nurses they tried to talk to for this video was pressured to not say anything. I know for a fact that some of my Filipino friends are pressured not only by the management but also by their own families. Filipino culture tends to say "keep your head down, don't complain, and just keep working." And it's so sad.
I absolutely believe they declined being involved in this video. My family is Filipino and being half Filipino, I see the divide in the way my family or friends of family are treated in the healthcare industry because of the pervasive culture that sometimes follows Filipinos across the sea. Filipinos, or, much like any immigrant looking to give themselves and their families a better life in their transition to the US, may often find themselves shying away from the idea of conflict despite it being in their best interest. The idea of maintaining subservience to a behemoth like the healthcare industry is shocking and all too close for comfort to me. The fear of being homeless and unable to care for one's family absolutely plays in the mind of many immigrant workers in the Healthcare industry. It is time for a change.
@@My_Garmonbozia It's so hard when even your family will just say "Just pray to god to make it better." I feel you on this. I'm not in the healthcare industry but whenever I talk about my bosses putting so much work on me, this is their go-to reply. Or the other "Be thankful that you have this job, there are millions in the Philippines that would not complain if they were in your position."
so true, I work with many Filipino nurses and I can see the abuse management inflicts on them and they just don't complain and take it as part of their job description. Some of our nurse managers go to nazi nursing administration training....they are horrible managers.
we family in the Philippines that always need money so we have no choice but to work even if it means getting constantly walked on by management. i hear many cases of filipino maids in the middle east who stay through abuse because they need the money. some even died.
It really is.. It was an extreme eye opening experience for me when I worked in a hospital. I was a PCT, planning on eventually going for my RN.. After 9 months of being in that brutal environment, not even making $13/hr, I went back to manufacturing and have never regretted it.
@@will_the_don As someone who at one point wanted to become a nurse, on one hand I'm glad I didn't and on the other, sad that the profession that people worked very hard to get, are being driven out by such a toxic environment..
I was an RN for 46 years, and then an NP for 27. I still have nightmares about hospital nursing in the 80s and 90s which is when I left. I wake up and think that someone forgot to tell me in report that I had a patient, and they went without care for 8 hours. We have been understaffed for a long time. Yes, you may make $120/hour but the hospital is still saving money because you are doing the work of at least 3 people.
46 + 27 = 73 years of working as a nurse. The earliest age to become an RN in the late 1800s was about 18y/o. If you became an RN at, let's say, a VERY YOUNG AGE of 18, that would mean you are currently 91 years old and typing this on RUclips. Which I am just not buying.
This is a comments section on RUclips, people misspeak or misword things all the time. It's really weird that you care about correcting something nobody else cares about. Nobody is getting paid or graded so just, "Let it go, let it go....." @@precisionwresonance
As a teacher I feel you. You're called a hero only so they can demand heroic levels of patience and resiliency when they could easily make it manageable and livable. People shouldn't have to be heroes to exist in a job. I can't pray enough for you all in healthcare.
This is honestly the most stressful situation you can be in. You want to leave your job because its driving you crazy, but you can’t in a moral sense because it’d be contributing to the understaffing problem, your stressed fellow nurses who are facing the same exact dilemmas as you, and the withering of patients.
If a nurse left their job, they would just hire someone to replace them. The problem is not nurses leaving, the problem is that they won't hire more than the maximum number the hospital has decided on, so the cycle continues, a new nurse comes in, gets burned out eventually and leaves. They don't care about nurses leaving, there's always one ready to replace them. It's that notion of, "if you don't like your job, you can leave"
@@ahenwaa5133 This is true and because people converse more than they ever did through social media they are getting wise to the game and in time will strategize their way to better working conditions. My friend has a girlfriend that just graduated from nursing a while back and got a job at a senior facility. Her manager tried to push her past her limits and she threatened to quit and eventually did. They called her up a few months later and she negotiated more money and told them up front that she has a social life, kids and will not be pushed past her comfort zone. So far it seems to be working.
@@sysmixy335 It is my friend's girl friend and yea she is ballsy. And that is what it takes. If they know that you are overly empathetic they will grind you right into the ground.
I’ve been a critical care nurse for 16 yrs and this video is on point. The corporate greed is outrageous…. Understaffed and under paid we are as medical professionals.
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As a nurse who has been away from bedside nursing for over 15 yrs, this is difficult to watch. I pray for my colleagues and encourage each of you to protect you!
My girlfriend is a nurse here in Australia same thing happens here to. Top heavy administration no boots on the ground? Politicians getting pay rises and putting nurses doctors cleaners the list goes on and on out of work they must be held accountable for crimes against humanity. My Hart goes to all you had working careing poeple.🌠
@SCW that was one of the most anecdotal pieces of tripe I've read in a long time. There's no admin problem because your "two friends" were (allegedly) the most noble creatures ever to walk the floor of a hospital? Please.
I always wanted to be a nurse, my entire life. Glad I was too broke to go to school for it cause these past 2 years completely changed my mind about it. They’re “sooooo important” but are completely disrespected and neglected. Good job america.
RN here. Don’t ever entertain joining the profession. If I had to go back, I wouldn’t do it again. Never been so disrespected by the healthcare system.
I just became a nurse in 2019 and I'm already scared that I made a very bad mistake in my career direction. Constantly understaffed, patients always dying because there aren't enough of us there, feeling like it's your fault even though you know it's really not, administrator's making you feel like it's your fault anyway. Safe staffing ratios are possible. Very possible. But the greed of these companies won't allow it.
I just graduated from nursing school and I am feeling that way now. I experienced understaffing during my capstone course. I can't imagine working on that Med Surg unit. They were pushing me to apply once I obtain my license. I told them in all honesty that I will not because I refuse to be burnt out as a new nurse.
The system is crashing, so hang on, changes will happen . Just remember to stay faithful to your nursing principles. Try changing to nursing homes for experience. It might be better. Check for jobs at clinics, nursing homes .
You can also try specialty nursing, out-patient, schools, private duty, psych, etc. Conditions are better, but the pay is way less. I have done all those things. I still go to facilities to keep my skills sharp, but I reduced my hours to part time as it was just too much & caused health problems when I was full time. Hang in there, find your niche, patients still need us, but you need to take care of yourself so that you can continue to take care of others. God bless!
Don't be afraid to look for a better position, or try something new-- there's lots of travel opportunities right now if you have the skill set! Don't let your job cause you to hate nursing, burn out, etc. Your health (mental/physical/emotional/spiritual) comes first.
An education in health sciences is never a bad mistake, it will be helpful in living life, whatever direction you choose. Corporate greed is hard to dodge but you may possibly find a job where both your patient's health and your self-care are sustainable. All the best.
It’s not just nurse to patient ratios but the work of lifting and moving them for care. One nurse can’t move a 150-200 pound + patient. If they are small with fractures they need more than one person to give care. The administration included aides in with the staffing ratios. We were left with more patients, to help each other we had to go away from our patients to help. I was a nurse 40 years. I remember how much better it was before the corporate model and profits, market shares became the goal.
As some who had 2 discs obliterated by a patient assault in 2000, I can only imagine what the assaults are like now. After 4 surgeries, I went back to work for about 6 years then had to seek SSD. I stand behind all the nurses and ancillary staff, in this time of COVID. NO one deserves to be assaulted....fullstop
An unfortunate experience, but believe it or not, from a statistical standpoint, hospital staff are more likely to assault or unlawfully imprison patients than the other way around.
speaking from experience on both accounts: one time kicked in the head by an unruly patient so hard that i thought that i'd been kicked in the head by a mule. i was dizzy for hours and probably received a concussion but because we were understaffed, i went ahead and toughed it out because i had one hundred diapers to change that night!!
@@terry63lee I hear you on that. Been there too. This injury however was a result of a pt. pushing me over the side rails, backwards. He was mad cause the girls got him up and sat him in a chair, putting the bed in high position and rails up. It was on a hospice unit at the VA and he passed 3 days later(head and neck CA) I hope you are doing well now
@@terry63leethe same goes for you. I personally am grateful to be retired and now on much needed disability. However, I do miss it. If you're still in the profession...stay safe
@Les ArEnA good number of the "less experienced" nurses will hightail it out of the profession after they realize it's not what tv shows glamorize it to be.
That’s exactly what’s happening. The seasoned nurses are retiring or getting clinic jobs and then you have a floor staffed with new-grads and higher incidences… it’s a shame.
I’m a new grad and only lasted 6 months in the hospital setting. The expectation on nurses is ridiculous, unrealistic, and incredibly dangerous. I could not give good care to that many patients. I didn’t want to stick around and wait for a tragedy to happen on my watch. Nurses deserve a break to eat.
Hi there, I graduate in the spring with my bsn. Do you care to elaborate? What type of unit did you work on? Day or night shift? What are you gonna do next? Sorry if I seem nosy, I’m just anxious about working at the bedside and possibly regretting my career choice.
@@lazy_lonnie no worries! I worked on a med/surg unit day shift. I work in a different hospital on med/surg as an aide for 3 years and loved it. I think all hospitals are in rough conditions right now but the one I worked at as a nurse was exceptionally busy and I almost never got a lunch break, and because joint commission was coming we couldn’t have drinks out so I almost never had time to drink water. It never hurts to try and if you can’t stand it find something different! There are so many options. I’m a private home health nurse now and it’s much better for me and my unborn baby. Best of luck finding the right place for you! 😊
Okay, next part of this conversation.... How can WE as patients (consumers) help hold them accountable? Can we demand nurses without overage patient count for our own safety? If we all do more of this, will they listen? I just stopped nursing school, as I am horrified at the view on the horizon.
@@ciello___8307 Yes, that’s part of it. But we shouldn’t wait until laws get past to do anything about it. I think they have a point. For me personally, whenever I am in a situation where I know I am dealing with an understaffed place, I am just as understanding and flexible as possible
Be patient and respectful. Understand that if we aren’t seeing you often it’s because someone else is worse off. And if you’re not doing well and we’re still not seeing you, still means someone else is worse off but now you’re suffering more and something can be missed. All these issues apply to doctors and providers as well and they’re just as burnt out and stressed from patient loads. Hospitals DO NOT CARE about you or anyone except money. If you complain to them about staffing they WILL ASK US WHY WE ARENT DOING OUR JOB. Their immediate reaction is to pull the assigned staff to that patient into HR and interrogate until they decide who told the patient that staffing ratios aren’t safe and reprimand them. Laws won’t be passed. More lives will be lost, maybe someone you love. Health care is and will continue to collapse dividing us further so we continue fighting eachother instead of the fractured and faltered governments and execs.
I'm a retired nurse. I did research on the implications of the shortage of bedside nurses, in a graduate course. It's too much to share here, but the basics were that patient deaths go up, nosocomial infection rates go up, patient falls go up, medication errors go up, the hospital rate of lawsuits from injured patients goes up as well as the number of lawsuits over wrongful deaths. Nurses leave the bedside...and the profession. Nothing good or positive at all, for nurses, hospitals or patients, happens when hospitals lower nursing staff. I think I recall the stat that
The health care system in this country is horrible another thing if everyone had heath insurance the beds would be full of people getting the care needed bottom line would increase. The whole system needs help from the systems on the computer to politicians making a buck its all bs
That's the problem when you financialise everything. Worked for an American company years ago, treated me badly, everything had to be in their favour with no reward for the work well done, so I left. The incompetance and stupidity from management was incredible. Company went into bankruptcy 20 years later, completely screwed.
@@vumba1331 nice! i learned my lesson the hard way as well. managers know how to psychologically attack you to keep you there under their abuse in their toxic workplace. i learned to spot this within a week or two of working at a new job. NEVER stick around. its YOUR health!
@@BobRooney290 Right on! Had that a couple of years ago and after a month at a new job, I could see it going only one way. Arrived in the morning to start work, the attitude started right away, so I picked up my lunch and walked out. They shouted that I couldn't do that, I said watch me. My mental and physical health is worth more then their business.
I was in the hospital for 3 weeks on bed rest with my son. The nurses always commented that I was the easiest patient because I never asked for anything. I knew they were busy and overworked and didn't want to bother them. During that 3 weeks and then my son in the NICU for 8 weeks, all of the nurses were wonderful. All of them. The patience and understanding and support we received from the nurses, I will never forget. Nurses are special people, treat them with respect!
I have been a nurse for over 25 years. I truly loved bedside nursing. What I dislike is how nurses are expected to do their job, and do the work of CNA, pharmacy, doctors, housekeeping, respiratory therapists work all while keeping up with our patients. The expectations are beyond unrealistic. There are nurses that work all day with no break. We are lucky if we get 30 minutes without our phone going off every 20 seconds. Patient's families can be so mean to us. We sacrifice our health and well being for strangers that no longer appreciate us and the hard work that we do for their loved ones. There is a huge nursing shortage. It will affect all of us one way or another eventually, but by then there won't be bedside nurses to take care of you when you get sick. Don't say we didn't warn you.
@@user-pl1hz8pu1p I totally understand I was a nurse since 1974 retired 2 yrs ago I have PTSD from the trauma resulting from working in home care hospitals and insurance companies
Former nurse of 13 years here. Nothing will change anytime soon. I haven't practiced for almost 6 years now and all I see are things getting worse. I am terrified for my family and for myself for when they get sick and have to go to the hospital. America has a third world healthcare system in many parts of the country.
Hi Lucy, I have been a nurse in the ER setting for nearly 20 years. Everything stated in your interview is factually correct. I have m-a-n-y stories from both a civilian RN’s perspective and now as an active duty nurse in the Air Force. Covid wasn’t the problem. It made the problem worse. The greed is out of control. The staff negligence absolutely affects care delivery at the patients bedside. It’s greed of money, power, prestige, accreditations and reimbursements. Understand that ALL specialties i.e providers, pharmacy, ancillary are impacted in the same manner as your interview highlights.
I’m not a nurse, but I said this about why nurses are leaving at the beginning of the pandemic. All kinds of nasty things were said to me and I couldn’t believe people got so upset over the truth. The media has made people rabid.
Covid uncovered what has been going on for decades, I have had my pinch, punch, jab stories too. I started working back when even the doctors would disrespect and yell at the nurses. We nurse because we want to alleviate our fellow human suffering.
As an Australian nurse-to-be, it is heartbreaking to learn that there are no restrictions on nurse:patient allocations. In our public hospitals, AM and PM shifts are 1:4 and night shifts are 1:6-8. Nursing is a tough, tough gig, and having no regulations sounds like a nightmare. It is devastating to see so many nurses considering walking away due to highly unethical management. Sending love to all my US nurses, you are all so brilliant
All healthcare in the US is unethical. They can once again put you in prison for being unable to pay what some corporate chain hospital bills you for, well, usually not very much.
My job gave me 3 critical patients - 1 w DKA Q1 ACCU checks, Q4 labs (no lab techs. Lab took 4 hours to result critical labs. Pt went into Vtach for a minute. K was 7 not like we would know), 1 patient had to get a stat CT because of mental status change, the other non compliant, the other with chest pain all of a sudden. No techs around to help. So I had to get a EKG myself until someone in the hospital could help me get a “stat” CT. Yeah right. Not to mention I’m breastfeeding and no one’s around to watch my patients so I can pump for 15 minutes so I leave with engorged throbbing boobs. If my family was in a hospital I would be turning them, bathing them, cleaning them up myself. These nurses do not have time and things DO get missed.
I did bedside care for 35 years. Over the decades I’ve been punched many times in the gut, kicked in the leg, choked twice, stabbed with used needles, and had small chunk bitten off my upper arm by a demented patient. Short staffing had been a part of the job since the 50’s. I can remember having 47 med/surg patients with only one RN, 2 LPN’s and 2 CNA’s throughout the mid to late 80’s on one unit in Detroit. The problem is well known and most places see a turn over rate of RN’s in one year that would rival any local McDonald’s restaurant. The problem will not go away. It will take an Act of Congress to get any type of staffing corrections nationwide. For the billions of dollars made in profit by the stock holders and insurance companies each year this problem could be rectified. We might think we are a 1st world country but we are being governed by 3rd world corrupted standards.
@Susel YES, patients don't respect healthcare workers AT ALL. Even in states where Healthcare worker assault is considered a crime, IT IS NEVER UPHELD, AND THOSE PATIENTS ARE NEVER CHARGED.
@Susel Doesn't matter if it's pre hospital or in hospital. If the patient is going to be violent, they're going to be violent and hopefully no one is going to be hurt. I've known many people punched, kicked (in the stomach while pregnant), bitten, scratched, assaulted with objects etc. People can be unpredictable. If the patient is altered in any way there's always a possibility they may be violent/combative. Ranging from substance abuse, to endocrine imbalances, to seizures, emotional compromise, underlying psychological conditions, medication side affects, head trauma etc.
I had to leave my position due to the onset of unbearable depression and anxiety in June 2021. I have been an RN for 22 years, and I am now the patient. We nurses so desperately need legislation to protect our patients, and we need to be heard about our concerns surrounding patient safety. I shouldn’t feel that I am a failure because my hospital administration won’t listen to me and my colleagues about terrible staffing conditions.
I cannot imagine not treating these incredible people with anything other than total respect. They save lives EVERY DAY. They also have to deal with people dying EVERY DAY. Thank you to the nurses all across this world. We do not deserve you.
They really do not. You're more likely to die of medical malpractice (usually due to a long ER waiting time or incompetent nurses) than you are from acute illness.
@@greggarcia6294 You think a long waiting time is the nurses' fault? No, that's the fault of everyone who refuses to support paying a reasonable portion of everyone's taxes to fund having adequate medical services for a civilized society. Medical error is the same problem. When the system doesn't have adequate funds to pay for enough staff, existing staff must work so long & so hard, they begin to lose effectiveness AS ANY LIVING BEING WOULD. The solution is to recognize that everyone needs medical services, so everyone should contribute.
Was a hospital nurse for 16 years, last 5 were in the ER. I've been peed on, had poo thrown at me, been cussed out, attacked ... but also met amazing people, gave life and hope to patients at their wits end and celebrated patient milestones with frequent flyers who were now part of the hospital family. I MISS being an ER nurse, I miss the patient care. The thought of going back to the hateful system of the hospital where managers are determined to make you work a skeleton crew, where management is focused on positive patient reviews but isn't concerned about the patient. One hospital I worked at said they couldn't hire more staff until we met QUOTA!?!?! The people running healthcare don't care about their staff or the patients. I left due to health reasons in 2020 but now, everytime I try to apply for a hospital position, I get physically ill. I MISS taking care of patients, the good, the bad , they were mine. But the thought of going back to that environment, leaves me cold. I am one of thousands of nurses that have left the system ... a system that was always broken. We have 4 nursing schools in the area of the hospital that was on a hiring freeze. Nurses often have to drive hours a way to find a job. The whole concept of a nursing shortage is a joke. Long before covid, hospitals began treating healthcare like a factory where you force emplyees to work super short-staffed and then, when you do finally hire people, you don't hire as many as left.
It brings me such joy that the workplace abuse is getting attention. It is a normal part of so many jobs to be verbally, if not physically or sexually abused. I know this is true for service industry, not being important for basic functioning of the society but as I'm nearing 30 I'm seeing the backbone of any society(medical staff keeping us alive, teaching staff enabling us a better future, physical workers brining food and basic goods to us...) getting similar treatment and it's blowing my mind.
I think the term "moral injury" cuts closer to the bone than "burnout." These are human services being corrupted by a corporate model that operates by unspoken values that undermine the integrity of what it is that we actually do when we take care of our fellow human beings who are ill. It is critically important that we put more focus on the fact this is a problem of institutions that are hurting individuals, rather than merely a problem of individuals hurting. Nurses aren't burning out; they're being burned, systematically.
40 years as a RN here, retired in 2018 to pursue art EXACTLY for the reasons cited in this video. I started working in a hospital at 16, graduated from nursing school at 22 and have worked in trauma 1 ICU, acute rehab, visiting home health and nursing home in positions from nursing assistant (before CNA was a thing) to Chief Nursing Officer/VP Quality and Administrator. I never forgot what we really do and literally fought with CEOs and Board of Directors to ensure adequate staffing. The 1st responsibility is listed as ensuring safe patient care in CMS regulations for a Chief Nursing Officer. I believed in that responsibility and tried to live it. In the end, I realized healthcare is just another business out to make money and the lobbying groups are more powerful than the AMA. Wake up America!!!! What you are led to believe by the industry is blatantly false - please listen to these nurses. Your life depends on it, if not today then tomorrow 💗
@@ajsdfk don't think she meant physically fought with. but yes, nurses often go the extra mile to advocate for their patients and co-workers, which can include bringing grievances before and fighting with CEOs, administrators, etc.
Atlanta here. Retired psychologist. On 3/1/20, at the beginning of Covid, I suffered a heart attack. Every single nurse, doctor, health aide and every tech was ABSOLUTELY wonderful. I worked in trauma for years. Don't mistreat your healthcare workers, they are your lifeline. I would like to say thank you to all the people who saved my life and all those I will never meet, who care for and save other people every day. You're wonderful. ❤️
We (meaning those patients whose lives have been saved by these amazing heroes) need to stand up and FIGHT for these nurses and doctors who FOUGHT for us during our most trying time.
As a physician, this hurts my heart and I can def say we feel the tension and anxiety too. We have constant pressure from admin to admit more patients an d discharge them within a specified timeframe….anything to keep filling beds that are understaffed all around…not enough nurses, lab techs, floor techs, cnas….I see it and try to medically manage patients knowing the nurses don’t have what they need to execute all the patient needs. It sucks. It’s morally wrong. I’m strparting to believe medical admin are some of the most morally corrupt and psychologically abusive people in American capitalism
Thank you for saying this. Docs are incentivised to see more patients with RVUs. Providers feel this too, but the greed and desire to outperform a colleague seem to get the better of us.
I worked as a CNA right out of highschool. It only took one year to realize how bad it is for both nurses and cnas. I’d have 20 patients a shift. Be expected to bathe, change, feed, turn, and take vitals twice a shift for each and every one. I quit. It’s inhumane for both the workers and patients.
So what do you women all want? You want to stay at home and be a home maker now? Try working in a manufacturing facility 12 hours a day doing real work... you're lazy and entitled what do you expect with a lazy certificate?
Oh yes I can completely verify what is being said in this video........just the other night I was left on a unit with 28 patients I had 1 nurse helping me but she had her duties of making sure the patients were getting their meds in a timely fashion. It's not just hospitals but rehabilitation facilities like I work at. ✝️❤️☮️🙏🇺🇸
I have a cousin who was the best RN you could imagine. After 15 years, she quit to go work in a dialysis clinic as an admin. because being a floor nurse drove her into a mental breakdown. I swear to God, we are turning into a third world country. Teachers are walking off the job. Now nurses. This is just terrible.
As someone with multiple teachers in my family, the situation with overworked, overburdened and burnt out nurses has many painful similarities to the situation for teachers. I decided to not go into teaching after seeing how miserable it was for my grandma and how little she was compensated for the hard work she did.
It's because both of these professions are predominantly female. And to continue the stereotypes, most CEOs of these mega-hospital-corporations are male. Disgusting and Demoralizing.
I have never felt so validated. Those situations the nurses describe in the video: about patients crying to them, patients belittling, cursing, physically assaulting them....those have all happened to me and my coworkers. We are continually stretched to our limits and then asked to do more by our employers. We all love our job, but we don't love being seen as a resource, as a commodity, or as a bargaining chip.
It's because we live in a vulture capitalist society. Hopefully my state (California) will be the first state to succeed with universal healthcare (taxpayer funded / centralized). Some things in society are more valuable than simple profit.
As a healthcare worker, we’re seeing this all across the board. Shortage of physicians, nurses and other ancillary staff. The pandemic has really exacerbated what already is a broken health care system. It was just the last straw that broke the camel’s back and people just “woke up” and said enough is enough.
Hospital greed. Like hospitals receiving a financial incentive from our meddling government to grossly inflate the number of Covid cases that they have? This fact confirmed to be true both by the current as well as former CDC directors.
Headline: CDC director Robert Redfield admits hospitals, medical folks have ‘perverse incentive’ to falsely count Covid deaths Headline: CDC Director Walensky: 75% Of Covid Deaths Had At Least 4 Comorbidities Headline: "CDC Director Rochelle Walensky finally admitted that “many, many hospitals” were counting COVID deaths to include cases that were not COVID deaths."
Shortage of staff? Some of us still remember nurses posting TikTok dance videos during the height of the Covid hysteria. Then there were nurse layoffs during the peak of the Covid panic. After that large numbers of nurses were fired for not being vaccinated. It doesn't take a Rhodes scholar to see that something isn't quite adding up in this equation.
It’s called the healthcare silver tsunami. Many healthcare professionals are coming up in retirement soon. COVID has exacerbated the issue right now but there are several well known factors that are contributing to the shortage. One is the lack of nursing faculty to churn graduates out.
Can’t wait to leave bedside. I’m so sick of poor working conditions, abuse from patients and their families, and not feeling like I can give the care that is needed.
I'm in nursing school right now and this is something that scares me the most. It's so hard for our nurses out here. It's so sad. It's seems like everything is more about the profit than quality care.
I did travel nursing to California after my first 18 months in NY. Like night and day and I don’t want to work outside of Cali again. I’ve done several hospitals here and they’ve all treated us well. The law requires it.
My husband passed away 7 years ago. It was during his prolonged illness that I came to realize what angels nurses are. Thank you angels, for your incredibly hard work and compassion.
Worked during Covid as CNA when it first started , I was eager and happy I thought this was definitely my calling , They overwhelmed me, the patients and the company . The wife of a patient would treat me as a maid , I was there to take care of her husband 😒 ,then my manager told me they couldn’t give me PPE when my client poops all over herself and rubbing it in (she had Alzheimer’s ) they told me to bring extra clothes and wash it !!😡 I legit stopped picking up the phone and found a new job 😂
I can’t imagine being a new healthcare worker during this pandemic. It’s hard enough during “normal “ times. Every job I had I basically was thrown in to figure it out on my own. The sink or swim model that they so love. We need to start demanding change. If everyone walked off the jobs they would be screwed but when your a nurse they can charge you with abandonment of your patients so they have us by the balls. They would let you work 24 hours a day 7 days a week and still be asking for more. It’s bad and has been bad for my entire life. Started in 1990-2012.
@@lisaeischens2352 I hate how they use the law and your own compassion against you. These hospitals deserve to deal with the labor uprising they’re causing. At some point the nurses will run out of patience because they can never catch up to all their patients.
I remember January of 2020 working as a brand new nurse. I was told I’ll have 20 patients, after three weeks 30 patients, after 1 month 40-59 patients, there's even times when I have record breaking 63 patients--(1)imagine without proper training, (2)being the only nurse on that side of the wing, (3)working 6pm-6am three to four shift in a week, (4) and two nursing assistants that can’t help you because they are also overwhelmed with the amount of task they have to do. Not too mention zillions of paper documentation and 5,000 clioks on the computer which are all redundant.I always pray before the start of my shift to have a smooth sailing night ( NO deaths, low blood sugar, falls, angry family, moody doctors, and lack of staff). Familes calling and asking about their love ones progress I cannot answer because I am barely passing zillion medications on 4th out of 60 patients. Make story short, I quit a month after COVID hit. My beliefs didn’t align with the facilities mission and philosophy. Every nurse I met questioned their career choice. What a great way to start my nursing journey? I was so stressed during those months that my undiagnosed cyst grew so fast in two months and had to be operated asap. I am now happy working as construction site first aid nurse.
Not to downplay your situation. Nursing is awful right now. But there's no way that you were at a 63:1 ratio. That impossible. Maybe you had 63 pts on your unit? There's no way you were even at a 20:1
@@andrewbryant4259 I'm assuming this was not an acute hospital unit, but likely an aged care facility or what you'd call a skilled nursing facility. And although those ratios are abhorrent, I've seen that and worse.
@@marabanara agreed that is the only situation where those ratios could possibly happen. And yes those are horrific conditions. But the entire video was specifically about RNs in hospitals. There could and probably should be an entirely separate video about skilled care facilities as those are even more privatized than hospitals
Sounds like that was a SNF ( nursing home ) and girl that was brutal . It was bad enough passing meds on an unit of 30 pts. So glad you found a better fit for you .
@@josephgutow No, because of my professional relationship with the nursing director who also served as the infection control director when I chaired the infection control committee of the medical staff.
@@anar2813 I believe you. Even though I have been retired for a few years, I am aware of the short staffing games which hospital administrators engage in. I also experienced it in the laboratory.
I work as a CNA in a long term care facility and it is constantly understaffed. It is seriously overwhelming when you’re alone on a hall and don’t have the help to take care of all your residents.
Even worse in LTC. 30:1 is ridiculous. When a patient is discharged from the hospital their care requirement doesn’t change. But the nurse/CNA ratio is insane.
Thank you, for your service. My brother has been a CNA for 25 years. I'm going to go into Nursing, but I want to work in a clinic. I've done CNA training in a SNF and was a Medical Assistant. I know how hard it is.
I am a hospital RN for 31 years in NYC. Both of my daughters are hospital nurses. So far one of my granddaughters is in college and on track to go into Neurology as an MD. I have other family members in the profession. My mother was a hospital nurse. I feel these stories to my core. I agree with all that is said here. I can retire at 65 in 5 years and I cannot wait to do so. I COULD retire in 2 years but I am hoping to make it to 65 for pension reasons. If I could retire with financial security tomorrow I would. But I do not know how long I can go at this level of short staffing. I am burnt
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Hi, I'm Lucy, a producer with Opinion Video. When I first started hearing about a nursing shortage, I thought that I understood why that was happening: Burned-out nurses were finally succumbing to exhaustion after a two-year battle with the virus. But after reaching out to over 50 nurses I learned I was wrong. In reality Covid had just exacerbated a problem that existed long before the pandemic. in our video, five of the nurses I spoke with explain in their own words how corporate greed has created a critical shortage of bedside nurses, and what can be done to solve this crisis. I'd love to know what you thought of our film, and answer questions about how we reported and produced it. Leave your comments below
Another argument for a socialized medicine option.
@@SolaceEasy What's wrong with a universal healthcare system? Why do you guys take so much pride in going bankrupt for healthcare services in the US? It should be available to all and considered a right, not a privilege, no?
Can we dig into the hospital's financial to investigate this further?
@@blurycode many Americans agree with you. It is the Republican Party who has convinced its base that universal healthcare is gov over reach and they scare them saying it’s socialism ( which conservative Americans equate to communism and maybe losing their precious guns somehow).
The Republican Party has also preyed on their sense of pride saying “if you need help from the government you’re weak and not hard working”.
It’s embarrassing. My family thinks universal healthcare is terrifying 🤦🏼♀️ because they won’t stop watching Fox News.
$300 million a day was spent in Afghanistan over the course of 20 years.
Billions and billions and billions of dollars was just spent by the telecommunications companies to purchase invisible radio frequencies.
Nearly 800 billion dollars was put aside for the military budget in America for one year. One year!
" there's not a shortage of nurses there's just a shortage of nurses willing to work under those conditions." Well stated.
Where I live we do have using and doctor shortages. Many have retired most here retire at 65. We had people get covid and decided that they have just hD enough. Jobs are are plentiful and maybe it is a good time to change carreers. We have I ivetsal health care so people do not hesitate to go to emergency instead of clinics. Dollars are being put into health care for training of nursing. So far I have not heard of a use of staff.
We need to limit the number of nurses becoming NP's. It's dangerous and contributes to the nursing staffing shortage.
@@davidxavi1848 then prove it. Sounds like a communist caste system move to not allow someone to advance beyond their service 🙄. Are you going to make someone flipping burgers remain in that position as well?
@@dwilson6769 prove what? If you want to make medical decisions, go to medical school and actually learn the stuff instead of going to an online NP diploma mill. It's a danger to patients.
Well this is the area where immigration has to fill in. So stop complaining when you see more foreign workers.
Every time you hear about a worker shortage (be it fast food, nurses, teachers, IT, etc.) know that there really isn't a shortage. It's always due to horrible working conditions.
Lol don't know if I'd go that far. It depends on alot of things. Teachers for example, it depends on the area. In New York there are too many unemployed teachers because the districts can't afford to pay their salaries. In a place like the Carolinas, communities are growing so fast that they can't fill the jobs fast enough.
No, there is a shortage of workers. I'm not sure what you've been smoking but birthrates are on the decline and have been for years now. The U.S. is almost at the critical 1.4 (last check was at 1.5) per woman. 2.0 is a stable working economy and anything less is a net negative to the future of that economy. Though, this doesn't take into account those who are born with disabilities. So, more realistically a net positive would need to be 2.1 or higher for continuous growth and for people to replace those who are leaving or then needing to retire. As the work-life of the average person is expected to be 20-60 and a retirement at 61-100+ (in a healthy economy). Meaning there needs to be a constant supply of able bodies to replace them, otherwise people have to work beyond 60 in an attempt to keep the economy functioning. Problem is that this is only a short term solution and will still lead to a failing economy if birthrates don't increase. It's why China is only one step away from kidnapping women and making breeding farms at this point. They realize their one child policy has done immense damage to the future of their economy. Meanwhile in the U.S. they are still pushing for abortion rights when the primary age range for women having kids is between 16-24, the age at which most would say it was a mistake and would more likely choose abortion as they don't yet have their lives worked out, a stable job, a home etc.
tl;dr: We are screwed.
@@KaoruSugimura you are correct. Until we turn to a culture of life, we will not prosper.
Correct
@@KaoruSugimura This is not a fact driven opinion. US total fertility rate is currently 1.7. What you also don't consider is that more women are working than ever before, and with less children to take care of, so the dependency ratio of working US adults to eldery/children in the US is at one of its lowest points in history.
Nurse here ✋🏽I love my job. But if you think hospitals are bad, wait til you hear about Skilled Nursing Facilities (nursing homes). The working conditions are incredibly unsafe for everyone.
Is that the same as a nursing home?
@@jociamponelli1008 yep. I worked in one as an OT, and can attest to the fact that most nursing homes are severely understaffed with nurses. They work so so hard and really are pushed past their humane limit
Im a skilled nursing facility one LPN can have up to 35 patients. An RN may oversee up to 99 per shift. And usually it’s severely understaffed
I've heard this from many of my CNA, LPN and RN friends! Nursing homes too!
@@batshevabecher5848 I’m really struggling, our family is thinking of having a family member settle into a nursing home but it is so hard. The expense and the quality of care just don’t match up, even if the resident is in great health.
I think it’s honestly nuts that nurses and doctors work 12+ hour shifts. How is that safe for anyone?
It's worse for doctors. Nurses work 12 hour shifts three times per week. Doctors work 12 hours shifts 6-7 days per week.
I work 16 a day 😅
@@kirty9880 yeah plenty of nurses choose the work for overtime pay. how many shifts per week on average?
Dont know how my dad did it without caffeine. Said it made his fingers shake. No one wants a shaky surgeon! When my father in law was having surgery my mother in law was happy that it was in the morning because the doctor would be fresh. I did not say a word. He or she could have been up all night!
@@iusbucktig that's not healthy and isn't something to promote to others ultimately 😕 my cult used to say "you can sleep when your dead" to justify child labor and 20 hour days.
The worst part is, even if severely understaffed, the nurse is still liable for any and all incidents.
Thank you for posting this comment!!
Exactly !! Couldn’t agree more. And nurses receive all sorts of punishments and criticism from management in addition to all these dangerous working conditions.
And even if you walk out without taking the assignment in the first place, you could get charged with patient abandonment and stripped of your license.
Yep, it's why I said, 'screw this.'
Facilities should have "Accept Assignment under Duress" forms. I filled out many forms when I was understaffed. It took the liability off.
I have been a nurse for 15 years and left the bedside because the staffing levels were incomprehensible. Expected to care for 9-10 patients on an acute care floor. You feel like you can’t give the care that patients deserve and it takes a huge toll on your mental health. It’s also not safe at all.
That's stretching it as a patient per doctor ratio, let alone as patient per nurse!
I'm a doctor, we had our bad patches over the last two years, but one thing we got was for the hospitals to hire more nurses. With 3 to 4 patients per nurse, we doctors can cover 15 patients, even 20 if needed be, but without nurses? People die.
The hospital didn't like it when we pointed it out, but patients died more from the lack of nurses than from the lack of doctors in the darkest days of last year. They sure didn't like it, but they barely hired any new doctors while hiring about 100 new nurses for the entire place.
@@pipitameruje you get only 3 - 4 patients!?
What do you do all day?
@@Threemore650 I don't. In ideal settings, the nurses I work with do. Usually, nurses get 6 patients. This isn't in the US, but I assure you that they do plenty.
During the worst days of the pandemic, we really pushed for the 3 to 4 patients per nurse ratio, as doctors, because we could be stretched very thin, but our nurses never failed us. I could arrive at the hospital and ask "which one of yours needs my attention first?". Each nurse would let me know, and I could prioritise patients out of my mixed assortment of about 20. That's five nurses that, although tired just like me, could be my eyes and hands while I took care of too many patients altogether. They spent more time with them, they knew them better and I trusted them entirely. If I got a call about Mr X with Nurse Y half way through my rounds, I knew it was serious, I could drop what I was doing, sort it and then pick up where I'd left. I made it through week after week of twice as many patients as I should have (I was an intern) because of my nurses.
I don't know where you live, but here (Portugal, in Europe) our nurses carry the hospitals on their shoulders.
@@pipitameruje I was an NHS nurse back in the day when two of us were expected to deal with a ward of 30 patients.
I was often alone on night duty too... as a second year RN student!
But I suppose in those days there were fewer machines to deal with.
Manners have also taken a steep decline on both sides. Imho.
The ‘nurses’ who pumped my paralysed husband’s abdominal cavity with so much pink gloop that his heart and lungs had no more room to work were, in addition to being incompetent, extraordinarily uncaring. They ignored me when I persistently asked about the loose duodenal feeding tube.
They roughly flipped him back and forth whilst discussing their mortgages... in front of me! Staggering to witness such callousness towards a man who hadn’t even had time to come to terms with his awful condition.... which the ward sister had cruelly whispered into his ear after I told her that I would be the one to tell him.
I had to employ someone to come in and give him food whilst I couldn’t be there because they would rather just change the food bag than be bothered. Despite his having undergone an op to put in a titanium plate specifically so he could sit up a bit and eat normally.
So there’s two sides to every story.
Btw... we would in my day, I hope, have died of shame before we made a TikTok of us dancing during a pandemic.
I left the profession I loved because the bitchiness of a female hierarchy was intolerable to me.
They’re not all saints.
@@Threemore650 Please stick to one argument and support it thoughtfully. You are all over the place, which makes the fact that you are picking on this nurse for having a lighter patient load incredibly infuriating.
As soon as they said 'flex staffing' my heart dropped. I work for a big retail company and they do the exact same thing, even the same phrase. I can't believe they're implementing it in HOSPITALS of all places. The level of corporate greed is at an all time high and yet there are people who still believe that it's laziness driving the great resignation - no! It's the refusal to get exploited and say enough is enough. The US needs something or someone to relieve this huge amount of tension, I don't think it's going to turn out pretty otherwise...
Some companies are having to "make nice" now to retain what employees they have left. I know this is literally killing them. Many companies I worked for had a strong anti employee attitude, compounded by layers of hatchet men, always looking for the slightest problem, often imaginary, so they could come down on an individual or unit, for more production and less compensation. Often the phrase was heard "you're lucky to have a job". I'm retired. but, take grim satisfaction in seeing the tables turned.
They do flex staffing all the time in hospitals.
Because it’s the stockholders and administrators they hire to “implement” strategies to maximize their profit margin that is priority 1, NOT DECENT CARE. Notice I didn’t say quality? BC quality care hasn’t happened in America for decades. They take profits for strangers more important than the well-being of patients their families and the professionals who are tasked to care for them. Sad situation in American healthcare.
@@islandbirdw I worked in U.S. Healthcare for 20 years and I 100% agree with you.
This is late stage capitalism. We need to take back power and we do that with solidarity. There has never been a middle class. There always was and will always be 2 classes, the rich and the working class. Solidarity amongst the working class is how we fight back the exploitation. unionize and vote
Became a nurse in 2016. My wife and daughter are nurses. The amount of corruption, waste, incompetence and greed is astounding. I and my wife are looking for different fields away from nursing.
For profit healthcare is immoral!
Would be nice if we had more people on the ground working towards healthcare reform and its education to recruit more people to work towards healthcare reform. We need to redirect the value of profits to the value of HUMANITY and MENTAL HEALTH for ALL.
@@homedoghappiness The reins of control are in government, the big insurance companies, and hospital admin uppers. None of them have healthcare backgrounds usually, but they dictate how the job gets done on the ground and dictate to nurses and doctors. Go after these big entities first. A healthcare worker, heck even a strike of an entire hospital does nothing to put a dent in this crap that comes from above. Healthcare needs to be controlled by the providers and patients, not the pencil pushers and govt.
@@jercasgav yes!! Agreed!! What are your thoughts about private hospitals? Are they still influenced by the gov, and if so, how? I still think the (main) culprit is the mindset of putting profits before people.
@@homedoghappiness private hospitals are a dying breed but are still very much controlled by the govt. Medicare sets the rules for reimbursement and thus private insurance follows so therefore, there's your govt control. Mandates like JCAHO are also across the board. You are absolutely right though, profits before people is a huge problem. I work in a non profit hospital now and there is a vast difference than that of a for profit chain. It's mainly how the employees are treated from what I've seen. For profit hospitals are happy to drop an employee at the drop of a hat.
When my wife was in a terrible way in the hospital I had to step outside the room for a second only to find a nurse crying in the hall. I held her, (years before covid) and asked her what was so terribly wrong. She had 15 minutes left on her shift and three more patients to see and there was absolutely no overtime allowed and she didn't know what to do. A few years later at another hospital, my wife seriously ill again with flesh eating bacteria on her entire leg, the nurse came running into the room saying she had to be to xray immediately but the wound required a special dressing before she could be moved that takes a bit of work. She pulled back the sheets and I had already done the complete wrapping (many times throughout the day due to massive fluid leakage) and the nurse cried out loud and hugged me. I too had no idea how terrible hospitals are treating the staff. And this was 10 and 15 years ago. This is the immoral and criminal behavior of the profiteers who have crossed all borders of decency and compassion. No corporate profits are worth even a single life. God help us all if this is allowed to continue.
Thank you from a retired nurse. We've been saying this for decades now---and being told we are simply inefficient. Surveyors also no longer actually survey the care provided, they sit in the office with adm and look at data...what we say goes unheard, It is just as bad, sometimes worse, in long term care and skilled nursing, any facility really. It is all for profit. Nurse's aide are at the bottom...understaffed and paid so poorly they may qualify for benefits at full time.
I’m so sorry your wife and yourself have had this experience.
@Sarah Colombo Cna / nurses aides are the most undervalued. Totally agree. And, many have taught me so many things.
And the elites have used Covid to make millions as well instead of letting the information out that there ARE therapeutics that work and can keep many people out of the hospital and out of the furneral home! CRIMINAL!!!! Alll for the almighty dollar!!!!
“Immoral and criminal behavior of the profiteers who have crossed all borders of decency and compassion.” You said that so well. I hope everyone can read your comment, it adds a lot to understand the situation.
Being a nurse, knowing this is so true. America Healthcare System sucks. I’ve even change my career direction because I am tired. Prayers for all my nurse colleagues 🤍
It's not just America and its particular healthcare system. In Canada nurses are overworked and there is a shortage of them.
@@williamsmith6575 that’s true global healthcare is just really in a challenging state at this time.
I'll forever be beyond grateful for our healthcare workers, you all deserve so much more. ❤️
In 1974 the WHO said they felt there were 90% too many humans. What do you think they meant?
@@williamsmith6575 true, but because they are public sector, there is more accountability to citizens about fairness and patient outcomes
“Servant Servant, get me some coffee” one patients kept yelling at me & then I even got spat on 🤦🏽♀️
So when he said “ The H is for hospital, not hotel” than really hit the nail on the head for me. This video was really needed. I don’t think enough people actually understand what our role is and how much we go through in the field.
Why do you want it to get it easier? Screw getting easier! I got paid double because you want it easy! I say get it harder eh? I want more money and get it harder and harder every day! The harder it gets, the more RN don't want to work! The more RN don't want to work... the more leg up I can negotiate to the said "greedy" hospital! Gets it?
Beg pardon? You mean it's OK to treat workers in a hotel like garbage?
When I was a kid I remember there used to be CNA‘s/aides in the hospital setting as well, at least where I lived. They were the ones that got your drinks and all the other stuff that wasn’t medical related
Nobody called you "Servant". Lol
@@jamuraisack5503 but in it's original form, nurse and doctor is a servant. She just doesn't like it the patient treat them like a lowly servant, but in reality, she is there to serve and nothing else!
Very informative. When they mentioned the 25 million dollars spent in one state to defeat a ballot measure that would've created a staff/patient ratio law, I couldn't help but to think "I wonder how many nurses salaries could be paid with that 25 million..."
Exactly. I quit working as a nurse in 2016. The stress was just not worth it. And if we screw up the blame is on us and they will take away our license...
Union busting tactics.
Same with a 500 million useless statue which will do nothing
Exactly
My same thoughts!
My dad was an air traffic controller in NYC and he explained to me that before the national strike in the the 80s controllers were not allowed to say they couldn't take anymore airplanes and were just forced to handle as much traffic as was thrown at them. Now, they are allowed to halt traffic they are responsible for whenever they feel they're maxed out. A similar kind of massive rule change is clearly need in hospital administration.
@John Kaplun. I agree, however there are an army of lobbyists ready to prevent putting the interests of human/worker safety over the excessive profits of a few.
The difference is air traffic controlling isn't really a profit seeking business but a government service... Hospitals are a government service in many countries but in the US only in some parts of the military pretty much.
The problem is nurses are often reluctant to strike because they fear it puts patients at risk. They are in a position their opponents happily exploit.
@@Justin-hn9uv You are probably right. I have been in jobs in which I was constantly in these dilemmas.
Sounds similar to what they expect nurses to do they give short staff nurses expect one nurse to the job of three
And still, they have the audacity to under pay them and refuse overtime
I’ve been a psychiatrist for 20 years and this is what drove me away from working in hospitals: Constant pressure to understaff inpatient units. If our census went down even for a few hours, they’d immediately start sending nurses home. Later, when we got slammed, we’d be horribly understaffed. Some of the places I worked even had a grid which directly linked the number of nurses on staff to how big the administrators bonus would be (less staff = more bonus). Obviously this nonsense should be illegal, and belongs on a used car lot, not in a hospital.
THIS is exactly what the problem is with understaffing. More staff= smaller BONUSES.
Jesus that's absolutely horrifying . The greed of these people is beyond disgusting!
Administrators should be paid less than nurses and that’s that on that. They just steal so much money because their grubby hands can get on it first
I worked in the hotel industry for years and they use the same tactics with staff and management
Man that's disgusting! Corporate America!
This is both heartbreaking and disturbing. I had no idea things were this bad. Much love to these health care professionals. They are awesome.
I just went back and have over 30 patients to one Nurse [me] ..Already I feel stressed...I was taking care of one patient in home care before now back to this....Hoping I get another home care case ...Been a Nurse a long long time...You have to be really good with multi -tasking....
They are. We don't deserve them.
It's really not. Those healthcare "professionals" played along with the entire scam-demic since Day One, yet when the vaccine mandates arrived to bite them in the butt, they decided to no longer follow "the rules" of the hospital and tucked tail.
If these "professionals" were speaking out against the millions of patients murdered by being placed on ventilators, forced to mask up, denied visitors, etc. etc. they would have a point, but that isn't the case here.
This is why I ignore people who say:
"It happens everywhere."
We know that. And it's still not acceptable either way.
So, let's stop justifying it. And start finding ways to resolve this.
@@s.p.baughman7885 praying God continues to give you strength because you are urgently needed. Thank you.
I am a nursing student. No one in my cohort wants to become a bedside nurse and if they do, they only want to do it for 2 years max. We all want to specialize and leave the bedside as soon as possible. It’s crazy how no one wants to do bedside anymore due to the abuse that nurses face. It’s really saddens me because patients need our help. But I have to take care of my mental and physical well being first before I can help others.
Too bad for our LPN program. Those of us who were former CNAs and that are good with patients and hands-on labs are the one flanking the course work exams and those who aren’t so good on both handling patients and hands-on nursing lab were the one doing good on the exams. We understand the materials but it was just the NCLEx style questions that were having trouble with. Majority of these good nursing students are only excellent by the books and exams but other than that, none of them knows how to handle skills in the nursing real world
It's not necessarily true, I am a student now. I was a PCT on med surg and EMT, I average over 90% on exams. You just have to do more practice questions to get used to the style and know exactly what they are asking you. And TBH, I have more of the opposite problem because not having a real patient in front of me makes me not think about anything other than seeing a plastic dummy (assessing plastic instead of flesh, bones and organs) so I have to really focus to pretend like it's real lol @@lasvegasnevada7514
@@lasvegasnevada7514im currently on the same boat, its really unfortunate
@@lasvegasnevada7514 nclex questions aren't hard; i don't want someone caring for others that can't even do nclex level questions
Maybe if people were paid more, they would be willing to deal with more
But you know where all the pay increases are going to administration
Administration is over paid because they get to decide how much they get
And then they decide how much the nurses get in if they want more money they will fire a couple of first year nurses just so they have less staff to pay
Administration expects nurses to do the job of two people. Some of them expect you to do the job of three or four people like how are you supposed to be at for places at the exact same time when you’re expected to have a minimum of 10 people in the hospital and there’s only like five nurses and two doctor
And you need a minimum of 10 nurses and five doctors
Administration is greedy, destroying our medical industry
“To maximize profit, hospitals….” That right there is the problem.
Meanwhile who’s willing to take paycuts? Seems like we all want profits, don’t care about whether the deal works for everyone.
Exactly!
Money is the one true god in the world. It's all about greed.
That's interesting because Government Obamacare Subsidies are $500 per month per person. That guarantees that healthcare for the average person must cost at least $500 per month per person. That standard was set by GOVERNMENT. The problem was that government got involved. The quote you mentioned "to maximize profits" was NYT propaganda meant to push you further into mindset that the problem is that everyone is greedy, when the very people pushing that narrative to you ARE THE GREEDY SOBS THAT YOU DESPISE!
@@trentp151 fun fact the most my health care can cost me is 120 bucks a month and thats if im making 50k or more. At some point it becomes free because you know canadian medical
As an RN of 34 years who left the profession, I can attest to the fact that hospitals have been putting patients lives in danger for years by understaffing on shifts. This is true no matter if the hospital is for profit or non-profit. This must change!
'comonalitys btween koof 91 and raydiation ingury' please read and understand this review. Thank you.
Why would non-profit hospitals do it? I believe you but I'm trying to understand the situation and understand what motivates it.
For profit healthcare only works for the CEOs and Directors ...not sure how is nurses can join together and CHANGE the forced neglect and corruption inside the system , but we NEED to figure it out and get it done!!! ALL of us deserve better situations...too many giving our all and still it's a huge chance taking risk situation every day at work...it's truly terrifying sometimes
Seize the daytime, all of healthcare in the US is pre set for a "profit" system...so even if a hospital isn't necessarily paying for huge board salaries, it still has aspects within them that require a large usage of money...like pharmaceuticals/equipment/insurance, and our wonderful government is just waiting to find a loophole to stop payment for some service provided 1 year earlier...that's why we have MOUNTAINS of paperwork that must be done to ensure that it looks like care was done even if it's just on paper...so many DONs /managers don't care how it gets done, just make sure the paperwork says it was completed...(I know this because I worked in nursing management for 1 yr, and saw a lot of dirty manipulation)...all I really know it the system needs to be OVERHAULED
@@medahenderson3055 Find the source of the radiation, shut it down, Covid ends. Simple as that. Instead they have everyone chasing their tales with the 'gain of function' Wuhan nonsense. It is radiation sickness! Everyone is too compartmentalized to ever see the truth and put a stop to it.
I’ve worked 25 years as a nurse. While on night shift in a critical care unit at a university med center, there were only 3 ICU beds open in the ENTIRE hospital. All 3 open beds were in my 8 bed cardiac ICU. We started out the night with 5 patients, so we were staffed with 3 nurses for the night. We pointed out to the nursing supervisor that we would almost certainly get admissions, as the only major hospital in the city. We were told, “We can NOT staff for what MIGHT happen.” During the night we admitted 3 POST-CODE patients! These pts were highly unstable & required 1 to 1 nursing care. It was a nightmare shift with 3 nurses dealing with 3 pts, who were actively trying to DIE. There was no way we could help each other. Our five stable pts got virtually NO CARE during that night. Administration’s response to our distress: “You handled the situation. No one died.” My response: “I QUIT.”
Hold your head high! You did the right thing!
I do not blame you for a moment. It's unfair to patients and to nurses to staff so poorly.
A truly impossible situation.
25 years as a nurse and you have problem dealing for one night?
@@danger26102 She probably many more nights like that, but that really stuck out as the straw that broke the camels back. Been there too!
Very informative thanks for sharing. I quit my job as an RN last two years ago after almost 17 years in the field. It was not an easy decision, but life is too short to dread going to work everyday. No amount of money can buy real happiness, but friends I'm not asking you to resign from your job or abandon your business but be wise!
Thanks for sharing your story. I don't really like my job but I love what it provides for me and my family. This pandemic has people rethinking working.
Hello ma'am what do you do now and how did you plan yourself before quitting?
right now I run my own business and While I was still in service I planned towards early retirement, making about 2k weekly from my retirement investment portfolio trying so much to build more side hustles and extra income
wow impressive you're making quite a fortune speaking of investing I have heard many people talk about it but I don't really know how to start and make a good investment, can you explain?
there's a lot of investing options but my best advice get a professional lead you into profitable one that's exactly what I did
This was an issue in every aspect of Nursing. For decades. I worked Home Health. For years and I WAS REPRIMANDED MANY TIMES for, refusing to take over a certain amount of patients. YEARS PRIOR TO COVID. Then you are labeled insubordinate. Because, I refused to put my patients lives in danger because, my supervisor ( the company REALLY) wanted to see increased $$$$$$$$. However, if something is missed or you do not have enough time to provide QUALITY CARE, YOU will be the person to lose your license. THE EMPLOYER / COMPANIES/ HOSPITALS who, are PUSHING too many patients on you will let it all roll into the Nurse.
Wow this is 💔. Thank you for doing the right thing!
@rscmrcmd You are not an authority on nurses day to day job because you have been to the hospital once.
you realize your experience is just as Anecdotal as this movie right?
This. 100%.
100%
Ever since “medical became publicly traded” and “allowed to advertise” (president nixon) , the system is overall of no value to society (the total sum of positives + negatives)
I have been and still am a cardiologist. Started private practice 1995. What you are seeing here is true. I have seen the entire, slow and steady, change from stand alone hospitals to multi-billion dollar corporate hospital chains. These corporations are using the inherent dedication and oath of nurses, doctors (all staff) to their advantage. Corporate care is policy driven at the expense of its own care givers. My patient load is at max and every minute of the day is packed with "just one more patient." This has gone too far, risky. During the pandemic I found it disgusting and patronizing for a hospital corporation to industrialize the saying; "HEROS WORK HERE." What they were really saying was; "SUCKERS WORK HERE."
This is the real truth.
Well said. I’ve been an RN since 1988 and an advanced practice psych NP since 1993. It’s getting worse and worse. The last hospital I worked at didn’t even have a medical director or nursing director.
The primary goal of Obamacare was to wipe out private physician's practices & hospitals. I didn't realize that was necessary to maximize the death of the New World Order's Scamdemic.
Thank you!! Suckers is what we are to them!
Don't forget that administration and CMS are watching your patient satisfaction scores, too, doctor.😜
I have been in the hospital five times. The last time was five years ago after a near fatal head on collision caused by a junkie. My nurses kept me alive for nine days in the CCU untill I was stable enough for major thoracic surgery. I'm alive today because of my nurses, they are angels and they deserve to be treated with the respect they fully derseve.
What does them being an addict add to your story?
@@ColocasiaCorm driving with an altered mental status is illegal and dramatically increase people endangerment and fatalities. Terry smith was an example of what can happen no matter how careful u are when others do action such as.
@@peacefulrobin4369 Thank you ! I don't know why that needs explaining unless it hits a nerve. Unbelievable. Wonder how he would feel if he lost a loved one because of an addict.
@@ColocasiaCorm thank you john mayer fan.
Blame it on the Democrats and Biden. Plandemic and Unconstitutional mandate that fired millions of essential workers and nurses
One of the things that i struggled the most in the first years as a social worker was the open acknowledgement and acceptance of burying us with a high caseload. Like it was so normalized and joked about. Like social workers can do great work in the lives of the people we touch but the amount of work that we are given makes us practically useless.
My limited experiences with hospital social workers has been awful. I had an elderly relative be admitted (various cancer treatments during covid protocols) who also had dementia and kept changing her mind about what treatments she would accept, reject, or imagine. In a short amount of time, we were unable to reach this relative, and even her primary care doc couldn’t (or wouldn’t?) get to her. Instead of letting me (or other relatives) talk to this relative on the phone or visit in person, we kept getting social workers on the phone. Or, we would try to stop by in person to sort out what was happening, only to be sidetracked by social workers. Couldn’t even get basic information that this relative’s health directive said we were supposed to get. Obviously, hospitals use administrators and social workers as buffers and for delay tactics… which is not exactly social work.
This is why I withdrew from my MSW program. Normalized overload and abuse. Even as a student I could see us being conditioned to accept these subpar work conditions. A snake eating it’s tail.
Our hospital fired the NICU social service director...
Welcome to planet Earth. Everybody has too much work to do. It's called labor costs.
I graduated from nursing school in the fall of 2019, shortly after, I started my career working in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. As a new nurse, I was given assignments that went beyond my level of experience simply because I was another licensed professional who was legally allowed to take care of patients. After working in these environments, I became extremely anxious and at times letting that anxiety fog my critical thinking. Making a mistake is a nurses worst fear, not only because it’ll affect you as a nurse personally and professionally, but could possibly harm the patients that you care for.
I worked 6 months....new career path for me.....as soon as my 6 weeks was up I was up to 5 patients and 1 aid on the floor so we had to do tech job for 4 of the 5 because it was only 2 rns on floor 1 aid......and we were min 20 min from any rapid teams because of our old building location.....absolutely made my anxiety increase so severely and the distrust I have in healthcare runs deeper than it ever did.....its sad
I definitely did things I wasn't supposed to do back when I was nursing in the early 2000s, but it had to be done and their was no one else available to do it. Thankfully, there were no negative results, but nurses have to be doctors all the time.
It’s like they’re setting you up for failure. This is horrifying.
I start in the PICU as a new grad nurse in february…. any advice? 😅
@@carabethel4614 just get mentally ready
My mom has been trying to convince me to get into nursing for the past year and this is exactly why I couldn’t do it. I’m not physically, mentally or emotionally strong enough to deal with this in all honesty. These nurses deserve better and I really hope things change because they are doing a job that we all need to survive in society.
Don’t do it. This video hit the nail on the head, our healthcare system is built like a business, not focused on saving lives. Patients and staff become numbers on a spreadsheet and the fallout is heartbreaking.
If you truly want to do it, there are so many other nursing venues, the hospital is not the only place where nurses work. I love it I don’t regret it at all
It's not gonna change. And fyi this is the new corporate way of doing things. This is everywhere. It's a manufactured labor crisis. And then they get to blame it on the workers. When in reality it's not that people don't want to work, it's that most work is getting closer to endentured servitude
Dont do it
@@dunkdamonk I love my job, they go above and beyond, I couldn’t be more happy. I love my patients. But hey that’s just me I guess everyone is not that lucky. Next I’m thinking about being a aesthetics nurse, can’t wait
As a nurse I have no words to express how true this is. I've been the nurse crying on the way home because I couldn't handle another day of risking my patients' lives, I couldn't handle the corporate greed that was focused on "customer satisfaction" and would punish us when patients abused us because they weren't satisfied with their experience. We are tired, demoralized and done.
'comonalitys btween koof 91 and raydiation ingury' please read and understand this review.
@@pjm6939 what
@Sincere Yeah. The useless and endless administrators who also pull profits/ fundings away from where they need to be used.
My nursing director once yelled at me for “not filling out my new admission’s whiteboard”… I had just come out of a different patient’s room, who was dying, and had to perform CPR, bring the patient back, and transfer to ICU… so, how was I going to greet my new patient?? I asked her this. Her response??? “Manage your time better!”
Oh, sorry, I’ll just tell my patients they can’t die when I’m getting a new patient. That makes sense.
@@aflowerthatbloomsinadversity Management top heavy = overpaid, lazy and most of all stupid. MBAs are destroying our lives!
Hospitals in the US are a joke!!! I’ve been an RN for over 20 yrs. If the general public knew what went on behind those doors they would stay home! The conditions we are forced to work under would be considered torture in any other field.
medical experimentation
Oh no, they would not... Who do you think is responsible for the national healthcare assault numbers??? PATIENTS. 3 nurses in the US get assaulted EVERY HOUR. By today's LOSER PATIENTS.
My girlfriend used to work in the emergency room. Recently, the hospital was purchased by a venture capital firm.
ALL ER doctors working there 10+ years were fired because “they were paid too much”. Doctors who had saved lives in the hospital for 30 years were fired or forced to take a 80% pay cut.
Who replaced these doctors? New college grads with no experience. Fatalities in the emergency room increased 4x. There is a lawsuit in San Diego about this currently.
Their greed will be the downfall 🤦🏻♀️ so sorry
Yeah but the CEO got a sweet new golf course in his back yard so all those needless deaths were worth it. He's gotta keep up with his short game after all.
B.S….no way new college grads with no experience replaced veteran doctors and surgeons. That has to be pure fiction.
@@jackpow2004 don't drink to much of that merica Kool aid
And the younger people are less empathetic!
OMG this is the first video I’ve seen that FINALLY summarizes how I’ve been feeling as a frontline nurse!!!!! Everything else I have seen posted on social media or by media outlets does exactly that - blames the pandemic as being the sole reason for exhausting the nurses. NOT TRUE! We signed up for patient care, and by this point in the pandemic, we should be able to do this! What we DID NOT sign up for are dangerous patient ratios and limited medical supplies all because of corporate greed! Thank you for finally shining a light on this!
Yep.
This is what is called a rude awakening. Things aren't what your entitled fantasyland think it is. Did you not think this is what the attempt of "flattening the curve" was about?
@@Fishmans Um, yes, flattening of the curve was exactly what that was about - spreading out the load.
Yess there REALLY needs to be some change omggggg
@@louf7178 Your initial response doesn't even make any sense because:
1. She's a nurse so unless she's an anti-vaxx nurse she's not in fantasyland. That's her job and she knows the reality.
2. Flattening the curve was simply a concept about masking, distancing, and vaccinating to reduce the hospital / death count numbers. That has absolutely no connection with what she said. She's talking about understaffing.
The nurse talking about the patient soiled in urine. I can’t tell you how many car rides home I’ve cried because of this. Something so simple as helping someone to the bathroom and I just couldn’t do it because I was too busy. It breaks you down after awhile and makes you feel like a bad person.
One of my patients managed to pull a bedpan from under her full of bloody feces and threw it across the room. Poop and everything else was everywhere. When I walked in after taking report, her answer to my hello was, “I called so many times and my back was hurting from that thing under me….I still need to be cleaned up.” Thank god her HH was normal…..the previous nurse didn’t even know she was having bloody stool.
Thank u for saying this, I was feeling like a bad person just this past week I couldn't get my work done and I'm crying in front of my co workers feeling insane
It's not the nurses' fault. We all know that. It's the criminal system of valuing profits over people, patients and nurses alike.
It never made me feel like a bad person because I know I would have done it if I could have. It just made a angry for being put in that situation in the first place and mistrustful of administration. Unfortunately, it's the patients who suffer most. Other jobs can be found but if someone is sick or injured then they are pretty much stuck in the situation. It's like if they want good patient outcomes, then stop setting up the place for failure and hire some people.
Maybe you feel like a bad person because a good person would refuse to accept a paycheck from a predatory medical system that monetizes the sickness, suffering, and death of human beings. It's called "blood money" everywhere outside the medical industry and the good people have quit already.
I've been only a nurse for 14 years and I want to quit today. This is the only job that i went home with a shiner and concussion and was told by the manager that it's just part of our job. In the hospital, i was taking care of 6-8 patients. In the nursing home, I'm responsible for 30-40 patients.
Sorry to hear that - it's unthinkably horrible and it's not something young people are told about when they sign up for nursing school. I once met a lovely Christian girl who was about to start nursing school (she said God wanted her to do it), and my first thought was whether she'd be prepared to be called the F and C word by angry, drunk patients and junkies. She thought she'd be reading bedtime stories to sick kids.
@@caravanlifenz gotta love the naïve that Christianity breeds 🙄🙄
When I first became an RN in '96 a man tried to strangle me with a towel while I was putting his shoes on for him. In what other profession is this allowed? I'm currently not working as a nurse and doubt that I'll ever go back. I'd rather wait tables and drive uber/lyft to make the same or more money with better working conditions and more control over my environment. I see it has been a while since your comment so I hope you are in a better work situation now
I'm a Christian and I def didn't expect this. But I'm still gonna go be a nurse. I know I'm needed still because there are others who leave. @@caravanlifenz
I retired early as an RN for this exact reason. I convinced my daugher NOT to go into nursing because of this - she is a speech therapist now and very happy with her career
My son receives speech therapy...Im forever grateful to the profession!
We need more speech therapists. Thank you and your Daughter
My mother desperately tried to find a way out of nursing during her 30-year career. I lost track of how many hobbies she tried to turn into a business as her ticket out. She called nursing The Golden Handcuff. She made six figures, but hated her job. I wish I had taken her attempts to leave more seriously, now I am a nurse who dreams of a way out.
I am there. RN for 25 years at bedside. When Covid hit, I quit my job. I was going to do medical transcription from home because I had some experience with technical writing. When that didn't work, I did travel nursing. I love taking care of patients, I really do. Leaving nursing is harder than one thinks, because I didn't choose a career that is enjoyable AND pays well. I live in a small town and there aren't many options.
I left the RT profession for a public school teaching job at a time when teaching was awesome. Then the education field became heavily politicized so I left for the lesser of the two evils after 8 years.
I had a ticket out of the medical profession for sure but ended up at another profession that became even worse. If you must choose wisely, don't make the same mistake I did and get a teaching job. It'll be the even worse, trust me on that.
@@kimhrubesch6143 nursing doesn't pay well?
Is there a way for nurses to start something together? Or maybe you guys Cody get under a doctor? It’s time to start voting for some new laws.
@@renehinojosa1962 Aaawwwh !! Thank you for the warning, much appreciated.
The nurses are the ones giving really skilled care and honestly saving lives. I value them incredibly whenever I'm a patient, and I'm outraged that hospitals treat them like they are disposable.
Well, that extends to the general public too. We get treated like we're slaves to them when they are admitted, and this was before the pandemic, and now because of the anti-vax/Q'Anon/my freedom comes first movement, a lot of you have taken your anger and frustrations out on us.......
It gets harder each day trying to convince ourselves that not all of our patients are going to behave like that when they come to us for help, but you guys have such unrealistic expectations when coming to the hospital. Like the one of nurses said, the H stands for Hospital, NOT Hotel.
@@ingothitrust5248 True... People expect perfect outcomes from a hospital... Aint gonna happen
I think privatization in health and education is the worst thing
They really do too. They would rather us experienced nurses just leave, because they can pay new nurses less. But pretty soon you have entire floors run by all new nurses... and it shows in the mortality rate.
I started in nursing in 1966 as a nurse’s aide, then LPN, then RN. This has been going on since I started. Why is greed allowed to do so much harm?
We live in a capitalist economy. Profit first. So so so sad.
@@veronica112234 also nursing is primarily dominated by women. You can tell this country doesn't respect women from watching the 2016 election.
People voting for gop! That’s how it started! And continues!
Because our economy is based on capitalism. We're taught that greed and profits are good instead of treating people humanely and looking at the much bigger picture than the short term benefits of profits.
Greed is the mind virus destroying industries
I will never forget during my orientation at my first nursing job out of school the administrator said “nurses are our biggest expense”. Hospitals look at nurses as an “expense” that’s what we are to them. What is a hospital without its nurses? I would like to see them go a day with no nurses… an hour… how about just 15 minutes with no nurses.
I work in a nursing home and it's wild to me how admin treats staff like a burden and expense and not the #1 asset that keeps them in business
They would shut down
Doctors can be replaced by AI or robots. A nurse cannot be replaced by a machine or technology. But that administrator never realises that basic thing. That is the tragedy.
How about calling us their biggest revenue maintainers? When you get a HUGE return on that expense, it's not really a drain - THEY PROFIT OFF US AND THEIR CEOs GET FAT!
As an ex ER Nurse who left the profession 18 years ago I’m ashamed that our hospitals still practice the same staffing BS as when I was at the bedside. Best advice I ever gave people was to live at your loved ones bedside to make sure they are getting the care they need. With COVID, it’s a broken model
Sad for those who don't have an advocate to sit at their bedside. Covid really made that impossible as well.
insane.
edit: not talking about you, the conditions. lol. drs, nurses, and staff should be trustworthy. not somebody that your family needs to be wary of. to the point of them having to guard you. them being there to make sure you even get some water, let alone more complicated things.
We did with my father.. I knew though because I was in school to be an HCA.. sad. The nurses dreaded our room because we wanted the best for them. I tried always getting flowers and gift cards for my nurses afterwards but it isn’t enough. As a patient’s family, we could still see all the the nurses struggling. Hospitals need reform, bad.
@@katlinville8807 why did they dread your room if you were treating them well?
And when we don't allow family to be at the bedside anymore because of Covid...you see what happens.
I don’t even have words .. I am a nurse and I’ll tell you what .. nursing school never prepared me for the near constant verbal abuse, physical abuse, and sexual abuse I receive from patients not to mention the god-awful staffing they nobody seems to care to fix… and sadly the one doctor on our unit who advocated tirelessly for us -even writing the chief of nursing etc warning them that morale was low and that staffing was egregious and something needed to be done got fired bc the other MDs felt threatened by his advocating for us nurses ..
I true!!!
Slave profession
Countries with universal healthcare have way fewer nurses per Capita...
This hits home
Yes, the whole system is sick... And it makes it unnecessarily hard to fit in the health or care in healthcare.
My heart goes out to all the nurses out there. Ya know the ones that have a heart for humanity and wiped butts for years as a cna just to be spread thin by hospital admins. Don’t let them take advantage of your love for people. I know I couldn’t do that, so I commend you for everything you do.
They're not "letting" this happen
I am a critical care nurse with 43 years of ICU experience. I retired 4 months before covid hit and I thank god everyday that I did. There has ALWAYS been staff shortages and horrible nurse:patient ratio's. Nurses make up the bulk of a hospital's budget and without us nurses the hospital cannot function. It is always the first budget to be cut when the hospital claims to be in the "red. It is a well documented fact that a patients outcome in the ICU is directly related to the nursing care received. Less nurses = increased mortality. Nurses are ALWAYS understaffed and we are told to do the best we can, but if something does go wrong we are the first ones hung out to dry. Nurses are the ones that are expected to do the jobs that no one else wants to do whether it's cleaning a bed, floor, fixing equipment malfunctions, transport patients. I have even used my own money to run across the street to the deli because the cafeteria is closed and a patient is hungry. Perhaps the management at the top need to take a pay cut and less financial perks. When the CEO or CFO retire they get the best healthcare insurance, stock options and generous bonuses. Every nursing contract we fight for includes fighting for better nurse:pt. ratios and nothing ever changes or improves and I've been doing this for 43 years.
I see and hear what my fellow nurses are going through with covid and it breaks my heart. Nurses want to give excellent nursing care, it's why we chose nursing. Covid has killed many of us and made even more sick. We are verbally and physically abused and there is no other industry that this would be tolerated. If a nurse were to talk back to a patient or their family who are abusive we would be reprimanded by a supervisor or even fired. Things need to change and maybe the government needs to do something to force hospitals to change.
Thanks for 43 years of service. That's a lot.
You think hospitals are bad now, wait until the government gets involved!
If you think things are bad now, wait until the government gets involved!
43 years in CCU , you are a trooper. I will not survive in that unit .
Well said. The medical system is broken, changes have to be made. The question is, will they?
I worked as a speech therapist for 23 years in a public school. Loved it until my workload became so unbearable . What hurt more than anything was not being able to give my students all the time and care they deserved. Retired earlier than I wanted to for the sake of my health, felt heartbroken. Greed is at the bottom of so many evils in this world.
U should of worked for free then... all this "for profit" demonetization is laughable.
That said , this country should have medicare for all.
@@cstuartdc I work12 hour shifts and prefer them. Most nurses I know do as well. The biggest problem with 8 hour shifts is the 3-11 shift. It is really hard to staff. Only people without children will work them. If you have school age children you would only get to spend 2 days a week with them. The problem isn't the 12 hours it's having to work extra shifts because there aren't enough staff or having to stay late to catch up on charting you didn't have time for. I worked at a hospital that the staff badges recorded whenever you were in the room. I used to joke if they could just record audio while I was there I wouldn't need to be stuck at a computer. I always call out medications as I open them so if patients have questions or concerns they can say so as I open them. My meds would then be charted as well. The only problem would be the patient with 15 pills that listens as I carefully call the med name, dose and what it's prescribed for and wait til I have all of them in the cup, look at them then ask "which one of the white ones is the fluid pill? I don't want to take that one." as I mentality face palm.
Speech therapist overload!!!....how about being a teacher workload compared to speech therapist …Teachers with 150 students , report cards, parent conferences, accountable for test scores, having mainstreamed students and required to have a separate lesson plan for each, bus duty, lunch duty, recess duty, PTA meetings. When a speech therapist was absent the classroom teacher had the student for that time period. When a speech therapist's student was absent the speech therapist had free time at that time slot. None of the speech therapist at the 10 different schools I have worked at had any of the above.
@@cpgone Health and Human Resources controls our hospitals. Have a family full of nurses who've all retired or left the profession since ACA has been fully implemented.
@@MelissaR784 The problems in nursing pre-date the ACA by many, many years.
This is not just hospital settings it’s in nursing homes mental health wards correctional facilities and even home health care agencies.
Yes! I'm a Therapist and it's getting overwhelming with agencies putting more and more clients on us and saying we just can't find people or my favorite, "We're saving lives, you can't leave your clients." Gaslighting at it finest.
I know about Nursing Homes and the overwhelming patient load and always working short staffed
Home Health Agencies, as an HHA, some patients complain we do nothing, want us to Mop, Sweep, cook for entire families, laundry, clean the mess of others who are cooking, all in one shift, and we get verbal abuse, some physically abused and get bullied by both Coordinators and the Patients, and other Home health aides.
Light housekeeping is not cleaning years of gunk that came before us, yet Coordinators don't even treat us with respect, and Agencies do not quantify or define lighthousekeeping when some of those same agencies have Housekeepers with their own salaries and not just HHA's or PCAs.
At least Nurses are in the public setting with other nurses who they can talk about the things that happen to them while on shift.. while HHAs have to be alone on their shifts and if any physical thing happens, we are on our own, once 4 P.M or the weekends appear there isn't any kind of help or anyone backing us up.
I feel it's the lack of awareness to humanity that is the root of the problem, and the greed of healthcare in general, not just in Hospital settings.
Started crying while watching this because right now my staff to nurse ratio is 14:1 and sometimes I don't see a patient for hours if they're not actively dying. It feels like I only have time to throw pills at my people and run to the next. Sometimes an entire day goes where no nurse is on the schedule at all and we're having to be begged to come in on our days off, having to weigh our own health vs our patients, and calculate if we can even give decent care after 50 hours a week. Every day I see the girls I went to nursing school with post on Facebook that they're quitting the profession. And every day I get told we're getting another admit despite my CNA being out sick with covid and me being 2 hours behind on the morning med pass. But somehow I have to get it all done because if not me, who will?
And of course.... you have to get it ALL done on time or YOU will be written up..
The dreaded word Admission!!They throw this at you when you’re already buried in work only to have to go through everything involved in admitting someone. Do your nurse managers help with this? When you’re passing meds there is no time to admit someone by yourself. These places just abuse the staff to no end and wonder why people quit. The last LTC place I worked as CNM had 16 LPN’s quit and I went on medical leave after only 6 months and never worked again. They will push you to the breaking point. I hope that you’re able to ask for help or make a complaint if there’s no help. Then when the state comes in for surveys, all the big wigs stay and help answer lights that they never do normally and blame the staff for deficiencies when they have to cut corners or the work would never get done.
OMG that is horrible 😢
This whole video feels tense in a good way.
If it's an impossible situation, get *OUT!*
My best friend and brother who was an RN in Ohio who deceased in 2021. He was a great nurse. Staffing shortages were exposed greatly when the pandemic hit here. There were times he would see 16 patients in one shift and then have to pick up a second shift. I recall his wife saying he was just getting stretched so thin. He turned to sleep aides to help him get through with little to no sleep. Then the stress of the pandemic started. He started seeing more patients die than what he was ever trained to deal with. It ate him alive. When he went to the hospital admin, for help, he was denied leave. To an extent, I understand why time off was denied during a pandemic. Yet I don't understand why a hospital would deny leave or sick time to one of their nurses that they saw was struggling. He committed suicide in October of 21.
I’m so sorry for your loss 🙏
So sorry.
Wow that is heavy. I am so sorry to you and his wife
this isnt a suicide this is a murder. sorry for your loss
I’m so sorry he was unable to get the help he asked for. Praying you you and your family. He was a true hero.
I am so glad this is FINALLY coming to light. I have been a nurse for 10 years. I had nightmares almost every night, severe anxiety before going into work. I thought I was just weak.
The truth is we were all feeling it. We were abused from all sides. Yelled at and sometimes physically abused by patients, forced to work severely understaffed, have management gaslighting us, calling us at 5am begging us to come into work on our days off, belittling us.
I left and I am now a nurse care manager working from home.
Something needs to be done asap. It’s a felony to attack a bus driver in NYC, but if a patient attacks a nurse, management asks us to write incident reports on what we did wrong. There needs to be staff limits and laws in place to protect us. We are not hero. We are human . We need to be treated as such or the future of bedside nursing is not looking too great. They are offering us all this money begging us to come to work and most of us who left would NEVER go back to bedside.
I am a retired nurse and I would have anxiety about the workload and wether I could manage to struggle through it before every shift for 40 years. What other profession does this happen to?
I’d got to a point where I would pull over in the car and throw up on my way to start my shift at the private hospital I worked.
Absolutely! I would have a feeling of dread and cramping in the pit of my stomach walking into the hospital,every experienced nurse had the same symptoms! Other than law enforcement officers ,firemen,I can’t think of another profession that does this to your sprit and body!
Violence against health care workers is unacceptable
Evorider 36 You are so correct! Forgive me for that oversight. Our soldiers made America!
They don't care. They know the problem. I was a CNA for 15years. 1 aide on the floor with 40 people. You do the math. They choose money over life.
Of course it's rough - health care or long term care or hospital care - money is the priority = maximum profit , like anything or anywhere else. One way to maximize profit is to minimize payroll.
If it can be done ... if it can be gotten away with , then it'll be done.
Another good point to touch on is what the hospitals pay the nurses. I have been a nurse for six years, you will be working in unsafe conditions for your patients and your license. I know of a few hospitals that wouldn’t even give nurses a 1% raise the year of 2020. When COVID initially spread through the country, each nurse was terrified in COVID rooms. Most doctors wouldn’t even go into them. While we were out of N95 masks, being told it’s okay to wear a bandanna, hospitals couldn’t even care to give a 50 cent raise of compensation. I worked as a nurse in PA and was living paycheck to paycheck and each year in the newspaper we saw that the CEO would be walking away with millions. Hospitals have the money to pay nurses they chose to leave them understaffed and underpaid.
I agree with you. HOSPITALS PAY TOO MUCH TO NURSES. TWO YEARS AND A CERT DOESNT EARN YOU 70K in ANY OTHER FIELD IN ANY COUNTRY ON ANY PLANET. HOSPITALS CHARGE TOO MUCH AS WELL. THE ENTIRE USA MEDICAL SYSTEM IS ALL A BUNCH OF SCHEMING MARTIN SHKRELIS
@@davidanalyst671 People have no idea what nurses are going through. No amount is ever enough for what they do!!!
@@davidanalyst671 Most hospitals require a four-year degree. If nurses have a two-year degree, it is not a certificate. If you had any idea what nurses do, you would never say what you said. I hope you’re never in a position to have a nurse be the one saving your life.
Or you reached the max. Just hard to believe everyone is at the max rate so no one gets raises
@@davidanalyst671 lol 2 years is an associate degree and you have to take a licensure. I have a bachelor's degree. I get 123G a year we should get more than that. Life in danger constantly, covid, prisoners, tb, etc
I'm an ICU nurse from Massachusetts and this video really encompasses what nurses are going through. I quit my job in December of last year and left for a travel position because I figured if I was going to suffer, at least I should be compensated properly. There is NO nursing shortage, only a shortage of nurses willing to work at the bedside. Why? because of the unrealistic, ridiculous, and dangerous expectations placed on nurses at the bedside. An impossible amount of multitasking, an absurd amount of documentation in place to protect hospitals from lawsuits, and a lack of support staff. It's unbelievable that my main goal in my career is to somehow position myself financially to leave my profession.
Multitasking is supposed to be some kind of asset. Or, that’s what we are told. However, it is an invitation to disaster. The human brain is designed to focus efficiently on one thing at a time. Nursing is a multitasking 💩show.
@@johnberry2877 Thanks for that knowledge... the human brain is designed to focus on one task at a time. Very important for me, I use my brain a lot and thought I should train it to do so much, and it hurst. So, thanks!
Oh no, sorry to hear that. Stay strong and transcend that negative effects/energy 💜
all in crypto bro!
@Danger Mouse and that’s when the hospitals will take this seriously
I was a ICU RN for 13 years and I quit at the beginning of the pandemic because Kaiser initially told nurses they would fire them if they wore masks to work because it would scare the patients. I was DONE! You take so much abuse as a nurse from everyone. Your coworkers, patients, families, management… the list goes on. I would feel guilty taking my breaks and lunch. I would leave every day feeling like I messed something up because I was so busy and stressed throughout the day. I’ve had glasses thrown at me, called all sorts of names, yelled at, spit at, pinched. It’s just too much. I couldn’t do it anymore. I was exhausted. There was one day when I was flexed between 8 different assignments in one day. I will never go back to nursing unless I’m absolutely desperate.
I used to do security at Kaiser San Jose during thefirst year of Covid and I remember them telling staff that. Ridiculous how a workplace would sacrifice worker health along with their families to save face and retain profits (I mean clients 😂)
ER Nurse. We were also told in the beginning not to wear masks because it will scare the patients.
My mother is a case manager, used to just be an RN. She has been in close contact with Covid patients on so many occasions, came home feeling not well, and she’d be at work the next day. They don’t care if you come in with a cough, sore throat, anything goes. She has come home in tears because she watches so many people die a day. Just a week ago she came home telling me just as she was talking to a patients family about his recovery, he seized up and died in front of them. All while she is saying she herself doesn’t feel good. I’m at home nursing my RN mother because she doesn’t have the time to take care of herself in or outside of work. She’s exhausted and just a human, so I bring her water and help her get to bed, make sure she gets her meds before falling asleep. She is a superhero, just overworked, overwhelmed with competition in a sexist and toxic environment. I’ve told her for years “be a traveling nurse” because she’s qualified. More money, less permanent stress. But she never took that advice and I can see the wear and tear of nursing on her face. Since Covid peaked, I’ve watched my mother crumble at every foundation and still pick herself back up for work the next day. If you have been a nurse in the past or you are now, you are the beating heart of society, and I can’t thank you enough for working where you’re not always appreciated or even acknowledged for your hard work. It gets overshadowed by the bad every time.
@@kaleibigelow7611 much love to your mother and you. I hope she finds peace soon❤️
the abuse is horrible.. from patients families, stressed out coworkers and THE EMPLOYER who creates these poor conditions
Great documentary! When I was an LPN, many people were shocked when I tried to explain that there is no nurse shortage in the US. It's literally a shortage of positions caused by corporate greed. This is not a problem isolated to hospitals. There are RN graduates who have to move to towns 3-4hrs away just to find full time jobs.
I had no problem leaving the medical industry and never looked back. Some of my patients cried because I was caring and good at my job. But the level of corporate greed I faced daily was absolutely demeaning and disgusting. Patients are nothing more than assembly line products to bill insurance. If you spend too much time on a critical patient who needs more care than others, then you are a liability.
Meanwhile you are still accountable for the care of patients, even if the medical directors/staffers make it literally impossible to administer treatment safely. They will throw you under the bus without hesitation. One NP left because the company wanted to make her signature into a stamp so that other employees could simply sign off on things for her. They weren't interested in hiring other doctors or NPs to take on the load. Just finding more shortcuts.
Why does capitalism say that greed is good?
The system is rigged against the people who actually want to help people and benefits people who want to hurt people for the sake of profits. What to do now?
Very well stated “patients are assembly line items to bill insurance.” That is perfectly stated!!! Also, Insurance reimbursements dictate the “level of care” patients receive. This includes whether or not they see a doctor or a mid level, how long they wait for an appointment and how long it takes to schedule surgery. Corporate greed has created a two tiered customer service line that’s looks a lot like coach verses first class. And providers are nothing more than the machines private equity firms invest in to produce $$$ to line someone else’s pockets! Why it is legal for private practices and hospitals to sell to PE firms is baffling!!! It goes against all medicine and nursing are supposed to stand for. How is reducing a person’s right to treatment based on their insurance plan doing no harm? How is not accepting Medicare fair and justified? Doctors have been bought and so have many midlevels in private practice but at least the doctors received HUGE cash payouts when they signed over their rights.
This is true I work in a nursing home and every patient that dies they just fill the bed smh
@@homedoghappiness my question too...what to do in d face of organised crime greed and indifference?? Maybe care on a one to one basis....
This is heartbreaking. Our country is failing everyone so hard. I don’t know how people can treat their nurses so poorly.
As someone from Asia who worked in healthcare let me say, this is a global issue. Corporate greed and extreme capitalism has taken over making the working conditions terrible for everyone else
Our country is failing because these nurses want easy life. Look everyone else in world. Look in China and india, the nurses work much harder and for less money.
@@jayr1002 Nurses do not have an easy life and China or India are not places to aspire to. Nurses do get paid well and good for them.
Oh, that's easy! MONEY. And who is going to get it. Managers decide, not doctors or nurses. Guess who makes out the best? Managers, owners, and stock holders, NOT patients.
That's how it happens; greed. In America, healthcare is a business first and only. They only pretend to care about patients with all the surveys and lying. Then they send any nurse home once they meet the minimum number for their staffing.
@@jayr1002 So if it's so easy, why don't you do it?
I wonder if some of the Filipino nurses they tried to talk to for this video was pressured to not say anything. I know for a fact that some of my Filipino friends are pressured not only by the management but also by their own families. Filipino culture tends to say "keep your head down, don't complain, and just keep working." And it's so sad.
I absolutely believe they declined being involved in this video.
My family is Filipino and being half Filipino, I see the divide in the way my family or friends of family are treated in the healthcare industry because of the pervasive culture that sometimes follows Filipinos across the sea.
Filipinos, or, much like any immigrant looking to give themselves and their families a better life in their transition to the US, may often find themselves shying away from the idea of conflict despite it being in their best interest.
The idea of maintaining subservience to a behemoth like the healthcare industry is shocking and all too close for comfort to me.
The fear of being homeless and unable to care for one's family absolutely plays in the mind of many immigrant workers in the Healthcare industry.
It is time for a change.
@@My_Garmonbozia It's so hard when even your family will just say "Just pray to god to make it better." I feel you on this. I'm not in the healthcare industry but whenever I talk about my bosses putting so much work on me, this is their go-to reply. Or the other "Be thankful that you have this job, there are millions in the Philippines that would not complain if they were in your position."
so true, I work with many Filipino nurses and I can see the abuse management inflicts on them and they just don't complain and take it as part of their job description. Some of our nurse managers go to nazi nursing administration training....they are horrible managers.
we family in the Philippines that always need money so we have no choice but to work even if it means getting constantly walked on by management. i hear many cases of filipino maids in the middle east who stay through abuse because they need the money. some even died.
Catholic position on C-19 vax
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100 percent true. I left hospital nursing 8 years ago and would never go back. It was an abusive, horrible environment.
It really is..
It was an extreme eye opening experience for me when I worked in a hospital.
I was a PCT, planning on eventually going for my RN..
After 9 months of being in that brutal environment, not even making $13/hr, I went back to manufacturing and have never regretted it.
My wife got Abuse everyday for 25 yrs to the point of almost dyeing their at JMH in Miami from a stroke .
What do you do now? I’m a nurse and not sure how much longer I can hold out
@@will_the_don As someone who at one point wanted to become a nurse, on one hand I'm glad I didn't and on the other, sad that the profession that people worked very hard to get, are being driven out by such a toxic environment..
I’m sorry for you.
Thanks God you aren’t there anymore
I was an RN for 46 years, and then an NP for 27. I still have nightmares about hospital nursing in the 80s and 90s which is when I left. I wake up and think that someone forgot to tell me in report that I had a patient, and they went without care for 8 hours. We have been understaffed for a long time. Yes, you may make $120/hour but the hospital is still saving money because you are doing the work of at least 3 people.
46 + 27 = 73 years of working as a nurse. The earliest age to become an RN in the late 1800s was about 18y/o. If you became an RN at, let's say, a VERY YOUNG AGE of 18, that would mean you are currently 91 years old and typing this on RUclips. Which I am just not buying.
Lol I think she is including the RN years in NP years because an NP is still an RN
@@myramyra2 but she writes, "and then"
This is a comments section on RUclips, people misspeak or misword things all the time. It's really weird that you care about correcting something nobody else cares about. Nobody is getting paid or graded so just, "Let it go, let it go....." @@precisionwresonance
73 years is a long time to be an RN that still cruises youtube @@melissahuneke2842
As a teacher I feel you. You're called a hero only so they can demand heroic levels of patience and resiliency when they could easily make it manageable and livable. People shouldn't have to be heroes to exist in a job. I can't pray enough for you all in healthcare.
Don't you wanna throat punch everybody who calls you a hero but doesn't want nurses/teachers to be paid a living wage? Maybe that's just me.
This ☝🏻
I'm going to quote you on that. People should not have to be heroes to exist in any job
Your only a hero until their done with you. Then you never did enough for the company. Or you could of done better etc. its insane.
@@michellej5616 It's not just you. We just feel compelled to value our oppressive jobs too much to act on that urge.
This is honestly the most stressful situation you can be in.
You want to leave your job because its driving you crazy, but you can’t in a moral sense because it’d be contributing to the understaffing problem, your stressed fellow nurses who are facing the same exact dilemmas as you, and the withering of patients.
That is exactly what these narcissistic administrators are counting on.
If a nurse left their job, they would just hire someone to replace them. The problem is not nurses leaving, the problem is that they won't hire more than the maximum number the hospital has decided on, so the cycle continues, a new nurse comes in, gets burned out eventually and leaves. They don't care about nurses leaving, there's always one ready to replace them. It's that notion of, "if you don't like your job, you can leave"
@@ahenwaa5133
This is true and because people converse more than they ever did through social media they are getting wise to the game and in time will strategize their way to better working conditions.
My friend has a girlfriend that just graduated from nursing a while back and got a job at a senior facility. Her manager tried to push her past her limits and she threatened to quit and eventually did. They called her up a few months later and she negotiated more money and told them up front that she has a social life, kids and will not be pushed past her comfort zone. So far it seems to be working.
@@sysmixy335
It is my friend's girl friend and yea she is ballsy. And that is what it takes. If they know that you are overly empathetic they will grind you right into the ground.
At my facility, we can't staff our community clinics yet our CEO makes over 8 million a yr... we're a not for profit
I’ve been a critical care nurse for 16 yrs and this video is on point. The corporate greed is outrageous…. Understaffed and under paid we are as medical professionals.
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Write me when you can and do have a nice day and may God bless you.
Your length of service is irrelevant in your comment
Why is her length of service irrelevant with what she had to say?
Nurses aren't underpaid yall need to get a grip for real. Nurses are just as greedy as the corporations that rule them.
As a nurse who has been away from bedside nursing for over 15 yrs, this is difficult to watch. I pray for my colleagues and encourage each of you to protect you!
Nurse practitioner I talked to yesterday said, "This is a money hungry admin issue, not a health issue." when speaking about the pandemic.
@SCW very true and with less care and after three days , you are released and close to broke .
My girlfriend is a nurse here in Australia same thing happens here to. Top heavy administration no boots on the ground? Politicians getting pay rises and putting nurses doctors cleaners the list goes on and on out of work they must be held accountable for crimes against humanity. My Hart goes to all you had working careing poeple.🌠
@SCW that was one of the most anecdotal pieces of tripe I've read in a long time. There's no admin problem because your "two friends" were (allegedly) the most noble creatures ever to walk the floor of a hospital? Please.
@SCW sorry I was wrong with administration i ment director and you are truly right in wat you are saying 💯
Totally agree. A lot of people are blinded from all the lies of the government and the media.
I always wanted to be a nurse, my entire life. Glad I was too broke to go to school for it cause these past 2 years completely changed my mind about it. They’re “sooooo important” but are completely disrespected and neglected. Good job america.
If you don't mind me asking, what sort of job are you interested in instead?
RN here. Don’t ever entertain joining the profession. If I had to go back, I wouldn’t do it again. Never been so disrespected by the healthcare system.
I just became a nurse in 2019 and I'm already scared that I made a very bad mistake in my career direction. Constantly understaffed, patients always dying because there aren't enough of us there, feeling like it's your fault even though you know it's really not, administrator's making you feel like it's your fault anyway. Safe staffing ratios are possible. Very possible. But the greed of these companies won't allow it.
I just graduated from nursing school and I am feeling that way now. I experienced understaffing during my capstone course. I can't imagine working on that Med Surg unit. They were pushing me to apply once I obtain my license. I told them in all honesty that I will not because I refuse to be burnt out as a new nurse.
The system is crashing, so hang on, changes will happen . Just remember to stay faithful to your nursing principles. Try changing to nursing homes for experience. It might be better. Check for jobs at clinics, nursing homes .
You can also try specialty nursing, out-patient, schools, private duty, psych, etc. Conditions are better, but the pay is way less. I have done all those things. I still go to facilities to keep my skills sharp, but I reduced my hours to part time as it was just too much & caused health problems when I was full time. Hang in there, find your niche, patients still need us, but you need to take care of yourself so that you can continue to take care of others. God bless!
Don't be afraid to look for a better position, or try something new-- there's lots of travel opportunities right now if you have the skill set! Don't let your job cause you to hate nursing, burn out, etc. Your health (mental/physical/emotional/spiritual) comes first.
An education in health sciences is never a bad mistake, it will be helpful in living life, whatever direction you choose. Corporate greed is hard to dodge but you may possibly find a job where both your patient's health and your self-care are sustainable. All the best.
It’s not just nurse to patient ratios but the work of lifting and moving them for care. One nurse can’t move a 150-200 pound + patient. If they are small with fractures they need more than one person to give care. The administration included aides in with the staffing ratios. We were left with more patients, to help each other we had to go away from our patients to help. I was a nurse 40 years. I remember how much better it was before the corporate model and profits, market shares became the goal.
That’s the core of the problem!!!
As some who had 2 discs obliterated by a patient assault in 2000, I can only imagine what the assaults are like now. After 4 surgeries, I went back to work for about 6 years then had to seek SSD. I stand behind all the nurses and ancillary staff, in this time of COVID. NO one deserves to be assaulted....fullstop
An unfortunate experience, but believe it or not, from a statistical standpoint, hospital staff are more likely to assault or unlawfully imprison patients than the other way around.
speaking from experience on both accounts: one time kicked in the head by an unruly patient so hard that i thought that i'd been kicked in the head by a mule. i was dizzy for hours and probably received a concussion but because we were understaffed, i went ahead and toughed it out because i had one hundred diapers to change that night!!
@@terry63lee I hear you on that. Been there too. This injury however was a result of a pt. pushing me over the side rails, backwards. He was mad cause the girls got him up and sat him in a chair, putting the bed in high position and rails up. It was on a hospice unit at the VA and he passed 3 days later(head and neck CA) I hope you are doing well now
@@marshahowes8756 thankyou for all of your work you did. and many prayers for you
@@terry63leethe same goes for you. I personally am grateful to be retired and now on much needed disability. However, I do miss it. If you're still in the profession...stay safe
Please remember that the loss of these knowledgeable nurses means a loss of passed on knowledge to us nursing students. CARE WILL SUFFER!
Amen.
@Les ArEnA good number of the "less experienced" nurses will hightail it out of the profession after they realize it's not what tv shows glamorize it to be.
Are you saying nursing school does not adequately train you to do the job?
That’s exactly what’s happening. The seasoned nurses are retiring or getting clinic jobs and then you have a floor staffed with new-grads and higher incidences… it’s a shame.
@@trainablemonkey9912 nursing school is a learner’s permit. The real learning starts at the bedside. Everything is REALLY specialized now.
I’m a new grad and only lasted 6 months in the hospital setting. The expectation on nurses is ridiculous, unrealistic, and incredibly dangerous. I could not give good care to that many patients. I didn’t want to stick around and wait for a tragedy to happen on my watch. Nurses deserve a break to eat.
Hi there, I graduate in the spring with my bsn. Do you care to elaborate? What type of unit did you work on? Day or night shift? What are you gonna do next? Sorry if I seem nosy, I’m just anxious about working at the bedside and possibly regretting my career choice.
6 months tho ..
@@lazy_lonnie no worries! I worked on a med/surg unit day shift. I work in a different hospital on med/surg as an aide for 3 years and loved it. I think all hospitals are in rough conditions right now but the one I worked at as a nurse was exceptionally busy and I almost never got a lunch break, and because joint commission was coming we couldn’t have drinks out so I almost never had time to drink water. It never hurts to try and if you can’t stand it find something different! There are so many options. I’m a private home health nurse now and it’s much better for me and my unborn baby. Best of luck finding the right place for you! 😊
And pee!
@@lazy_lonnie there are many career choices for nurses. the hospital is only an option. this pandemic has elevated the need for nurses in clinics.
Okay, next part of this conversation.... How can WE as patients (consumers) help hold them accountable? Can we demand nurses without overage patient count for our own safety? If we all do more of this, will they listen? I just stopped nursing school, as I am horrified at the view on the horizon.
As the video showed- vote for laws/propositions that put actual limits on patients per nurse- hold the hospitals accountable!
@@ciello___8307 Yes, that’s part of it. But we shouldn’t wait until laws get past to do anything about it. I think they have a point. For me personally, whenever I am in a situation where I know I am dealing with an understaffed place, I am just as understanding and flexible as possible
Yeah good luck with that!
Be patient and respectful. Understand that if we aren’t seeing you often it’s because someone else is worse off. And if you’re not doing well and we’re still not seeing you, still means someone else is worse off but now you’re suffering more and something can be missed. All these issues apply to doctors and providers as well and they’re just as burnt out and stressed from patient loads. Hospitals DO NOT CARE about you or anyone except money. If you complain to them about staffing they WILL ASK US WHY WE ARENT DOING OUR JOB. Their immediate reaction is to pull the assigned staff to that patient into HR and interrogate until they decide who told the patient that staffing ratios aren’t safe and reprimand them. Laws won’t be passed. More lives will be lost, maybe someone you love. Health care is and will continue to collapse dividing us further so we continue fighting eachother instead of the fractured and faltered governments and execs.
Patients can’t do anything in the hospital about it. Call your reps and tell them you want laws that dictate higher pay and better staffing ratios.
I'm a retired nurse. I did research on the implications of the shortage of bedside nurses, in a graduate course. It's too much to share here, but the basics were that patient deaths go up, nosocomial infection rates go up, patient falls go up, medication errors go up, the hospital rate of lawsuits from injured patients goes up as well as the number of lawsuits over wrongful deaths. Nurses leave the bedside...and the profession. Nothing good or positive at all, for nurses, hospitals or patients, happens when hospitals lower nursing staff. I think I recall the stat that
Hello 👋 how are you doing today
The health care system in this country is horrible another thing if everyone had heath insurance the beds would be full of people getting the care needed bottom line would increase. The whole system needs help from the systems on the computer to politicians making a buck its all bs
That's the problem when you financialise everything. Worked for an American company years ago, treated me badly, everything had to be in their favour with no reward for the work well done, so I left. The incompetance and stupidity from management was incredible.
Company went into bankruptcy 20 years later, completely screwed.
@@vumba1331 nice! i learned my lesson the hard way as well. managers know how to psychologically attack you to keep you there under their abuse in their toxic workplace. i learned to spot this within a week or two of working at a new job. NEVER stick around. its YOUR health!
@@BobRooney290 Right on! Had that a couple of years ago and after a month at a new job, I could see it going only one way. Arrived in the morning to start work, the attitude started right away, so I picked up my lunch and walked out. They shouted that I couldn't do that, I said watch me.
My mental and physical health is worth more then their business.
I was in the hospital for 3 weeks on bed rest with my son. The nurses always commented that I was the easiest patient because I never asked for anything. I knew they were busy and overworked and didn't want to bother them. During that 3 weeks and then my son in the NICU for 8 weeks, all of the nurses were wonderful. All of them. The patience and understanding and support we received from the nurses, I will never forget. Nurses are special people, treat them with respect!
I have been a nurse for over 25 years. I truly loved bedside nursing. What I dislike is how nurses are expected to do their job, and do the work of CNA, pharmacy, doctors, housekeeping, respiratory therapists work all while keeping up with our patients. The expectations are beyond unrealistic. There are nurses that work all day with no break. We are lucky if we get 30 minutes without our phone going off every 20 seconds. Patient's families can be so mean to us. We sacrifice our health and well being for strangers that no longer appreciate us and the hard work that we do for their loved ones. There is a huge nursing shortage. It will affect all of us one way or another eventually, but by then there won't be bedside nurses to take care of you when you get sick. Don't say we didn't warn you.
I feel the same way it’s a nightmare I’m retired and the effects of being a nurse still haunt me daily
@@cheryljones7187 the smount of work and the amount of disrespect we endure is unbelievable
@@user-pl1hz8pu1p I totally understand I was a nurse since 1974 retired 2 yrs ago I have PTSD from the trauma resulting from working in home care hospitals and insurance companies
@Troyphy They said they're understaffing the hospitals intentionally. Cut the population in half with the same system and the problem still exists
Well let’s be clear cna workers also go thru the same thing plus personal care aids
Former nurse of 13 years here. Nothing will change anytime soon. I haven't practiced for almost 6 years now and all I see are things getting worse. I am terrified for my family and for myself for when they get sick and have to go to the hospital. America has a third world healthcare system in many parts of the country.
I have held several tech positions in hospitals for almost 40 years, and what these nurses are saying is absolutely true.
Were the tech positions chronically undestaffed?
As a Psych nurse, patients can punch you in the face with no real consequences. And the patients know it.
One of our local hospitals. The CEO took home 30 million in 3 years. Scripps.
Hi Lucy,
I have been a nurse in the ER setting for nearly 20 years. Everything stated in your interview is factually correct. I have m-a-n-y stories from both a civilian RN’s perspective and now as an active duty nurse in the Air Force. Covid wasn’t the problem. It made the problem worse. The greed is out of control. The staff negligence absolutely affects care delivery at the patients bedside. It’s greed of money, power, prestige, accreditations and reimbursements. Understand that ALL specialties i.e providers, pharmacy, ancillary are impacted in the same manner as your interview highlights.
AMEN!!!
I’m not a nurse, but I said this about why nurses are leaving at the beginning of the pandemic. All kinds of nasty things were said to me and I couldn’t believe people got so upset over the truth. The media has made people rabid.
Covid uncovered what has been going on for decades, I have had my pinch, punch, jab stories too. I started working back when even the doctors would disrespect and yell at the nurses. We nurse because we want to alleviate our fellow human suffering.
@@vicwei4302 👏🏽💯
As an Australian nurse-to-be, it is heartbreaking to learn that there are no restrictions on nurse:patient allocations. In our public hospitals, AM and PM shifts are 1:4 and night shifts are 1:6-8. Nursing is a tough, tough gig, and having no regulations sounds like a nightmare. It is devastating to see so many nurses considering walking away due to highly unethical management. Sending love to all my US nurses, you are all so brilliant
Thank you!
You should switch careers now. I wouldnt wish nursing upon my worst enemy. Hospital nursing at least. You will see, unfortunately.
don't do it
The smart ones are leaving.......
All healthcare in the US is unethical. They can once again put you in prison for being unable to pay what some corporate chain hospital bills you for, well, usually not very much.
My job gave me 3 critical patients - 1 w DKA Q1 ACCU checks, Q4 labs (no lab techs. Lab took 4 hours to result critical labs. Pt went into Vtach for a minute. K was 7 not like we would know), 1 patient had to get a stat CT because of mental status change, the other non compliant, the other with chest pain all of a sudden. No techs around to help. So I had to get a EKG myself until someone in the hospital could help me get a “stat” CT. Yeah right. Not to mention I’m breastfeeding and no one’s around to watch my patients so I can pump for 15 minutes so I leave with engorged throbbing boobs. If my family was in a hospital I would be turning them, bathing them, cleaning them up myself. These nurses do not have time and things DO get missed.
That is awful and especially that you weren't able to pump I am so sorry. People don't understand that can seriously affect your breastfeeding!
I did bedside care for 35 years. Over the decades I’ve been punched many times in the gut, kicked in the leg, choked twice, stabbed with used needles, and had small chunk bitten off my upper arm by a demented patient. Short staffing had been a part of the job since the 50’s. I can remember having 47 med/surg patients with only one RN, 2 LPN’s and 2 CNA’s throughout the mid to late 80’s on one unit in Detroit. The problem is well known and most places see a turn over rate of RN’s in one year that would rival any local McDonald’s restaurant. The problem will not go away. It will take an Act of Congress to get any type of staffing corrections nationwide. For the billions of dollars made in profit by the stock holders and insurance companies each year this problem could be rectified. We might think we are a 1st world country but we are being governed by 3rd world corrupted standards.
@Susel short answer YES
@Susel YES, patients don't respect healthcare workers AT ALL. Even in states where Healthcare worker assault is considered a crime, IT IS NEVER UPHELD, AND THOSE PATIENTS ARE NEVER CHARGED.
@Susel I started bedside care in 1981 with mostly Veterans from WW2. In the civilian sector it was an all female Alzheimer’s
Nursing home.
Makes me rather work as a nurse in a much nicer country. Good thing my nursing degree is foreign acquired so it's possible
@Susel Doesn't matter if it's pre hospital or in hospital. If the patient is going to be violent, they're going to be violent and hopefully no one is going to be hurt. I've known many people punched, kicked (in the stomach while pregnant), bitten, scratched, assaulted with objects etc.
People can be unpredictable. If the patient is altered in any way there's always a possibility they may be violent/combative. Ranging from substance abuse, to endocrine imbalances, to seizures, emotional compromise, underlying psychological conditions, medication side affects, head trauma etc.
I had to leave my position due to the onset of unbearable depression and anxiety in June 2021. I have been an RN for 22 years, and I am now the patient.
We nurses so desperately need legislation to protect our patients, and we need to be heard about our concerns surrounding patient safety. I shouldn’t feel that I am a failure because my hospital administration won’t listen to me and my colleagues about terrible staffing conditions.
Well, get that ball rolling. Wish you guys Luck!
Same here. RN for over 25 years. I have NEVER seen it this bad
You certainly shouldn't feel like you are a failure. Make a long list of all your accomplishments; that is just a start. God bless you.
Love to you for your 22 years and thousands of patients you have personally cared for in that time.
You can’t get good legislation when the the hospitals are still murdering the patients,
I cannot imagine not treating these incredible people with anything other than total respect. They save lives EVERY DAY.
They also have to deal with people dying EVERY DAY.
Thank you to the nurses all across this world. We do not deserve you.
They really do not. You're more likely to die of medical malpractice (usually due to a long ER waiting time or incompetent nurses) than you are from acute illness.
@@greggarcia6294 You think a long waiting time is the nurses' fault? No, that's the fault of everyone who refuses to support paying a reasonable portion of everyone's taxes to fund having adequate medical services for a civilized society.
Medical error is the same problem. When the system doesn't have adequate funds to pay for enough staff, existing staff must work so long & so hard, they begin to lose effectiveness AS ANY LIVING BEING WOULD.
The solution is to recognize that everyone needs medical services, so everyone should contribute.
@@chris_iapetus thank you. The ignorance is astounding but then again it's not.
You should check out the way Care givers and CNAs get treated... Worse than nurses. 😂 practically slaves.
@@Nyx_Room I can believe it. And underpaid too I bet.
Was a hospital nurse for 16 years, last 5 were in the ER. I've been peed on, had poo thrown at me, been cussed out, attacked ... but also met amazing people, gave life and hope to patients at their wits end and celebrated patient milestones with frequent flyers who were now part of the hospital family. I MISS being an ER nurse, I miss the patient care. The thought of going back to the hateful system of the hospital where managers are determined to make you work a skeleton crew, where management is focused on positive patient reviews but isn't concerned about the patient. One hospital I worked at said they couldn't hire more staff until we met QUOTA!?!?!
The people running healthcare don't care about their staff or the patients. I left due to health reasons in 2020 but now, everytime I try to apply for a hospital position, I get physically ill. I MISS taking care of patients, the good, the bad , they were mine. But the thought of going back to that environment, leaves me cold.
I am one of thousands of nurses that have left the system ... a system that was always broken. We have 4 nursing schools in the area of the hospital that was on a hiring freeze. Nurses often have to drive hours a way to find a job. The whole concept of a nursing shortage is a joke. Long before covid, hospitals began treating healthcare like a factory where you force emplyees to work super short-staffed and then, when you do finally hire people, you don't hire as many as left.
The fact that people question nurses stories of employer abuse and aggressively embrace a blatantly corrupt healthcare system is breathtaking.
It brings me such joy that the workplace abuse is getting attention.
It is a normal part of so many jobs to be verbally, if not physically or sexually abused. I know this is true for service industry, not being important for basic functioning of the society but as I'm nearing 30 I'm seeing the backbone of any society(medical staff keeping us alive, teaching staff enabling us a better future, physical workers brining food and basic goods to us...) getting similar treatment and it's blowing my mind.
Employer abuse in nursing is rampant
Linus Highhorse suits you better.
Not surprised
Truth
I think the term "moral injury" cuts closer to the bone than "burnout." These are human services being corrupted by a corporate model that operates by unspoken values that undermine the integrity of what it is that we actually do when we take care of our fellow human beings who are ill. It is critically important that we put more focus on the fact this is a problem of institutions that are hurting individuals, rather than merely a problem of individuals hurting. Nurses aren't burning out; they're being burned, systematically.
Well put Evan.
That my friend, is the best term to use to describe this madness in nursing.
What you just said is true for teachers too. Faustinian bargain.
You hit it square, it's injury, and the echelons know; what they want, they do, it pays off, and it's the opposite of the profession's purposes!!!
This is so beautifully said.
40 years as a RN here, retired in 2018 to pursue art EXACTLY for the reasons cited in this video. I started working in a hospital at 16, graduated from nursing school at 22 and have worked in trauma 1 ICU, acute rehab, visiting home health and nursing home in positions from nursing assistant (before CNA was a thing) to Chief Nursing Officer/VP Quality and Administrator. I never forgot what we really do and literally fought with CEOs and Board of Directors to ensure adequate staffing. The 1st responsibility is listed as ensuring safe patient care in CMS regulations for a Chief Nursing Officer. I believed in that responsibility and tried to live it. In the end, I realized healthcare is just another business out to make money and the lobbying groups are more powerful than the AMA. Wake up America!!!! What you are led to believe by the industry is blatantly false - please listen to these nurses. Your life depends on it, if not today then tomorrow 💗
Thanks for fighting the fight. You're a rare CNO
I highly doubt you "literally fought with CEOs and Board of Directors." Are you writing this from jail?
@@ajsdfk don't think she meant physically fought with. but yes, nurses often go the extra mile to advocate for their patients and co-workers, which can include bringing grievances before and fighting with CEOs, administrators, etc.
@@ajsdfk The definition of fighting is not limited to a physical alteration
THANK YOU! There is NOT a shortage of nurses. There never had been. There IS. a shortage of hospitals willing to train and staff nurses!
#TRUTH
Atlanta here. Retired psychologist. On 3/1/20, at the beginning of Covid, I suffered a heart attack. Every single nurse, doctor, health aide and every tech was ABSOLUTELY wonderful. I worked in trauma for years. Don't mistreat your healthcare workers, they are your lifeline.
I would like to say thank you to all the people who saved my life and all those I will never meet, who care for and save other people every day. You're wonderful. ❤️
We (meaning those patients whose lives have been saved by these amazing heroes) need to stand up and FIGHT for these nurses and doctors who FOUGHT for us during our most trying time.
@@AdmoreMethod lol ok spaz
As a physician, this hurts my heart and I can def say we feel the tension and anxiety too. We have constant pressure from admin to admit more patients an d discharge them within a specified timeframe….anything to keep filling beds that are understaffed all around…not enough nurses, lab techs, floor techs, cnas….I see it and try to medically manage patients knowing the nurses don’t have what they need to execute all the patient needs. It sucks. It’s morally wrong. I’m strparting to believe medical admin are some of the most morally corrupt and psychologically abusive people in American capitalism
Thank you for saying this. Docs are incentivised to see more patients with RVUs. Providers feel this too, but the greed and desire to outperform a colleague seem to get the better of us.
It's nice to hear that from a Dr. TY
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@@jbrahen what are RVU''s?
Please tell your colleagues to stop trying to ambulate weak and confused patients lol
I worked as a CNA right out of highschool. It only took one year to realize how bad it is for both nurses and cnas. I’d have 20 patients a shift. Be expected to bathe, change, feed, turn, and take vitals twice a shift for each and every one. I quit. It’s inhumane for both the workers and patients.
I agree 100%
Blame it on the Democrats and Biden. Plandemic and Unconstitutional mandate that fired millions of essential workers and nurses
So what do you women all want? You want to stay at home and be a home maker now? Try working in a manufacturing facility 12 hours a day doing real work... you're lazy and entitled what do you expect with a lazy certificate?
You quit and it got 100% worse for everyone who was already living inhumanely... nice, way to be responsible
@@delawareperformancetrainin307 BOT
Oh yes I can completely verify what is being said in this video........just the other night I was left on a unit with 28 patients I had 1 nurse helping me but she had her duties of making sure the patients were getting their meds in a timely fashion. It's not just hospitals but rehabilitation facilities like I work at. ✝️❤️☮️🙏🇺🇸
LTC patient ratios are Fn crazy. It’s unbelievable. Idk how you do it
I have a cousin who was the best RN you could imagine. After 15 years, she quit to go work in a dialysis clinic as an admin. because being a floor nurse drove her into a mental breakdown. I swear to God, we are turning into a third world country. Teachers are walking off the job. Now nurses. This is just terrible.
As someone with multiple teachers in my family, the situation with overworked, overburdened and burnt out nurses has many painful similarities to the situation for teachers.
I decided to not go into teaching after seeing how miserable it was for my grandma and how little she was compensated for the hard work she did.
It's because both of these professions are predominantly female. And to continue the stereotypes, most CEOs of these mega-hospital-corporations are male. Disgusting and Demoralizing.
Covid through it ALL off, it’s the little things and the rhythm, I work as a traveler.
I have never felt so validated. Those situations the nurses describe in the video: about patients crying to them, patients belittling, cursing, physically assaulting them....those have all happened to me and my coworkers. We are continually stretched to our limits and then asked to do more by our employers. We all love our job, but we don't love being seen as a resource, as a commodity, or as a bargaining chip.
It's because we live in a vulture capitalist society. Hopefully my state (California) will be the first state to succeed with universal healthcare (taxpayer funded / centralized). Some things in society are more valuable than simple profit.
As a teacher, I deeply empathize.
As a healthcare worker, we’re seeing this all across the board. Shortage of physicians, nurses and other ancillary staff. The pandemic has really exacerbated what already is a broken health care system. It was just the last straw that broke the camel’s back and people just “woke up” and said enough is enough.
I know nurses who are reusing N95s from two YEARS ago because administration is to cheap to buy PPE.
Hospital greed.
Like hospitals receiving a financial incentive from our meddling government to grossly inflate the number of Covid cases that they have?
This fact confirmed to be true both by the current as well as former CDC directors.
Headline:
CDC director Robert Redfield admits hospitals, medical folks have ‘perverse incentive’ to falsely count Covid deaths
Headline:
CDC Director Walensky: 75% Of Covid Deaths Had At Least 4 Comorbidities
Headline:
"CDC Director Rochelle Walensky finally admitted that “many, many hospitals” were counting COVID deaths to include cases that were not COVID deaths."
Shortage of staff?
Some of us still remember nurses posting TikTok dance videos during the height of the Covid hysteria.
Then there were nurse layoffs during the peak of the Covid panic.
After that large numbers of nurses were fired for not being vaccinated.
It doesn't take a Rhodes scholar to see that something isn't quite adding up in this equation.
It’s called the healthcare silver tsunami. Many healthcare professionals are coming up in retirement soon. COVID has exacerbated the issue right now but there are several well known factors that are contributing to the shortage. One is the lack of nursing faculty to churn graduates out.
Can’t wait to leave bedside. I’m so sick of poor working conditions, abuse from patients and their families, and not feeling like I can give the care that is needed.
I'm in nursing school right now and this is something that scares me the most. It's so hard for our nurses out here. It's so sad. It's seems like everything is more about the profit than quality care.
Unionize or be exploited
❤️ honey. Pace yourself and move to a unionized state w/safe staffing level legislation.
I did travel nursing to California after my first 18 months in NY. Like night and day and I don’t want to work outside of Cali again. I’ve done several hospitals here and they’ve all treated us well. The law requires it.
Oh honey, change direction while you still can.
move to a state where you’re unionized, like california. california cares about their nurses, and the pay is really good.
My husband passed away 7 years ago. It was during his prolonged illness that I came to realize what angels nurses are. Thank you angels, for your incredibly hard work and compassion.
I'm so sorry for your loss. Prayed for you, that Jesus will continue to care for and comfort you.
They don't like being called angels as it's rather patronising. They want to be respected as human beings who need less stress and better pay.
Worked during Covid as CNA when it first started , I was eager and happy I thought this was definitely my calling , They overwhelmed me, the patients and the company . The wife of a patient would treat me as a maid , I was there to take care of her husband 😒 ,then my manager told me they couldn’t give me PPE when my client poops all over herself and rubbing it in (she had Alzheimer’s ) they told me to bring extra clothes and wash it !!😡 I legit stopped picking up the phone and found a new job 😂
I can’t imagine being a new healthcare worker during this pandemic. It’s hard enough during “normal “ times. Every job I had I basically was thrown in to figure it out on my own. The sink or swim model that they so love. We need to start demanding change. If everyone walked off the jobs they would be screwed but when your a nurse they can charge you with abandonment of your patients so they have us by the balls. They would let you work 24 hours a day 7 days a week and still be asking for more. It’s bad and has been bad for my entire life. Started in 1990-2012.
@@lisaeischens2352 so DONT Go Into Work
That’s how u walk off the job
@@lisaeischens2352 I hate how they use the law and your own compassion against you. These hospitals deserve to deal with the labor uprising they’re causing. At some point the nurses will run out of patience because they can never catch up to all their patients.
This video is spot on. I've been a nurse for 53 years. The changes in medicine/nursing are heartbreaking.
I remember January of 2020 working as a brand new nurse. I was told I’ll have 20 patients, after three weeks 30 patients, after 1 month 40-59 patients, there's even times when I have record breaking 63 patients--(1)imagine without proper training, (2)being the only nurse on that side of the wing, (3)working 6pm-6am three to four shift in a week, (4) and two nursing assistants that can’t help you because they are also overwhelmed with the amount of task they have to do. Not too mention zillions of paper documentation and 5,000 clioks on the computer which are all redundant.I always pray before the start of my shift to have a smooth sailing night ( NO deaths, low blood sugar, falls, angry family, moody doctors, and lack of staff). Familes calling and asking about their love ones progress I cannot answer because I am barely passing zillion medications on 4th out of 60 patients. Make story short, I quit a month after COVID hit. My beliefs didn’t align with the facilities mission and philosophy. Every nurse I met questioned their career choice. What a great way to start my nursing journey? I was so stressed during those months that my undiagnosed cyst grew so fast in two months and had to be operated asap. I am now happy working as construction site first aid nurse.
Not to downplay your situation. Nursing is awful right now. But there's no way that you were at a 63:1 ratio. That impossible. Maybe you had 63 pts on your unit? There's no way you were even at a 20:1
@@andrewbryant4259 I'm assuming this was not an acute hospital unit, but likely an aged care facility or what you'd call a skilled nursing facility. And although those ratios are abhorrent, I've seen that and worse.
@@marabanara agreed that is the only situation where those ratios could possibly happen. And yes those are horrific conditions. But the entire video was specifically about RNs in hospitals. There could and probably should be an entirely separate video about skilled care facilities as those are even more privatized than hospitals
Sounds like that was a SNF ( nursing home ) and girl that was brutal . It was bad enough passing meds on an unit of 30 pts. So glad you found a better fit for you .
I cannot imagine how medication administration went
I am a retired MD pathologist and I know that these nurses are telling the truth.
@@josephgutow No, because of my professional relationship with the nursing director who also served as the infection control director when I chaired the infection control committee of the medical staff.
and it’s even worse now than when u saw it :(
@@anar2813 I believe you. Even though I have been retired for a few years, I am aware of the short staffing games which hospital administrators engage in. I also experienced it in the laboratory.
I work as a CNA in a long term care facility and it is constantly understaffed. It is seriously overwhelming when you’re alone on a hall and don’t have the help to take care of all your residents.
I still have nightmares about stuff like that
Even worse in LTC. 30:1 is ridiculous. When a patient is discharged from the hospital their care requirement doesn’t change. But the nurse/CNA ratio is insane.
CNAs are the backbone of nursing! so ridiculously under paid! I depend on my CNAs, to alert me to so many things!!!
Thank you, for your service. My brother has been a CNA for 25 years. I'm going to go into Nursing, but I want to work in a clinic. I've done CNA training in a SNF and was a Medical Assistant. I know how hard it is.
Been there, done that. Group homes, assisted living, etc have the same issues.
I am a hospital RN for 31 years in NYC. Both of my daughters are hospital nurses. So far one of my granddaughters is in college and on track to go into Neurology as an MD. I have other family members in the profession. My mother was a hospital nurse. I feel these stories to my core. I agree with all that is said here. I can retire at 65 in 5 years and I cannot wait to do so. I COULD retire in 2 years but I am hoping to make it to 65 for pension reasons. If I could retire with financial security tomorrow I would. But I do not know how long I can go at this level of short staffing. I am burnt