I just started in ICU (from a med-surg floor) a couple of weeks ago and they had a terrible code right before shift change last week. A young man went into DIC, they coded him for 30 minutes with mass transfusions but couldn’t save him in the end :(. Multiple staff were upset, and when they came back the next day said they did have a hard time sleeping or that they went home and cried for hours. Our jobs can be so stressful and I don’t think many people realize that it does stick with you, having to deal with things like that over and over. Thank you for posting this video
Totally agree! I've been a nurse for almost 9 years, and I work Labor and Delivery. Most days, I absolutely love it! Everyone always tells me "I have the best job", and "I work in the happiest place in the hospital." Which I do agree with. But it can be scary, and when it is it's VERY scary. And when it's sad, it's devastatingly sad. I remember every mom who I've had to send home with empty arms, and my twin mama who almost didn't make it home with her babies, and those babies born too soon--too tiny and frail to survive more than minutes or hours, or those whose little bodies didn't form correctly and cannot function this side of the womb, and many more I don't have room to list. I remember names and dates. I wonder about them often. Sometimes we hear updates from patients and their families, most of the time we do not. Nursing is not for the faint of spirit. Our profession is just as emotionally taxing as it is physically and mentally taxing. Thank you for sharing this video! ❤
Thank you for this video, I'm a veteran, a paramedic, and I'm about to graduate from nursing school. PTSD and healthcare definitely needs to be brought up more often!!!
Yes nursing is definitely a stressful job, mentally and physically. You truly don’t understand it unless you’re a nurse. I have patients I still think about (and even dream about) to this day also. I think it’s important to have an outlet, like a friend or family member to talk to! Thankfully I have not seen anything too traumatic yet, but I’ve only been a nurse for 2 years. I know the day will probably come within my career. I think it does for every nurse. Thanks for the video! :)
Being a pediatric ICU nurse, I have seen some very traumatic and depressing situations that most people would never even imagine experiencing. I still can see the faces of patients I have lost years later. I don’t know if it’s PTSD per say but definitely still having flash backs and struggling with the emotions of now being a new mom and trying to picture those scenarios and being afraid of those things happening to my own child.
You put this into words SO WELL. I think this is something that is SO important to talk about since I don't think they really prepared you or warned you about this in nursing school. I really think they need to provide some kind of mental health prep and outlets in both nursing school and and your workplace.
I was a respiratory therapist in pediatric ICU/adult ICU. I wish as a student, we had a day talking about ptsd and how to cope with patients' deaths. Peds was rough. Many children who died were in the hands of their trusted parents.
I was talking to our Hospice nurses about a patient we lost about six months ago. I still remember this gentleman. He was a WWII veteran. This evening, I was with one of our hospitalized veterans in the MICU. He has been in a coma for over a year. (long story) This afternoon I was helping out in our VA Spinal Cord Injury Ward. My hat is off to our nurses that do this full-time. As a VA Volunteer and retired soldier, I am taken back by everything I see in a real life Hospital environment.
This is so so so important to talk about. I feel that this topic often gets overlooked or ignored, but as nurses we shouldn’t have to put our emotions on the back burner all the time. It certainly isn’t a glamorous profession, and it isn’t for the weak of heart. Even the strongest people still have feelings and I’m so happy you addressed this.
honestly i’m being burnt out and have ptsd from it. i want to get a desk job away from patient care and call it a day. i loved my job but with serious lack of support and heavy patient load, it was too much for me and my body and i suffered tremendously. hospital bedside nursing is not for every nurse.
I have seen so many loved ones in healthcare and classmates struggle with things they have seen or from the overwhelming stress that can come with healthcare professions. Thank you so much for talking about this! It is so important and hopefully the more we talk about it the more people will realize they are not alone and that everyone feels like this at some point or another.
We do get immune in the stuff we see, but it is true that a lot of things can have an effect on us daily. Not overthinking the things and having a healthy outlet is right. Should be a research topic in the field. Lots of people never talk about this situation. Good video though
Thanks so much for talking about this. I’m still a new nurse + I feel no one in nursing school talks about how certain things you see will stick with you!! Or how they may affect your mental health. I had my first death a couple months into being a nurse (a stillborn) and for the first couple nights after my shift I had terrible nightmares about what I saw. I don’t think it was a PTSD thing and I wasn’t left with anxiety or anything like that because of it, I still adore my job and love coming in and I don’t fear facing the situation again!! but the images, scents, everything said, I feel will forever stick with me and I’ll never forget the nightmare I had that night. It helped me to talk about my nightmare and feelings with a loved one :) I was able to figure out the meaning of the dream, and was able to come to terms with things (that you can’t save everyone) after realizing what the dream meant. You never have to deal with things on your own
I am so glad I chose electrical engineering over nursing in college. I get paid to telework and travel the world whenever I want. Work is very low stress, pays extremely well, and plenty of balance.
17 years as a nurse. Mostly ICU. Between critical care and Covid, I’ve had to take a sabbatical. I’ve been in management during Covid with onboarding new nurses and it has broken me.
I work in a level 2 trauma center and i have trauma stress dreams if i work a few nights in a row but i don't think it affects my care because i enjoy coming to work and get excited when we get crazy calls haha!
I had to deal with a lot of violent patients on my unit and it was exhausting for me and it was constant. They were making the patients males only and it would just increase my burnout and just dealing with anxiety and dreading going to work because it’s not what I signed up for. At the time, trying to figure out what exactly I want in my career and what would be a better fit.
Ronald Harris Did you find something because I'm ready to quit because of experiencing exactly what you said. I was assaulted by a patient a few months ago and I'm done. I don't know what to do but I'm dreading my job. I can't sleep, I'm having panic attacks. I need to get out.
I take emergencies really well. I don’t mind the job or difficult people. It’s weird. It’s the excessive pressure that administration places on us. The amount of work we have to complete without proper tools. We are blamed for things we have no control over. That’s what gets me.
When I saw my first code, I couldnt sleep for days. For days after the code I couldnt sleep and when I did eventually fall asleep I would dream about it. I still think about it and the pt everyday. Unfortunately he didn't make it and when I saw his obituary I cried. Luckily for me my coworkers were amazing and there to talk with me if I needed it.
I know this is off topic Ash, but besides hand washing and getting the flu shot, what else are you doing (if anything) to protect yourself from contracting this seasons deadly flu? Maybe a new video about the Flu, from a nurses perspective? Thanks!
I first encounteree nurses at the age of 15 in 1969 They contributed to a large degree to my own PTSD If you think you have PTSD I have zero sympathy for you
I just started in ICU (from a med-surg floor) a couple of weeks ago and they had a terrible code right before shift change last week. A young man went into DIC, they coded him for 30 minutes with mass transfusions but couldn’t save him in the end :(. Multiple staff were upset, and when they came back the next day said they did have a hard time sleeping or that they went home and cried for hours. Our jobs can be so stressful and I don’t think many people realize that it does stick with you, having to deal with things like that over and over. Thank you for posting this video
Shannon File I think that affects women more than men
@@davidgourpage I refuse to go back into nursing and am going back to school to be a MLT
Totally agree! I've been a nurse for almost 9 years, and I work Labor and Delivery. Most days, I absolutely love it! Everyone always tells me "I have the best job", and "I work in the happiest place in the hospital." Which I do agree with. But it can be scary, and when it is it's VERY scary. And when it's sad, it's devastatingly sad. I remember every mom who I've had to send home with empty arms, and my twin mama who almost didn't make it home with her babies, and those babies born too soon--too tiny and frail to survive more than minutes or hours, or those whose little bodies didn't form correctly and cannot function this side of the womb, and many more I don't have room to list. I remember names and dates. I wonder about them often. Sometimes we hear updates from patients and their families, most of the time we do not. Nursing is not for the faint of spirit. Our profession is just as emotionally taxing as it is physically and mentally taxing. Thank you for sharing this video! ❤
Thank you for this video, I'm a veteran, a paramedic, and I'm about to graduate from nursing school. PTSD and healthcare definitely needs to be brought up more often!!!
The emotional side of Nursing is the hardest but also the most rewarding!
Yes nursing is definitely a stressful job, mentally and physically. You truly don’t understand it unless you’re a nurse. I have patients I still think about (and even dream about) to this day also. I think it’s important to have an outlet, like a friend or family member to talk to! Thankfully I have not seen anything too traumatic yet, but I’ve only been a nurse for 2 years. I know the day will probably come within my career. I think it does for every nurse. Thanks for the video! :)
Being a pediatric ICU nurse, I have seen some very traumatic and depressing situations that most people would never even imagine experiencing. I still can see the faces of patients I have lost years later. I don’t know if it’s PTSD per say but definitely still having flash backs and struggling with the emotions of now being a new mom and trying to picture those scenarios and being afraid of those things happening to my own child.
You put this into words SO WELL. I think this is something that is SO important to talk about since I don't think they really prepared you or warned you about this in nursing school. I really think they need to provide some kind of mental health prep and outlets in both nursing school and and your workplace.
I was a respiratory therapist in pediatric ICU/adult ICU. I wish as a student, we had a day talking about ptsd and how to cope with patients' deaths. Peds was rough. Many children who died were in the hands of their trusted parents.
This is NOT talked about enough.
I was talking to our Hospice nurses about a patient we lost about six months ago. I still remember this gentleman. He was a WWII veteran.
This evening, I was with one of our hospitalized veterans in the MICU. He has been in a coma for over a year. (long story) This afternoon I was helping out in our VA Spinal Cord Injury Ward.
My hat is off to our nurses that do this full-time. As a VA Volunteer and retired soldier, I am taken back by everything I see in a real life Hospital environment.
This is so so so important to talk about. I feel that this topic often gets overlooked or ignored, but as nurses we shouldn’t have to put our emotions on the back burner all the time. It certainly isn’t a glamorous profession, and it isn’t for the weak of heart. Even the strongest people still have feelings and I’m so happy you addressed this.
honestly i’m
being burnt out and have ptsd from it. i want to get a desk job away from patient care and call it a day. i loved my job but with serious lack of support and heavy patient load, it was too much for me and my body and i suffered tremendously. hospital bedside nursing is not for every nurse.
I have seen so many loved ones in healthcare and classmates struggle with things they have seen or from the overwhelming stress that can come with healthcare professions.
Thank you so much for talking about this! It is so important and hopefully the more we talk about it the more people will realize they are not alone and that everyone feels like this at some point or another.
I cry for myself who didnt have social support while being a nurse for nearly a decade 💔 i was young i didnt know how to ask for help
So glad that you younger nurses are talking about this! Awesome.
We do get immune in the stuff we see, but it is true that a lot of things can have an effect on us daily. Not overthinking the things and having a healthy outlet is right. Should be a research topic in the field. Lots of people never talk about this situation. Good video though
Thanks so much for talking about this. I’m still a new nurse + I feel no one in nursing school talks about how certain things you see will stick with you!! Or how they may affect your mental health. I had my first death a couple months into being a nurse (a stillborn) and for the first couple nights after my shift I had terrible nightmares about what I saw. I don’t think it was a PTSD thing and I wasn’t left with anxiety or anything like that because of it, I still adore my job and love coming in and I don’t fear facing the situation again!! but the images, scents, everything said, I feel will forever stick with me and I’ll never forget the nightmare I had that night. It helped me to talk about my nightmare and feelings with a loved one :) I was able to figure out the meaning of the dream, and was able to come to terms with things (that you can’t save everyone) after realizing what the dream meant. You never have to deal with things on your own
Thank you for making this video❤this is such an important topic.
I am so glad I chose electrical engineering over nursing in college.
I get paid to telework and travel the world whenever I want.
Work is very low stress, pays extremely well, and plenty of balance.
I have definate PTSD from nursing school and really have no desire to go back for my BSN right now.
I’m about to go into the ADN program :/ nursing sounds really hard and stressful. Oh what did I get myself into
17 years as a nurse. Mostly ICU. Between critical care and Covid, I’ve had to take a sabbatical. I’ve been in management during Covid with onboarding new nurses and it has broken me.
Not a lot of people talk about, thank you for sharing
I love that you made this video, I think Its really important.
I work in a level 2 trauma center and i have trauma stress dreams if i work a few nights in a row but i don't think it affects my care because i enjoy coming to work and get excited when we get crazy calls haha!
I had to deal with a lot of violent patients on my unit and it was exhausting for me and it was constant. They were making the patients males only and it would just increase my burnout and just dealing with anxiety and dreading going to work because it’s not what I signed up for. At the time, trying to figure out what exactly I want in my career and what would be a better fit.
Ronald Harris Did you find something because I'm ready to quit because of experiencing exactly what you said. I was assaulted by a patient a few months ago and I'm done. I don't know what to do but I'm dreading my job. I can't sleep, I'm having panic attacks. I need to get out.
Ronald Harris do you work for the VA?
Thanks a lot for making these videos! They are very informative!!
I take emergencies really well. I don’t mind the job or difficult people. It’s weird. It’s the excessive pressure that administration places on us. The amount of work we have to complete without proper tools. We are blamed for things we have no control over. That’s what gets me.
When I saw my first code, I couldnt sleep for days. For days after the code I couldnt sleep and when I did eventually fall asleep I would dream about it. I still think about it and the pt everyday. Unfortunately he didn't make it and when I saw his obituary I cried. Luckily for me my coworkers were amazing and there to talk with me if I needed it.
What a great message, ps. Is that a MN Vikings T-shirt that you’re wearing?!?!
The sounds and smells are the worst triggers.
didn't you think that ptsd for nurse is a burn out ? you think there are differences between a PTSD & burnout ?
Remy Guillon I thought burning out was just getting tired- too much activity and not enough rest.
I know this is off topic Ash, but besides hand washing and getting the flu shot, what else are you doing (if anything) to protect yourself from contracting this seasons deadly flu?
Maybe a new video about the Flu, from a nurses perspective?
Thanks!
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I first encounteree nurses at the age of 15 in 1969
They contributed to a large degree to my own PTSD
If you think you have PTSD I have zero sympathy for you
Well, what’s your story then? I promise you I have legitimate PTSD from the things I’ve seen, but I want to understand what we did to you.