I once had a patient on a psych ward who thought that I was her Aunt. She would call me Auntie V everyday. One day her Aunt V came to visit her and I saw the reason: the lady looked like me. We are in no way related. There is a saying that everyone has a twin; I believe it. I had another patient on that same psych ward who noticed when I stopped wearing my wedding ring after my divorce. One day she could not keep herself anymore from wondering, so she asked me, about my wedding ring. This touch my heart and made my day. My patient cared about what was happening in my life...this is why I do nursing.❤❤
I honestly think that nurses and CNA’s deserve to get paid a lot more. I was a CNA for three years and I saw a lot of stuff and I was just in a nursing home. Couldn’t imagine what you see in the hospital.
Yep and sometimes feels like we do a lot more too. Even the nurses end up doing more or most if the docs stuff (stuff they can pass on to nurses who are qualified obviously)...
Don’t nurses do the majority of the work? Every time I got to the hospital I see the doctor for maybe 5min,.. the rest of the time it’s the nurses. So I don’t understand why they don’t get paid the same if not more than the Doctors
@@reneegabbard6437 yes nurses usually tend to do more work than the doctors. The CNA’s do more work than the nurses. It just depends on where you’re at. I can a nursing home setting CNA‘s definitely do a lot more work than the nurses do at least with what I’ve seen. I am used to work with nurses that would come in and say oh this resident needs a drink and I would have to stop what I was doing and go get a drink for them because the nurse just couldn’t take five seconds to go do that.
Girl, I actually screamed ‘WHAT THE F**K!!’ when the woman was forced to work during a miscarriage. I yelled so loud that I scared myself and probably woke the neighbors.
I'm not in health care, but have a chronic illness and spent a good part of my adolescence in and out of hospitals. I can attest crazy stuff happens especially after they moved me out of peds to the adult unit. 💀 Grateful for all the good Healthcare workers out there.
I BEG YOUR BIGGEST PARDON. 😂 THIS IS MY NEW FAVORITE PODCAST. I WAS NEVER A NURSE. BUT I HAVE BEEN A HOUSEKEEPER IN A HOSPITAL FOR MANY YEARS. AND I CAN SAY. NURSES DONT GET PAID ENOUGH. AND NEVER A SHORTAGE OF CRAZY STORIES. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I enjoyed your podcast NurseJohnn. Fellow RN from US with 30 years in. I have witnessed events stranger than fiction. You're not joking. Thanks for the talk therapy. Everyone keep your sense of humor.
Listened to this with a homemade latte. Starting my week off with nurse John! I'm not a nurse but I study disease ecology (even before the pandemic). I know how much the problems in health related fields have been further exacerbated by the pandemic. Definitely thankful to learn and understand what its like for nurses, nursing assistants, anyone serving us in the medical world! Thankful for all of you!
Omg thank you so much John for all that you do. You are a voice for all of us. After 31 years in the field that I absolutely love it was time to take care of myself. Please please please keep doing what you are doing!! It is so important. I only wish this was available 31 years ago when I graduated. Love you so so so much!! ❤❤❤
Hi Nurse John, I am learning to become a Medical Assistant (MA) and I have been watching you for further encouragement as I embark on this new journey. Thank you!
I am retired from my profession in health care. My heart goes out to all nurses and CNAs in all countries who go through so much just to care for us when we are in their hands! And these stories ring so true-all the crazy stuff that goes on!
I want you to know when I've ever go to hospital I always always say a great big thank you to all the nurses that have took care of me when I've had operation etc... I know they have it hard and I'm ways talk nicely to them so I do understand ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I end up in the hospital quite often & I really try to be patient and kind with my nurses , no matter what I’m going thru… y’all deserve so much better
Omg your intro, you have no idea how much I needed to hear that. SELF CARE; mental care. Having issues at work currently with the new HR and lazy and lying scheduler! Trying to transfer to a deff facility. Thanks John! 🙏🙏
hi John!!! I’m 21 y.o med student in a family full of sUccEsS doctors. I feel myself empty sad and destroyed by their meanings about me. Maybe I’m not doing study very well like them: like-- im not a genius, I’m not on that pace, speed in the education in medical terms. But I’m really trying my best and it’s hard. And hearing your healing words of support, topics about nursing & life, makes my really hard days a little bit lighter and brighter. Thank you so much, nurseJohnn. I send a virtual hugs for you and everyone who struggled with a hard things in their lives. 🤲🏻🤍 sorry for my English. his not my first language…
Oh my goodness!!! My mom was a nurse for 43 years, she had sooooooo many stories!!!!! My dad was a HCT in admissions and he had crazy stories, also! They both worked at Broughton Hospital, a psychiatric hospital for the mentally and criminally insane.
the intro advice got me. I've been trying to heal since 2017. it's just the struggle to find a job that i can trust. I've been betrayed big time by a company that i had been with for 8yrs and seen its growth. that was 2017 yes..from time to time i had contractual jobs only. & fam don't like it. idk if im healing or if im traumatized but as filo need to go on even if i dont feel good with the contract work that is offer just to bring money on the table. no one cares, bcoz we got our own struggles. listening to your podcast is like you taping my back for being able to be still here.
i love this podcast! it is helping me a lot. i'm generally afraid of nurses and doctors. i'll share my story but a trigger warning for poor medical practice, and the issues us, bit chubbier women, face when going to the doctor. Im from an eastern european country, where the beauty standard for women is being as thin as possible, as underweight as possible without it affecting your health too much, should i say, i've always been bigger, not obese but defenetly abit overweight. My family made my life hell for it growing up, always took me to every doctor in our city to look at me and figure out what was 'wrong' with me. I've had doctors of both genders poke me everywhere, telling me that i stink because i'm so fat, even got ''diagnosed'' with obesity (i was never obese, i was at most 5-10kg overweight) by multple doctors and nurses were always rude to me, always felt like they didn't believe me with anything,always felt that they were rough when administering medicine and other things (i was hospitalized a couple of times because of, mostly male, doctors insisitng it was needed because of my weight???). I had this male doctor poke my cheek and diagnose me with obesity because it jiggled and that im abnormal. I have been living in the uk for 7 years now, seen doctors here that helped me, diagnosed me with pcos, the source of my struggles with weight and other issues, I've found out that Im autistic aswell, which explains alot of those ''diagnoses'' doctors back then gave me (i have plently, just none made in a professional way) . Those people back then, the doctors, nurses, and my family instilled in me a fear of medical staff. I've been fighting eating disorders because of them my whole life since. But I know that good people are out there and it takes a big heart to work in the medical field. This podcast is helping me alot in my own way to process and even maybe forgive those horrible doctors and nurses I had to deal with. -- another story i have, maybe more related to working in a medical place. last year I worked in a care home, as a house keeper. I thought I could manage it, but I should have known better. I love helping people, I was completely ok with helping residents with their space, helping them clear clutter, getting them fresh bedsheets, I know it helps alot with someones mental health if their space is clean. Before then I worked as a hotel house keeper and I never felt satisfied, I wanted to help people in a more meaningful way. I understood what working in a care home entails, I understood that the residents have varying issues and that it would be difficult sometimes but I wanted to explore this opportunity. First bad sign for me was that the nurses always looked down on us, the cleaning staff, which did not help with my own issues and fears. Sharing the lunch/break rooms with them always felt bad, they made no effort to at least conceal their dislike for us. Very blunt, would not even return the ''hello'' when one of us entered the room trying to be polite and just take our break. On my 3rd day I was asked to go and vacuum a room on the dementia floor. I went there (alone, as we were understaffed that day, and the veteran housekeepers chose to do ''the laundry'' which was just them sitting around a washing machine talking), they used ''being understaffed'' as justification. Being autistic, I simply didn't see the bigger picture and i often assume people are honest and take it at face value. Anyway I get to the room, and the patient is there, sitting on the egde of her bed, it was an elderly woman, maybe 75+, she was crying about wanting to go home to her family, and not wanting to be there. As per my training, I have to ask the resident of the room if it is ok for me to come and clean it, and clearly communicate what I would be doing, get their consent etc. She told me she didn't want me to clean her room, and she didn't want to listen to the vacuum, she wanted her nurse to tell her when her family would visit. I respected her wishes, I took a glance at the room from the door and the room didn't really even need cleaned or even vacuumed, it was a fine room. I left to find her nurse, again, I have trouble not taking things at face value, and I also wanted to help her, it wasn't my job or responsability to find her nurse but here I was. It wasn't too hard but the nurse was really rude to me and told me to ignore her because this is the dementia floor and the residents here often have these outlandish requests. I had trouble understanding, how the old woman's request was outlandish, but I left it at that. I had other rooms to clean and I was pretty much having to do it alone as I said before. At the end of the day I'm giving my report to management, we had to report what rooms had been cleaned that day etc etc. I told her and she asked me why I hadn't done that elderly woman's room. In my report I wrote down what the elderly woman said to me, but I, again didn't understand her tone or intention. So I repeated it. Repeated that during training I was told the resident's consent is crucial to me cleaning their room and the old woman did not give me hers etc etc The manager screamed at me over it, and told me that on the dementia floor it doesn't matter, the rooms on that floor have to be cleaned daily. I understood this but I told her that's why I checked the room from the door and it looked clean. But the manager wouldn't have it, she didn't even want to go check the room herself or anything. She just screamed at me and told me it's unacceptable. That was before my weekend. I came home and sat on the floor and shut down for most of the day. Between the nurses being mean to me triggering all this trauma I never even processed, Feeling bad about management asking me to ignore resident's consent, feeling bad for that poor old woman, and just thinking of eveyrthing else I had seen that day, especially on the dementia floor, I walked in the next Monday with my uniform folded in my hands, I sat it on the manager's desk and I walked out, my autism preveneted me from making myself very clear but I think it was clear enough and I was done. I wanted to help people feel better, not ignore their wishes for the sake of vacuuming a room that didn't even need it, making them feel worse. My old job took me back no questions asked. This podcast is helping me see the good in medical staff, like I said, I fully believe it takes a big kind heart to be in the medical field, I've just had bad luck it seems.
I’m here binge watching all your episodes after spending 4 days in the hospital after a partial gastrectomy! (And I’ve been to over 100 doctor’s appointments a year for the past 4 years lol I basically live in healthcare😂) And I just have to say, nurses deserve SO MUCH more money! My nurses were absolutely incredible! The hospital I went to is in the top 250 hospitals in the country so they were actually fully staffed which was amazing and I know they’re probably at least decently paid there, but still!! Those women were effing GODSENDS!😭 so I’m here watching out of solidarity lol. I love hearing all of these stories, so thank you for doing this podcast to show some insight into the world of nursing and healthcare. We appreciate you so much!!❤️❤️ Also, I was NPO for the first 24 hours after my surgery lol and I was fine, that patient was DRAMATIC😳😮💨😂😂
I'm not in nursing, but now I understand the vids about the patients in the ceiling. 😂 I'm honestly glad I didn't go into medicine because WOW. Y'all are holding it down out here. 🙏👩⚕️🧑⚕️
Full time SOLO caretaker for grandma with severe dementia. I have to say a lot of my vet nursing skills are transferable with the biting, scratching, and poop. She's essentially a feral cat.
@@divajammarmar3484 wishing you the absolute best!❤️ I know it’s hard out here for us chronic illness spoonies lol. At least we have Nurse John to keep us company!!
Dang 😵💫😳🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 by the way, Purwick not so good bc the container is not sturdy and not strong enough to keep in the scent of urnie. It supposed to be good even for home use but if patient doesn't have steady hands, it will be hard for them to maintain & clean
Nurse John you crack me up!😅 I look forward to your podcast every Friday! Current CNA who graduated in 2021 trying to pass this NCLEX! It’s a struggle! 🙋🏻♀️
Trust me when I tell you all, full moon working a psych ward is a whole other level. Plus we don't have security, we are the security ... because we're nurses, we're expected to fix everything!! Our only option for support is to phone the police, but that may trigger other patients and if the police take your patient you're expected to send a staff member as an escort so you're a full staff member down all damn shift... so we seldom call them and just have to handle it. Some times we scrape through a shift on nothing more than Lorazepam, haloperidol in addition to hopes and dreams.... restraint is avoided at all costs but I for one have spend hours of a night shift laid on the floor in restraint with a very unwell patient just to keep them safe from themselves. We laugh so we don't cry.
Some families don’t have such close contact… so it’s not a surprise that you might not know, especially if it was sudden, that your grandfather was even in the hospital (I rarely answer my phone at work unless it’s a text, and y’all know how long and busy nurses shifts are) so like someone may have tried to call him and he didn’t answer or maybe nobody even knew in the family if it was an emergency and he didn’t have like a phone with emergency contacts on him or whatever. Side tangent, we had a guy have a seizure at work and it took us an hour to deal with the police and medics and then to try and find his emergency contact info in our work system… so if he had a heart attack or something like while out shopping or even while like home alone or whatever it could’ve been awhile before someone found out who to call and he could’ve been gone already by the time anyone was informed. Especially if it wasn’t the unit he was on, which I think she said was MedSurg so definitely not ER, Trauma, or Crit Care so good chance it wasn’t one of the patients he was working with in that scenario.
What I always try to remember is: IF I act outside of my protocols/procedures to "go the extra mile" and it goes south, with possible issues caused for the hospital/healthcare system etc, will they stand up for me in a legal forum. 10/10 the answer is NO. Make sure you KNOW and can access polices/procedures. Get copies of them off the drive immediately if something out of the ordinary comes up. This has saved me more than one time.
I guess, I should also share a story that happened at my workplace. (This happened during the day shift, when my colleague was on duty) One of the residents complained that she was experiencing bowel movement difficulties. So, my colleague inserted a suppository, and gave her lactulose syrup and sennosides to help her pass motion. Later that evening (during night shift), she complained of abdominal pain. So, instead of alerting the nurses/the care staff, she used her own phone (yes, she has her own phone that her children gave to her) to call the POLICE. 😂 And guess what, the police came and after some discussion, police came up to the ward to talk to the resident. Resident explained that she was abdominal pain, and hence called the police. 😅 After hearing this, the police went like, "...Huh...???" The police then explained to her that if she was having any issues, she can always alert the nurses. Resident heard this and said, "Orh.", then went back to sleep... 🤣
I’m a recent widow 37 with 3 small kids my husband was in ICU with liver disease and on life support I let my kids say hi to there father and that they love him over the phone about an hour later of being there I was ask to go get food cause he needed Dialysis i walked out of the room and this nurse whispered to me he was waiting for you I was puzzled cause I’ve never had seen this nurse before cause his passing was so quickly and sudden as soon as I made it outside I received that call that changed my life after they let me say my goodbyes to him his icu nurse came inside the room to give me his personal belongings i was so shocked I asked her how she knew she grabbed my hand n told me patients usually hold on for some reason! My question why didn’t the doctors and nurses let me know he was on his last breaths 😢yes he was on life support but if they felt he waited till I came to pass why was I asked to leave for dialysis did he wanna pass alone ? 😢
I was eating a banana for breakfast 😂 uhm, I BEG YOUR P A R D O N. LOVE YOU, BOO. KEEP DOING YOU! These stories are crazy but funny. I had a girlfriend nurse from the VA & I didn't understand why she started drama, I DO NOW 😅😅😅
8:42 If someone is telling you that you are “abandoning” something because you have to take care of something in your personal life, you should remind them that a drowning person cannot help another drowning swim- if you yourself or a family member are having an active crisis event, how in the world would anyone think you would even be worried about anybody else?
What's shocking is that I think my mom told me something or so about a patient coding when she use to work at another hospital😧. It's always stories for days when my mom comes home from working in hospitals and/or healthcare units😂😂. Also, my mom works at the VA and boy... She has stories for days from there too😂😂! Weird ones, funny ones, crazy one and just in general. It's a joy whenever I ask my mom how work went and she goes "Chile😧😮💨!"😂. I already know she's about to tell me the crazy time she had😂😂. I'm over here saying "Oh boy. What happen this time👀😂?" It's the best😂. But yeah. These things aren't a joke. I should know personally from a very young experience. I won't go into detail. But it was something only I think I saw alone, but still remember vividly til this day. Other than that. The way you put your short videos. You can't help BUT laugh😂😂💖!
Hoy trabaje casi 12 horas de corrido, I'm pampering myself and me estoy comiendo un elote (choclo) con queso y picante y una libra de uvas. Me voy a poner la funda de agua caliente en la cintura y voy a ver una peliculita y de seguro me voy a quedar muerta a los primeros 30 minutos...pero me doy por complacida.
I have been a veteran nurse for 35 years as an LPN. I have many MANY STORIES. I could write a book. Here are two that are my favorite. When I was in clinical rotation, we always watched one, do one, demo one. The day before, my professor showed me how to do trach care. So this was my day to do one. My teacher decided to make one of my fellow nurses watch me. So I was on one side of the bed. My colleague was on the other side. My professor was at the end of the bed watching. So I am doing care, and I was at the end, and I needed to suction him as my last step. I went down, and of course, he started coughing. All of a sudden, he coughed up a mucous plug, and it flew out and directly on the top of my professor's head. My professor vomited and left, and as she walked out, she said class is dismissed leave now. To this day.. I can handle vomit, crap, blood, and every nasty wound, etc. BUT!! I can not ever deal with sputum. I will gag every time. Anything. With spit is just automatic gagging. I have to cover the canister of sputum on the wall to change it. Or I will puke. Sooo gross! 😂😂 My second story, again it was my very first job out of nursing school. I had a very serious IV drug user. He had injected in his right arm so much he had like an opening, and it had become seriously infected, and it was full of pustulate. This butt head of a doctor who looked down on me because I was a "green" nurse. He grabbed me and said, "Get the patient ready. I am going to do a bedside I&D" So I did just that. I put out a gown, gloves, face shield, surgical hat, and booties. I put my set on and the doctor walked in and literally laughed at me in full gear. He said , " Isn't that like overkill?" I just said that you should always protect yourself. I pointed to his set of PPE. He grabbed just the gloves and said that was all he would need. He took off his suit jacket.. yes, I said suit!! So he is explaining and numbing him, etc. So he cuts this abscess open, and it literally drains every gross color out. It smelled like death! I have never seen so much pus and just infected debris. It finally gets to the end, and the Dr. He wants to clean out the huge cavity before he packs it. He asks me for a 60 cc syringe of full strength peroxide. So I drew it up and handed it to him, and he said make another as he was using the one I handed him. So I do a second one. About half way of the first, he shoots it in this cavity and holds it down with his hand and grabs the second, and does the same. He holds it like 3 minutes and he let's go and the pressure behind his hand was soooo great. The fluid sprayed EVERYWHERE! WALLS, CURTAINS, CEILINGS, PATIENT AND ALL OVER ME AND ALL OVER THE DR. because he lifted his hand so the opening was towards his face, and he wanted to look at it. Yep!! You guessed it. All over his face, eyes, mouth, hair, and suit everywhere on this doctor. The patient started laughing so hard, and he told the doctor. Who the ass now and don't ya wish you overkilled it? As he the PPE on the end off the bed off the bed. So now I have to call the hazmat team to come and decontaminate the room. I put the patient in the shower and cleaned him up. Packed his wound and then doffed off my PPE. I left the room. About 2 hours later, the Dr came back to the unit in hospital scrubs, and you can tell he showered, and he handed me a huge vase of flowers. He said sorry. Then he wrote to do every test in the book. HIV, Hepatitis etc. On the patient. Unfortunately, our patient had HIV and Hepatitis A. I never got it, I can't say that for the Dr. He died about 2 years later with full-blown aides. The hospital denied his workers comp claim because he failed to do the correct procedure.
The charge nurse, literally threw her fellow nurse under the bus and she endured sexual and physical abuse. Some women, just really shock the hell out of me. 😐
As a nurse always make sure your back is towards the door in case you need to escape. Patients can never be trusted. They might be sweet one minute but the next minute they could be psycho killers😂
Oh my God, in such a short period of time i have learned to love you so much !!! Like i want to meet you in real life and give you a hug and ask for a picture together 🤣 yes, i am crazy and my place is also in the psycho unit, next to Mr Smith. Love you !!! Greetings from France ❤
Haha I also have a story. So I was working in a OCD unit. Three patients decided to go for burgers. The girl was bolemic + self harming compulsion, Guy 1 had obsessive thoughts generally, Guy 2 had obsessive thoughts on sexual interaction and was completely disgusted about anything sexual. So....these three decided to go for burger....they went there by taxi. The burger restaurants was located next to a strip club. Guy 2 did not want to get out of that taxi, and when forced smashed Guy 1 in the face and made a run for it. The sight of the strip club was just too much for him and felt dirty just by seeing it. Guy 1 ran after him trying to get him back. The girl just was so done with the whole situation and got five burgers on her own, because of her eating disorder she vomited it all out again though. So.....about 6 hours later all three arrived back at the ward, Guy1 with a black eye carrying a sleeping guy 2 who was missing his shoe and the girl with vomit all over her eating her take away burger. What a sight I tell you. They all got into serious trouble for this escapade.
I am not a nurse. I would blame myself too much n I get attached to ppl. I'm prior military. So I know a little of the security side I've worked as a security guard also. I wish there was more help to give back to nurses b/c they do so much.
I've tried not to be that patient, some of the medical personnel as patients can be a pain. They want to challenge you and the families that want mess with their Iv's .😮😮 . I so enjoyed listening . Those short stories, omg to funny.
Me: Sir. What are you doing? Them: Eating chip. ( Don't see any chips anywhere.) Me: are they invisible? Them: no..... Me: ................... Them: want one? Me: !!!!!! Nooooooooo thank you. ( I slowly walking away.) Me: enjoy your chips. ( They pop in another invisible chip in the mouth an chew.) ..............My brain hurts............😅😅😅😅😅 Makes me love being a CNA sometimes cuz of moments like this. However..... After this the same patient was saying they need to get off this moon. I asked if they would share the invisible mushrooms they are now eating. They said no. I was sad. Lol😂
Purewick is only good if the patient cooperates and does not keep on moving. I used this on women patients who are so weak and had to take diuretics and at night so they can sleep.
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I once had a patient on a psych ward who thought that I was her Aunt. She would call me Auntie V everyday. One day her Aunt V came to visit her and I saw the reason: the lady looked like me. We are in no way related. There is a saying that everyone has a twin; I believe it.
I had another patient on that same psych ward who noticed when I stopped wearing my wedding ring after my divorce. One day she could not keep herself anymore from wondering, so she asked me, about my wedding ring. This touch my heart and made my day. My patient cared about what was happening in my life...this is why I do nursing.❤❤
Thank you for sharing.
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I honestly think that nurses and CNA’s deserve to get paid a lot more. I was a CNA for three years and I saw a lot of stuff and I was just in a nursing home. Couldn’t imagine what you see in the hospital.
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Yep and sometimes feels like we do a lot more too. Even the nurses end up doing more or most if the docs stuff (stuff they can pass on to nurses who are qualified obviously)...
Don’t nurses do the majority of the work? Every time I got to the hospital I see the doctor for maybe 5min,.. the rest of the time it’s the nurses. So I don’t understand why they don’t get paid the same if not more than the Doctors
@@reneegabbard6437 yes nurses usually tend to do more work than the doctors. The CNA’s do more work than the nurses. It just depends on where you’re at. I can a nursing home setting CNA‘s definitely do a lot more work than the nurses do at least with what I’ve seen. I am used to work with nurses that would come in and say oh this resident needs a drink and I would have to stop what I was doing and go get a drink for them because the nurse just couldn’t take five seconds to go do that.
@@reneegabbard6437 yep... Agreed. Fact
Girl, I actually screamed ‘WHAT THE F**K!!’ when the woman was forced to work during a miscarriage. I yelled so loud that I scared myself and probably woke the neighbors.
The part where you said “it’s not your job to impress your unit” touched my SOUL.
I'm not in health care, but have a chronic illness and spent a good part of my adolescence in and out of hospitals. I can attest crazy stuff happens especially after they moved me out of peds to the adult unit. 💀 Grateful for all the good Healthcare workers out there.
I BEG YOUR BIGGEST PARDON. 😂
THIS IS MY NEW FAVORITE PODCAST.
I WAS NEVER A NURSE. BUT I HAVE BEEN A HOUSEKEEPER IN A HOSPITAL FOR MANY YEARS. AND I CAN SAY. NURSES DONT GET PAID ENOUGH. AND NEVER A SHORTAGE OF CRAZY STORIES. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Housekeepers don’t get enough recognition!!!! Thank you for all you do ❤ I love y’all so much!! Love, a hospital CNA
I enjoyed your podcast NurseJohnn. Fellow RN from US with 30 years in. I have witnessed events stranger than fiction. You're not joking. Thanks for the talk therapy. Everyone keep your sense of humor.
My husband was an MD and he always had the most to to say about nurses. He always sail that they put up with so much. They are hero’s ❤
Thanks for this John you made my night. My daughter is a nurse and I have heard lots of stories.
Listened to this with a homemade latte. Starting my week off with nurse John! I'm not a nurse but I study disease ecology (even before the pandemic). I know how much the problems in health related fields have been further exacerbated by the pandemic. Definitely thankful to learn and understand what its like for nurses, nursing assistants, anyone serving us in the medical world! Thankful for all of you!
Omg thank you so much John for all that you do. You are a voice for all of us. After 31 years in the field that I absolutely love it was time to take care of myself. Please please please keep doing what you are doing!! It is so important. I only wish this was available 31 years ago when I graduated. Love you so so so much!! ❤❤❤
Hi Nurse John, I am learning to become a Medical Assistant (MA) and I have been watching you for further encouragement as I embark on this new journey. Thank you!
I am retired from my profession in health care. My heart goes out to all nurses and CNAs in all countries who go through so much just to care for us when we are in their hands! And these stories ring so true-all the crazy stuff that goes on!
It's 5:30 in Germany.I woke up at 5 to do my household before work. You're videos make me laugh and get awake. I watch each video many times
I bet nursing school was a blast with John. He should be an instructor.
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You are such a great nurse I am already a more hydrated person just listening to your podcast! Thank you!
I wish Johnn had been around as a mentor when I was a young new nurse. We all need it. Great nurse ❤️❤️❤️🙋🏻♀️
I want you to know when I've ever go to hospital I always always say a great big thank you to all the nurses that have took care of me when I've had operation etc... I know they have it hard and I'm ways talk nicely to them so I do understand ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I end up in the hospital quite often & I really try to be patient and kind with my nurses , no matter what I’m going thru… y’all deserve so much better
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😂😂😂 I love this 😂😂😂
I am not a nurse, I’m an accountant, but I absolutely love your podcast!!
Omg your intro, you have no idea how much I needed to hear that. SELF CARE; mental care. Having issues at work currently with the new HR and lazy and lying scheduler! Trying to transfer to a deff facility. Thanks John! 🙏🙏
God Bless You ❤ Thanks for everything you do.
hi John!!! I’m 21 y.o med student in a family full of sUccEsS doctors. I feel myself empty sad and destroyed by their meanings about me. Maybe I’m not doing study very well like them: like-- im not a genius, I’m not on that pace, speed in the education in medical terms. But I’m really trying my best and it’s hard.
And hearing your healing words of support, topics about nursing & life, makes my really hard days a little bit lighter and brighter.
Thank you so much, nurseJohnn. I send a virtual hugs for you and everyone who struggled with a hard things in their lives. 🤲🏻🤍
sorry for my English. his not my first language…
Oh my goodness!!! My mom was a nurse for 43 years, she had sooooooo many stories!!!!! My dad was a HCT in admissions and he had crazy stories, also! They both worked at Broughton Hospital, a psychiatric hospital for the mentally and criminally insane.
the intro advice got me. I've been trying to heal since 2017. it's just the struggle to find a job that i can trust. I've been betrayed big time by a company that i had been with for 8yrs and seen its growth. that was 2017 yes..from time to time i had contractual jobs only. & fam don't like it. idk if im healing or if im traumatized but as filo need to go on even if i dont feel good with the contract work that is offer just to bring money on the table. no one cares, bcoz we got our own struggles. listening to your podcast is like you taping my back for being able to be still here.
i love this podcast! it is helping me a lot. i'm generally afraid of nurses and doctors.
i'll share my story but a trigger warning for poor medical practice, and the issues us, bit chubbier women, face when going to the doctor.
Im from an eastern european country, where the beauty standard for women is being as thin as possible, as underweight as possible without it affecting your health too much, should i say, i've always been bigger, not obese but defenetly abit overweight. My family made my life hell for it growing up, always took me to every doctor in our city to look at me and figure out what was 'wrong' with me. I've had doctors of both genders poke me everywhere, telling me that i stink because i'm so fat, even got ''diagnosed'' with obesity (i was never obese, i was at most 5-10kg overweight) by multple doctors and nurses were always rude to me, always felt like they didn't believe me with anything,always felt that they were rough when administering medicine and other things (i was hospitalized a couple of times because of, mostly male, doctors insisitng it was needed because of my weight???). I had this male doctor poke my cheek and diagnose me with obesity because it jiggled and that im abnormal.
I have been living in the uk for 7 years now, seen doctors here that helped me, diagnosed me with pcos, the source of my struggles with weight and other issues, I've found out that Im autistic aswell, which explains alot of those ''diagnoses'' doctors back then gave me (i have plently, just none made in a professional way) . Those people back then, the doctors, nurses, and my family instilled in me a fear of medical staff. I've been fighting eating disorders because of them my whole life since. But I know that good people are out there and it takes a big heart to work in the medical field. This podcast is helping me alot in my own way to process and even maybe forgive those horrible doctors and nurses I had to deal with.
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another story i have, maybe more related to working in a medical place.
last year I worked in a care home, as a house keeper. I thought I could manage it, but I should have known better. I love helping people, I was completely ok with helping residents with their space, helping them clear clutter, getting them fresh bedsheets, I know it helps alot with someones mental health if their space is clean. Before then I worked as a hotel house keeper and I never felt satisfied, I wanted to help people in a more meaningful way. I understood what working in a care home entails, I understood that the residents have varying issues and that it would be difficult sometimes but I wanted to explore this opportunity. First bad sign for me was that the nurses always looked down on us, the cleaning staff, which did not help with my own issues and fears. Sharing the lunch/break rooms with them always felt bad, they made no effort to at least conceal their dislike for us. Very blunt, would not even return the ''hello'' when one of us entered the room trying to be polite and just take our break.
On my 3rd day I was asked to go and vacuum a room on the dementia floor. I went there (alone, as we were understaffed that day, and the veteran housekeepers chose to do ''the laundry'' which was just them sitting around a washing machine talking), they used ''being understaffed'' as justification. Being autistic, I simply didn't see the bigger picture and i often assume people are honest and take it at face value. Anyway I get to the room, and the patient is there, sitting on the egde of her bed, it was an elderly woman, maybe 75+, she was crying about wanting to go home to her family, and not wanting to be there. As per my training, I have to ask the resident of the room if it is ok for me to come and clean it, and clearly communicate what I would be doing, get their consent etc. She told me she didn't want me to clean her room, and she didn't want to listen to the vacuum, she wanted her nurse to tell her when her family would visit. I respected her wishes, I took a glance at the room from the door and the room didn't really even need cleaned or even vacuumed, it was a fine room. I left to find her nurse, again, I have trouble not taking things at face value, and I also wanted to help her, it wasn't my job or responsability to find her nurse but here I was. It wasn't too hard but the nurse was really rude to me and told me to ignore her because this is the dementia floor and the residents here often have these outlandish requests. I had trouble understanding, how the old woman's request was outlandish, but I left it at that. I had other rooms to clean and I was pretty much having to do it alone as I said before.
At the end of the day I'm giving my report to management, we had to report what rooms had been cleaned that day etc etc. I told her and she asked me why I hadn't done that elderly woman's room. In my report I wrote down what the elderly woman said to me, but I, again didn't understand her tone or intention. So I repeated it. Repeated that during training I was told the resident's consent is crucial to me cleaning their room and the old woman did not give me hers etc etc The manager screamed at me over it, and told me that on the dementia floor it doesn't matter, the rooms on that floor have to be cleaned daily. I understood this but I told her that's why I checked the room from the door and it looked clean. But the manager wouldn't have it, she didn't even want to go check the room herself or anything. She just screamed at me and told me it's unacceptable. That was before my weekend. I came home and sat on the floor and shut down for most of the day. Between the nurses being mean to me triggering all this trauma I never even processed, Feeling bad about management asking me to ignore resident's consent, feeling bad for that poor old woman, and just thinking of eveyrthing else I had seen that day, especially on the dementia floor, I walked in the next Monday with my uniform folded in my hands, I sat it on the manager's desk and I walked out, my autism preveneted me from making myself very clear but I think it was clear enough and I was done. I wanted to help people feel better, not ignore their wishes for the sake of vacuuming a room that didn't even need it, making them feel worse. My old job took me back no questions asked.
This podcast is helping me see the good in medical staff, like I said, I fully believe it takes a big kind heart to be in the medical field, I've just had bad luck it seems.
I’m here binge watching all your episodes after spending 4 days in the hospital after a partial gastrectomy! (And I’ve been to over 100 doctor’s appointments a year for the past 4 years lol I basically live in healthcare😂) And I just have to say, nurses deserve SO MUCH more money! My nurses were absolutely incredible! The hospital I went to is in the top 250 hospitals in the country so they were actually fully staffed which was amazing and I know they’re probably at least decently paid there, but still!! Those women were effing GODSENDS!😭 so I’m here watching out of solidarity lol. I love hearing all of these stories, so thank you for doing this podcast to show some insight into the world of nursing and healthcare.
We appreciate you so much!!❤️❤️
Also, I was NPO for the first 24 hours after my surgery lol and I was fine, that patient was DRAMATIC😳😮💨😂😂
I'm not in nursing, but now I understand the vids about the patients in the ceiling. 😂 I'm honestly glad I didn't go into medicine because WOW. Y'all are holding it down out here. 🙏👩⚕️🧑⚕️
Full time SOLO caretaker for grandma with severe dementia. I have to say a lot of my vet nursing skills are transferable with the biting, scratching, and poop. She's essentially a feral cat.
Love your pod ❤️❤️❤️ I work in IT but nursing fascinates me
Thank you for your interest in what we do. Nursing is an interesting and rewarding job. I ❤it. There is never a dull moment.
12:10 I BEG YOUR BLEEEEPING HIGHEST PARDOOOOONNNN!!!! 😂😂😂 what the bleeeeep
Am I the only non-nurse enjoying and watching EVERYTHING Nurse John? Am I weird?!😅🤣
Nope! Me too bestie, I’m basically a full time patient lol so I’m “in healthcare” from the other side😅 that’s why I love this!😍
@@brittanysears9556 me too!😅😅
@@divajammarmar3484 wishing you the absolute best!❤️ I know it’s hard out here for us chronic illness spoonies lol. At least we have Nurse John to keep us company!!
This is my favorite podcast even tho i am not a nurse I love love love listening to you 🥹 pls you make me wanna enter nursing school
Do it. Nursing is a rewarding career.❤
This is great🙌🔥
Great podcast! ❤
Dang 😵💫😳🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 by the way, Purwick not so good bc the container is not sturdy and not strong enough to keep in the scent of urnie. It supposed to be good even for home use but if patient doesn't have steady hands, it will be hard for them to maintain & clean
Thank you for your podcast!! And all your short videos. I really enjoy them !! ❤❤❤ love u nurse johnn
i’ve been really fucking depressed lately but this podcast has been keeping me distracted from that fact. thank you. 💓
Nurse John you crack me up!😅 I look forward to your podcast every Friday! Current CNA who graduated in 2021 trying to pass this NCLEX! It’s a struggle! 🙋🏻♀️
Thank you it is genuinely now part of my weekly therapy
Trust me when I tell you all, full moon working a psych ward is a whole other level. Plus we don't have security, we are the security ... because we're nurses, we're expected to fix everything!! Our only option for support is to phone the police, but that may trigger other patients and if the police take your patient you're expected to send a staff member as an escort so you're a full staff member down all damn shift... so we seldom call them and just have to handle it.
Some times we scrape through a shift on nothing more than Lorazepam, haloperidol in addition to hopes and dreams.... restraint is avoided at all costs but I for one have spend hours of a night shift laid on the floor in restraint with a very unwell patient just to keep them safe from themselves.
We laugh so we don't cry.
Some families don’t have such close contact… so it’s not a surprise that you might not know, especially if it was sudden, that your grandfather was even in the hospital (I rarely answer my phone at work unless it’s a text, and y’all know how long and busy nurses shifts are) so like someone may have tried to call him and he didn’t answer or maybe nobody even knew in the family if it was an emergency and he didn’t have like a phone with emergency contacts on him or whatever.
Side tangent, we had a guy have a seizure at work and it took us an hour to deal with the police and medics and then to try and find his emergency contact info in our work system… so if he had a heart attack or something like while out shopping or even while like home alone or whatever it could’ve been awhile before someone found out who to call and he could’ve been gone already by the time anyone was informed. Especially if it wasn’t the unit he was on, which I think she said was MedSurg so definitely not ER, Trauma, or Crit Care so good chance it wasn’t one of the patients he was working with in that scenario.
Ahhh your podcasts just save my day every time ❤
What I always try to remember is: IF I act outside of my protocols/procedures to "go the extra mile" and it goes south, with possible issues caused for the hospital/healthcare system etc, will they stand up for me in a legal forum. 10/10 the answer is NO. Make sure you KNOW and can access polices/procedures. Get copies of them off the drive immediately if something out of the ordinary comes up. This has saved me more than one time.
How do you get access to polices and procedures. Like who do i go or where do i look ror this
@@beksl5411 it should always be freely accessible to you from management. Normally found on the network drives.
Stumbled into your vhanel a fee days ago, now I'm hooked🎉🎉🎉🎉
I guess, I should also share a story that happened at my workplace. (This happened during the day shift, when my colleague was on duty)
One of the residents complained that she was experiencing bowel movement difficulties. So, my colleague inserted a suppository, and gave her lactulose syrup and sennosides to help her pass motion. Later that evening (during night shift), she complained of abdominal pain. So, instead of alerting the nurses/the care staff, she used her own phone (yes, she has her own phone that her children gave to her) to call the POLICE. 😂 And guess what, the police came and after some discussion, police came up to the ward to talk to the resident. Resident explained that she was abdominal pain, and hence called the police. 😅 After hearing this, the police went like, "...Huh...???" The police then explained to her that if she was having any issues, she can always alert the nurses. Resident heard this and said, "Orh.", then went back to sleep... 🤣
I’m a recent widow 37 with 3 small kids my husband was in ICU with liver disease and on life support I let my kids say hi to there father and that they love him over the phone about an hour later of being there I was ask to go get food cause he needed
Dialysis i walked out of the room and this nurse whispered to me he was waiting for you I was puzzled cause I’ve never had seen this nurse before cause his passing was so quickly and sudden as soon as I made it outside I received that call that changed my life after they let me say my goodbyes to him his icu nurse came inside the room to give me his personal belongings i was so shocked I asked her how she knew she grabbed my hand n told me patients usually hold on for some reason! My question why didn’t the doctors and nurses let me know he was on his last breaths 😢yes he was on life support but if they felt he waited till I came to pass why was I asked to leave for dialysis did he wanna pass alone ? 😢
Thank u for your hard work
I really enjoyed this episode and learned a lot about health care
Love u!🙏🏻
Love u John! This was amazing to listen to. Funny, sad, all of it.
nurse john in his eras era 💅🏻✨️
Omg! Love ❤❤❤
The charge nurse and night supervisor should have covered for the lady who lost her child
"I need to drink some water after that" 😂😂 like nooo you need to bust out that bottle of wine after that goodbye kiss😂😂
You should have people call in!!!!
Pulls away his sheet .... The Domina has entered the hospital 😂
I feel that the charge nurse should be held liable for this
I cant believe I'm so early on your hype train ❤❤❤ we love you!!!
I was eating a banana for breakfast 😂 uhm, I BEG YOUR P A R D O N. LOVE YOU, BOO. KEEP DOING YOU! These stories are crazy but funny. I had a girlfriend nurse from the VA & I didn't understand why she started drama, I DO NOW 😅😅😅
WTF 🤬 ITS A MEDICAL EMERGENCY 🚨 I would file a lawsuit and complain to H.R.
8:42 If someone is telling you that you are “abandoning” something because you have to take care of something in your personal life, you should remind them that a drowning person cannot help another drowning swim- if you yourself or a family member are having an active crisis event, how in the world would anyone think you would even be worried about anybody else?
#IBegYourPardon! It’s not long enough 😘😘
I just read a horror novel where a guy did the stoma thing and it scarred me! I will never get that visual out of my head!!!!😂
What's shocking is that I think my mom told me something or so about a patient coding when she use to work at another hospital😧. It's always stories for days when my mom comes home from working in hospitals and/or healthcare units😂😂. Also, my mom works at the VA and boy... She has stories for days from there too😂😂! Weird ones, funny ones, crazy one and just in general. It's a joy whenever I ask my mom how work went and she goes "Chile😧😮💨!"😂. I already know she's about to tell me the crazy time she had😂😂. I'm over here saying "Oh boy. What happen this time👀😂?"
It's the best😂. But yeah. These things aren't a joke. I should know personally from a very young experience. I won't go into detail. But it was something only I think I saw alone, but still remember vividly til this day. Other than that. The way you put your short videos. You can't help BUT laugh😂😂💖!
Hoy trabaje casi 12 horas de corrido, I'm pampering myself and me estoy comiendo un elote (choclo) con queso y picante y una libra de uvas. Me voy a poner la funda de agua caliente en la cintura y voy a ver una peliculita y de seguro me voy a quedar muerta a los primeros 30 minutos...pero me doy por complacida.
I love this!!! Disfruta el elote, te hubieras agarrado unos chicharrones en vez de las uvas 🍇 😂
I have been a veteran nurse for 35 years as an LPN. I have many MANY STORIES. I could write a book. Here are two that are my favorite. When I was in clinical rotation, we always watched one, do one, demo one. The day before, my professor showed me how to do trach care. So this was my day to do one. My teacher decided to make one of my fellow nurses watch me. So I was on one side of the bed. My colleague was on the other side. My professor was at the end of the bed watching. So I am doing care, and I was at the end, and I needed to suction him as my last step. I went down, and of course, he started coughing. All of a sudden, he coughed up a mucous plug, and it flew out and directly on the top of my professor's head. My professor vomited and left, and as she walked out, she said class is dismissed leave now. To this day.. I can handle vomit, crap, blood, and every nasty wound, etc. BUT!! I can not ever deal with sputum. I will gag every time. Anything. With spit is just automatic gagging. I have to cover the canister of sputum on the wall to change it. Or I will puke. Sooo gross! 😂😂
My second story, again it was my very first job out of nursing school. I had a very serious IV drug user. He had injected in his right arm so much he had like an opening, and it had become seriously infected, and it was full of pustulate. This butt head of a doctor who looked down on me because I was a "green" nurse. He grabbed me and said, "Get the patient ready. I am going to do a bedside I&D" So I did just that. I put out a gown, gloves, face shield, surgical hat, and booties. I put my set on and the doctor walked in and literally laughed at me in full gear. He said , " Isn't that like overkill?" I just said that you should always protect yourself. I pointed to his set of PPE. He grabbed just the gloves and said that was all he would need. He took off his suit jacket.. yes, I said suit!! So he is explaining and numbing him, etc. So he cuts this abscess open, and it literally drains every gross color out. It smelled like death! I have never seen so much pus and just infected debris. It finally gets to the end, and the Dr. He wants to clean out the huge cavity before he packs it. He asks me for a 60 cc syringe of full strength peroxide. So I drew it up and handed it to him, and he said make another as he was using the one I handed him. So I do a second one. About half way of the first, he shoots it in this cavity and holds it down with his hand and grabs the second, and does the same. He holds it like 3 minutes and he let's go and the pressure behind his hand was soooo great. The fluid sprayed EVERYWHERE! WALLS, CURTAINS, CEILINGS, PATIENT AND ALL OVER ME AND ALL OVER THE DR. because he lifted his hand so the opening was towards his face, and he wanted to look at it. Yep!! You guessed it. All over his face, eyes, mouth, hair, and suit everywhere on this doctor. The patient started laughing so hard, and he told the doctor. Who the ass now and don't ya wish you overkilled it? As he the PPE on the end off the bed off the bed. So now I have to call the hazmat team to come and decontaminate the room. I put the patient in the shower and cleaned him up. Packed his wound and then doffed off my PPE. I left the room. About 2 hours later, the Dr came back to the unit in hospital scrubs, and you can tell he showered, and he handed me a huge vase of flowers. He said sorry. Then he wrote to do every test in the book. HIV, Hepatitis etc. On the patient. Unfortunately, our patient had HIV and Hepatitis A. I never got it, I can't say that for the Dr. He died about 2 years later with full-blown aides. The hospital denied his workers comp claim because he failed to do the correct procedure.
Wow. the doctor passed from aids? Crazy.
Love your podcast! 💕
Watching this while here at work lol night shift baby❤
Your studio looks great👍 👌
The one time i didn’t try to impress my coworkers because i’ve had enough were disappointed with me
The charge nurse, literally threw her fellow nurse under the bus and she endured sexual and physical abuse. Some women, just really shock the hell out of me. 😐
I beg your PAR-DOONN 💀
The stoma one made me queasy 😖🥴🤢
omg i cant wait for the new merch!!!!
That was nasty and funny 🤣 5:32
Not the poop 😂
That’s frikin crazy
As a nurse always make sure your back is towards the door in case you need to escape. Patients can never be trusted. They might be sweet one minute but the next minute they could be psycho killers😂
I love your content!
The "toot toot" 💀
Oh my God, in such a short period of time i have learned to love you so much !!! Like i want to meet you in real life and give you a hug and ask for a picture together 🤣 yes, i am crazy and my place is also in the psycho unit, next to Mr Smith.
Love you !!!
Greetings from France ❤
I work on psych ward an full moon is definitely a thing!
He is hilarious.
Haha I also have a story.
So I was working in a OCD unit.
Three patients decided to go for burgers.
The girl was bolemic + self harming compulsion, Guy 1 had obsessive thoughts generally, Guy 2 had obsessive thoughts on sexual interaction and was completely disgusted about anything sexual.
So....these three decided to go for burger....they went there by taxi.
The burger restaurants was located next to a strip club.
Guy 2 did not want to get out of that taxi, and when forced smashed Guy 1 in the face and made a run for it.
The sight of the strip club was just too much for him and felt dirty just by seeing it.
Guy 1 ran after him trying to get him back.
The girl just was so done with the whole situation and got five burgers on her own, because of her eating disorder she vomited it all out again though.
So.....about 6 hours later all three arrived back at the ward, Guy1 with a black eye carrying a sleeping guy 2 who was missing his shoe and the girl with vomit all over her eating her take away burger.
What a sight I tell you. They all got into serious trouble for this escapade.
I beg your greatest pardonnnn?? ❤❤ you Nurse John!
That intro slays!
At my nursing home the “morgue” was the beauty parlor 😅😅😅
The Stoma story got me!
no .. just NO!!!!
It’s weird to hear about restraints: we don’t use them in the UK in medicine.
Our emergency room has a metal detector and security
I LOVE that you have started this podcast. We see some sh*ttttt for sure. lol
Hello Fellow RN❤❤❤🎉🎉
I am not a nurse. I would blame myself too much n I get attached to ppl. I'm prior military. So I know a little of the security side I've worked as a security guard also. I wish there was more help to give back to nurses b/c they do so much.
I've tried not to be that patient, some of the medical personnel as patients can be a pain. They want to challenge you and the families that want mess with their Iv's .😮😮 . I so enjoyed listening . Those short stories, omg to funny.
Omg ..makeup sponge 😮😢
Me: Sir. What are you doing?
Them: Eating chip.
( Don't see any chips anywhere.)
Me: are they invisible?
Them: no.....
Me: ...................
Them: want one?
Me: !!!!!! Nooooooooo thank you.
( I slowly walking away.)
Me: enjoy your chips.
( They pop in another invisible chip in the mouth an chew.)
..............My brain hurts............😅😅😅😅😅 Makes me love being a CNA sometimes cuz of moments like this. However..... After this the same patient was saying they need to get off this moon. I asked if they would share the invisible mushrooms they are now eating. They said no. I was sad. Lol😂
NHS now has a sip til send policy. It is okay to drink water.
Omg what a night 38:50 😮😮😮
Purewick is only good if the patient cooperates and does not keep on moving. I used this on women patients who are so weak and had to take diuretics and at night so they can sleep.
33:30 lol slipping in the bed 😂😂
9:50 *I BEG YOUR PARDON!* she kissed WHAT?!