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My friends are working at a military hospital (won’t say which one) and they are getting most 3 patients on a regular floor with resources in LPN and CNA to help out with tasks. I am convinced that capitalism and corporation do not belong in the healthcare field.
I’m an ICU RN & the _mental_ stress of this job is kinda outrageous ngl. You really have to be mentally tough to deal with the patient care AND the administrative bs
How did you tweak your resume to make the shift? All I have is nursing experience, and I feel like having a "nursing" resume gets my applications thrown out.
@blackheartcardigan I am literally working at The Home Depot. I didn't have to tweak my resume. I just applied online. I'm still looking for a career shift and figuring out how to convey that nursing skills and all my certs translate well into other industries. We can multi-task, prioritize instinctively, must of us are organized, fast learners, adaptable, and scrupulous in following procedures. Maybe tweak your skills to reflect those kinds of attributes?
@@sola2351 I was addressing why nurses are leaving. Be more specific about who you refer to as “medical professionals”. Nurses definitely fall into that category but I would not assign “entitled” to nurses.
The reason for having less walkie-talkie patients is that medicine has advanced to the point that Doctors can do more interventions to prolong life but the quality of life is poor. People are optimistic about living after devastating medical conditions but they need alot of physical help and hospitals are not trying to staff with this in mind.
THANK YOU 🙏🏽 It irks my soul to see the advanced measures doctors implement-and families often desperately demand-just to keep someone alive… but not able “live” anymore. Now, an entire staff of people are needed to assist someone for performing the most basic bodily tasks, for however long the doctors can keep staving off the inevitable. Patient can’t swallow? Feeding tube. Patient can’t breathe through their mouth? Trach. Patient can’t empty their bladder? Foley. Patient can’t filter their blood? Dialysis. And it just keeps going. Rarely, have any patients I’ve ever had been wealthy enough to afford a decade or more of advanced, 24-hour medical care, so who’s going to cover all the costs in the long run?
Patients are getting sicker, acuity is higher, and the amount of experienced nurses leaving the bedside now vs pre Covid is worsening. All we ask for is better pay that’ll lead to better staffing but nope! Everyone gets a pizza party while admin sends a “we’re in this together” email in their c-suite
THIS! There will be more and more patients, more and more sick and more and more advanced medicine supporting them. Meanwhile payment doesn't catch up with inflation, we get more and more paperwork and everyone is hating either on nurses, or doctors. It just suck.
I’m not a nurse, I worked in physical therapy for 25 years, but I get what you’re saying. I was laid off during the pandemic, and I decided I wasn’t going back. And I don’t miss it at all. In fact, I feel bad for my coworkers that are still there. And many of them are figuring out a way to get out early.
I believe there will come a time where hospitals will have to figure it out by making necessary changes that they know should have been made a decade ago
Lmaooo mine is the opposite. Both of my parents are nurses as well as many of my aunts. My parents want me to become a nurse and my aunts want my cousins to be nurses as well.
It probably varies by location. But I can say that I’ve loved every second of my job as a nurse. In my unit we get one patient per shift 65-80% of the time and two patients the other 20-35%. The fact that we only have to work 3 shift per week is crazy. That means that I can take 7 days off without having to use PTO. On top of that we get 25 days of PTO per year (and you can maximize this as you are able to use 3 days of PTO and get up to 15 days off). On top of this if we pick up extra we can make bank. I’m finishing up my first year as a nurse and will have made over 6 figures while traveling to over 12 countries. Is the job challenging? Yes, absolutely. But because of this it’s also incredibly rewarding. And the benefits are definitely worth the challenge as well.
I love science which is one of the reasons I chose the profession. As a RN, I don’t use most of the science I’ve learned. The most important skill is “running like a chicken” which they didn’t teach in nursing school. 🙄
Switch units or locations. I’m in a cardiothoracic ICU and have one (very sick) patient for about 80% of my shifts. I have time to think, learn, and understand what I’m doing.
@@MF-oh2qo that's delusional. That is just a small segment, that doesn't represent the majority of the profession. Cardiology patients are the sweetest deals because they rarely have multiple comorbities. Someone still has to work in medicine-stepdowns and med surg.
@@tragzz it was my first nursing job. But in my hospital even in med surge the ratio is no more than 4:1. And benefits (pay and vacation) are the same. I’ve floated to medsurge units at my hospital and they’re the easiest money of my life.
It probably varies by location. But I can say that I’ve loved every second of my job as a nurse. In my unit we get one patient per shift 65-80% of the time and two patients the other 20-35%. The fact that we only have to work 3 shift per week is crazy. That means that I can take 7 days off without having to use PTO. On top of that we get 25 days of PTO per year (and you can maximize this as you are able to use 3 days of PTO and get up to 15 days off). On top of this if we pick up extra we can make bank. I’m finishing up my first year as a nurse and will have made over 6 figures while traveling to over 12 countries. Is the job challenging? Yes, absolutely. But because of this it’s also incredibly rewarding. And the benefits are definitely worth the challenge as well.
30 yrs in the ER as medic/RN. Retired in 2016. First, there was a drastic drop in public respect for nurses including assaults. Secondly, administrators who didn't care about patient care, just Press Ganey scores - including the abdominal pain patient who states that their care was terrible because they weren't immediately fed upon arrival.
The freaking eating As someone who actually has gi issues it really annoys the crap out of me when I see people complaining of abdominal pain or literally sitting there with puke buckets and yet they are eating
I had the worst experience in nursing school as a student nurse. I was told to give up the seat for someone in a higher profession in the healthcare when I was a student nurse. At the time, I was doing a BSN. I ended not finishing because the school was too expensive. Funny, I ended trying again with Nursing because I am LPN now just to be more disappointed with the profession.
I’m a LPN worked from ICU yes ICU MED SURG LTC NIW PRIVATE DUTY WITH KIDS ON VENTILATOR IN THEIR HOME. Preventative medicine isn’t stressed enough We as nurses become more task Oriented than whole patient centered care. LTC 30 parents 15 tube feed and dressing wound care Have to give all meds 1 hour before 1 hour after. All meds scheduled for 8am. How one nurse can do all at same time. Or family wants to take your time to discuss their family when you have 30-40 meds to give. Family don’t understand.
Nurse for 10 yrs here. I’ve seen the decline. Patients are built different now. I’ve always put 100% into my work. But these latter years I found myself giving the hospital most of my time energy and compassion, while leaving my family with the scraps of me. I walked away. One of the best things I’ve done.
I was randomly recommended this vid, but being a former elementary school teacher (7 years, this was my final year) I see so many parallels between nursing and teaching. Underpaid, unappreciated, and the girlies are indeed NOT choosing to be teachers and I completely understand why. Kudos to all nurses and all teachers. I see you all. 💗
You don't see us - the Medical Technologist - the ones who, except for anatomical pathology, provide the Clinical Diagnosis to the doctors. Nobody ever saw us.
Well let me just confirm your suspicions that nursing and teaching are very similar when it comes to the stresses and even straight up abuses put on these two professions. I'm 30 years as a nurse, 28 of it actively worked, and I'm now entering my second year as high school teacher. I can't believe how much teaching is similar to nursing, but honestly I have to say teaching isn't as stressful as most of the nursing jobs I have had, even though it's very challenging. At least in teaching I can drink some water when I need to and go pee when I need to, for the most part (although I know that's a challenge for elementary teachers that can't walk out of the classroom for a minute). With teaching I can eat lunch during my cafeteria duty at lunch time and then when I make it to my planning period I can take my time and eat lunch. With nursing it's a much bigger role of the dice if you will get to have a bite of food in 12 and 1/2 hours of stressful work😡
Yup. Ex RN here. Became Licensed Massage Therapist and so much happier. Amazing pay now that i market myself out in the wealthy neighborhoods. The flexibility is the best. 💆🏻♂️. Most def wont ever be returning as an RN. Best part for me as a nurse was having a lot of understanding and background recognizing chronic illnesses. Still to this day I have parents thanking me on giving insight to their daughter or son having dysautonomia, pots, gastroparesis, sphincter of oddi dysfunction. Crazy bc hardly nurses or even doctors knew what that was 🤷🏻♂️ Left because of doctors being a holes to me. Never had an issue with nurses/staff or patients
I don't blame anyone for leaving health care. Especially if you work in the hospital. Absolute nightmare. I'm seriously traumatized. Everyday its the same nonsense. Short-staffed, rude patients, unfair assignments. Not surprised there will be no nurses left. This is my last year working as an RN. Enough is enough ✌️🏿
Some hospitals in California especially the Bay Area, have really strong nursing unions that mandate breaks, ratios, staffing. Some cardiac units (non-ICU) even have 2-3 patients per nurse. The nurses there are also well paid, with experienced nurses making up to 250K or more (differentials, clinical level, etc). Unions are necessary to balance the way healthcare corps are trying to run the business. These should model how nursing is in the US to prevent burnout. Take a look at their nurses union contracts (CRONA (Stanford Hospital), CNA (Kaiser Hospitals), UCSF Med
I am a male CNA and she is spitting facts!!! Hospital Upper management doesn’t care about you, or the patients for that matter. Nursing facilities are darn right disgusting and it’s very sad knowing what these elderly patients go through on a daily basis with lack of family support and unfortunately people taking care of them who are disinterested in their job, but if I’m being honest I don’t blame them because it’s a hard frustrating job. I use to want to be a nurse sooo damn bad, but after 2 1/2 years as a CNA in the hospital setting, I am going the medicine route and choosing PA, specifically because I realize I enjoy science and anatomy a lot, but not the MD/DO route because I want to enjoy my life and not live at the hospital and not go half a million in debt. Nurses go through so much and have to deal with so much BS, it’s disheartening to experience and see new grads with so much joy and love and literally a month in you can see the disparity and sadness in their eyes.
U should not be in this field in any role. Simply .. you will be in the same boat due to your outlook on life and the medical profession. Be part of the solution rather than the complainer and part of the problem. You are unhappy in the medical profession
@@monicamartin6584guess you don’t work in the medical field!!!. Also, this person is speaking on their experience and what they have seen. And, How are they going to fix a problem that is occurring pretty much everywhere. You cannot disregard someone’s experience and then tell them they are negative.
I was born in 1959 and I am now 64. According to Social Security 1959 is going to be the biggest population of Retirees. So the next 3 years will be crazy town for nurses. I have been in the hospital many times and will be again this fall when I am getting my 2nd knee replacement. I try to be courteous and never use my call button unless I need to use restroom and can’t get out of bed due to fall risk. I have been told by the nurse that I am too quiet. I feel bad for the nurses. Because you can hear call buttons go off like 10 at a time. Do hospitals not do the Candy Stripe program anymore?
I was a nurse for 32 years and nothing has changed. It was is and always will be profit over people. Med surg ratios have not changed. A lot of the younger nurses gravitate towards NP school and nurse managers are useless. Seasoned nurses don’t readily jump to huge sign on bonuses knowing it could land them in the same boat. What needs To happen are mandatory staffing ratios that are based on safety studies. In other words what is the most Patients a nurse can take on before the safety and well-being of the patient is at risk? Obviously the number would be different depending on what floor the nurse works on. Secondly Parents need to start young and teach their children that McCrap and Burger Krap do not sell real food. Last but not least nursing school should be hospital based and not university based so that the students and help alleviate the staffing shortages while still learning.
Funny you say that, but the EMT/Para track, at least when I took it back 100 years ago, was mostly field. Very little time in the classroom, lots of time in the hospital and the ambulance. Plus, as the new meat, you get to spend a lot of time cleaning and restocking rigs, so that's fun.
@@joanneraatzI was pretty much harassed nonstop to get the doctoral degree. My teaching plans didn't measure up, but my students knew the material and passed NCLEX. The fancy doc degrees didn't actually know a lot of nursing and their pass rates reflected that. When I finally left I was blamed for numerous students failing their final drug calc. None of the students that failed were ever my students and I didn't teach the final class. But I still got blamed.
@@joanneraatznot to mention faculty pay. I applied for a potion at the college it paid 50k a year. Most of nursing professors had to teach and still work bedside to make a living.
After graduating from nursing school, I did 7 months in Medsurg/Telemetry & was already tired of it... then came an opportunity and went to psych....well it's been 3 yrs & I DON'T miss bedside nursing & all the fake titles of ICU, ER, PEDS, OB & CLEAN ASSES
As an IM resident at a quarternary center , the past medical history stuff she mentioned is 100% accurate. It’s a cognitive burden for the doctors too!
@@MistySprinkle-f4y More care is done outpatient now. There is even a new trend of hospital at home for stable patients managed by home care nurses I presume along with remote technology for vitals and tele if needed.
I did hospital security for a year. Never again!! The nurses get assaulted, and even if we call the police, we can't deny them if they are in the hospital with mental health. Yet, we can keep homeless people off property unless it's life or death. Nurses got spit on, hit, had hot coffee thrown on them, verbally abused, the nurses get each other in trouble, we had a homeless guy who emptied his entire bowl on the floor and ran out of the hospital leaving a trail, families assault hospital employees when their loved ones die, we had to babysit the crazy.. There's too many patients per one nurse. The nurses abuse the CNA's so they quit.... The hospital is a crazy and VERY stressful place to work. I'd only work in a hospital if I had no other option..... Oh, and the pay is NOT worth the stress. Law enforcement and hospital policies don't protect hospital workers of any kind from patient abuse. And if you defend yourself, you'll be fired and lose your license. No thank you.
Nurses are not infrequently very abusive and neglectful toward patients, entitled authoritarian and coercive. They often choose their profession in hopes of dominating others.
I have been hit, kicked, bitten, stuff thrown at me, punched, had my hair pulled out. The amount of abuse staff have to take while caring for patients is unreal. Not to mention full bladders because you are too busy to be able to go to the bathroom, no breaks or interrupted breaks and lunches. I cant tell you how many times i have seen nurses eat graham crackers or saltine crackers because they dont have time to take a lunch or people wont get meds or cares done. And if that isnt enough you can have drs yelling at you for something they didnt do but you are supposed to be able to do your job and be their secretary and remind them of what they forgot. Don't forget as a nurse the state nursing boards can fine you and families can sue you individually on top of losing your license and getting fired. So no, nursing is not easy, they are overworked and underappreciated and burnout Is extremely high.
@rdbare4216 this is a false statement for the majority of nurses. I'm sorry if you had an experience with a bad nurse at some point but making assumptions and including all "nurses" in your claims is not accurate or fair to those who are not as you claim them to be.
@@michelle1081 i vehemently disagree. My family and I have had vast experience with medicine from many perspectives and roles. Sociology and social psychology have a lot to say about medicine too.
I Love Kendra RN, she gives you realistic expectations in what is happening in the Healthcare profession. You can see her passion for what she does exude and the love for future Nurses and her patients ❤️
I worked Long term care for over 10yrs and ITS EVEN WORSE!! My last Shift in December 2023 I had 32!!! 32 PATIENT'S AKA Residents 12 were Diabetic with insulin, dressing changes, Skin assessments/ dressing changes including having to pass Meds to half of them all while answering the phone and watching the fax machine for Dr orders/Lab results and pharmacy deliveries!! I left that day and may NEVER go back to that way of Nursing again!! Of course I loved my Residents and Nursing itself but I just cannot handle that anymore 😢!! Being a Nurse is Hard !!
My mom has Alzheimer’s and Dementia and I have her in a facility. It is a challenge to make sure she gets the care we were promised when I signed the rental agreement. But I will say that she is doing much better being around people with the same condition that she has.
After 45 years, an RN, masters degree, nurse educator, ER, ICU trained, multiple certifications . I quit. My life is so much better. I make a lot less money but my happiness and stress free life is priceless.
I retired early due to being overworked, crazy hours, too much micromanagement and not being able to take care of our patients properly due to the overload of patient ratio to one nurse. I don't care how much money they pay, there is no amount of money that anyone could pay me to keep my sanity and health. When I started crying in the parking lot before and after work, I decided it was time to quit, so I did.
I am a former hospital chaplain in a 750 bed hospital in West Texas. Part of my job was to emotionally and spiritually care for the nurses, as well as the support staff, so that they would be happy, stay at their job, and not complain to the leaders. I saw a lot of these same problems 25 to 30 years ago, which is why I left that form of ministry. Back then if a woman had a baby she was given one or two days in the hospital after giving birth. When I was a Chaplin there had already started shipping the women out within 24 hours of giving birth. I am now a licensed professional counselor. I see some of these same problems at the out-patient mental health clinic level. I assess that the entire system is break down under it's own weight. Patients are NOT getting the care they need and they are often having to wait months to get the care they do get!!!
Yes! After working as a CNA in an inpatient hospice unit then becoming self employed working with geriatric clients I’ve had a chance to learn about the care they receive from PCP’s and hospital stays. The elderly are being abused by the system, most of my clients feel the system is actively trying to kill them. My own mother was diagnosed with CHF at the beginning of March, the cardiologist failed to tell her! We found out 2 weeks ago after switching PCP’s, now it’s a scamble to get her educated and mitigate the comorbidities that have developed over the 8 months it’s taken to get a diagnosis for her. I wish the younger HC workers could understand that most people currently over 65 view them as “authorities” and need better patient education than the system currently allows. It’s scary out there, how can we work collectively to make things better for everyone?
The reason that every patient is total care now is that you have to be that sick to get Inpatient care now for insurance to pay. After my total knee replacement I was out the door less than 2 hours after waking up from anesthesia. Even this kind of surgery, that a few years ago warranted a couple of days inpatient care, does not even get any post op monitoring after post anesthesia recovery.
@@johnmorrison7205the hospital is also a dangerous place to be long term. People get clots, atelectasis, infection more easily. Additionally it’s thousands of dollars per day for an admission so if a patient can safely go home then it’s better and cheaper for them.
There was even a federal law in 1996 that mandated that insurers could not restrict a mother's hospital stay less than 48 hours for vaginal delivery or less than 96 hours for C-section to stop the insurers from pushing them out too soon!
@@johnmorrison7205 I was i a bad car wreck, hospital, rehab, nursing home. I was not on medication of any kind and had no conditions or illnesses and I swear every other patient I met had a laundry list of things wrong besides what they came in for. Not all were baby boomers either. We area sick nation
I am a RN, I work in a big hospital system in PA and I work on med surg. I can confirm that our ratio is 1:7 but they "try to cap us at 1:6". It is insane. What she said in the video is absolutely true. We don't have enough techs, we are trying to do our own jobs and everyone else's jobs too. And tbe patients treat us like absolute crap. We get hit, kicked, slapped, spit at, cursed out, etc etc etc and very few patients show understanding of what we have to do. My unit is a newer unit, it's a 14 bed unit, we have 2 nurses and 1 tech. That's it. It's so dangerous. Not only that, but we don't even get relieved for breaks. I have to beg staffing to have someone cover us for breaks half the time. How are we working 12 hours and don't don't get a break? We are in a constant fight of flight kind of elevated stressful state, for 12 hours straight. And I never get out at 7. I have to stay and chart sometimes till 9. It's absolutely true that we feel guilty that we aren't able to give the level of care that we WANT to give, because we don't have the staff and we don't have the time. It's incredibly hard. Also, the patients seem to think that at hospitals, they are in a 5 star hotel and they demand that the nurses are their personal chefs, housekeepers, maids, everything. They are incredibly demanding and most family members don't help, they will legit sit there and watch you struggle. I hope it gets better, because honestly I don't think I could do this for another 20+ years. Something needs to change
The problem is that schools keep adding stupid requirements to apply for a nursing program. I met a nurse who said some places have a waitlist for 3-5 years to start a nursing program.
Breaks. I’m told I’ll get written up if I don’t take one. They say this is coming from the state and not the organization I work for. Um. If there was coverage for a break, I would take it. Who’s fault is that?
So true, the video mentioned walky talky patients, sometimes those patient are worst, extremely demanding, complainers and drug seekers, coming in for hotel services. I have no problem taking care the elderly sick paralyzed folks those who truly need care and attention
As on older Gen Z RN, what she says is true. I got my BSN right after i turned 21, did 1 year of bedside of a mix of step down and ICU….hated every minute of my life. You are a glorified servant to EVERYONE in the hospital with admin harassing you throughout the day to do nonsense charting that has no direct impact to patient outcomes. Instead of telling me to chart my patient care plans (endless list of redundant bullet points that the patient “needs” to be educated on) while i am in the process of wiping someone’s ass, maybe offer a helping hand?! Went to outpatient urgent care and i started to enjoy life a little bit more. How these older nurses have been doing bedside their whole careers is beyond me. They have no self respect at all is the only conclusion i can come to. Pure passion for nursing cant make you stay that long with our current healthcare system
RN of 33.5 years. I have had to pivot several times because you will burn out. That is the best part of nursing, you can work in a very wide variety of settings. I could not have made it without the variety.
@@Ggsodapopit sucks to say but honestly its the truth. I see them sometimes soooo stressed and frazzled but for what?! They are just a number to admin and the hospital. Oh you want to strike? Hold up. Lemme page the registry and bring nurses with 5x the pay when they can be paying their house staff in the first place. Nurses are easily the most preyed upon profession in healthcare when shit hits the fan. Its ALWAYS the nurses fault when something bad happens even if its not within their scope of practice. Im generalizing but you get the point. You think your patient assignment is unsafe? Im gonna report you to the board of nursing for patient abandonment. The fact that threats like that even exist are mind boggling and shows how little they value nurses I genuinely wouldn’t mind going back to bedside if the system worked effectively and safely (more fucken staff)
Ugh this is so relatable 🥲 I was a tech for 5 years at a level 1 trauma center, advanced care floor. Graduated got my RN, took a job on the same floor and only 4 months in I am dreading my days. Incredibly stressful and overwhelming. I love caring for patients and giving back but ratios and the lack of help is astounding.
@@mackenzie95go outpatient ASAP. whether thats surgery, procedure, primary care or urgent care. You are not racing the clock all day, your patients are healthier, more conscious, and will to learn so patient teaching is actually rewarding for both parties. I had severe preshift anxiety…im talking dry heaving on the way to work and taking 2 shits prior to clocking in. I was fine after report but just the thought of me going back was causing insomnia After i went to urgent care it all went away. Really look into it, your just as much of a nurse even if ur not killing urself in the process
Am a nurse too and all what she said is true. The worse of it all is when a typical day work load is great and you are trying to finished a 12 hrs job but you are still finishing all your paper work at 10 pm and the bosses thinks you want overtime, and gets written up for that’s, that’s bulling.
Well you shouldn’t have used the RESTROOM! Catheterize yourself…STAT! You know I’m kidding because that is such audacity! I told my supervisor this, “I get to work a good 30 minutes early because that works for me and I know the nurse that I’m relieving loves me for this, but I’m not here for recreation or boredom so whenever you see me here an hour or so past the arbitrary end of my shift..it’s because I’m WORKING!” They leave me alone now. They (administration or their henchman supervisors)talk crazy, I talk crazier.
or they tell you you're not managing your time well, whatever the case, it's always the nurses fault. In her original video, she mentioned making a note instead of charting, which is a good idea, in case you had a particularly heavy, long day, and really should be going home to take care of yourself instead of sitting at the computer for another hour while your family is waiting for you to come home. The worst is when you get home and they fall asleep waiting for you 😢. Yeah, charting is out of control....
Took a 3k/mo pay reduction to go from the ED to orientate to CVICU. Worth it. Doing US Army USAGPAN for CRNA. Full-time pay and benefits while in school with the school years counting towards retirement. I'm entering my late 30s and this is my last move in nursing. It's this or I'm out. I have a degree and experience in another field, don't need to be here.
Professional patient over here. Been sick since birth and so thankful for all of our nurses. A nurse literally saved my life after a doctor missed something and then refused to admit it. I have so many friends with other chronic illnesses and we know that we’d all be dead if not for the doctors and nurses, but we know the nurses are the ones who care for us especially since the doctors well can’t, not with the 15minute rules and other demands. You are all amazing and I am Pursing nursing because of my experiences, good and bad ones. Although it is terrible now and I fully expect it to collapse soon (maybe the NHS will go first) I want to be here to help rebuild and in the meantime help patients as much as I can despite knowing that it will be hell on earth sometimes. Hopefully one day we will be able to let the medical staff help and not withhold due to a piece of green paper
Totally agree with a lot of young people not looking as CNA and RNA as life long professions. I worked as a CNA at an ER and loved taking care of patients, but most days I was the only CNA supporting 3 to 4 RNs and their 4 patients each. Most days we were understaffed so I was also running around helping hallway patients and with codes. We had a good RN to patient ratio, but the complexity of illness and injury we would see would overwhelm us. These conditions led to high turnover rate. Over the one year I was there I saw so many colleagues leave. We lost so many experienced CNAs and the new CNAs and the ER suffered from the loss of expertise. I loved my job and loved what I could do for patients, but the lack of support and not being able to give patients the best care I could was disheartening. Just like she said, I am not looking to go into nursing, being a CNA for me was a way to get experience and save money for med school, but there are better and more physically sustainable ways to make an income. I feel people are realizing that the pay and prestige of bedside nursing or other healthcare jobs are not worth the toll on their health.
Been a nurse 5 years before I enrolled into medical school, totally agree unsafe ratio’s, patients are only getting sicker and sicker and that combination just creates mistakes.. I think she’s right, there’s gonna be a major shortage in the future it’s already happening in the country I’m from and I feel like management is not taking it seriously because it has ebbed and flowed in the past, but this time it’s different: the pro’s of working outside of hospitals (or typical medsurg departments) are just now majorly outweighing the cons more and more dramatically, and the generation of “proud workhorses” that are content working themselves to an early grave is also becoming less. I feel like this generation (myself included) is a lot more health conscious/looking for balance, and that’s a good thing. Also not against capitalism, but it totally needs to be regulated.
@@misskia5810 I wanted more responsability, I wanted to learn more and be the one to come up with the treatment plan for each patient. In the country I’m from PA/NP’s get delegated the routine tasks that I didn’t really find exciting, and I don’t do well with routine stuff I need more stimulation/challenge.
@@misskia5810curious as well. I did half of my online NP school bc honestly its a joke of a program. Granted i chose the wrong school and program. Now trying to do some soul searching before restarting somewhere else. ADVANCED NURSING PROGRAMS SHOULD BE REGULATED. Minimum 3 years nursing experience before applying to NP school should be a start
A system that prioritizes _profit_ over _human satisfaction_ will always end up like this. There is no consent for anyone under capitalism, ever; i highly recommend delving into political theory. Lunaoi's video on dialectical materialism is a great place to start, it's the analysis I've used naturally since birth and has never failed me - i just don't listen sometimes or miss details
I’ve been a nurse for 10yrs. The burn out is real. I work in the ICU and being tripled is the norm. My back, feet and knees by the end of the shift is done. Having four days off is nothing. I was just telling a colleague this the other day. Family members need to do more than just sit there looking. They don’t ask is there anything that they can do to assist. They should be embarrassed and ashamed. I plan on exiting the bedside in a few months. It’s just too much.
Yeah this seems to be across the board. Stretching people thin is part of the business model, and the results are proving increasingly deadly. You see this in engineering as well.
6:54 YES!!! I’m a new nurse, been workin for about 3 months and ALREADY I’m sick of their BULLSH- always understaffed, heavy pt load, lack of supplies, no help, no teamwork, etc. 😖😖😖😖 imma try to keep at it for a year, but thangs ain’t lookin too good for ur girl 😭😭😭
Inpatient acutely is higher today. I’m the past patients stayed in the hospital several days after surgery. Today they have surgery, are up walking within hours and sent home same day.
To play the devil’s advocate…could it be bc our medical technology has advanced to the point where surgeries are less invasive and have better recovery outcomes?
@@blackjack21477 they force patients out of bed asap bc it does help prevent blood clots. but also boomers require more health care than before, and they are overwhelming the system.
New grad here, never working in acute care, I work outpatient care and I make twice as much for half the labor. the problem is hospitals are not paying enough for the labor
It probably varies by location. But I can say that I’ve loved every second of my job as a nurse. In my unit we get one patient per shift 65-80% of the time and two patients the other 20-35%. The fact that we only have to work 3 shift per week is crazy. That means that I can take 7 days off without having to use PTO. On top of that we get 25 days of PTO per year (and you can maximize this as you are able to use 3 days of PTO and get up to 15 days off). On top of this if we pick up extra we can make bank. I’m finishing up my first year as a nurse and will have made over 6 figures while traveling to over 12 countries. Is the job challenging? Yes, absolutely. But because of this it’s also incredibly rewarding. And the benefits are definitely worth the challenge as well.
I ve been a nurse for 45 years...still working full time. NOT bedside nursing....surely cannot do that anymore. I work as a pre-admit nurse. Interviewing pts before they have surgery, getting their "history" from them. I have to teach them how to prepare for surgery , give instructions, tell them what meds to take the day of surgery and then go over lab results, notify MDs if the results are abnormal, do the EKGs, do a set of vital signs, collect urine specimens, get their consents signed and witnessed, and document what transpiredwhile the pt was with you. Oh "they" give you 45 minutes to one hour to get this done, no matter how incoherent or coherent the patient is. If they know their medications or forgot their list , the nurse must find out !
My mom was a CNA/STNA and she retired. She couldn’t believed her old employer called her back to work last week. That’s terrifying to think they desperately need a 63 year old woman.
Not long after I retired, I got a recording from my former hospital about the opportunities available and to call if interested. I just stood there in disbelief. Retired is just that, retired. Don't be calling me to come back.
Yeah when my dad was dying after he had a stroke and aphasia plus the loss of the right side of his body, I would come in and cut his hair, I would cut his nails I would bring him the kind of food that he likes, I would put lotion on his body, I would massage him a little bit. They can't do everything. My dad needed a lot of help and I did what I could. Not to mention not all insurance pays a lot of money some of these rates at the insurance company has are so low that the private pay patients are really paying majority of it
In India, you have to bring a family member to get you food, to get your medicine, the nurses will administration, but you have to pay for it at the pharmacy and your family brings it into the nurse.
I talked my youngest daughter out of being a nurse. I am an RN and have been working as an RN for over 25 years. Things have changed so much in the last 8-10 years. I have left the hospital.(I worked L&D and Mother/Baby and Women’s post op mostly) and now work for much less money in an ONGYN office. She is right. Something has to change.
Nurse/patient ratio. Administration took away my help when I begged them not to. They left me alone with 25 to 30 patients. When I had another nurse I could keep up with patient assessments, IV therapy, and documentation. I knew the acuity level of my patients. I told them that a patient was going to fall through the crack because I couldn't keep up with the many medications and patient assessment too. That's exactly what happened. Needless to say that I eventually quit. The Physician in charge also quit. The patient load was absolutely too much.
I work in a facility with mixed patients, Long-term care, convalescent, respites and palliative. The night ratio is 2 care aid and 1 nurse per floor, each floor 44-50 patients. Many nights short staffed with a nurse having to cover 2 floors and only 2 staff on each floor. Wonder why people call in a lot 🤔. I've trained myself not to eat on nightshift, there's just no time, sometimes barely get my tea finished.
Same here...worked LTC for years and it was Bad years ago..now it's even worse...I left LTC in December and I don't regret it! I 32 patients in my day shift...total nightmare 😢
In North Dakota, you are required to have a CNA for nursing school. I am on my third day of clinicals! It is backbreaking work. I cannot do It! I will stick to my current profession as a massage therapist. More pay and less stress.
Crazy how you have so many people trying to nursing school and not enough teachers. No one sees that log jam of a pipeline and than when you see so many nurses leaving, it’s like the deadliest cycle. No more nurses at the bedside and none to replace them as we have no one to educate the students.
Wouldn't matter, the problem is lack of retention due to the terrible conditions which have only worsened since covid. No matter how many nurses you graduate, there will always be a shortage, until and unless staffing ratios are enforced, along with good pay and benefits and respect! There are millions of nurses who don't work in the field already. Graduate more, they will just leave and I don't blame them! I quit and took early retirement end of 2020 after almost 30 years due to stress and unsafe working conditions glad I did, felt I would have a stroke if I didn't. Wish I had left sooner.
At one point in my career I worked both adult medsurg and ICU at the same time, I was a tech for a few years before I became a nurse on the medsurg floor I worked...in that short time the patients we were caring for on the floor were the patients we would have sent to CCU or ICU a few years before. The 5 to 9 patients of the late 90s were not the same as the patients in the early to mid 2000s when I moved away from medsurg to live in the ICU. Many of the administrators who talk about "I was a nurse I understand " in fact don't they didn't have EMR, higher acuity, hotel mindset of patients/familes, nor the meteics we have now. Also, CNAs were plentiful at one point and many were really good and helpful and worthy of so much respect.
Special recognition to this nurse who had the courage to speak up and speak for us nurses. We are overloaded, underpaid, and overworked causing burnout sooner and forcing early retirement or a complete change in careers entirely. Truth!
With regard to nursing the juice (pay) isn't worth the squeeze (stress). Only exception is if you're doing traveling nursing or float pool at your hospital.
Got my AA in nursing and then my bachelors for MLS . So glad I became a medical lab scientist. I love science but the demand of patients and the treatment was just something I was not willing to accept. I’m so happy I changed roles and I am so much happier with my career.
My path was going a college that offered a specific MLS program . The school I went to had a BS in Medical Laboratory Sciences program which is where i completed my studies.
This is a good video, Now I don't feel alone. I am a nursing assistant, a patient care technician. I recently left bedside as a tech from a hospital in Scottsdale AZ because I would either be assigned 28 patients by myself on a shift or 16 patients during a 12 hour shift. Nurses were assigned 4 to 5 patients only. The Patient care techs are always given a higher ratio. I left bedside care because I was overwhelmed. I would drive home crying with back pain, painful feet, and pain in my hips. One night I was assigned 16 patients. I had more than 4 calling me to go to the bathroom I could only take 1 at a time. One patient couldn't wait for me any longer to go to the bathroom, they got up on their own, fell, busted their head open and died. The hospital stated the patient died from a heart issue but that was not true, the patient died from the fall. Although the patient was in the unit for a cardiac related condition it was not how they died and I didn't feel safe working as a patient care technician at this facility. It was just heart breaking. :(
Unhealthy lifestyle is the main problem. Almost all the patient i see are diabetics & on insulin.Imagine you have one CNA or 2 ,1 already sitter 1:1 for behavioral patient on med surg .You have hundread things to chart ,constant call bell ringing,be yelled at etc
I was in for a long time from a car wreck. I was a freak. No cardiovascular issues, no diabetes, not morbidly overweight, nothing but the broken bones from the wreck. But almost everyone else had a laundry list of comorbidities and so much extra work for the nursing staff Even when they were much younger than me.
As a nurse I have to agree with her. I have been a nurse for 7 years and I'm ready to go. I Graduate NP school next year. The patients are sicker. Plus them and their families sometimes treat nurses so bad. I've been hit and called N**** and B****. I've been threatened. I'm also a teachers assistant for a college in NJ and I do tell the students to be honest with them and try to prepare them for what's ahead
I worked in admitting and other clerical jobs in healthcare for almost 9 years. I was making $16 an hour in 2010. In 2024 they are offering us 20$ for the same job. I could work at McDonald’s and make more. I quit healthcare during covid to go to barber school and it’s so much more relaxing and I’m more comfortable
TBH it sounds like pt load has increased across the board for healthcare, I’m an OP therapist and I have seen up to 25 pt in a 8hr workday and its absolute burnout, I was burnt-out already in my 2nd year.. and then comes the existential crisis 🤦🏾
Good looking out! Thanks for helping bring this to the public consciousness. I am a neurology nurse. I am going into psychiatric mental health advanced nursing practice. After doing Neurology stepdown for going on 8 years, I am pretty much done with bedside nursing. I am the 2nd most senior nurse on nights in my unit and have seen tons of nurses come and go within a year or less. It's a difficult and thankless job at baseline, but COVID really changed things for the worse. Apart from the pandemic itself, the aftermath is not much better. Sicker patients with higher incidences of stroke and heart attacks. The pay raises are negligible and the hospital is cutting costs at every turn. Despite the lack of decent pay raises we are expected to learn and practice more and more advanced skills and procedures. As a neurology nurse, I run cardiac drips, TNK (clot buster infusions), antibody infusions, heparin drips, high flow oxygen, complex wound care and wound vac maintenance, bladder irrigation, trach care, ostomy care, drug and alcohol withdrawal, and so much more. We have 6-1 ratios and are frequently understaffed. Not to mention having some of the most combative patients in the hospital. A week doesn't go by without one of us getting hit, kicked, scratched, bitten, grabbed, or spit at. Then there is just the bone-crushing sadness of the job. Nurses are leaving the bedside at massive rates. My wife is a nurse anesthetist, the biggest reason I stuck it out this long is to get her through school. I worry about what the next few years will bring if something isn't done to turn this around. Respect your nurses, CNAs, and patient care techs. You don't want to imagine a world where we aren't around.
AMAZING VIDEO. I’m entered nursing right at the beginning of the pandemic and it was HELL: brand new, no real skills and no support. I suffered every single day and YES, no help from admin so valid point in criticizing that factor of healthcare. Like you I believe in Capitalism BUT healthcare should not be a business. We need to take care of ourselves AND support healthy work environments, especially for nurses. It is inhumane to suffer through the unrealistic workloads and she didn’t even mention the verbal and physical abuse we are exposed to as well. Code grays were an hourly occurrence where I worked. Thanks for giving space to this very important topic.
What breaks i use to skip breaks, did not have time for it. i am a NP now and take my work home with, now i work 24/7 and no off days; unless i go on vacation.
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Also, I love me some Kendra, RN! I went ICU after working Med/Surg, and even in California with strict 1:5 patient ratios, I am grateful every single day for that decision. Med/surg today is TOUGH!
Wow, everything that Kendra mentioned about what is happening in nursing is happening in education! I am a teacher who just finished my 15th year. The amount of higher needs kids in every classroom has gone up exponentially, and our potential Teachers Aides are with the potential CNAs doing nails and driving Lyft. It scares me to think about where education (and Medicine) will be in 15 years when I retire.
My last day on the job I had 4 patients on an icu. 1 patient was a full code, septic and crashing. 2nd pt was a post pacemaker with dementia, 3rd patient was a nursing home patient and the 4th was a 14 yo boy with a snakebite. I swore if I could get through the day it would be my last day at this hospital and it was.
OMG ..I felt this way being a CNA..Always overwhelmed and overworked..not enough help..so now I’m just doing home health aide 30 hrs a week 4 hr shifts at a time..And this exhausting.. God is watching and everybody needs his protection.!! You’re in our prayers and Gid bless you!!🙏🌈😇☮️✝️🌼🌸🥰🇺🇸🤗🌻🌞
As an ex-critical care nurse who LOVED the ICU. Felt right at home. Worked in the ICU as a tech for years first and I still loved it. . . I NEVER recommend anyone to follow in my footsteps. I have since left the bedside after the pandemic with scars some you can see and a lot you can’t see. I took a MASSIVE pay cut for my sanity. Totally worth it. My new career doesn’t require an RN license however my extra skills are a bonus. I don’t identify as a nurse anymore. I never worked med-surg. I don’t know how those nurses do it!! Bless them all! We need to take care of the backbone of the medical system: the nurses who are the largest professional group in healthcare worldwide
Im not sure about the older generation, but i think that the younger generation is probably the most health conscious than ever. I see many people trying to excercise and eat healthy (especially excercise). They are also worrying about mental health but it is hard to do all tbose things when we need to do school work or having a normal job. Also, on her point of patients getting worse, i think that it is mostly because the hospital doesnt want seemingly healthy patients in there. For example, an OBGYN doc talked about how back then they kept mothers underwatch in the hospital after they gave birth, but now the hospital tries to get mothers out ASAP
I totally agree! Gen-Z is very health conscious. However, rates of obesity and chronic diseases are getting worse. There is also a lot more senior citizens today compared to say 50 years ago. Many people are living long lives, but they are super unhealthy. My great grandmother died recently at the age of 92, but she had T2D, was morbidly obese, couldn’t walk, and had dementia. She lived a long life, but not a long healthy life. I myself am a pre-PA student who is passionate about mental and physical health. I want to help people get better, but not everyone can afford healthy food. Most of our cities are not walkable. Medical professionals can only do so much.
@mitzimitchell6813 I'm a guy so I can't say anything about being pregnant but if you had a baby in your body for 9 mths, then in one day, you go through all the labor to take it out, you body is fatigued and needs time to rest and return to normal. I think it is also a keep watch thing to make sure that there are no complications after labor
@@airlion1205 You have common sense, and this is not meant to patronize. It is to highlight how cold and concerned with the bottom line leadership continues to be. These corporate-led hospitals and institutions regard postpartum mothers as no-good lice taking up a perfectly good bed that they can get filled with another patient. They want to bill, bill, bill. The idiots do not factor in the possible liability if the PP mom leaves and has a complication at home or after she leaves, due to their greed.
4:11 same when i was a CNA in dementia unit. Our facility (and caregiver:patient ratios) was set-up for "walkie-talkie" folks but now our census is mostly folks who cannot perform independent tasks. Yet we have the same ratio, one caregiver per 30 patients at night! Someone will be trying to punch you or throwing feces around while a patient down the hall is falling or choking. You are responsible for everyone and you are completely alone! It is horrible! Takes dignity away from our caregivers and also the elderly, who deserve quality care at end of life.. Just for some extra profits?
When State Inspection came, we had to have our wheelchair-using folks sit on a regular chair, since technically our folks are supposed to be able to move independently. All an act so we can keep getting exploited.
Hi I am a LPN, a pediatric nurse. I do private duties because my back is not so great. As we speak, I started taking my prerequisites to become a Pharmacist. Not only I want to leave nursing, I want to stay far away from this profession. If nursing is for you go for it, but I don’t want to have to work 72 to 84 hours some week just to make minimum wage in this day and age. For me to be able to pay my bills and some debt, I must work at least 6 days or nights to be able to make it. No good quality life for me.
I'm an LPN as well and good luck on your journey to Pharmacy school. I've been in Pediatric Homecare for 20 years. (Vent nurse)Totally burned out but better than being in a hospital setting. Presently, I'm on a 6 month break due to burn out. Might take some dialysis training, the passion is wayyy down for me.
My thoughts on why the patient load is heavier in the hospital now is perhaps because of improved technology--- the less-sick patients can more safely be cared for outpatient rather than in the hospital, and the more sicker patients are all in the hospital. Also, patients who normally would have passed away are able to be kept alive longer, albeit, sicker, and in the hospital. I've had older nursing school instructors tell me that our telemetry patients are what their ICU patients used to be, and our ICU patients typically wouldn't be living
It's hard being a travel nurse and just watch nurses leave the field forever. From nurses in Alaska all the way across the country in New York, i see a lot of similar "opportunities" not being address. Also, shout out that MD/DO are facing similar shortages in hospitals. I feel like this Nurse Kendra talks about most of the known issues. But also, high turnover in the nurse management role is also a contributing factor that I haven't heard anyone diagnosis.
I spent the first 14 years in the trenches (medsurg). I'm in psych now. I left the trenches in 2020. I feel like when most families are at the bedside, I've gained extra patients.
I work psych now too and my coworkers that came from bedside all agree that we have PTSD from bedside nursing. I did 3 codes in the last 6 months that I was at the bedside and not once did we have a debriefing or even ask if we were ok. It’s like we should be fine with patients dying.
I have a MA friend whose office is cutting downthe time for people to be seen. A new intake only get 20min. A med recertify only gets 15min. If you have multiple things going on you have to come back on a new visit for each one! At this point they want everyone dead but get their money in the process. There is no way a full assessment can be done in 15 to 20 minutes. Some ones bag of pillls might take the allotted time. Does this mean they cant be seen everytime they come to an appointment. This is ridiculous!
I was suppose to study nursing, and when my route kept getting delayed I was so upset and frustrated. Then I said No, I’m going to study something different. When I say, I don’t regret it now, because working in the healthcare field is completely ridiculous!!! You’re under appreciated, under valued, over worked and at times disrespected (check folks and put them in their place). My passion for the healthcare industry has faded. It’s not purposeful for me at all.
hey, glad that you're happier with your choice since moving away from nursing. how's it going now, and what did you end up studying? i'm currently in the same situation you were in and am struggling with my next move
Its pretty bad as a nurse of 20+ years that I feel like I can give better nursing care in a Medium Security Prison than I ever could working in a hospital. That is even on my worst shift I feel like I give better care in the Jails/Prisons. That and this is honestly the safest job and best kept secret in nursing. I would not still be in the profession if I was in a traditional medical setting. I just decided to make the jump to grad school after being in the profession for over 25 years. We need to get big business out of health care and put those bodies on the floor.
Ya, if I had to do it all over again I wouldn’t have ever chose nursing. So much liability, unsafe ratios and its so hard on your mental and your body🙏🏾
I am switching to a private pay facility. I was working in acute care at a skilled nursing facility. All of my residents were very acute and I would be assigned 10 -12 on the regular. They had trachs, fully dependent, wounds, diabetic, high blood pressure and many are addicts and homeless. The number of residents who hit you and have severe cognitive issues is through the roof. Something has to give
Former anaesthesiology resident here. The worsening condition of patients is not only this nurse's experience. I have anaesthetized old people with severe diseases daily. Anticoagulants, artificial valves and atrial fibrillation were a daily discussion among anaesthesiologists. In specialists' opinion it wasn't the case some years ago, those comorbidites were more rare. It's the medicine's "improvement", that allows us qualify more sick patients for multiple surgeries. I witnessed death or complications from those surgeries daily, while I have been already burnt out after covid pandemic on ICU, which is a whole another story. I am completely burnt out, I have left without looking back. Note: I am not from USA, I worked in public healthcare in a country with a whole public healthcare available for everyone. Hear me out - public healthcare is not a solution. Patients don't care. The most demoralized people will get million dollars worth intensive care after years of alcoholism, DAILY. WITH MY HANDS. While my young athletic colleagues AND FAMILY couldn't get a primary care, EVEN I, A DOCTOR, I couldn't get public healthcare on time in little problems when I needed it. I always paid for my physiotherapy and next day I would grab some 120 kg old lady with my 60kg ass and my 60 kg nurse to treat this big lady's disease for public money. I'm sorry, but I have my regrets. Now I hear that it's getting worse in glorified western countries. Well, we're doomed, I'm leaving the hell outta this business
In Chicago, at least pre-COVID, to be a CNA, my babysitter had to do an unpaid internship for about six months before she'd be eligible to be paid. She wound up doing reception in a doctor's office instead, getting full benes, and making 38K out the gate without six months of no salary.
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Okayyyyy doctor!!!! Not you featuring me in your video 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩!!!! Thank you so much, I appreciate your feedback and the time you took to dissect my video ❤❤❤❤
@KendraRN, I love your videos!
@KendraRN thank you for speaking for the rest of us. Preach on sister.. preach on!!❤❤❤❤👏👏👏
Glad you enjoyed the video! The audience loved your insights.
@@robioavionthank you so much🎉
@@NurseKYMMIEI’ll keep trying sister girl!
Medicine should have never became a corporation. That was the first problem.
True. And things are still going downhill it's scary.
What about UK, medicine under govt is a bigger mess, at least in US doctors are paid well.
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My friends are working at a military hospital (won’t say which one) and they are getting most 3 patients on a regular floor with resources in LPN and CNA to help out with tasks. I am convinced that capitalism and corporation do not belong in the healthcare field.
@@Abidjan-weeklyMe- Liar🤨
Also Me- No lies told😌
I'm a RN with a laundry list of certs. I took a massive pay cut to be cashier. My mental health thanks me. Something's got to give.
Omg lol I left cashiering for the medical admin. I left in 2021 and went into finance.
I’m an ICU RN & the _mental_ stress of this job is kinda outrageous ngl. You really have to be mentally tough to deal with the patient care AND the administrative bs
How did you tweak your resume to make the shift? All I have is nursing experience, and I feel like having a "nursing" resume gets my applications thrown out.
@blackheartcardigan I am literally working at The Home Depot. I didn't have to tweak my resume. I just applied online. I'm still looking for a career shift and figuring out how to convey that nursing skills and all my certs translate well into other industries. We can multi-task, prioritize instinctively, must of us are organized, fast learners, adaptable, and scrupulous in following procedures. Maybe tweak your skills to reflect those kinds of attributes?
😮smh! Damn shame how these hospitals/corporations have ran us off!
Nurses are leaving because they are understaffed, overworked, underpaid and definitely under appreciated.
That part!
Underpaid??? The entitlement of some medical professionals is insane.
@@sola2351 I was addressing why nurses are leaving. Be more specific about who you refer to as “medical professionals”. Nurses definitely fall into that category but I would not assign “entitled” to nurses.
@@kathleendepew1683 nurses are not underpaid.
@@sola2351 and how do you know this? Are you a nurse? Do you know the work of nursing?
The reason for having less walkie-talkie patients is that medicine has advanced to the point that Doctors can do more interventions to prolong life but the quality of life is poor. People are optimistic about living after devastating medical conditions but they need alot of physical help and hospitals are not trying to staff with this in mind.
This! So much.
THANK YOU 🙏🏽
It irks my soul to see the advanced measures doctors implement-and families often desperately demand-just to keep someone alive… but not able “live” anymore. Now, an entire staff of people are needed to assist someone for performing the most basic bodily tasks, for however long the doctors can keep staving off the inevitable.
Patient can’t swallow? Feeding tube. Patient can’t breathe through their mouth? Trach. Patient can’t empty their bladder? Foley. Patient can’t filter their blood? Dialysis. And it just keeps going. Rarely, have any patients I’ve ever had been wealthy enough to afford a decade or more of advanced, 24-hour medical care, so who’s going to cover all the costs in the long run?
Doctors are paid to sustain existence and perform procedures. They are not paid to heal to improve health.
Patients are getting sicker, acuity is higher, and the amount of experienced nurses leaving the bedside now vs pre Covid is worsening. All we ask for is better pay that’ll lead to better staffing but nope! Everyone gets a pizza party while admin sends a “we’re in this together” email in their c-suite
This!!
THIS! There will be more and more patients, more and more sick and more and more advanced medicine supporting them. Meanwhile payment doesn't catch up with inflation, we get more and more paperwork and everyone is hating either on nurses, or doctors. It just suck.
I’m not a nurse, I worked in physical therapy for 25 years, but I get what you’re saying. I was laid off during the pandemic, and I decided I wasn’t going back. And I don’t miss it at all. In fact, I feel bad for my coworkers that are still there. And many of them are figuring out a way to get out early.
I believe there will come a time where hospitals will have to figure it out by making necessary changes that they know should have been made a decade ago
Spot on.
My wife is a RN. She made sure none of our daughters chose nursing as a profession.
I’m doing the same
Lmaooo mine is the opposite. Both of my parents are nurses as well as many of my aunts. My parents want me to become a nurse and my aunts want my cousins to be nurses as well.
@@pahkjeemean6461nursing is still a great career.
Wow
It probably varies by location. But I can say that I’ve loved every second of my job as a nurse. In my unit we get one patient per shift 65-80% of the time and two patients the other 20-35%. The fact that we only have to work 3 shift per week is crazy. That means that I can take 7 days off without having to use PTO. On top of that we get 25 days of PTO per year (and you can maximize this as you are able to use 3 days of PTO and get up to 15 days off). On top of this if we pick up extra we can make bank. I’m finishing up my first year as a nurse and will have made over 6 figures while traveling to over 12 countries.
Is the job challenging? Yes, absolutely. But because of this it’s also incredibly rewarding. And the benefits are definitely worth the challenge as well.
I love science which is one of the reasons I chose the profession. As a RN, I don’t use most of the science I’ve learned. The most important skill is “running like a chicken” which they didn’t teach in nursing school. 🙄
Switch units or locations. I’m in a cardiothoracic ICU and have one (very sick) patient for about 80% of my shifts. I have time to think, learn, and understand what I’m doing.
@@MF-oh2qo that's delusional. That is just a small segment, that doesn't represent the majority of the profession. Cardiology patients are the sweetest deals because they rarely have multiple comorbities. Someone still has to work in medicine-stepdowns and med surg.
@@tragzz it was my first nursing job. But in my hospital even in med surge the ratio is no more than 4:1. And benefits (pay and vacation) are the same. I’ve floated to medsurge units at my hospital and they’re the easiest money of my life.
@@MF-oh2qorespect. The hospitals near me have all ICU nurses at 3:1. 1:1 is a sweet ‘deal’.
@@Lumpycheeses yeah. 1:1 in the CTICU. 2:1 at most in all other ICUs. 3:1 in stepdowns and 4:1 in genmed.
I'm a new nurse. I worked in one of the busiest O.R.'s in Los Angeles and I left after 8 months. I don't think I'm going back to hospitals.
It probably varies by location. But I can say that I’ve loved every second of my job as a nurse. In my unit we get one patient per shift 65-80% of the time and two patients the other 20-35%. The fact that we only have to work 3 shift per week is crazy. That means that I can take 7 days off without having to use PTO. On top of that we get 25 days of PTO per year (and you can maximize this as you are able to use 3 days of PTO and get up to 15 days off). On top of this if we pick up extra we can make bank. I’m finishing up my first year as a nurse and will have made over 6 figures while traveling to over 12 countries.
Is the job challenging? Yes, absolutely. But because of this it’s also incredibly rewarding. And the benefits are definitely worth the challenge as well.
Lol so what are you doing for work then ?
@@MF-oh2qopeople just don’t want to work at all and get paid lol 😂
No way I would ever go back to a hospital again
@@MF-oh2qoThis is why I am going into the profession. I am also a people person. I thrive on human interaction.
30 yrs in the ER as medic/RN. Retired in 2016. First, there was a drastic drop in public respect for nurses including assaults. Secondly, administrators who didn't care about patient care, just Press Ganey scores - including the abdominal pain patient who states that their care was terrible because they weren't immediately fed upon arrival.
And organizations like ENA gave this facility lantern awards because they reduce ama time by opening more rooms but didn’t consider the nurses ratios
The freaking eating
As someone who actually has gi issues it really annoys the crap out of me when I see people complaining of abdominal pain or literally sitting there with puke buckets and yet they are eating
I had the worst experience in nursing school as a student nurse. I was told to give up the seat for someone in a higher profession in the healthcare when I was a student nurse. At the time, I was doing a BSN. I ended not finishing because the school was too expensive. Funny, I ended trying again with Nursing because I am LPN now just to be more disappointed with the profession.
They completely turned healthcare into a service industry and nurses now have to be customer service reps.
I’m a LPN worked from ICU yes ICU MED SURG LTC NIW PRIVATE DUTY WITH KIDS ON VENTILATOR IN THEIR HOME.
Preventative medicine isn’t stressed enough
We as nurses become more task Oriented than whole patient centered care.
LTC 30 parents 15 tube feed and dressing wound care
Have to give all meds 1 hour before 1 hour after. All meds scheduled for 8am.
How one nurse can do all at same time. Or family wants to take your time to discuss their family when you have 30-40 meds to give. Family don’t understand.
Nurse for 10 yrs here. I’ve seen the decline. Patients are built different now. I’ve always put 100% into my work. But these latter years I found myself giving the hospital most of my time energy and compassion, while leaving my family with the scraps of me. I walked away. One of the best things I’ve done.
Hi! What are you doing now if you don’t mind me asking?
I was randomly recommended this vid, but being a former elementary school teacher (7 years, this was my final year) I see so many parallels between nursing and teaching. Underpaid, unappreciated, and the girlies are indeed NOT choosing to be teachers and I completely understand why. Kudos to all nurses and all teachers. I see you all. 💗
Bc teaching and nursing are pink colored jobs!!
This is the history of woman-led professions.
You don't see us - the Medical Technologist - the ones who, except for anatomical pathology, provide the Clinical Diagnosis to the doctors. Nobody ever saw us.
Nurses and teachers appreciation is in the same week, fun fact, May 6th to 12th
Well let me just confirm your suspicions that nursing and teaching are very similar when it comes to the stresses and even straight up abuses put on these two professions. I'm 30 years as a nurse, 28 of it actively worked, and I'm now entering my second year as high school teacher. I can't believe how much teaching is similar to nursing, but honestly I have to say teaching isn't as stressful as most of the nursing jobs I have had, even though it's very challenging.
At least in teaching I can drink some water when I need to and go pee when I need to, for the most part (although I know that's a challenge for elementary teachers that can't walk out of the classroom for a minute). With teaching I can eat lunch during my cafeteria duty at lunch time and then when I make it to my planning period I can take my time and eat lunch. With nursing it's a much bigger role of the dice if you will get to have a bite of food in 12 and 1/2 hours of stressful work😡
As an RN, I'm always short on CNAs. There's a period I took a break from nursing and drove Lyft and delivered pizza.
Yup. Ex RN here. Became Licensed Massage Therapist and so much happier. Amazing pay now that i market myself out in the wealthy neighborhoods. The flexibility is the best. 💆🏻♂️. Most def wont ever be returning as an RN. Best part for me as a nurse was having a lot of understanding and background recognizing chronic illnesses. Still to this day I have parents thanking me on giving insight to their daughter or son having dysautonomia, pots, gastroparesis, sphincter of oddi dysfunction. Crazy bc hardly nurses or even doctors knew what that was 🤷🏻♂️ Left because of doctors being a holes to me. Never had an issue with nurses/staff or patients
I don't blame anyone for leaving health care. Especially if you work in the hospital. Absolute nightmare. I'm seriously traumatized. Everyday its the same nonsense. Short-staffed, rude patients, unfair assignments. Not surprised there will be no nurses left. This is my last year working as an RN. Enough is enough ✌️🏿
I have thought about delivering pizza.
@kind2423 there are some people that still love nursing.
CNAs DON'T get paid enough! That's why hospitals and nursing homes are always understaffed with them.
Some hospitals in California especially the Bay Area, have really strong nursing unions that mandate breaks, ratios, staffing. Some cardiac units (non-ICU) even have 2-3 patients per nurse. The nurses there are also well paid, with experienced nurses making up to 250K or more (differentials, clinical level, etc). Unions are necessary to balance the way healthcare corps are trying to run the business. These should model how nursing is in the US to prevent burnout. Take a look at their nurses union contracts (CRONA (Stanford Hospital), CNA (Kaiser Hospitals), UCSF Med
I am a male CNA and she is spitting facts!!! Hospital Upper management doesn’t care about you, or the patients for that matter. Nursing facilities are darn right disgusting and it’s very sad knowing what these elderly patients go through on a daily basis with lack of family support and unfortunately people taking care of them who are disinterested in their job, but if I’m being honest I don’t blame them because it’s a hard frustrating job. I use to want to be a nurse sooo damn bad, but after 2 1/2 years as a CNA in the hospital setting, I am going the medicine route and choosing PA, specifically because I realize I enjoy science and anatomy a lot, but not the MD/DO route because I want to enjoy my life and not live at the hospital and not go half a million in debt. Nurses go through so much and have to deal with so much BS, it’s disheartening to experience and see new grads with so much joy and love and literally a month in you can see the disparity and sadness in their eyes.
U should not be in this field in any role. Simply .. you will be in the same boat due to your outlook on life and the medical profession. Be part of the solution rather than the complainer and part of the problem. You are unhappy in the medical profession
@@monicamartin6584guess you don’t work in the medical field!!!. Also, this person is speaking on their experience and what they have seen. And, How are they going to fix a problem that is occurring pretty much everywhere.
You cannot disregard someone’s experience and then tell them they are negative.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but being a PA will NOT be any better for you. You will still run into the same problems.
@@Kuttie03absolutely!!!!
I was born in 1959 and I am now 64. According to Social Security 1959 is going to be the biggest population of Retirees. So the next 3 years will be crazy town for nurses. I have been in the hospital many times and will be again this fall when I am getting my 2nd knee replacement. I try to be courteous and never use my call button unless I need to use restroom and can’t get out of bed due to fall risk. I have been told by the nurse that I am too quiet. I feel bad for the nurses. Because you can hear call buttons go off like 10 at a time. Do hospitals not do the Candy Stripe program anymore?
I was a nurse for 32 years and nothing has changed. It was is and always will be profit over people. Med surg ratios have not changed. A lot of the younger nurses gravitate towards NP school and nurse managers are useless. Seasoned nurses don’t readily jump to huge sign on bonuses knowing it could land them in the same boat. What needs
To happen are mandatory staffing ratios that are based on safety studies. In other words what is the most Patients a nurse can take on before the safety and well-being of the patient is at risk? Obviously the number would be different depending on what floor the nurse works on. Secondly Parents need to start young and teach their children that McCrap and Burger Krap do not sell real food. Last but not least nursing school should be hospital based and not university based so that the students and help alleviate the staffing shortages while still learning.
Funny you say that, but the EMT/Para track, at least when I took it back 100 years ago, was mostly field. Very little time in the classroom, lots of time in the hospital and the ambulance.
Plus, as the new meat, you get to spend a lot of time cleaning and restocking rigs, so that's fun.
And crazy requirements for nursing faculty need to change (we don’t need PhDs)
@@joanneraatzI was pretty much harassed nonstop to get the doctoral degree. My teaching plans didn't measure up, but my students knew the material and passed NCLEX. The fancy doc degrees didn't actually know a lot of nursing and their pass rates reflected that. When I finally left I was blamed for numerous students failing their final drug calc. None of the students that failed were ever my students and I didn't teach the final class. But I still got blamed.
I believe a good nurse starts as a certified nurse assistant. So she /he knows how to be proactive
@@joanneraatznot to mention faculty pay. I applied for a potion at the college it paid 50k a year. Most of nursing professors had to teach and still work bedside to make a living.
After graduating from nursing school, I did 7 months in Medsurg/Telemetry & was already tired of it... then came an opportunity and went to psych....well it's been 3 yrs & I DON'T miss bedside nursing & all the fake titles of ICU, ER, PEDS, OB & CLEAN ASSES
As an IM resident at a quarternary center , the past medical history stuff she mentioned is 100% accurate. It’s a cognitive burden for the doctors too!
Is it that insurance and private equity are restricting access to care until people are complete care by the time they teach hospital.
@@MistySprinkle-f4y More care is done outpatient now. There is even a new trend of hospital at home for stable patients managed by home care nurses I presume along with remote technology for vitals and tele if needed.
I did hospital security for a year. Never again!! The nurses get assaulted, and even if we call the police, we can't deny them if they are in the hospital with mental health. Yet, we can keep homeless people off property unless it's life or death. Nurses got spit on, hit, had hot coffee thrown on them, verbally abused, the nurses get each other in trouble, we had a homeless guy who emptied his entire bowl on the floor and ran out of the hospital leaving a trail, families assault hospital employees when their loved ones die, we had to babysit the crazy..
There's too many patients per one nurse. The nurses abuse the CNA's so they quit.... The hospital is a crazy and VERY stressful place to work. I'd only work in a hospital if I had no other option..... Oh, and the pay is NOT worth the stress. Law enforcement and hospital policies don't protect hospital workers of any kind from patient abuse. And if you defend yourself, you'll be fired and lose your license. No thank you.
Nurses are not infrequently very abusive and neglectful toward patients, entitled authoritarian and coercive. They often choose their profession in hopes of dominating others.
I have been hit, kicked, bitten, stuff thrown at me, punched, had my hair pulled out. The amount of abuse staff have to take while caring for patients is unreal. Not to mention full bladders because you are too busy to be able to go to the bathroom, no breaks or interrupted breaks and lunches. I cant tell you how many times i have seen nurses eat graham crackers or saltine crackers because they dont have time to take a lunch or people wont get meds or cares done. And if that isnt enough you can have drs yelling at you for something they didnt do but you are supposed to be able to do your job and be their secretary and remind them of what they forgot. Don't forget as a nurse the state nursing boards can fine you and families can sue you individually on top of losing your license and getting fired. So no, nursing is not easy, they are overworked and underappreciated and burnout Is extremely high.
@rdbare4216 this is a false statement for the majority of nurses. I'm sorry if you had an experience with a bad nurse at some point but making assumptions and including all "nurses" in your claims is not accurate or fair to those who are not as you claim them to be.
@@michelle1081 i vehemently disagree. My family and I have had vast experience with medicine from many perspectives and roles. Sociology and social psychology have a lot to say about medicine too.
@@michelle1081 And of course it isn’t ALL nurses but the problems are part of the subculture which drew you and within which you function.
I Love Kendra RN, she gives you realistic expectations in what is happening in the Healthcare profession. You can see her passion for what she does exude and the love for future Nurses and her patients ❤️
I worked Long term care for over 10yrs and ITS EVEN WORSE!! My last Shift in December 2023 I had 32!!! 32 PATIENT'S AKA Residents 12 were Diabetic with insulin, dressing changes, Skin assessments/ dressing changes including having to pass Meds to half of them all while answering the phone and watching the fax machine for Dr orders/Lab results and pharmacy deliveries!! I left that day and may NEVER go back to that way of Nursing again!! Of course I loved my Residents and Nursing itself but I just cannot handle that anymore 😢!! Being a Nurse is Hard !!
Yea, LTC and SNFs are even worse!
My last day working as a nurse in a nursing home I had 54 patients because apparently "night shift doesn't need more staff".
Some of them are horrible and need to gooo...the disparities in some of their care practices are atrocious
LTC & SNFs are the worst! And they pay less, it’s extremely unsafe way to many patients for ONE nurse
My mom has Alzheimer’s and Dementia and I have her in a facility. It is a challenge to make sure she gets the care we were promised when I signed the rental agreement. But I will say that she is doing much better being around people with the same condition that she has.
After 45 years, an RN, masters degree, nurse educator, ER, ICU trained, multiple certifications . I quit. My life is so much better. I make a lot less money but my happiness and stress free life is priceless.
I really didn't understand about stress until I retired. Now I feel like I have a life.
I retired early due to being overworked, crazy hours, too much micromanagement and not being able to take care of our patients properly due to the overload of patient ratio to one nurse. I don't care how much money they pay, there is no amount of money that anyone could pay me to keep my sanity and health. When I started crying in the parking lot before and after work, I decided it was time to quit, so I did.
I did the same thing. I started having panic attacks because I knew that I could not properly care for my patients.
@@rebeccarobb4121 It's just sad that nursing has come to this. I'm sorry but glad you quit because your health is more important.
I am a former hospital chaplain in a 750 bed hospital in West Texas. Part of my job was to emotionally and spiritually care for the nurses, as well as the support staff, so that they would be happy, stay at their job, and not complain to the leaders. I saw a lot of these same problems 25 to 30 years ago, which is why I left that form of ministry. Back then if a woman had a baby she was given one or two days in the hospital after giving birth. When I was a Chaplin there had already started shipping the women out within 24 hours of giving birth. I am now a licensed professional counselor. I see some of these same problems at the out-patient mental health clinic level. I assess that the entire system is break down under it's own weight. Patients are NOT getting the care they need and they are often having to wait months to get the care they do get!!!
Yes! After working as a CNA in an inpatient hospice unit then becoming self employed working with geriatric clients I’ve had a chance to learn about the care they receive from PCP’s and hospital stays. The elderly are being abused by the system, most of my clients feel the system is actively trying to kill them. My own mother was diagnosed with CHF at the beginning of March, the cardiologist failed to tell her! We found out 2 weeks ago after switching PCP’s, now it’s a scamble to get her educated and mitigate the comorbidities that have developed over the 8 months it’s taken to get a diagnosis for her. I wish the younger HC workers could understand that most people currently over 65 view them as “authorities” and need better patient education than the system currently allows. It’s scary out there, how can we work collectively to make things better for everyone?
The political and pay is one reason Nurses don’t want to be Nurses not to mention patients are rude and ungrateful.
The reason that every patient is total care now is that you have to be that sick to get Inpatient care now for insurance to pay. After my total knee replacement I was out the door less than 2 hours after waking up from anesthesia. Even this kind of surgery, that a few years ago warranted a couple of days inpatient care, does not even get any post op monitoring after post anesthesia recovery.
Wow wasn't even aware of this, could also be due to overpopulation as the hospitals are slammed with people from the baby boom generation.
@@johnmorrison7205the hospital is also a dangerous place to be long term. People get clots, atelectasis, infection more easily. Additionally it’s thousands of dollars per day for an admission so if a patient can safely go home then it’s better and cheaper for them.
Depends on your other medical problems.
There was even a federal law in 1996 that mandated that insurers could not restrict a mother's hospital stay less than 48 hours for vaginal delivery or less than 96 hours for C-section to stop the insurers from pushing them out too soon!
@@johnmorrison7205 I was i a bad car wreck, hospital, rehab, nursing home. I was not on medication of any kind and had no conditions or illnesses and I swear every other patient I met had a laundry list of things wrong besides what they came in for. Not all were baby boomers either. We area sick nation
I am a RN, I work in a big hospital system in PA and I work on med surg. I can confirm that our ratio is 1:7 but they "try to cap us at 1:6". It is insane. What she said in the video is absolutely true. We don't have enough techs, we are trying to do our own jobs and everyone else's jobs too. And tbe patients treat us like absolute crap. We get hit, kicked, slapped, spit at, cursed out, etc etc etc and very few patients show understanding of what we have to do. My unit is a newer unit, it's a 14 bed unit, we have 2 nurses and 1 tech. That's it. It's so dangerous. Not only that, but we don't even get relieved for breaks. I have to beg staffing to have someone cover us for breaks half the time. How are we working 12 hours and don't don't get a break? We are in a constant fight of flight kind of elevated stressful state, for 12 hours straight. And I never get out at 7. I have to stay and chart sometimes till 9. It's absolutely true that we feel guilty that we aren't able to give the level of care that we WANT to give, because we don't have the staff and we don't have the time. It's incredibly hard. Also, the patients seem to think that at hospitals, they are in a 5 star hotel and they demand that the nurses are their personal chefs, housekeepers, maids, everything. They are incredibly demanding and most family members don't help, they will legit sit there and watch you struggle. I hope it gets better, because honestly I don't think I could do this for another 20+ years. Something needs to change
The problem is that schools keep adding stupid requirements to apply for a nursing program. I met a nurse who said some places have a waitlist for 3-5 years to start a nursing program.
Why be a CNA when you can just start an OF channel?
Breaks. I’m told I’ll get written up if I don’t take one. They say this is coming from the state and not the organization I work for. Um. If there was coverage for a break, I would take it. Who’s fault is that?
@@Dagnymarie1they don’t want you to take a break, also don’t want to pay you or get in trouble with state labor laws
So true, the video mentioned walky talky patients, sometimes those patient are worst, extremely demanding, complainers and drug seekers, coming in for hotel services. I have no problem taking care the elderly sick paralyzed folks those who truly need care and attention
As on older Gen Z RN, what she says is true. I got my BSN right after i turned 21, did 1 year of bedside of a mix of step down and ICU….hated every minute of my life. You are a glorified servant to EVERYONE in the hospital with admin harassing you throughout the day to do nonsense charting that has no direct impact to patient outcomes. Instead of telling me to chart my patient care plans (endless list of redundant bullet points that the patient “needs” to be educated on) while i am in the process of wiping someone’s ass, maybe offer a helping hand?!
Went to outpatient urgent care and i started to enjoy life a little bit more. How these older nurses have been doing bedside their whole careers is beyond me. They have no self respect at all is the only conclusion i can come to. Pure passion for nursing cant make you stay that long with our current healthcare system
RN of 33.5 years. I have had to pivot several times because you will burn out. That is the best part of nursing, you can work in a very wide variety of settings. I could not have made it without the variety.
woah you nailed it, and yes I think it b/c of that too, no self respect! crazy isn't? 🤷
@@Ggsodapopit sucks to say but honestly its the truth. I see them sometimes soooo stressed and frazzled but for what?! They are just a number to admin and the hospital.
Oh you want to strike? Hold up. Lemme page the registry and bring nurses with 5x the pay when they can be paying their house staff in the first place. Nurses are easily the most preyed upon profession in healthcare when shit hits the fan. Its ALWAYS the nurses fault when something bad happens even if its not within their scope of practice. Im generalizing but you get the point.
You think your patient assignment is unsafe? Im gonna report you to the board of nursing for patient abandonment. The fact that threats like that even exist are mind boggling and shows how little they value nurses
I genuinely wouldn’t mind going back to bedside if the system worked effectively and safely (more fucken staff)
Ugh this is so relatable 🥲 I was a tech for 5 years at a level 1 trauma center, advanced care floor. Graduated got my RN, took a job on the same floor and only 4 months in I am dreading my days. Incredibly stressful and overwhelming. I love caring for patients and giving back but ratios and the lack of help is astounding.
@@mackenzie95go outpatient ASAP. whether thats surgery, procedure, primary care or urgent care. You are not racing the clock all day, your patients are healthier, more conscious, and will to learn so patient teaching is actually rewarding for both parties.
I had severe preshift anxiety…im talking dry heaving on the way to work and taking 2 shits prior to clocking in. I was fine after report but just the thought of me going back was causing insomnia
After i went to urgent care it all went away. Really look into it, your just as much of a nurse even if ur not killing urself in the process
Am a nurse too and all what she said is true. The worse of it all is when a typical day work load is great and you are trying to finished a 12 hrs job but you are still finishing all your paper work at 10 pm and the bosses thinks you want overtime, and gets written up for that’s, that’s bulling.
Well you shouldn’t have used the RESTROOM! Catheterize yourself…STAT! You know I’m kidding because that is such audacity! I told my supervisor this, “I get to work a good 30 minutes early because that works for me and I know the nurse that I’m relieving loves me for this, but I’m not here for recreation or boredom so whenever you see me here an hour or so past the arbitrary end of my shift..it’s because I’m WORKING!” They leave me alone now. They (administration or their henchman supervisors)talk crazy, I talk crazier.
*I'm, not am.
or they tell you you're not managing your time well, whatever the case, it's always the nurses fault. In her original video, she mentioned making a note instead of charting, which is a good idea, in case you had a particularly heavy, long day, and really should be going home to take care of yourself instead of sitting at the computer for another hour while your family is waiting for you to come home. The worst is when you get home and they fall asleep waiting for you 😢. Yeah, charting is out of control....
Took a 3k/mo pay reduction to go from the ED to orientate to CVICU. Worth it. Doing US Army USAGPAN for CRNA. Full-time pay and benefits while in school with the school years counting towards retirement. I'm entering my late 30s and this is my last move in nursing. It's this or I'm out. I have a degree and experience in another field, don't need to be here.
Professional patient over here. Been sick since birth and so thankful for all of our nurses. A nurse literally saved my life after a doctor missed something and then refused to admit it.
I have so many friends with other chronic illnesses and we know that we’d all be dead if not for the doctors and nurses, but we know the nurses are the ones who care for us especially since the doctors well can’t, not with the 15minute rules and other demands.
You are all amazing and I am Pursing nursing because of my experiences, good and bad ones. Although it is terrible now and I fully expect it to collapse soon (maybe the NHS will go first) I want to be here to help rebuild and in the meantime help patients as much as I can despite knowing that it will be hell on earth sometimes. Hopefully one day we will be able to let the medical staff help and not withhold due to a piece of green paper
Totally agree with a lot of young people not looking as CNA and RNA as life long professions. I worked as a CNA at an ER and loved taking care of patients, but most days I was the only CNA supporting 3 to 4 RNs and their 4 patients each. Most days we were understaffed so I was also running around helping hallway patients and with codes. We had a good RN to patient ratio, but the complexity of illness and injury we would see would overwhelm us. These conditions led to high turnover rate. Over the one year I was there I saw so many colleagues leave. We lost so many experienced CNAs and the new CNAs and the ER suffered from the loss of expertise. I loved my job and loved what I could do for patients, but the lack of support and not being able to give patients the best care I could was disheartening. Just like she said, I am not looking to go into nursing, being a CNA for me was a way to get experience and save money for med school, but there are better and more physically sustainable ways to make an income. I feel people are realizing that the pay and prestige of bedside nursing or other healthcare jobs are not worth the toll on their health.
Been a nurse 5 years before I enrolled into medical school, totally agree unsafe ratio’s, patients are only getting sicker and sicker and that combination just creates mistakes.. I think she’s right, there’s gonna be a major shortage in the future it’s already happening in the country I’m from and I feel like management is not taking it seriously because it has ebbed and flowed in the past, but this time it’s different: the pro’s of working outside of hospitals (or typical medsurg departments) are just now majorly outweighing the cons more and more dramatically, and the generation of “proud workhorses” that are content working themselves to an early grave is also becoming less. I feel like this generation (myself included) is a lot more health conscious/looking for balance, and that’s a good thing. Also not against capitalism, but it totally needs to be regulated.
Out of curiosity, what made you want to go to med school instead of being a NP?
@@misskia5810 I wanted more responsability, I wanted to learn more and be the one to come up with the treatment plan for each patient. In the country I’m from PA/NP’s get delegated the routine tasks that I didn’t really find exciting, and I don’t do well with routine stuff I need more stimulation/challenge.
@@misskia5810curious as well. I did half of my online NP school bc honestly its a joke of a program. Granted i chose the wrong school and program. Now trying to do some soul searching before restarting somewhere else.
ADVANCED NURSING PROGRAMS SHOULD BE REGULATED. Minimum 3 years nursing experience before applying to NP school should be a start
@@misskia5810 NP school is oversaturated and there are few jobs to find once you graduate. Soon CRNA schools will have the same thing happen to them
A system that prioritizes _profit_ over _human satisfaction_ will always end up like this. There is no consent for anyone under capitalism, ever; i highly recommend delving into political theory. Lunaoi's video on dialectical materialism is a great place to start, it's the analysis I've used naturally since birth and has never failed me - i just don't listen sometimes or miss details
I’ve been a nurse for 10yrs. The burn out is real. I work in the ICU and being tripled is the norm. My back, feet and knees by the end of the shift is done. Having four days off is nothing. I was just telling a colleague this the other day. Family members need to do more than just sit there looking. They don’t ask is there anything that they can do to assist. They should be embarrassed and ashamed. I plan on exiting the bedside in a few months. It’s just too much.
Yeah this seems to be across the board. Stretching people thin is part of the business model, and the results are proving increasingly deadly. You see this in engineering as well.
Yes and its all about paying off investment groups like VC's, Private Equity, stockholders and Health Insurance companies.
I love Kendra. She tells it like it is
Helloooo❤❤❤❤
6:54 YES!!! I’m a new nurse, been workin for about 3 months and ALREADY I’m sick of their BULLSH- always understaffed, heavy pt load, lack of supplies, no help, no teamwork, etc. 😖😖😖😖 imma try to keep at it for a year, but thangs ain’t lookin too good for ur girl 😭😭😭
Inpatient acutely is higher today. I’m the past patients stayed in the hospital several days after surgery. Today they have surgery, are up walking within hours and sent home same day.
To play the devil’s advocate…could it be bc our medical technology has advanced to the point where surgeries are less invasive and have better recovery outcomes?
@@blackjack21477 they force patients out of bed asap bc it does help prevent blood clots. but also boomers require more health care than before, and they are overwhelming the system.
Thank you for covering this topic.
New grad here, never working in acute care, I work outpatient care and I make twice as much for half the labor. the problem is hospitals are not paying enough for the labor
What kind of outpatient care do you do?
I really enjoyed this video. It’s a topic that needs to be discussed, but I feel as if nothing will get done until it’s too late.
As a nurse I agree 100% about everything she said. She couldn't have been more on point. It's as if she was doing the talking for me word for word.
I've been a nurse for 25 years, and I have to agree! It's changed over the years and not for the best. Pay is extremely low (the big 3) benefits suck.
It probably varies by location. But I can say that I’ve loved every second of my job as a nurse. In my unit we get one patient per shift 65-80% of the time and two patients the other 20-35%. The fact that we only have to work 3 shift per week is crazy. That means that I can take 7 days off without having to use PTO. On top of that we get 25 days of PTO per year (and you can maximize this as you are able to use 3 days of PTO and get up to 15 days off). On top of this if we pick up extra we can make bank. I’m finishing up my first year as a nurse and will have made over 6 figures while traveling to over 12 countries.
Is the job challenging? Yes, absolutely. But because of this it’s also incredibly rewarding. And the benefits are definitely worth the challenge as well.
I ve been a nurse for 45 years...still working full time. NOT bedside nursing....surely cannot do that anymore. I work as a pre-admit nurse. Interviewing pts before they have surgery, getting their "history" from them. I have to teach them how to prepare for surgery , give instructions, tell them what meds to take the day of surgery and then go over lab results, notify MDs if the results are abnormal, do the EKGs, do a set of vital signs, collect urine specimens, get their consents signed and witnessed, and document what transpiredwhile the pt was with you. Oh "they" give you 45 minutes to one hour to get this done, no matter how incoherent or coherent the patient is. If they know their medications or forgot their list , the nurse must find out !
My mom was a CNA/STNA and she retired. She couldn’t believed her old employer called her back to work last week.
That’s terrifying to think they desperately need a 63 year old woman.
Where at?
@@user-yup-you-are-human2 north east Ohio
@@DeLaTr0ll tY, Ive been looking around Columbus
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Not long after I retired, I got a recording from my former hospital about the opportunities available and to call if interested. I just stood there in disbelief. Retired is just that, retired. Don't be calling me to come back.
Yeah when my dad was dying after he had a stroke and aphasia plus the loss of the right side of his body, I would come in and cut his hair, I would cut his nails I would bring him the kind of food that he likes, I would put lotion on his body, I would massage him a little bit. They can't do everything. My dad needed a lot of help and I did what I could. Not to mention not all insurance pays a lot of money some of these rates at the insurance company has are so low that the private pay patients are really paying majority of it
In India, you have to bring a family member to get you food, to get your medicine, the nurses will administration, but you have to pay for it at the pharmacy and your family brings it into the nurse.
I talked my youngest daughter out of being a nurse. I am an RN and have been working as an RN for over 25 years. Things have changed so much in the last 8-10 years. I have left the hospital.(I worked L&D and Mother/Baby and Women’s post op mostly) and now work for much less money in an ONGYN office. She is right. Something has to change.
It is changing. Patient are fatter and sicker. My back is not worth it.
Nurse/patient ratio. Administration took away my help when I begged them not to. They left me alone with 25 to 30 patients. When I had another nurse I could keep up with patient assessments, IV therapy, and documentation.
I knew the acuity level of my patients. I told them that a patient was going to fall through the crack because I couldn't keep up with the many medications and patient assessment too. That's exactly what happened. Needless to say that I eventually quit. The Physician in charge also quit. The patient load was absolutely too much.
Imagine one nurse to 28 to 32 patients! Not sustainable.
Happens at nursing homes and Administrators don't care
That is the patient load on my shift. At night we have 1/24 ratio for the CNA
I work in a facility with mixed patients, Long-term care, convalescent, respites and palliative. The night ratio is 2 care aid and 1 nurse per floor, each floor 44-50 patients. Many nights short staffed with a nurse having to cover 2 floors and only 2 staff on each floor. Wonder why people call in a lot 🤔. I've trained myself not to eat on nightshift, there's just no time, sometimes barely get my tea finished.
Same here...worked LTC for years and it was Bad years ago..now it's even worse...I left LTC in December and I don't regret it! I 32 patients in my day shift...total nightmare 😢
Not to mention dangerous and a liability(!!!) These corporate numbnuts have destroyed medicine.
In North Dakota, you are required to have a CNA for nursing school. I am on my third day of clinicals! It is backbreaking work. I cannot do It! I will stick to my current profession as a massage therapist. More pay and less stress.
KendraRN giving accurate insider current event news for future nurses and people who have the power to make a change
Crazy how you have so many people trying to nursing school and not enough teachers. No one sees that log jam of a pipeline and than when you see so many nurses leaving, it’s like the deadliest cycle. No more nurses at the bedside and none to replace them as we have no one to educate the students.
Wouldn't matter, the problem is lack of retention due to the terrible conditions which have only worsened since covid. No matter how many nurses you graduate, there will always be a shortage, until and unless staffing ratios are enforced, along with good pay and benefits and respect! There are millions of nurses who don't work in the field already. Graduate more, they will just leave and I don't blame them! I quit and took early retirement end of 2020 after almost 30 years due to stress and unsafe working conditions glad I did, felt I would have a stroke if I didn't. Wish I had left sooner.
Thank you for choosing Kendra's video!! She is one of my favorite youtubers. She focuses on the issue, not herself.
At one point in my career I worked both adult medsurg and ICU at the same time, I was a tech for a few years before I became a nurse on the medsurg floor I worked...in that short time the patients we were caring for on the floor were the patients we would have sent to CCU or ICU a few years before. The 5 to 9 patients of the late 90s were not the same as the patients in the early to mid 2000s when I moved away from medsurg to live in the ICU. Many of the administrators who talk about "I was a nurse I understand " in fact don't they didn't have EMR, higher acuity, hotel mindset of patients/familes, nor the meteics we have now. Also, CNAs were plentiful at one point and many were really good and helpful and worthy of so much respect.
Special recognition to this nurse who had the courage to speak up and speak for us nurses. We are overloaded, underpaid, and overworked causing burnout sooner and forcing early retirement or a complete change in careers entirely. Truth!
My dad retired as a doctor in 98 and he did not encourage any of his kids to get into the medical proffession cause he saw were it was heading
With regard to nursing the juice (pay) isn't worth the squeeze (stress). Only exception is if you're doing traveling nursing or float pool at your hospital.
Travel nursing is not even worth it anymore. The rates are so low , it’s equivalent to being a staff nurse with higher risk…
@@smilinjoe23yes, a lot of facilities treat travelers and PRN nurses like garbage. You get the worst assignments
If profit over patient is the primary goal, then none of this will change. It will only get worse.
Got my AA in nursing and then my bachelors for MLS . So glad I became a medical lab scientist. I love science but the demand of patients and the treatment was just something I was not willing to accept. I’m so happy I changed roles and I am so much happier with my career.
What was your path to becoming a medical lab scientist?
My path was going a college that offered a specific MLS program . The school I went to had a BS in Medical Laboratory Sciences program which is where i completed my studies.
This is a good video, Now I don't feel alone. I am a nursing assistant, a patient care technician. I recently left bedside as a tech from a hospital in Scottsdale AZ because I would either be assigned 28 patients by myself on a shift or 16 patients during a 12 hour shift. Nurses were assigned 4 to 5 patients only. The Patient care techs are always given a higher ratio. I left bedside care because I was overwhelmed. I would drive home crying with back pain, painful feet, and pain in my hips. One night I was assigned 16 patients. I had more than 4 calling me to go to the bathroom I could only take 1 at a time. One patient couldn't wait for me any longer to go to the bathroom, they got up on their own, fell, busted their head open and died. The hospital stated the patient died from a heart issue but that was not true, the patient died from the fall. Although the patient was in the unit for a cardiac related condition it was not how they died and I didn't feel safe working as a patient care technician at this facility. It was just heart breaking. :(
I nursed for over 40 years. Kendra speaks the truth. ❤️🇨🇦
Unhealthy lifestyle is the main problem. Almost all the patient i see are diabetics & on insulin.Imagine you have one CNA or 2 ,1 already sitter 1:1 for behavioral patient on med surg .You have hundread things to chart ,constant call bell ringing,be yelled at etc
I was in for a long time from a car wreck. I was a freak. No cardiovascular issues, no diabetes, not morbidly overweight, nothing but the broken bones from the wreck. But almost everyone else had a laundry list of comorbidities and so much extra work for the nursing staff Even when they were much younger than me.
I’m a nurse as well I’ve been a nurse for 2 years I’m burnt out. I’m ready to leave planning an exit as we speak!
As a nurse I have to agree with her. I have been a nurse for 7 years and I'm ready to go. I Graduate NP school next year. The patients are sicker. Plus them and their families sometimes treat nurses so bad. I've been hit and called N**** and B****. I've been threatened. I'm also a teachers assistant for a college in NJ and I do tell the students to be honest with them and try to prepare them for what's ahead
I worked in admitting and other clerical jobs in healthcare for almost 9 years. I was making $16 an hour in 2010. In 2024 they are offering us 20$ for the same job. I could work at McDonald’s and make more. I quit healthcare during covid to go to barber school and it’s so much more relaxing and I’m more comfortable
TBH it sounds like pt load has increased across the board for healthcare, I’m an OP therapist and I have seen up to 25 pt in a 8hr workday and its absolute burnout, I was burnt-out already in my 2nd year.. and then comes the existential crisis 🤦🏾
Good looking out! Thanks for helping bring this to the public consciousness. I am a neurology nurse.
I am going into psychiatric mental health advanced nursing practice. After doing Neurology stepdown for going on 8 years, I am pretty much done with bedside nursing. I am the 2nd most senior nurse on nights in my unit and have seen tons of nurses come and go within a year or less. It's a difficult and thankless job at baseline, but COVID really changed things for the worse. Apart from the pandemic itself, the aftermath is not much better. Sicker patients with higher incidences of stroke and heart attacks. The pay raises are negligible and the hospital is cutting costs at every turn. Despite the lack of decent pay raises we are expected to learn and practice more and more advanced skills and procedures.
As a neurology nurse, I run cardiac drips, TNK (clot buster infusions), antibody infusions, heparin drips, high flow oxygen, complex wound care and wound vac maintenance, bladder irrigation, trach care, ostomy care, drug and alcohol withdrawal, and so much more. We have 6-1 ratios and are frequently understaffed. Not to mention having some of the most combative patients in the hospital. A week doesn't go by without one of us getting hit, kicked, scratched, bitten, grabbed, or spit at. Then there is just the bone-crushing sadness of the job. Nurses are leaving the bedside at massive rates. My wife is a nurse anesthetist, the biggest reason I stuck it out this long is to get her through school. I worry about what the next few years will bring if something isn't done to turn this around.
Respect your nurses, CNAs, and patient care techs. You don't want to imagine a world where we aren't around.
AMAZING VIDEO. I’m entered nursing right at the beginning of the pandemic and it was HELL: brand new, no real skills and no support. I suffered every single day and YES, no help from admin so valid point in criticizing that factor of healthcare. Like you I believe in Capitalism BUT healthcare should not be a business. We need to take care of ourselves AND support healthy work environments, especially for nurses. It is inhumane to suffer through the unrealistic workloads and she didn’t even mention the verbal and physical abuse we are exposed to as well. Code grays were an hourly occurrence where I worked. Thanks for giving space to this very important topic.
I love nurse Kendra!! I appreciate this video, Dr.!! Thank you!!
What breaks i use to skip breaks, did not have time for it. i am a NP now and take my work home with, now i work 24/7 and no off days; unless i go on vacation.
RN here, and you have some VERY valid points!
Thank you for making this video. it is well said, the details are all true! I'm a CNA.
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Thanks for sharing this real talk… I identify with your concerns!
Thanks for sharing her post. This was very eye opening
Also, I love me some Kendra, RN! I went ICU after working Med/Surg, and even in California with strict 1:5 patient ratios, I am grateful every single day for that decision. Med/surg today is TOUGH!
Cookie cutter medicine, not individual. Bad bad bad. I could never encourage anyone to be a nurse after my 26 years. RUN AWAY!
Wow, everything that Kendra mentioned about what is happening in nursing is happening in education! I am a teacher who just finished my 15th year. The amount of higher needs kids in every classroom has gone up exponentially, and our potential Teachers Aides are with the potential CNAs doing nails and driving Lyft. It scares me to think about where education (and Medicine) will be in 15 years when I retire.
My last day on the job I had 4 patients on an icu. 1 patient was a full code, septic and crashing. 2nd pt was a post pacemaker with dementia, 3rd patient was a nursing home patient and the 4th was a 14 yo boy with a snakebite. I swore if I could get through the day it would be my last day at this hospital and it was.
OMG ..I felt this way being a CNA..Always overwhelmed and overworked..not enough help..so now I’m just doing home health aide 30 hrs a week 4 hr shifts at a time..And this exhausting.. God is watching and everybody needs his protection.!! You’re in our prayers and Gid bless you!!🙏🌈😇☮️✝️🌼🌸🥰🇺🇸🤗🌻🌞
Add to all of this the extraordinary debt burden most in the medical field have after college. Stress on stress.
As an ex-critical care nurse who LOVED the ICU. Felt right at home. Worked in the ICU as a tech for years first and I still loved it. . . I NEVER recommend anyone to follow in my footsteps. I have since left the bedside after the pandemic with scars some you can see and a lot you can’t see. I took a MASSIVE pay cut for my sanity. Totally worth it. My new career doesn’t require an RN license however my extra skills are a bonus. I don’t identify as a nurse anymore. I never worked med-surg. I don’t know how those nurses do it!! Bless them all! We need to take care of the backbone of the medical system: the nurses who are the largest professional group in healthcare worldwide
Im not sure about the older generation, but i think that the younger generation is probably the most health conscious than ever. I see many people trying to excercise and eat healthy (especially excercise). They are also worrying about mental health but it is hard to do all tbose things when we need to do school work or having a normal job. Also, on her point of patients getting worse, i think that it is mostly because the hospital doesnt want seemingly healthy patients in there. For example, an OBGYN doc talked about how back then they kept mothers underwatch in the hospital after they gave birth, but now the hospital tries to get mothers out ASAP
I totally agree! Gen-Z is very health conscious. However, rates of obesity and chronic diseases are getting worse. There is also a lot more senior citizens today compared to say 50 years ago. Many people are living long lives, but they are super unhealthy. My great grandmother died recently at the age of 92, but she had T2D, was morbidly obese, couldn’t walk, and had dementia. She lived a long life, but not a long healthy life. I myself am a pre-PA student who is passionate about mental and physical health. I want to help people get better, but not everyone can afford healthy food. Most of our cities are not walkable. Medical professionals can only do so much.
Trust me, a lot of them aren’t exercising like they say they are
If there are no complications or pre existing medical concerns, why keep them longer than two to three days?
@mitzimitchell6813 I'm a guy so I can't say anything about being pregnant but if you had a baby in your body for 9 mths, then in one day, you go through all the labor to take it out, you body is fatigued and needs time to rest and return to normal. I think it is also a keep watch thing to make sure that there are no complications after labor
@@airlion1205 You have common sense, and this is not meant to patronize. It is to highlight how cold and concerned with the bottom line leadership continues to be. These corporate-led hospitals and institutions regard postpartum mothers as no-good lice taking up a perfectly good bed that they can get filled with another patient. They want to bill, bill, bill. The idiots do not factor in the possible liability if the PP mom leaves and has a complication at home or after she leaves, due to their greed.
I was 44 years at the bedside and you are absolutely correct in that no one wants to do that anymore.
supply and demand
4:11 same when i was a CNA in dementia unit. Our facility (and caregiver:patient ratios) was set-up for "walkie-talkie" folks but now our census is mostly folks who cannot perform independent tasks. Yet we have the same ratio, one caregiver per 30 patients at night! Someone will be trying to punch you or throwing feces around while a patient down the hall is falling or choking. You are responsible for everyone and you are completely alone! It is horrible! Takes dignity away from our caregivers and also the elderly, who deserve quality care at end of life.. Just for some extra profits?
When State Inspection came, we had to have our wheelchair-using folks sit on a regular chair, since technically our folks are supposed to be able to move independently. All an act so we can keep getting exploited.
We have Hoyer Lift in the lock down unit. Once they are non mobile they never get moved, the management just does whatever the family wants.
I retired as a bedside nurse for a lot of reasons and I didn’t regret it and you are totally right my dear !!!
Hi I am a LPN, a pediatric nurse. I do private duties because my back is not so great. As we speak, I started taking my prerequisites to become a Pharmacist. Not only I want to leave nursing, I want to stay far away from this profession. If nursing is for you go for it, but I don’t want to have to work 72 to 84 hours some week just to make minimum wage in this day and age. For me to be able to pay my bills and some debt, I must work at least 6 days or nights to be able to make it. No good quality life for me.
I'm an LPN as well and good luck on your journey to Pharmacy school. I've been in Pediatric Homecare for 20 years. (Vent nurse)Totally burned out but better than being in a hospital setting. Presently, I'm on a 6 month break due to burn out. Might take some dialysis training, the passion is wayyy down for me.
Love Kendra! She always keeps it real
My thoughts on why the patient load is heavier in the hospital now is perhaps because of improved technology--- the less-sick patients can more safely be cared for outpatient rather than in the hospital, and the more sicker patients are all in the hospital. Also, patients who normally would have passed away are able to be kept alive longer, albeit, sicker, and in the hospital. I've had older nursing school instructors tell me that our telemetry patients are what their ICU patients used to be, and our ICU patients typically wouldn't be living
Interesting take I hadn’t considered!
It's hard being a travel nurse and just watch nurses leave the field forever. From nurses in Alaska all the way across the country in New York, i see a lot of similar "opportunities" not being address. Also, shout out that MD/DO are facing similar shortages in hospitals. I feel like this Nurse Kendra talks about most of the known issues. But also, high turnover in the nurse management role is also a contributing factor that I haven't heard anyone diagnosis.
I spent the first 14 years in the trenches (medsurg). I'm in psych now. I left the trenches in 2020. I feel like when most families are at the bedside, I've gained extra patients.
I work psych now too and my coworkers that came from bedside all agree that we have PTSD from bedside nursing. I did 3 codes in the last 6 months that I was at the bedside and not once did we have a debriefing or even ask if we were ok. It’s like we should be fine with patients dying.
I agree. When my parents are in the hospital there is almost always 1 of us there with them. Always paying attention, questioning.
I have a MA friend whose office is cutting downthe time for people to be seen. A new intake only get 20min. A med recertify only gets 15min. If you have multiple things going on you have to come back on a new visit for each one! At this point they want everyone dead but get their money in the process. There is no way a full assessment can be done in 15 to 20 minutes. Some ones bag of pillls might take the allotted time. Does this mean they cant be seen everytime they come to an appointment. This is ridiculous!
I was suppose to study nursing, and when my route kept getting delayed I was so upset and frustrated. Then I said No, I’m going to study something different. When I say, I don’t regret it now, because working in the healthcare field is completely ridiculous!!! You’re under appreciated, under valued, over worked and at times disrespected (check folks and put them in their place). My passion for the healthcare industry has faded. It’s not purposeful for me at all.
hey, glad that you're happier with your choice since moving away from nursing. how's it going now, and what did you end up studying? i'm currently in the same situation you were in and am struggling with my next move
Its pretty bad as a nurse of 20+ years that I feel like I can give better nursing care in a Medium Security Prison than I ever could working in a hospital. That is even on my worst shift I feel like I give better care in the Jails/Prisons. That and this is honestly the safest job and best kept secret in nursing. I would not still be in the profession if I was in a traditional medical setting. I just decided to make the jump to grad school after being in the profession for over 25 years. We need to get big business out of health care and put those bodies on the floor.
Yes, take your health as your own responsibility
Ya, if I had to do it all over again I wouldn’t have ever chose nursing. So much liability, unsafe ratios and its so hard on your mental and your body🙏🏾
I am switching to a private pay facility. I was working in acute care at a skilled nursing facility. All of my residents were very acute and I would be assigned 10 -12 on the regular. They had trachs, fully dependent, wounds, diabetic, high blood pressure and many are addicts and homeless. The number of residents who hit you and have severe cognitive issues is through the roof. Something has to give
Former anaesthesiology resident here. The worsening condition of patients is not only this nurse's experience. I have anaesthetized old people with severe diseases daily. Anticoagulants, artificial valves and atrial fibrillation were a daily discussion among anaesthesiologists. In specialists' opinion it wasn't the case some years ago, those comorbidites were more rare. It's the medicine's "improvement", that allows us qualify more sick patients for multiple surgeries. I witnessed death or complications from those surgeries daily, while I have been already burnt out after covid pandemic on ICU, which is a whole another story. I am completely burnt out, I have left without looking back.
Note: I am not from USA, I worked in public healthcare in a country with a whole public healthcare available for everyone. Hear me out - public healthcare is not a solution. Patients don't care. The most demoralized people will get million dollars worth intensive care after years of alcoholism, DAILY. WITH MY HANDS. While my young athletic colleagues AND FAMILY couldn't get a primary care, EVEN I, A DOCTOR, I couldn't get public healthcare on time in little problems when I needed it. I always paid for my physiotherapy and next day I would grab some 120 kg old lady with my 60kg ass and my 60 kg nurse to treat this big lady's disease for public money. I'm sorry, but I have my regrets.
Now I hear that it's getting worse in glorified western countries. Well, we're doomed, I'm leaving the hell outta this business
Sounds like they have enabled people at this point. Crazy!!!!
In Chicago, at least pre-COVID, to be a CNA, my babysitter had to do an unpaid internship for about six months before she'd be eligible to be paid. She wound up doing reception in a doctor's office instead, getting full benes, and making 38K out the gate without six months of no salary.