@@DB-yk6ll Be careful what you laugh at. You never know when a medical condition or medication could make YOU fat and unable to breathe. Bet you won’t be laughing then.
ICU RN here, and I want you, lovely viewer, to remember that nurses and doctors are only part of the hospital team that is suffering in this way. Respiratory therapists, nursing assistants, unit secretaries, technicians, custodians, kitchen workers, and every other position I’m not aware of in the hospital… we are all tired. And they’re all leaving. All my love to every position in the hospitals - every single one is important to patient care. Also, if you make us muffins, make them with fiber. That pizza won’t move itself 🤣
@@niceontheeyes9269 fellow nurse here. I'm also in my mid-30's, with no risk factors, and fully vaccinated. If you look at the abundance of evidence, being vaccinated will significantly reduce risk of infection, length of infection, and severity. The first two are important because they limit the spread, and the third one keeps you out of the hospital. The above applies to the Delta variant. You having had COVID in February definitely gives you a degree of natural immunity, but recent studies have indicated that immunity from previous infections and vaccination give you an even stronger immune response. The risk for any adverse reaction for you is extremely low based on data from millions of vaccinations. When it comes to long term effects, there's no theoretical reason why there would be. mRNA is broken down pretty quickly in the body, and what is left is your enhanced immune response. All of our knowledge of vaccines tells us that the latest we see side effects are by 1-2 months, and we've had millions of people that have been vaccinated for 8 months or longer that haven't developed new side effects. There isn't at rationale why a side effect would just appear many months or years later based on our understanding of the science. I understand your hesitancy about something new like this, it can be scary. I think it's important to challenge that fear with a rational approach. Also, look at the rate for MD's that are vaccinated, it's extremely high. I would say that arguably have a greater understanding of the science and risks, and their all in. I'm not judging you at all, but I hope that I could be a little helpful.
@@niceontheeyes9269 Fully vaccinated, here (Phizer). Both times, the injection site was slightly warm for about 30 minutes, and that was it. I'll get boosters every six months, if that's what it takes. It's not just for me--it's for everyone I come in contact with.
@@niceontheeyes9269 The problem is that you need to protect other people. As a nurse, you should know that the unvaccinated are causing the variants. You should also know that you can still pass it along and infect other people. Like say, your 50 year old overweight auntie or someone. Just because you are in your thirties, in shape and "Nice on the eyes" doesn't mean you cannot catch or spread this virus. Plenty of doctors and nurses are speaking out about younger people dying. Also, it's not just about YOU. It's about others, as well.
First time in 33 years as a nurse, I'm actually considering leaving the profession. We've been there from day one...no hazard pay, no extra 600 bucks a week those who received unemployment and now my peers are threatening to walk if vaccines become mandatory...leaving those of us vaccinated staff to carry the heavier load. Absolutely overwhelming...
I know its not much but thank you for all that you do. It takes a brave and strong person to deal with this and all the idiots that won't listen to facts and do their part to help.
Yeah, the unvaccinated public is bad, but the unvaccinated staff are appalling! Nursing is about evidence-based care, and I have zero tolerance for those among us who fail to subscribe to this. Thank you for your efforts and all that you have sacrificed.
@@mark99k One thing you can do is to not give up on your friends/family who remain unvaccinated. While it is very difficult to get people to change their minds, if is often at the continued persuasion of someone close to them that a person finally does. Even if you can change just one mind, that's one more person protected, and one less unvaccinated person for medical staff to have to contend with. Sorry, I don't know of any funds specifically. You could check with your local hospital about donating care packages perhaps? Or check with the local nursing union to see if they have a fund? Thanks for being vaccinated!
@@ebellyfish4256 nobody wants to be a guinea pig. At the end if the day nurses are human beings with lives to consider like anyone else. I think you have nurses confused with nuns. And the fact that this vaccine does not work. Period.
I don't blame the nurses for quitting, as someone who has cared for dying patients. It takes a lot from you emotionally to watch someone grasp their last breath. I have seen staff fall when a patient dies, and the best part is to make a happy face before seeing the next patient. I don't think I can stand watching/caring for someone dying from a preventable death.
Not everyone can understand the quality of life the end of life when the scrubs come off our brain still sees the image I remember the first patient that died I remember the last patient that died it never leaves our brains and it is not easy at all
@@xlady7772 I’ve held kittens with sepsis as they’ve taken their last breaths. I cannot imagine the trauma of seeing it in a patient I’ve fought days, weeks, or months to save. Yet, you guys are seeing it every day now. I imagine there are no words that can ever make that better. I wish the unvaxxed could understand that and dig up an ounce of empathy and compassion for you all. If only that would convince them to vax.
As a nurse the most frustrating thing was being called heroes but not implementing safe staffing ratios. I've felt burned out before the pandemic and it's not getting better, so many new nurses 6 months in are ready to leave the profession....
Absolutely. I retired the end of 2015 and the only thing keeping me going much of the time was knowing I would be retiring soon. I didn't work a single day more than required for the pension. The pizza that Trevor talked about - who would even have time to sit down and eat it. Staff meetings - being asked how can we improve patient care, but don't ask for more staff. I feel so sorry for those on the front lines.
I'm right there with you but unfortunately there are some who would rather cash in on the crisis than talk about why this situation exists in the first place... And demand better conditions from lawmakers and hospitals.
AND, Nurses are legally liable if they make those mistakes, no wonder they are walking out, their entire career and life could be ruined for a mistake made while they're exhausted, overwhelmed, and sleep deprived and stressed for a full year.
Not only are you liable, in worst case scenario you killed a person and have to live with that the rest of your life. That what angered me the most when we were understaffed tbh. The higher risk of patients getting hurt and the responsible nurse getting traumatised
I’m one of those nurses. I quit my job in December, 2020. Luckily, I had money saved up so I could. Nursing was bad, but I could see that it was just going to get worse. It’s taken me months to heal from my nursing career. I’ll never go back to bedside nursing! I’m looking for a different job now. Nursing has been in dire straits for decades. All it was going to take to destroy it was a crisis like this. I could see this coming miles away.
Same. Our load even away from the bedside in case management doubled while our department lost 4 FTE's. I have been in therapy for the past 5 years. My nerves are shot. I've been a nurse since 1994! It doesn't matter how hard you work. There is always a heavier load.
I'm currently thinking about leaving the nursing field. I stuck around during covid so it wouldn't look like I left due to covid. To me it's not even about covid. Nursing is just so toxic. I have cleaned up my finances and will probably work a minimum wage job, but at least I will be happy.
I work as a community health nurse for my local county. It is still stressful and we are still overwhelmed, but in general it is a very rewarding job and I have found it much less toxic than floor nursing.
The nursing shortage is a NATIONWIDE EMERGENCY. We were short on nurses and aides way before the pandemic and now it's 10x worse. I graduate nursing school in December and I know I'm walking into a dumpster fire. This shortage will effect every one of us at some point. Pray you stay healthy, because there won't be anyone to care for you in the coming years.
Congrats and we are well on our way greeting you guys with "Thank you for your service!!" So let me be the first of many to share that sentiment. #staysafe
A lot of nurses quit because they tried to force the covid vaccine on them. It happened here in a hospital. They fired about 150 medical staff who refused the vaccine. The government is creating the shortage.
No one talks about the pressure put on EMTs who have to be the ones who suit up and get these people from their homes in many cases having to lift them and take them out via stair chair. Every EMT I know is struggling right now, some ended up in rehab even because they turned to drugs to keep themselves going.
Eventhough you are right to point out the plight of EMT i'm always wary of "Whataboutism" because it tends to distract and dilute the message instead of getting stuff done. Care work is generally underpaid and especially no healthcareworker should suffer from insufficient healthcare coverage when they are literally risking their health to help others.
Lots of sympathy. I originally wanted to be a paramedic but the pay sounded absolutely horrible for the job, same as CNAs. Nursing was the only thing kinda left. Wish I had just done finance or something.
Thank you for being an angel to so many patients over the years! Nurses are amazing warriors in my opinion! My daughters call their Nanny (my mom) a hero because she "takes care of all the sick peoples" ❤
My brother has ptsd because he is a front line nurse. He is going to therapy and temped to quit because he is so deeply traumatized by this whole event. Not only that but he leaves work and people call him a liar and an idiot when he tells people the horrors he sees at work. The other day he told me he saw 3 people die, one was 35, alive one day and dead a week latter.
Nurses in Japan are working more hours and getting paid less…… elective surgeries have been pushed off, hence the hospitals are bringing in less. Horrific!
Most of them like doctors have spent a great part of their lives reading, practicing and making sacrifices including night shifts. This is what they know! They also stay because they care, someone has to
@@aishasadiq2210 I am a nurse, spent 30 years in hospitals including ICU. I am old so I don’t work in the field anymore, but if I had to work I would have been very bitter and hurt seeing the disrespect and plain nastiness some Americans display both on social media and news. I truly think nowhere in the world were nurses treated the way they were treated here. Absolute disgrace!
@@vintageglee6406 In my city, the head nurse of one of the main hospitals here announced that have had to step up security because patients family members were harassing healthcare workers. How in the world did we get here as a society? SMH
Unless you’re in California, most nurses are given more patients than they can handle. With each extra patient a nurse takes, there is a 7% increase in mortality. Not only this, but it takes so much more of a toll on the nurses. We NEED federally mandated safe nurse/patient ratios NOW. There is not a nursing shortage- there’s a shortage of nurses willing to work in these conditions.
Been working since 1984 , I have never seen it this bad! I got covid and almost died in December 2020 , ( on the ventilator x 4 weeks) I am not going back ! I am now vaccinated, and not taking any chances. Non vaccinated people on on their own !
Had a friend from a country that vaccinated for TB. This meant she would always show up as a false positive when tested for tuberculosis. Annually she was required to prove she didn’t have the disease to keep her nursing job. This meant she had to have a chest X-ray once a yr. Don’t recall her ever balking at getting x-rayed. She knew the seriousness of TB.
@@juliejanssen7637 She received the BCG vaccine to build immunity to TB. Unfortunately one of the side effects is false positives when testing for TB later in life.
Poland has the same problem, Government gives themselves a pay rise but they don't want to pay too really hard-working people. Medical workers are protesting.
I'm glad they're there. When I was a new RN in 1992, the hospitals in NJ downsized the RTs right out of the hospital. RNs had to take over for them. It was rough.
I worked outpatient surgery; I had one patient who came in frequently & was on a vent. I was terrified of it & had absolutely no clue what to do when the alarms went off. Thank G-D for RTs.
@Anne Day i have a son that is RT. Previously he had credential neo natal intensive care and pediatric intensive care. He worked on neo natal transplant unit. He also worked in medical emergency flight team. He did it for 10 years. It was heartbreaking for him to watch children die. So now he’s epidemiologist.
As a nurse we also shouldn't be forced to work 3 consecutive days in a row unless we sign up for it. Working 3 days in a row for 12hrs is exhausting you're just sleeping if you're lucky and returning to work. Half of my unit is covid and the other oncology. It doesn't matter what side of the unit you work on its hard the floor is so heavy. I'm driving home fighting sleep, my back hurts and I have two more days to go...It's a lot
I hate to play devils advocate here, but there are many jobs that work 12 hour rotating shifts, until they retire. Many of them being manual labor. 4 days on 3 days off. When the workload gets higher they can go 16 hours until needing to be checked for exhaustion. If they appear fine, they can work longer. While "my" schedule isn't consistently like this, our department would also have to work 12 hour shifts minimum (with high probability to go longer), 13 days out of 14 days, one day mandatory break, for up to 6 months depending on the project. This includes manual labor, climbing, lifting, very hot surroundings, very loud noises and much more. I know this won't make you feel better though. I also wish our healthcare system was more robust to prevent this type of scheduling. Sorry? 🤷♂️
@@XXCoeusXX Not back in my day, 10 on, 4 off! Called work so you can pay you bills and if I worked night a extra $50 a week, your lucky if you got that! You young folks are spoiled bad I think!
Nurses and doctors were mistreated through overworking them and burnout, even before this. Once they're paid beyond a certain amount the hospital thanks it's okay to give them an inhumane amount of work and patients per worker.
Instead of focusing on one segment of healthcare ( there are also docs, techs etc dying and heavily burnt out)- please focus on how much top admins with little to no medical training/expertise are profiting off of healthcare instead of providing the much needed hazard pay to frontline workers. Please do a review of the take home comp of these nonmedical admins in hospitals and insurance companies that have driven up the cost of healthcare and decreased the quality to pay themselves in millions.
That’s for sure a problem. Another problem is that the nurses ARE getting hazard pay, double time etc because they are so short staffed…but that doesn’t prevent burnout but rather incentivizes it. And you’re right…techs, clerks, nutritionists, pharmacists etc are also getting burnt out but not getting the extra pay/attention of docs and nurses.
Absolutely… Hospital administration, like school administration is excessive… care providers & teachers have been relegated to little more than burger flippers.
My family said the exact same thing about people donating pizza and donuts. My sis was like, “I wish people would donate fruit or vegetables so I’m not tired.”
Not to mention the Pizza delivery guy should not have to risk their lives delivering to a hot zone for minimum wage and no benefits, no health insurance.
I'm a retired RN, BSN. I tried to send food, from a local restaurant, to the hospital connected with the clinic system for which I worked. They requested that I didn't because they didn't know if the food boxes would be carrying COVID19 & they didn't have the time to sit down & eat it. I wish I had thought of fruit. Tell you Sis, I'm going to call the ER & see if they'll accept fruit. Thanks.
Not just nurses, RESPIRATORY THERAPIST are literally on the front line fighting as well!!!!!!!! We cover ENTIRE units, in different areas, not just a set number of patients.
As the senior resident on a medicine team for most of the last 2 years, two of the things I try to drill into the interns are ‘know when to call the RT, they’re busy & if we need them it’s probably going down,’ and ‘know when not to call the RT, they’re busy & someone else probably needs them.’ Unfortunately wider world tends not to know allied health professionals exist in general, & let’s face it nurses have by far the best PR. We definitely appreciate you though.
Of the A-B-C we're taught are the most important. RTs do the A's and the B's. Nobody is clapping for the ever suffering RT People hear of the number of people on a vent but never who is managing that even as the patient tanks. Thank you
Yeah. There's lots of problems in health care. Why does health insurance not cover dental problems? We here in the US have to pay extra extra for tooth work.
People need to understand that its rare to see a person die. As a firefighter I saw many people go before there time. All of them still carry weight in my heart. I never new any fo them before hand. I can’t imagine the weight of losing so many people that you know plus there families. Imagine if your pet died 5 times a week. Their all braver then me.
My ICU was a strict COVID ICU for over a year. Out of 32 beds roughly 25 were vented COVID patients. The most that died in one day that I was there for was six. A minimum of three or so died almost everyday. I heard of a 16 bed ICU losing their entire census to COVID in one day. I had a patient who I tried to calm by establishing rapport and fist bumped to keep him calm. Though I knew deep down he was probably heading towards the end. A week later I came back to work and he was on the ventilator, sedated, on paralytics, CRRT, and proned. He died a few days later. I had another man I tried to calm and keep the BIPAP mask on, but he couldn’t stand how the mask felt. He ripped the mask off and yelled “I’m gonna die man”. I talked to his wife and tried to give hope to the BIPAP treatment, but I had already seen enough to know the trajectory that would likely come. He too died shortly after. I’ve seen those who linger as a shell of who they were after COVID… sustained by machines and medications. I’ve talked to people and given hope, only to see the same road being taken again and again. I’ve heard the wails of family. I’ve called family to let them know they should probably come soon due to rapid deterioration. A patient said the hospital felt like a lonely place during that year due to no visitors being allowed in order to prevent transmission. He wasn’t wrong. I’ve stayed next to COVID patients to give company so they wouldn’t die alone. They were completely unaware at that point, but perhaps it was worth something. The countless amounts of CPR that was performed. Watching vitals slowly decline towards the inevitable. I don’t remember the names, but I have images and rooms burned into my memory.
Nurses Aides are also in the trenches, often doing all the grunt work! They are not honored as Nurses are, yet they are in the same boat (If not worse). Even incentives ($2000 bonus if you stay 90 days) does draw new workers! The work is hard and for whatever their reason, new hires walk off the job leaving Nursing Home Aides to care for 15 or more patients each! Toileting, bathing, feeding, changing bed linen, etc.. There doesn't seem to be any solution to the problem other than do the best you can or quit yourself! 😔❤
Exactly!! Badly treated. Treat others as you would want to be treated. Aides are Not your servants. they are people....."this ain't my job mentality" give a little help when you can but all this starts at the TOP!!
The media only focus on nurses like they are the only providers in the Healthcare system. Respiratory therapist are the ones managing all those ventilators and we were already short staffed in hospitals before covid. As a respiratory therapist responds to all codes, manage 10 plus ICU ventilator patients. It's a lot , on the whole team in the Healthcare system from housekeeping, to kitchen to administrators to doctors and all in between.
Thank you for covering this, Trevor! It’s been a longtime issue made worse by the pandemic. Had to leave bedside myself after a little over a year I was so horribly burned out. These frontline RNs and CNAs are burned out and suffering from PTSD, and it’s a serious crisis.
13-14 hours is usually how long I am at the hospital for my normal “12 hour” shift. The crazy thing is now it is usually 15-16 hours by the time you leave. Due to getting so behind from the craziness all day due to the staff shortage and no time to chart and you are sitting there after giving report off charting.
Just so you know, a pilot can legally work up to a 13 hr duty day. This is dependent on how many flights (legs) they are operating that day and their report time. You can find more details by reading FAA FAR part 117. On the other hand, Flight Attendants, who are your first responders in the sky and are responsible for evacuating an aircraft in 90 seconds, regardless of size, can be legally scheduled to work up to 14 hr duty days. Depending on how many flight attendants on an aircraft, that duty day can be extended anywhere up to 20hrs during irregular operations due to weather, mechanical or staffing reasons. FAA 14 CFR section 121.467.
I just graduated and am scheduled to take the NCLEX in a few weeks. On top of being a new nurse soon this definitely adds to my nervousness. But I have had amazing clinical instructors and preceptors so the excitement is still there too.
Been nursing for 14 years. Most of you people have great respect for my colleagues and my profession. But some of yall are making me second guess the social contract we have with each other. Purely selfish and toxic apprehension to proper science is deadly.
I swear some of these conservatives think babies and young children are not human... I get that every single time I read something about "children can't get the virus."
The 1st person I knew to have it in my area was a toddler... 4 year old Henry who got it from his aunt whom had just gotten back from a trip to Wuhan to pick up a makeup supply in October 2019. Everyone in my buildings got sick, then it spread through the work places because many places made you work when you were sick prior to covid...
Most people are against this particular vaccine rather than all vaccines. They all say it came out too soon and are not checked for long-term effects. Still though it's such a flawed logic in my opinion. Long-term effects take years to be revealed, and by that logic, every vaccine for any disease should start to be applied to the population years after the disease it was trying to cure has subsided.
I admire nurses who ask me in a scientifically and medically inquisitive way why I give the medications or treatments to their patients in such a way. This helps bring teamwork into the work flow. But these nurses who deny the science should be fired.
I work for an IT company that does support for multiple health organizations, and I just got in trouble for making a comment joking about what a User must have thought about the new vaccine requirements. The ignorant have been given too much equal treatment for too long, and it has evolved into them now wanting preferential treatment everywhere. Even in Healthcare work, we are expected to walk on egg shells to not insult these ignorant monsters who have no business being near Healthcare
Thing is... yes they should, but they are still warm bodies filling out uniforms in a system that's starved for raw manpower. The numbers should be boosted overall (1). And then they should be fired (2) as their replacements get in (3). Do just (2) without doing (1) and (3) and you'll end up even worse off than before.
@@abdulmasaiev9024 I don’t disagree. I also desire the new generation of nurses to be just as scientifically competent, so that they don’t become part of the ignorant masses in any future worship of demagoguery
Right!! Can you imagine how terrifying it would be if you were the ONLY ONE of your team who understood science? Like if you were having an off day and the nurses just blindly followed all your orders? We are an interprofesional practice, always learning from each other 🥰
Name the science. What are the LT effects of the Covid vaccine? What’s the 10yr? 15yr?….heck 5 yr? What are the effects on newborns who received it in vitro?
It was a tough job before the pandemic - hospitals were prioritizing efficiency and cost management not preparing for worst case scenarios. I don't care what Nicki says people need to get vaccinated (especially nurses - those that refused should not be working in healthcare).
Peter V, you said it "Cost management" any way to make more money allowing doctors less time with their patients & packing their & the stockholders pockets. Remember these facilities are not owned by the doctors in Most cases but by Business people/investors packing their bank accounts. Keep your Pizza's & doughnuts....how about some Cash & more time off to regroup from the daily carnage caused by Man/Ignorance.
@@justsaying3729 ""Cost management" any way to make more money allowing doctors less time with their patients & packing their & the stockholders pockets." This was a major reason my mom retired for being a general practitioner. 15 minutes per patient isn't long enough to do anything. The clinic didn't care about patients. They cared about getting the sweet Medicaid money (mom worked in a low-income clinic).
@@UnboxingAlyss When the clinic, I worked for, demanded more patient care from our already overloaded Doctors, 15 of them quit, in one month. Each Doctor had a patient panel of more than 3000. The remaining Doctors were required to absorb their patient panels... 45,000+ people. I decided to retire early, at age 56 which was 7 years ago. My personal Doctor is at that same clinic & they 'let go' of 1/4-1/2 of the staff when COVID19 protocols went into effect. How can you properly serve patients under those circumstances?
Nicki is an idiot. There are early studies, including one from the Cleveland Clinic, which are showing higher incidences of erectile dysfunction in long Covid patients of a not usually ED age. Covid inflames, and can damage, blood vessels and the family jewels tend to have a lot of blood vessels. Researchers have also seen a few cases of infertility, but the researchers do not know as yet, if either the ED or the infertility will be permanent.
exactly. the military budget is over-bloated as it is, and if all of their human sacrifices (the potential soldiers) all die off, it's only a matter of time before they make robot soldiers and the Skynet history line from the Terminator series comes to fruition.
Another reason why there's a shortage related to the pandemic is because.. wages we have triple inflationary pandemic prices, and we have wages that have rolled back to the fifties and sixties.. healthcare workers are Frontline no matter the status from attended care2 Physicians.. and wages are rolled back, we can't even afford insurance for ourselves and family what we make anymore.. the government wants to claim unemployment it's not.. it's wages with no incentive or Hazard pay.. and regular rages are diminished.. now you have the point of view and perspective of the healthcare worker!!! Not unemployment.. and not the lethargic, sleepy federal government
I’m a health unit coordinator at a hospital . I work on the units with the nurses and nurse assistants. We are closing rooms due to the nurse shortage. I work at well known hospital, people fly in all over world to come here. It’s a nurse, nurse assistant or coordinator that quits every month
Yesterday was my first deployment to a covid positive icu. Overwhelming protocols, whole new routine and electronic system have to learn. The only thing that drained me the most is the constant fear of my n95 mask might be leaking. Every single time i went into the room, i would check the mask again. I really want a mask sealed test every shift (which is impossible). I am scared to go home, i dont even want to interact with my family. I did my ART this morning because i cant get rid of the fear, and it is negative. Its a relief (50%only) because knowing that ART and PCR accuracy is different. Im going back to work tomorrow and i dont know if i can survive.
Watching Trevor should be required daily viewing in all schools. The intelligence, humor and grace are the best examples for such and would teach these skills, logic, and reason to our youth before it's too late for them.
my family and i watched the Daily Show (w/ Jon Stewart) religiously during the bush admin days, when sis and i were going to college. those were the days, but thanks to Trevor Noah migrating to the TH-cam platform with ease, he's also been my favorite predecessor of the Daily Show's format of pointing out total idiocy in US politics since 2000.
Girl...evertime I see one of these media piece on nurses....I'm like it's respiratory therapist are truly suffering and have been suffering for years. I used work night shift and managed 2 icu units and carry a code pager. But the media and the nation is only focused on nurses, not saying they shouldn't, but I think they ought speak on the shortage of all the areas of Healthcare professionals.
I'm an RN with a four year degree. I have never felt that any of my colleagues who didn't have the same background as I did were any less of a nurse for not having it because their experience and continued education would make up the differences between that. But I did get the chance to study and understand the science in-depth that supports the reasons behind why we need public health and how it all comes together. When I worked in hospitals and in hospice (no longer doing front line nursing after 27 years, in a different aspect with triage and care management) there was always the expectation that to keep your patients safe you had to get certain vaccines and stay up to date on them. Or have titres drawn to prove your immunity. Like I said, I don't work on the frontlines any more, but I know but I'm incredibly lucky; my employer gave paid time off to get the vaccine, sent us all to work from home early on, and no one who is currently unvaccinated is allowed to return to in-office work. We have been following all CDC guidelines from the start. We're also going to all be tested weekly to monitor for breakthrough cases once we return to the office. Do I like having to be tested weekly? Nope. Will I do it anyway? yup. Because, Science. That being said, the nurses who refuse to get the vaccine are scaring me. Their ignorance is showing. I held back on getting my shots initially to MAKE SURE the front line clinicians and medical staff could get theirs first because they needed it more. Every client I've had to call after they are home from the hospital (or followed while they are in the hospital) since the Delta variant reared its head, has not been vaccinated, while those whom I call after they have a positive COVID test who are at home with mild symptoms have were vaccinated. I know episodic evidence is not enough, statistics can be manipulated and that correlation is not necessarily causation, but the numbers are adding up day after day. I also knew taking the vaccine wasn't supposed to fully prevent me from ever getting sick, but make sure my immune system was prepared to fight should it happen. That's how vaccines work! Thanks for putting the spotlight on the current situation. All the support and love to my fellow front line medical workers as well- The RT's, PT's, OT's, Nursing assistants and therapy assistants: you rock!! We can't do our jobs without you. GET.YER. VAX. - this RN
My mom is a registered Critical care nurse, who is pediatric intensive care certified and more. She was working I the COVID unit last year, it got so bad she had to leave, both due to overwhelming work and the disgust at the terrible care of patients. She has an autoimmune deficiency (MS) and STILL got the vaccine. She now works in hospice care and is still overworked but feels a deeper connection to her patients as she helps them and their families process the situation they are in. The company she now works for deeply cares for their patients and the hospital she left could give less than af 😞 My mom works so many hours a week it's INSANE.
All areas are hurting for employees. I'm an x-ray tech and we have multiple open positions that don't even have people applying for. We also cover the entire hospital and are usually the first to see that a patient has COVID, while they wait for their swab results.
Aaaaand this is what four years of misinformation and propagating mistrust in science gets you. Lots of love for the nurses and hope the situation becomes better soon!
Still waiting on my Hazard Pay from wholefoods market. Went the whole pandemic with wholefoods not caring for employees safety and purposely cared only for the customers saftey
Far too many employers view their employees as Collateral damage, they don't give a D--. As long as the stockholders on the golf course & Yacht's are happy they are okay with exploiting/exposing the little guy (the one that making them money.
Of course not, it's now being run by Jeff Bezos. Look at what the workers at Amazon have to put up with. I refuse to patronize any of his companies (that I know of) he DOES not need my money 😤
I attribute that to 'At Will' employment- terminating employment without just cause. 49 of the 50 states have that law. For what reason would an employer want to retain an employee when they have a line of people ready to take their place?
Can we stop just saying nurses. I know they are the most recognizable health care professional. But there are dozens upon dozens of other medical workers who are struggling right now.
Physicians and pharmacists would leave but with hundreds of thousands of student loan debt makes it impossible. Administration and politicians need to go deal with patients and figure out what healthcare workers really need.
It's heartbreaking to know what these amazing people are going through. And will go through mentally after this pandemic is over. Nurses that don't vaccinate them self's should never be aloud to work in healthcare ever again.
The problem is real! I just left a bedside nursing job after 18 years that I had planned to stay in for at least another 5-8 years (I'm 57). Complete and total burnout made it impossible to continue.
I graduated from nursing school in 2019 and so many of the people I graduated with are already burnt out and have either left nursing or become travel nurses. Hospitals won't pay them enough, expect them to work unreasonable hours and take care of way too many patients. Even if you are young and healthy, this should scare you. Nobody is immune to a medical emergency, and your nurse is your last line of defense. What's going to happen when they are also caring for 9 other patients? Mistakes will be made, people will suffer, people will needlessly die. Nurses are human, they can't do it all. They have lives and families too. Nurses, especially new nurses, are being traumatized daily by what they are seeing. They did not sign up for this. I've been staying at home with my daughters since December, and have no intentions of working full time anytime soon.
As an RN and nursing instructor, I want to say thank you for raising awareness about this. Staffing and burnout have been issues since long before the pandemic, but has reached critical levels (and therefore is more noticeable to the public) as nurses experience physical and emotional exhaustion and burnout and witness the pandemic being prolonged and exacerbated by public health research and science being ignored by many members of the public, and in some cases, local and state government. The rest of the healthcare team is facing this too and should not be forgotten - respiratory therapy, physical, occupational & speech therapy, techs, MDs, NPs & PAs, dietary, housekeeping, engineering, security. Also, that thing about pizza parties? Absolutely true. And has been a running joke for long time. (Healthcare workers tend to have a dark sense of humor.) Admin: Great job on winning that national award for nursing excellence! Staff: Does this mean a raise? Or more staff? Admin: How about we buy you a pizza? Staff: :( Night shift staff: ....do we get pizza? Admin: no
I have nightmares about forgetting my mask and being stuck in a grocery store with no masks in stock. I guess this has replaced the nightmare about not having any pants in school.
boy-howdy, have ***I*** got some weird allegorical dreams i'd like to share since the start of the pandemic, even before the pandemic, prolly as far as the early days of the BLM movement in 2014 and beyond... ...just not sure how to go about it w/o p^ssing off TH-cam's bigitbots 😒
@@remyn.9198 I HAVE forgotten my mask so... I have 2 hanging on my front door handle & 2 hanging from my directional handle, in my car. I keep two in case the bands break; I have a backup.
I got my first nurse job last year during the peak of COVID-19 and it has been a rough, overwhelming, stressful experience… My coworkers and I have definitely felt (and still feel) burnt out and PTSD. I have seen many nurses quit bedside or nursing all together. There have been moments when I feel like I want to quit, but the thought of leaving my friends to fight alone makes my heart break… We have been short staffed for months, and it just keeps getting worse. We have all been picking up extra shifts, working 5 or 6 shifts a week when 3 is the normal for full time. And everyone around me says, “well at least you’re getting overtime pay” but I always have to explain that it’s not about the money (let’s face it, most of it goes to Uncle Sam), it’s about supporting your fellow nurse because you know the struggle and you want to lessen their burden… Thank you, Trevor, for highlighting this very real issue and for making us nurses feel seen 🙏🏼❤️
I was (SWEAR ON MY LIFE) fired for the first case ever. I was fired taking care of a hospice patient because I was wearing a mask and the woman said "I don't believe in this flu and I don't care if I die." I lost $1500 per week. Was sour. I'm a HHA and my CNA exam was canceled due to pandemic. I still applied to be a traveling CNA in any crisis area. Denied ....lost all of my pandemic assistance trying to get a job. Awful ...the baby boomers are NOT the WW2 VETS. And JOBS aren't fulfilling much anymore
Probably the same that creationist thing of Evolution. All of this science stuff is just a theory not a fact, therefore it can't be true. If it were true it would be called the Fact of Evolution. Then of course you have the people that just want to get through schooling to be able to get a stable job and really only pay attention enough to pass test before promptly forgetting everything
Well, to be a registered nurse (RN), you only need 2 years at a community college. They are not heavily trained in science. They are taught pieces of science specific to their job, like how to calculate dosages based on weight, and are required to memorize parts of the body and certain procedures. They aren't taught to read scientific research at the level of an RN.
Most HCW don't have the amount of education on physiology, anatomy and virology as you think they do. And honestly, they don't need to in order to do their jobs. The problem is that people hold them to these standards when their educational background doesn't support it.
Yeah I snorted when I heard that “some nurses are taking care of up to 10 pts” - lol try working night shift, I’ve had 11 on a tele unit. 10 on an iso/HD/wound care unit (private rms) 😥😢Admin is to blame for ratios…and this is not new, I’ve been a nurse since the wk of 9/11 so 20 yrs now…
I got my nursing school acceptance 2 weeks before the pandemic caused us to go into lockdown … so when Trevor said who wants to become a nurse in the middle of the pandemic I was like lol that be me
Lessee...a maternity ward in one of my NC hospital system's facilities had an outbreak of almost 60 cases...50 of whom were staff. Here's hoping that every single "exception" for the vaccine requirement for "religious" reasons is rejected...
Once, when admin ordered pizza for us , I was too busy to go to the break room and eat. I had too many patients, too many doctor's orders to get started. When I finally got 15 minutes to eat, all the pizza was gone. As the charge nurse of an ER, I was so hungry and tired, I cried. I never got to eat that shift, or some other shifts. They send you pizza when No One Has Time To Go To The Cafeteria or to take a break. Pizza actually makes me mad, but then sad.
O hunny i feel that... It just stings... After all the effort and sacrifice to not have them think of you enough to save you some.... It is infuriating and depressing... Ive had the same thing happen to me not quite on the level that you have... But I understand the wave of indignantcy you feel when you walk into that room and all there is is empty boxes... It hurts... It really does... We in the peer support community are here for you... And we appreciate all that you do... We're here to listen and take at least some of that burden off your overworked shoulders...
I tried to send food from a local restaurant to the ER. They said, "don't bother because they didn't have time to eat it". I never thought to send 'finger foods' like fruits, energy bars, etc. Someone mentioned it on this thread. I'm going to call the ER & ask if they would have time to grab that type of food. I feel you, my fellow nurse; I used to get UTI all the time because I didn't have time to go to the bathroom during my shifts (other than dinner break- if I got one).
Literally no one acknowledges the clinical laboratory scientists doing all the covid testing! We are severely short staffed, overworked, and trying our best during massive supply shortages.
I did even know what a clinic laboratory scientist was until I was looking at different career paths I could study. Im sorry you're going through a hard time and I hope you get more help soon. Thank you for all you do!
And these are the nurses we have to treat us. They went to school for this, and did several science classes and still by into the garbage. If you don't believe go read the science paper just like you did to take the classes.
There isn't much science papers in a nursing class, your just taught things as being true. Things like this is how an anesthesia machine works, these are signs to look out for to know whether a patient is too deep under anesthesia or too light, these are some common signs for these common illnesses, this is how you deal with clients, here is a high school level biology course, this is how you run blood work, this is how you you take x-rays, this is how you properly give a vaccine or drug, these are a list of common drugs you would expect to find in a hospital and what they are used for. Now memorize all this to pass the test to get your license
The shortage, is actually driving the shortage. The rates for traveling nurses to the hardest hit areas have skyrocketed, nurses are leaving their hospitals to make double even tripple in these areas.
This is also REALLY bad for literally anyone who has to go to the hospital. I got vaccinated, I did my part, but now it's taking forever to schedule medical appointments for other chronic health issues that need urgent care, because of the shortage. This shortage, in combination with the already SUPER complicated and overly expensive system, will cause even more people to avoid going to urgent care when they need it, and a whole different wave of deaths will occur because of that. People already avoid the doctor because of costs, let's not make it any harder for the people who can and want to get the care and NEED it. This could be lethal! Honestly...this country needs better healthcare NOW.
I’ve worked with nurses like this. They’re the ones that think they know more than their entire medical team. Just awful and often bully other workers. It’s unfortunate that of all the times to flaunt their ego they chose to do it now
When compassion fatigue sets in along with the endless feeling of burnout. We nurses and other healthcare workers such as respiratory therapists, CNAs etc, are all getting tired but we still got to do our jobs not just because we signed up for it, but because who else would do it.
This. I have long hauler side effects from Covid (I had it last year in Febuary, antigen test proved I had COVID) and I'd rather take the vaccine a dozen more times than experience these symptoms - (constant brain fog, poor memory, constant fatigue and joint pain, insomnia, indegestion for months post-covid, the list goes on). Even if you don't die from covid, you're still likely to have down the road consquences from it. Just get the vaccine people. I had no major health issues, other than my genetic hearing loss pre-covid and it pulled the pin to a cluster bomb of health problems that for all I know, may be permanent. There's a new strain out that can cause hearing loss aparrently too, and as someone who had bilateral hearing loss from birth you're in for a RUDE surprise trying to get hearing aids under private health insurance (you won't).
Thank you so much for taking the time to talk about nurses and healthcare burnout! It has definitely gotten harder for us to maintain empathy and a compassionate mindset but we are still here trying our best, burnout and all!
A Venezuelan doctor once told me that one of her teachers told them something they would never forget in their careers: _Nuestros errores se tapan con tierra_ (Our mistakes are concealed with earth). A part of a quote from Frank Lloyd Wright, by the way.
If every city had a long funeral dirge that went through half the town or city, the traffic jams might make them aware that people are dying, actually dying. The die hards of the herd, face it that's what they are, will call every hearse a false flag operation, hopefully pushing those jerks back the the fringe.
I must’ve sensed disaster was coming. I left the bedside a year before the pandemic and I am grateful, but I feel guilty for not being in the trenches with my colleagues ❤️
Burnt out, frustrated, and green pediatric ICU nurse here thank you for this! Thank you for shining a light on this insane crisis. What's even more frustrating is when the hospital you work for claims that there is no staffing shortage. Then it feels even more like a slap in the face. When your employer goes on the news and says that "we are managing just fine" when we are not is demoralizing.
Thank you for explaining about the horrible conditions nurses are working under right now. I’m retired now but remember too many times being forced to work 16 hours in a row (in ICU). Then having 8 hours off before returning for another 8 hour shift. I told managers and supervisors that I felt I was not safe to work after 12 hours and they all ignored me…So glad I’m now retired…Prayers and best wishes for all our health care workers…
We had staffing shortages BEFORE COVID-19. Now…it’s miserable. I used to look forward to going into work. No longer. I’m depressed, and so used up that when I get home to my family, I have almost nothing left to give. I’m a tough cookie, but this is pure trauma. There is so much death. It isn’t just nurses like me that are suffering, either. Aides, techs, respiratory therapists, housekeeping, dietary…everyone has given everything they possess. We’re running on auxiliary power. THIS IS AVOIDABLE! I’ve never been so disappointed with society as I am right now. Imagine if during WW2, half of the country refused to ration and sacrifice? Just completely selfish and callous.
Love you Theresa. I don't know how to say it without sounding fake but I love you so hard. Wishing you better days ahead that include healing and rest. We don't deserve you, honestly
As a burnt out icu nurse, thank you Trevor for actually taking the time to listen and understand what we are going through
@@DB-yk6ll someday you or your loved one will need a nurse to take care of you and you won't be talking like this to them I'll bet.
Stay Strong, My Fellow Nurse!
Hugs and thank you for your service! Take care.
I’m so sorry you have to deal with this ignorance ☹️
@@DB-yk6ll Be careful what you laugh at. You never know when a medical condition or medication could make YOU fat and unable to breathe. Bet you won’t be laughing then.
ICU RN here, and I want you, lovely viewer, to remember that nurses and doctors are only part of the hospital team that is suffering in this way. Respiratory therapists, nursing assistants, unit secretaries, technicians, custodians, kitchen workers, and every other position I’m not aware of in the hospital… we are all tired. And they’re all leaving.
All my love to every position in the hospitals - every single one is important to patient care.
Also, if you make us muffins, make them with fiber. That pizza won’t move itself 🤣
@@niceontheeyes9269 fellow nurse here. I'm also in my mid-30's, with no risk factors, and fully vaccinated. If you look at the abundance of evidence, being vaccinated will significantly reduce risk of infection, length of infection, and severity. The first two are important because they limit the spread, and the third one keeps you out of the hospital. The above applies to the Delta variant. You having had COVID in February definitely gives you a degree of natural immunity, but recent studies have indicated that immunity from previous infections and vaccination give you an even stronger immune response. The risk for any adverse reaction for you is extremely low based on data from millions of vaccinations. When it comes to long term effects, there's no theoretical reason why there would be. mRNA is broken down pretty quickly in the body, and what is left is your enhanced immune response. All of our knowledge of vaccines tells us that the latest we see side effects are by 1-2 months, and we've had millions of people that have been vaccinated for 8 months or longer that haven't developed new side effects. There isn't at rationale why a side effect would just appear many months or years later based on our understanding of the science. I understand your hesitancy about something new like this, it can be scary. I think it's important to challenge that fear with a rational approach. Also, look at the rate for MD's that are vaccinated, it's extremely high. I would say that arguably have a greater understanding of the science and risks, and their all in. I'm not judging you at all, but I hope that I could be a little helpful.
@@niceontheeyes9269 Fully vaccinated, here (Phizer). Both times, the injection site was slightly warm for about 30 minutes, and that was it. I'll get boosters every six months, if that's what it takes. It's not just for me--it's for everyone I come in contact with.
@@niceontheeyes9269 The problem is that you need to protect other people. As a nurse, you should know that the unvaccinated are causing the variants. You should also know that you can still pass it along and infect other people. Like say, your 50 year old overweight auntie or someone. Just because you are in your thirties, in shape and "Nice on the eyes" doesn't mean you cannot catch or spread this virus. Plenty of doctors and nurses are speaking out about younger people dying. Also, it's not just about YOU. It's about others, as well.
As an RT, thx
Exactly Facts ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
As a nurse who left bedside way before covid... Burnout is real and it is dangerous. I don't blame folks for leaving.
I left in 2019 before all of this nonsense! Couldn't imagine it now
Yep! Left the bedside and never looked back. Bless the sick who need inpatient care
First time in 33 years as a nurse, I'm actually considering leaving the profession. We've been there from day one...no hazard pay, no extra 600 bucks a week those who received unemployment and now my peers are threatening to walk if vaccines become mandatory...leaving those of us vaccinated staff to carry the heavier load. Absolutely overwhelming...
I know its not much but thank you for all that you do. It takes a brave and strong person to deal with this and all the idiots that won't listen to facts and do their part to help.
I'm grateful for your sacrifices. And I got my entire family fully vaccinated!! I don't want to burden anyone.
Yeah, the unvaccinated public is bad, but the unvaccinated staff are appalling! Nursing is about evidence-based care, and I have zero tolerance for those among us who fail to subscribe to this. Thank you for your efforts and all that you have sacrificed.
@@mark99k One thing you can do is to not give up on your friends/family who remain unvaccinated. While it is very difficult to get people to change their minds, if is often at the continued persuasion of someone close to them that a person finally does. Even if you can change just one mind, that's one more person protected, and one less unvaccinated person for medical staff to have to contend with. Sorry, I don't know of any funds specifically. You could check with your local hospital about donating care packages perhaps? Or check with the local nursing union to see if they have a fund? Thanks for being vaccinated!
@@ebellyfish4256 nobody wants to be a guinea pig. At the end if the day nurses are human beings with lives to consider like anyone else. I think you have nurses confused with nuns. And the fact that this vaccine does not work. Period.
I don't blame the nurses for quitting, as someone who has cared for dying patients. It takes a lot from you emotionally to watch someone grasp their last breath. I have seen staff fall when a patient dies, and the best part is to make a happy face before seeing the next patient. I don't think I can stand watching/caring for someone dying from a preventable death.
That's if that's their reason. Some because they don't trust the vaccine. Jesus.
I agree but those anti-vaxers are ridiculous. Why even go into that type of work if they don't believe in science 🙄
Not everyone can understand the quality of life the end of life when the scrubs come off our brain still sees the image I remember the first patient that died I remember the last patient that died it never leaves our brains and it is not easy at all
@@xlady7772 I’ve held kittens with sepsis as they’ve taken their last breaths. I cannot imagine the trauma of seeing it in a patient I’ve fought days, weeks, or months to save. Yet, you guys are seeing it every day now. I imagine there are no words that can ever make that better. I wish the unvaxxed could understand that and dig up an ounce of empathy and compassion for you all. If only that would convince them to vax.
@@desireehernandez8557 ☝️This part!!!
As a nurse the most frustrating thing was being called heroes but not implementing safe staffing ratios. I've felt burned out before the pandemic and it's not getting better, so many new nurses 6 months in are ready to leave the profession....
Absolutely. I retired the end of 2015 and the only thing keeping me going much of the time was knowing I would be retiring soon. I didn't work a single day more than required for the pension. The pizza that Trevor talked about - who would even have time to sit down and eat it. Staff meetings - being asked how can we improve patient care, but don't ask for more staff. I feel so sorry for those on the front lines.
The most frustrating thing isn't your fellow nurses who refuse to get vaccinated? Really...
Thank you and love from Sweden 🇸🇪
I'm right there with you but unfortunately there are some who would rather cash in on the crisis than talk about why this situation exists in the first place... And demand better conditions from lawmakers and hospitals.
Why can't we fast track nurses in their last yr of school? Or do some sort of on the job courses for those farther in.
AND, Nurses are legally liable if they make those mistakes, no wonder they are walking out, their entire career and life could be ruined for a mistake made while they're exhausted, overwhelmed, and sleep deprived and stressed for a full year.
no docs are legally liable
@@tymd130 nope, the nurses are the ones administering the treatment. our licenses are at stake because we are the last line of defense to the patient.
Not only are you liable, in worst case scenario you killed a person and have to live with that the rest of your life. That what angered me the most when we were understaffed tbh. The higher risk of patients getting hurt and the responsible nurse getting traumatised
@@celiaspeth2669 that's a lie and you know that you destroy families with your malpractice don't you lie to people here
@@tymd130 You are laughable.
From an RN
I’m one of those nurses. I quit my job in December, 2020. Luckily, I had money saved up so I could. Nursing was bad, but I could see that it was just going to get worse. It’s taken me months to heal from my nursing career. I’ll never go back to bedside nursing! I’m looking for a different job now.
Nursing has been in dire straits for decades. All it was going to take to destroy it was a crisis like this. I could see this coming miles away.
Thank you for all you did. I don't blame you. Stay safe ❣️
Same. Our load even away from the bedside in case management doubled while our department lost 4 FTE's. I have been in therapy for the past 5 years. My nerves are shot. I've been a nurse since 1994! It doesn't matter how hard you work. There is always a heavier load.
I'm currently thinking about leaving the nursing field. I stuck around during covid so it wouldn't look like I left due to covid. To me it's not even about covid. Nursing is just so toxic. I have cleaned up my finances and will probably work a minimum wage job, but at least I will be happy.
I work as a community health nurse for my local county. It is still stressful and we are still overwhelmed, but in general it is a very rewarding job and I have found it much less toxic than floor nursing.
Thank you for all your hard work. dont forget to seek counseling if you need to do so.
The nursing shortage is a NATIONWIDE EMERGENCY. We were short on nurses and aides way before the pandemic and now it's 10x worse. I graduate nursing school in December and I know I'm walking into a dumpster fire. This shortage will effect every one of us at some point. Pray you stay healthy, because there won't be anyone to care for you in the coming years.
Congrats and we are well on our way greeting you guys with "Thank you for your service!!" So let me be the first of many to share that sentiment. #staysafe
Exactly. I’ve been saying the same thing. Not sure how much longer I can do this.
@@texasgirlmomx2342 Thank you!
A lot of nurses quit because they tried to force the covid vaccine on them. It happened here in a hospital. They fired about 150 medical staff who refused the vaccine. The government is creating the shortage.
@@strangeroamer3219 Where is "here?"
No one talks about the pressure put on EMTs who have to be the ones who suit up and get these people from their homes in many cases having to lift them and take them out via stair chair. Every EMT I know is struggling right now, some ended up in rehab even because they turned to drugs to keep themselves going.
Agreed 100%, especially when we have to work 12hr shifts (OT while holding the wall) at minimum wage and don’t receive hazard pay
Eventhough you are right to point out the plight of EMT i'm always wary of "Whataboutism" because it tends to distract and dilute the message instead of getting stuff done.
Care work is generally underpaid and especially no healthcareworker should suffer from insufficient healthcare coverage when they are literally risking their health to help others.
You guys are over worked and underpaid. From an ICU nurse, thank you. I see you and I am grateful for you
Lots of sympathy. I originally wanted to be a paramedic but the pay sounded absolutely horrible for the job, same as CNAs. Nursing was the only thing kinda left. Wish I had just done finance or something.
I retired on Sept 4th, been a nurse since 1978 in AZ, I still tend to my family, but I can't help those who won't help themselves anymore, Period
Thank you for your service, and I hope you enjoy your retirement
Enjoy your retirement. You’ve earned it. I can certainly understand your professions’ frustrations.
@@commanderjoj6426 Thank You and I'm only getting started!
@@wrdonerd Thank You!
Thank you for being an angel to so many patients over the years! Nurses are amazing warriors in my opinion! My daughters call their Nanny (my mom) a hero because she "takes care of all the sick peoples" ❤
My brother has ptsd because he is a front line nurse. He is going to therapy and temped to quit because he is so deeply traumatized by this whole event. Not only that but he leaves work and people call him a liar and an idiot when he tells people the horrors he sees at work. The other day he told me he saw 3 people die, one was 35, alive one day and dead a week latter.
Was the person dead vaccinated?
Gaslighting is always wrong, I'm so sorry for your brother, praying for his healing
who paid you to lie like this?
@@elijahmiller912 Who’s paying you to be a troll?
Nurses in Japan are working more hours and getting paid less…… elective surgeries have been pushed off, hence the hospitals are bringing in less. Horrific!
The way nurses were treated during this pandemic it is surprising that any of them are even willing to stay in profession at all.
Most of them like doctors have spent a great part of their lives reading, practicing and making sacrifices including night shifts. This is what they know! They also stay because they care, someone has to
@@aishasadiq2210 I am a nurse, spent 30 years in hospitals including ICU. I am old so I don’t work in the field anymore, but if I had to work I would have been very bitter and hurt seeing the disrespect and plain nastiness some Americans display both on social media and news. I truly think nowhere in the world were nurses treated the way they were treated here. Absolute disgrace!
@@vintageglee6406 In my city, the head nurse of one of the main hospitals here announced that have had to step up security because patients family members were harassing healthcare workers. How in the world did we get here as a society? SMH
@@mariespi96 easy! Republicans are legitimizing that kind of behavior and have been prepping for it for 4 years! That’s how!
Rising cost of living, and little to no wage adjustment keeps many a couple pay cheques away from bupkis.
Unless you’re in California, most nurses are given more patients than they can handle. With each extra patient a nurse takes, there is a 7% increase in mortality. Not only this, but it takes so much more of a toll on the nurses. We NEED federally mandated safe nurse/patient ratios NOW. There is not a nursing shortage- there’s a shortage of nurses willing to work in these conditions.
Amen to that!
You've said nothing but the 100% truth
But how would that actually help if people still refuse vaccination?
Been working since 1984 , I have never seen it this bad! I got covid and almost died in December 2020 , ( on the ventilator x 4 weeks) I am not going back ! I am now vaccinated, and not taking any chances. Non vaccinated people on on their own !
I had 25 with 2 CNA’s when I left.
Hospital doctors and nurses have been required by the hospitals to be vaccinated for years, for example seasonal flu, TB, hepatitis.
Had a friend from a country that vaccinated for TB. This meant she would always show up as a false positive when
tested for tuberculosis. Annually she was required to prove she didn’t have the disease to keep her nursing job. This meant she had to have a chest X-ray once a yr. Don’t recall her ever balking at getting x-rayed. She knew the seriousness of TB.
FYI It's a TB test, not a vaccine.
@@juliejanssen7637 She received the BCG vaccine to build immunity to TB. Unfortunately one of the side effects is false positives when testing for TB later in life.
Yet only 80% are vaccinated for the flu and others don't lose there jobs because they don't take it!!!
Flu vaccines don’t work because it’s a virus.
Poland has the same problem, Government gives themselves a pay rise but they don't want to pay too really hard-working people. Medical workers are protesting.
I lived in warsaw.... sending a lot of love for my dear polish people...
Yeah except in America they have private healthcare so these hospital execs don't want to pay these nurses enough to make it worth their while
It's the same in Hungary
I don't know about Poland but in America they have done that themselves
Polish pole dancers make more money
Respiratory therapists too. Who you do think is running the ventilators?
I'm glad they're there. When I was a new RN in 1992, the hospitals in NJ downsized the RTs right out of the hospital. RNs had to take over for them. It was rough.
I was searching for this comment!
I worked outpatient surgery; I had one patient who came in frequently & was on a vent.
I was terrified of it & had absolutely no clue what to do when the alarms went off.
Thank G-D for RTs.
Oh my word yes! Love our RTs!
@Anne Day i have a son that is RT. Previously he had credential neo natal intensive care and pediatric intensive care. He worked on neo natal transplant unit. He also worked in medical emergency flight team. He did it for 10 years. It was heartbreaking for him to watch children die. So now he’s epidemiologist.
As a nurse we also shouldn't be forced to work 3 consecutive days in a row unless we sign up for it. Working 3 days in a row for 12hrs is exhausting you're just sleeping if you're lucky and returning to work. Half of my unit is covid and the other oncology. It doesn't matter what side of the unit you work on its hard the floor is so heavy. I'm driving home fighting sleep, my back hurts and I have two more days to go...It's a lot
Thank you for your service. Be safe ❤️🙏🏻
I worked so many 10 on and 4 off, they have know idea 💡, Your a Angel for all you do, THANK YOU! ❤
I hate to play devils advocate here, but there are many jobs that work 12 hour rotating shifts, until they retire. Many of them being manual labor. 4 days on 3 days off. When the workload gets higher they can go 16 hours until needing to be checked for exhaustion. If they appear fine, they can work longer. While "my" schedule isn't consistently like this, our department would also have to work 12 hour shifts minimum (with high probability to go longer), 13 days out of 14 days, one day mandatory break, for up to 6 months depending on the project. This includes manual labor, climbing, lifting, very hot surroundings, very loud noises and much more.
I know this won't make you feel better though. I also wish our healthcare system was more robust to prevent this type of scheduling. Sorry? 🤷♂️
@@XXCoeusXX yeah but those non-nurses don't continuously have other people's lives in their hands for the entirety of their shifts.
@@XXCoeusXX Not back in my day, 10 on, 4 off! Called work so you can pay you bills and if I worked night a extra $50 a week, your lucky if you got that! You young folks are spoiled bad I think!
Nurses and doctors were mistreated through overworking them and burnout, even before this. Once they're paid beyond a certain amount the hospital thanks it's okay to give them an inhumane amount of work and patients per worker.
Truth.
Instead of focusing on one segment of healthcare ( there are also docs, techs etc dying and heavily burnt out)- please focus on how much top admins with little to no medical training/expertise are profiting off of healthcare instead of providing the much needed hazard pay to frontline workers. Please do a review of the take home comp of these nonmedical admins in hospitals and insurance companies that have driven up the cost of healthcare and decreased the quality to pay themselves in millions.
That’s for sure a problem. Another problem is that the nurses ARE getting hazard pay, double time etc because they are so short staffed…but that doesn’t prevent burnout but rather incentivizes it. And you’re right…techs, clerks, nutritionists, pharmacists etc are also getting burnt out but not getting the extra pay/attention of docs and nurses.
Wealth inequalities continue increasing and I've said it for years
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Yes!!
Absolutely… Hospital administration, like school administration is excessive… care providers & teachers have been relegated to little more than burger flippers.
My family said the exact same thing about people donating pizza and donuts. My sis was like, “I wish people would donate fruit or vegetables so I’m not tired.”
Not to mention the Pizza delivery guy should not have to risk their lives delivering to a hot zone for minimum wage and no benefits, no health insurance.
Donating pizza and donuts really doesn’t help much considering health plays a major part of diseases. 😔
I'm a retired RN, BSN. I tried to send food, from a local restaurant, to the hospital connected with the clinic system for which I worked. They requested that I didn't because they didn't know if the food boxes would be carrying COVID19 & they didn't have the time to sit down & eat it. I wish I had thought of fruit. Tell you Sis, I'm going to call the ER & see if they'll accept fruit. Thanks.
Our hospital gave us mugs ( that they got for free) with the hospital logo on it. Just PAY US.
I have celiac, so I just have to watch people eat our delicious, donated food.
Every time I begin to lament at how this pandemic has upturned my life, I remember healthcare workers and how they have it so much worse.
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Not just nurses, RESPIRATORY THERAPIST are literally on the front line fighting as well!!!!!!!! We cover ENTIRE units, in different areas, not just a set number of patients.
Exactly. Thank you for everything you do 💜💜💜
As the senior resident on a medicine team for most of the last 2 years, two of the things I try to drill into the interns are ‘know when to call the RT, they’re busy & if we need them it’s probably going down,’ and ‘know when not to call the RT, they’re busy & someone else probably needs them.’
Unfortunately wider world tends not to know allied health professionals exist in general, & let’s face it nurses have by far the best PR. We definitely appreciate you though.
Seriously from the bottom of my heart - thank you. You guys are hit the hardest.
- COVID nurse
Of the A-B-C we're taught are the most important.
RTs do the A's and the B's.
Nobody is clapping for the ever suffering RT
People hear of the number of people on a vent but never who is managing that even as the patient tanks.
Thank you
Yeah. There's lots of problems in health care. Why does health insurance not cover dental problems? We here in the US have to pay extra extra for tooth work.
People need to understand that its rare to see a person die. As a firefighter I saw many people go before there time. All of them still carry weight in my heart. I never new any fo them before hand. I can’t imagine the weight of losing so many people that you know plus there families. Imagine if your pet died 5 times a week. Their all braver then me.
Thank you. It does weigh heavy.
❤️
My ICU was a strict COVID ICU for over a year. Out of 32 beds roughly 25 were vented COVID patients. The most that died in one day that I was there for was six. A minimum of three or so died almost everyday. I heard of a 16 bed ICU losing their entire census to COVID in one day. I had a patient who I tried to calm by establishing rapport and fist bumped to keep him calm. Though I knew deep down he was probably heading towards the end. A week later I came back to work and he was on the ventilator, sedated, on paralytics, CRRT, and proned. He died a few days later. I had another man I tried to calm and keep the BIPAP mask on, but he couldn’t stand how the mask felt. He ripped the mask off and yelled “I’m gonna die man”. I talked to his wife and tried to give hope to the BIPAP treatment, but I had already seen enough to know the trajectory that would likely come. He too died shortly after. I’ve seen those who linger as a shell of who they were after COVID… sustained by machines and medications. I’ve talked to people and given hope, only to see the same road being taken again and again. I’ve heard the wails of family. I’ve called family to let them know they should probably come soon due to rapid deterioration. A patient said the hospital felt like a lonely place during that year due to no visitors being allowed in order to prevent transmission. He wasn’t wrong. I’ve stayed next to COVID patients to give company so they wouldn’t die alone. They were completely unaware at that point, but perhaps it was worth something. The countless amounts of CPR that was performed. Watching vitals slowly decline towards the inevitable. I don’t remember the names, but I have images and rooms burned into my memory.
Look at those fine patriots destroying the nation's Healthcare system. Just warms my heart.
It's the American way baby. #TRUMP2024
The L in Mary’s name is for loser.
Putin, Is that you?
@@opmules2574 😆
Right and they didn’t do anything wrong at the peaceful tour of the Whitehouse on Jan 6!
Nurses Aides are also in the trenches, often doing all the grunt work!
They are not honored as Nurses are, yet they are in the same boat (If not worse). Even incentives ($2000 bonus if you stay 90 days) does draw new workers! The work is hard and for whatever their reason, new hires walk off the job leaving Nursing Home Aides to care for 15 or more patients each! Toileting, bathing, feeding, changing bed linen, etc.. There doesn't seem to be any solution to the problem other than do the best you can or quit yourself! 😔❤
Exactly!! Badly treated. Treat others as you would want to be treated. Aides are Not your servants. they are people....."this ain't my job mentality" give a little help when you can but all this starts at the TOP!!
I hear you!!
Was hospitalized in May. The nurses aides were fantastic. The nurses did their rounds perfunctorily. The nurses aides looked at me and talked to me.
The media only focus on nurses like they are the only providers in the Healthcare system. Respiratory therapist are the ones managing all those ventilators and we were already short staffed in hospitals before covid. As a respiratory therapist responds to all codes, manage 10 plus ICU ventilator patients. It's a lot , on the whole team in the Healthcare system from housekeeping, to kitchen to administrators to doctors and all in between.
Thank you for mentioning this...we definitely are forgotten.
Thank you for covering this, Trevor! It’s been a longtime issue made worse by the pandemic. Had to leave bedside myself after a little over a year I was so horribly burned out. These frontline RNs and CNAs are burned out and suffering from PTSD, and it’s a serious crisis.
Nurses are mad of trump supporters Hoarding all the ventilators to themselves.
Wouldn't it be terrifying if you were getting on a plane and you learned that the pilot had been working straight for the last 14 hours?
Wait, don't pilots have terrible working hours as well...?
13-14 hours is usually how long I am at the hospital for my normal “12 hour” shift. The crazy thing is now it is usually 15-16 hours by the time you leave. Due to getting so behind from the craziness all day due to the staff shortage and no time to chart and you are sitting there after giving report off charting.
And your pilot, who you expect to only fly your plane, is now flying two planes because of short staffing
@@rebeccahawkes-cates3275 or also being the flight attendant, fixing the engine, collecting tickets, checking luggage. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Just so you know, a pilot can legally work up to a 13 hr duty day. This is dependent on how many flights (legs) they are operating that day and their report time. You can find more details by reading FAA FAR part 117. On the other hand, Flight Attendants, who are your first responders in the sky and are responsible for evacuating an aircraft in 90 seconds, regardless of size, can be legally scheduled to work up to 14 hr duty days. Depending on how many flight attendants on an aircraft, that duty day can be extended anywhere up to 20hrs during irregular operations due to weather, mechanical or staffing reasons. FAA 14 CFR section 121.467.
I just graduated and am scheduled to take the NCLEX in a few weeks. On top of being a new nurse soon this definitely adds to my nervousness. But I have had amazing clinical instructors and preceptors so the excitement is still there too.
Congrats!!!
Been nursing for 14 years. Most of you people have great respect for my colleagues and my profession.
But some of yall are making me second guess the social contract we have with each other. Purely selfish and toxic apprehension to proper science is deadly.
Thank you, we owe you our lives
I swear some of these conservatives think babies and young children are not human... I get that every single time I read something about "children can't get the virus."
Its very clear they don't care about babies after they are born
@@ayoutubechannel864 yes babies should be vaccinated against covid as soon as they are born, they are biggest problem.
The 1st person I knew to have it in my area was a toddler... 4 year old Henry who got it from his aunt whom had just gotten back from a trip to Wuhan to pick up a makeup supply in October 2019. Everyone in my buildings got sick, then it spread through the work places because many places made you work when you were sick prior to covid...
@@kevincasey3965 🤔🤔🤔🤔
@@kevincasey3965 I hope poor little Henry made it through his illness okay.
The idea of an anti vax nurse sounds as ridiculous as a flat earth astronaut to me 🤯
Should be worse. I would rather meet 100 flat earthers over an anti vax nurse
BOOM!!
Most people are against this particular vaccine rather than all vaccines. They all say it came out too soon and are not checked for long-term effects.
Still though it's such a flawed logic in my opinion. Long-term effects take years to be revealed, and by that logic, every vaccine for any disease should start to be applied to the population years after the disease it was trying to cure has subsided.
@@roncerjani9063 Vaccine mandates can be a smoke-screen for government ulterior motives ( _one example_ is slowly stripping away your freedom).
@@Daren_PNW
Here we go again. Time for you Q nuts to jump off a cliff or something.
I admire nurses who ask me in a scientifically and medically inquisitive way why I give the medications or treatments to their patients in such a way. This helps bring teamwork into the work flow. But these nurses who deny the science should be fired.
I work for an IT company that does support for multiple health organizations, and I just got in trouble for making a comment joking about what a User must have thought about the new vaccine requirements.
The ignorant have been given too much equal treatment for too long, and it has evolved into them now wanting preferential treatment everywhere.
Even in Healthcare work, we are expected to walk on egg shells to not insult these ignorant monsters who have no business being near Healthcare
Thing is... yes they should, but they are still warm bodies filling out uniforms in a system that's starved for raw manpower. The numbers should be boosted overall (1). And then they should be fired (2) as their replacements get in (3). Do just (2) without doing (1) and (3) and you'll end up even worse off than before.
@@abdulmasaiev9024 I don’t disagree. I also desire the new generation of nurses to be just as scientifically competent, so that they don’t become part of the ignorant masses in any future worship of demagoguery
Right!! Can you imagine how terrifying it would be if you were the ONLY ONE of your team who understood science? Like if you were having an off day and the nurses just blindly followed all your orders? We are an interprofesional practice, always learning from each other 🥰
Name the science. What are the LT effects of the Covid vaccine? What’s the 10yr? 15yr?….heck 5 yr? What are the effects on newborns who received it in vitro?
I think we should let the unvaccinated healthcare workers treat the unvaccinated patients
I tell you it's insane how this so called unvaccinated fools just behave like they come from the Temple Run Mobile Game world
And bury them too
NAILED IT!
No problem, great idea
Vaccinated healthcare workers should take care of unvaccinated patients that's why they got vaccinated to take care of sick patients.
It was a tough job before the pandemic - hospitals were prioritizing efficiency and cost management not preparing for worst case scenarios. I don't care what Nicki says people need to get vaccinated (especially nurses - those that refused should not be working in healthcare).
Peter V, you said it "Cost management" any way to make more money allowing doctors less time with their patients & packing their & the stockholders pockets. Remember these facilities are not owned by the doctors in Most cases but by Business people/investors packing their bank accounts. Keep your Pizza's & doughnuts....how about some Cash & more time off to regroup from the daily carnage caused by Man/Ignorance.
@@justsaying3729 ""Cost management" any way to make more money allowing doctors less time with their patients & packing their & the stockholders pockets."
This was a major reason my mom retired for being a general practitioner. 15 minutes per patient isn't long enough to do anything. The clinic didn't care about patients. They cared about getting the sweet Medicaid money (mom worked in a low-income clinic).
It's almost like medicine shouldn't be practices with a profit motive...
@@UnboxingAlyss When the clinic, I worked for, demanded more patient care from our already overloaded Doctors, 15 of them quit, in one month. Each Doctor had a patient panel of more than 3000. The remaining Doctors were required to absorb their patient panels... 45,000+ people. I decided to retire early, at age 56 which was 7 years ago. My personal Doctor is at that same clinic & they 'let go' of 1/4-1/2 of the staff when COVID19 protocols went into effect. How can you properly serve patients under those circumstances?
Nicki is an idiot. There are early studies, including one from the Cleveland Clinic, which are showing higher incidences of erectile dysfunction in long Covid patients of a not usually ED age. Covid inflames, and can damage, blood vessels and the family jewels tend to have a lot of blood vessels. Researchers have also seen a few cases of infertility, but the researchers do not know as yet, if either the ED or the infertility will be permanent.
i think at this point you should swap military budget and medicine
In a way, both are wars so it kind of makes sense too
@@DB-yk6ll defunded or not, we're already cutting off our own noses just to spite the faces.
exactly. the military budget is over-bloated as it is, and if all of their human sacrifices (the potential soldiers) all die off, it's only a matter of time before they make robot soldiers and the Skynet history line from the Terminator series comes to fruition.
@@Echo81Rumple83 the taliban is well equipped I hear, maybe they’ll bail us out
Spend it on HEALTHCARE. Diet. exercise and mental health is most important!
Another reason why there's a shortage related to the pandemic is because.. wages we have triple inflationary pandemic prices, and we have wages that have rolled back to the fifties and sixties.. healthcare workers are Frontline no matter the status from attended care2 Physicians.. and wages are rolled back, we can't even afford insurance for ourselves and family what we make anymore.. the government wants to claim unemployment it's not.. it's wages with no incentive or Hazard pay.. and regular rages are diminished.. now you have the point of view and perspective of the healthcare worker!!! Not unemployment.. and not the lethargic, sleepy federal government
GREAT POINT.
I’m a health unit coordinator at a hospital . I work on the units with the nurses and nurse assistants. We are closing rooms due to the nurse shortage. I work at well known hospital, people fly in all over world to come here. It’s a nurse, nurse assistant or coordinator that quits every month
Is there a doctor shortage.
Yesterday was my first deployment to a covid positive icu. Overwhelming protocols, whole new routine and electronic system have to learn. The only thing that drained me the most is the constant fear of my n95 mask might be leaking. Every single time i went into the room, i would check the mask again. I really want a mask sealed test every shift (which is impossible). I am scared to go home, i dont even want to interact with my family. I did my ART this morning because i cant get rid of the fear, and it is negative. Its a relief (50%only) because knowing that ART and PCR accuracy is different. Im going back to work tomorrow and i dont know if i can survive.
Watching Trevor should be required daily viewing in all schools. The intelligence, humor and grace are the best examples for such and would teach these skills, logic, and reason to our youth before it's too late for them.
Places like south carolina wont even let you show CNN 10 ....
Some of his takes are totally cucked because he's owned by comedy central and won't go hard against those who need to be ridiculed
my family and i watched the Daily Show (w/ Jon Stewart) religiously during the bush admin days, when sis and i were going to college. those were the days, but thanks to Trevor Noah migrating to the TH-cam platform with ease, he's also been my favorite predecessor of the Daily Show's format of pointing out total idiocy in US politics since 2000.
Medical care in the US is broken. I'm grateful to live in Europe.
You may think that, but our breast augmentation technology is number 1 in the world. So, it's not ALL bad
I’m just a Mexican stoner trying to make it out the hood by doing storytimes & reaction videos on my TH-cam channel ..🙁
Really now? Lol
Europe is not a country, but I'll allow your virtue signaling...
@@TooMuchDramaInTheMilkyWay Comparing a continent to a country is TikTarded.
I have worked with travel nurses for eight years and I’ve seen first hand how traumatized they are because of COVID.
Could not have been a bedside nurse without the fabulous nursing assistants that I worked with.
We’re hurting for respiratory therapists more than any other discipline.
Girl...evertime I see one of these media piece on nurses....I'm like it's respiratory therapist are truly suffering and have been suffering for years. I used work night shift and managed 2 icu units and carry a code pager. But the media and the nation is only focused on nurses, not saying they shouldn't, but I think they ought speak on the shortage of all the areas of Healthcare professionals.
I'm an RN with a four year degree. I have never felt that any of my colleagues who didn't have the same background as I did were any less of a nurse for not having it because their experience and continued education would make up the differences between that. But I did get the chance to study and understand the science in-depth that supports the reasons behind why we need public health and how it all comes together.
When I worked in hospitals and in hospice (no longer doing front line nursing after 27 years, in a different aspect with triage and care management) there was always the expectation that to keep your patients safe you had to get certain vaccines and stay up to date on them. Or have titres drawn to prove your immunity.
Like I said, I don't work on the frontlines any more, but I know but I'm incredibly lucky; my employer gave paid time off to get the vaccine, sent us all to work from home early on, and no one who is currently unvaccinated is allowed to return to in-office work. We have been following all CDC guidelines from the start. We're also going to all be tested weekly to monitor for breakthrough cases once we return to the office. Do I like having to be tested weekly? Nope. Will I do it anyway? yup. Because, Science.
That being said, the nurses who refuse to get the vaccine are scaring me. Their ignorance is showing.
I held back on getting my shots initially to MAKE SURE the front line clinicians and medical staff could get theirs first because they needed it more.
Every client I've had to call after they are home from the hospital (or followed while they are in the hospital) since the Delta variant reared its head, has not been vaccinated, while those whom I call after they have a positive COVID test who are at home with mild symptoms have were vaccinated.
I know episodic evidence is not enough, statistics can be manipulated and that correlation is not necessarily causation, but the numbers are adding up day after day.
I also knew taking the vaccine wasn't supposed to fully prevent me from ever getting sick, but make sure my immune system was prepared to fight should it happen. That's how vaccines work!
Thanks for putting the spotlight on the current situation.
All the support and love to my fellow front line medical workers as well- The RT's, PT's, OT's, Nursing assistants and therapy assistants: you rock!! We can't do our jobs without you.
GET.YER. VAX. - this RN
I am a vaccinated nurse, covid free my brother in law not vaccinate, covid death now. Sad he was a great guy. Do not be him.
Same thing happened to me… He was vaccinated
@@newrivervalleywellnessdotc1260 sorry, did yours die of covid-19
@@silasajimijaye1855 yep
My mom is a registered Critical care nurse, who is pediatric intensive care certified and more. She was working I the COVID unit last year, it got so bad she had to leave, both due to overwhelming work and the disgust at the terrible care of patients. She has an autoimmune deficiency (MS) and STILL got the vaccine. She now works in hospice care and is still overworked but feels a deeper connection to her patients as she helps them and their families process the situation they are in. The company she now works for deeply cares for their patients and the hospital she left could give less than af 😞 My mom works so many hours a week it's INSANE.
All areas are hurting for employees. I'm an x-ray tech and we have multiple open positions that don't even have people applying for. We also cover the entire hospital and are usually the first to see that a patient has COVID, while they wait for their swab results.
Aaaaand this is what four years of misinformation and propagating mistrust in science gets you. Lots of love for the nurses and hope the situation becomes better soon!
It started waaay before that. Remember the 8yrs of Bush ll?
True, but big difference in intensity.
As a nurse, thank you Trevor and team!!!
Still waiting on my Hazard Pay from wholefoods market. Went the whole pandemic with wholefoods not caring for employees safety and purposely cared only for the customers saftey
Far too many employers view their employees as Collateral damage, they don't give a D--. As long as the stockholders on the golf course & Yacht's are happy they are okay with exploiting/exposing the little guy (the one that making them money.
That was me when I was at Kroger (during the first half of 2020).
Of course not, it's now being run by Jeff Bezos. Look at what the workers at Amazon have to put up with. I refuse to patronize any of his companies (that I know of) he DOES not need my money 😤
I attribute that to 'At Will' employment- terminating employment without just cause. 49 of the 50 states have that law. For what reason would an employer want to retain an employee when they have a line of people ready to take their place?
@@dee_dee_place and when has a corporation ever kept it's word to it's peons, sorry workers, without a hue and cry?
One nurse for every 4 ICU patients, really takes the Intensive out of ICU.
I’d like to see you try
Can we stop just saying nurses. I know they are the most recognizable health care professional. But there are dozens upon dozens of other medical workers who are struggling right now.
Nurses are the most important. Nurses spend more time with us than the dr
Purses
agreed.
@@aphexon. HAAAA
Yes, that's true.
Trevor you always have a different valuable perspective, this conversation needed to brought to light, thanks man
Physicians and pharmacists would leave but with hundreds of thousands of student loan debt makes it impossible.
Administration and politicians need to go deal with patients and figure out what healthcare workers really need.
I love how he drops the bits of comedy to add some levity to the situation.
It's heartbreaking to know what these amazing people are going through. And will go through mentally after this pandemic is over. Nurses that don't vaccinate them self's should never be aloud to work in healthcare ever again.
The problem is real! I just left a bedside nursing job after 18 years that I had planned to stay in for at least another 5-8 years (I'm 57). Complete and total burnout made it impossible to continue.
I graduated from nursing school in 2019 and so many of the people I graduated with are already burnt out and have either left nursing or become travel nurses. Hospitals won't pay them enough, expect them to work unreasonable hours and take care of way too many patients. Even if you are young and healthy, this should scare you. Nobody is immune to a medical emergency, and your nurse is your last line of defense. What's going to happen when they are also caring for 9 other patients? Mistakes will be made, people will suffer, people will needlessly die. Nurses are human, they can't do it all. They have lives and families too. Nurses, especially new nurses, are being traumatized daily by what they are seeing. They did not sign up for this. I've been staying at home with my daughters since December, and have no intentions of working full time anytime soon.
Hello there Sarah nice meeting you here
As an RN and nursing instructor, I want to say thank you for raising awareness about this. Staffing and burnout have been issues since long before the pandemic, but has reached critical levels (and therefore is more noticeable to the public) as nurses experience physical and emotional exhaustion and burnout and witness the pandemic being prolonged and exacerbated by public health research and science being ignored by many members of the public, and in some cases, local and state government.
The rest of the healthcare team is facing this too and should not be forgotten - respiratory therapy, physical, occupational & speech therapy, techs, MDs, NPs & PAs, dietary, housekeeping, engineering, security.
Also, that thing about pizza parties? Absolutely true. And has been a running joke for long time. (Healthcare workers tend to have a dark sense of humor.)
Admin: Great job on winning that national award for nursing excellence!
Staff: Does this mean a raise? Or more staff?
Admin: How about we buy you a pizza?
Staff: :(
Night shift staff: ....do we get pizza?
Admin: no
Hello there Katie nice meeting you here
Sorry you got robbed of your Emmy
We Love You Trevor 💌
In most cases even before Covid there was nurse shortage due to Insurance companies policies!
That and hospitals too
@preeta
I unsubscribed from this channel
Propaganda machine and lies
Listen to the governor of west Virginia
th-cam.com/video/I816BLTpuhE/w-d-xo.html
@@animeshock2006 yes for sure. So Covid came at the worse time! Insurance lobby is strong, esp in NY.
Masks and social distancing has been so much a part of my life that it has now crept into my dreams...
I have nightmares about forgetting my mask and being stuck in a grocery store with no masks in stock. I guess this has replaced the nightmare about not having any pants in school.
weird! :D
boy-howdy, have ***I*** got some weird allegorical dreams i'd like to share since the start of the pandemic, even before the pandemic, prolly as far as the early days of the BLM movement in 2014 and beyond...
...just not sure how to go about it w/o p^ssing off TH-cam's bigitbots 😒
@@remyn.9198 I HAVE forgotten my mask so... I have 2 hanging on my front door handle & 2 hanging from my directional handle, in my car. I keep two in case the bands break; I have a backup.
That's hella sad...
I got my first nurse job last year during the peak of COVID-19 and it has been a rough, overwhelming, stressful experience… My coworkers and I have definitely felt (and still feel) burnt out and PTSD. I have seen many nurses quit bedside or nursing all together. There have been moments when I feel like I want to quit, but the thought of leaving my friends to fight alone makes my heart break… We have been short staffed for months, and it just keeps getting worse. We have all been picking up extra shifts, working 5 or 6 shifts a week when 3 is the normal for full time. And everyone around me says, “well at least you’re getting overtime pay” but I always have to explain that it’s not about the money (let’s face it, most of it goes to Uncle Sam), it’s about supporting your fellow nurse because you know the struggle and you want to lessen their burden… Thank you, Trevor, for highlighting this very real issue and for making us nurses feel seen 🙏🏼❤️
I was (SWEAR ON MY LIFE) fired for the first case ever. I was fired taking care of a hospice patient because I was wearing a mask and the woman said "I don't believe in this flu and I don't care if I die." I lost $1500 per week. Was sour. I'm a HHA and my CNA exam was canceled due to pandemic. I still applied to be a traveling CNA in any crisis area. Denied ....lost all of my pandemic assistance trying to get a job. Awful ...the baby boomers are NOT the WW2 VETS. And JOBS aren't fulfilling much anymore
Hello there Nestavan nice meeting you here
Well, being a certified nurse doesn't mean you can't be an idiot. Even you can't help wonder, what she thought about the science part of her training.
Probably the same that creationist thing of Evolution. All of this science stuff is just a theory not a fact, therefore it can't be true. If it were true it would be called the Fact of Evolution. Then of course you have the people that just want to get through schooling to be able to get a stable job and really only pay attention enough to pass test before promptly forgetting everything
Maybe she never took science. 😂
Well, to be a registered nurse (RN), you only need 2 years at a community college. They are not heavily trained in science. They are taught pieces of science specific to their job, like how to calculate dosages based on weight, and are required to memorize parts of the body and certain procedures. They aren't taught to read scientific research at the level of an RN.
Most HCW don't have the amount of education on physiology, anatomy and virology as you think they do. And honestly, they don't need to in order to do their jobs. The problem is that people hold them to these standards when their educational background doesn't support it.
They are health care workers unclear if RN or Assistant or LVN
It's not just the nurses that are short.. It's all departments in the hospital
Nurse here - thank you for highlighting this. We used to be the most trusted professional for so many years…I wonder what it is now. 🤦🏻♀️😣
We still are we're theoretically appreciated by the public but taken advantage of by hospital administration
Yeah I snorted when I heard that “some nurses are taking care of up to 10 pts” - lol try working night shift, I’ve had 11 on a tele unit. 10 on an iso/HD/wound care unit (private rms) 😥😢Admin is to blame for ratios…and this is not new, I’ve been a nurse since the wk of 9/11 so 20 yrs now…
It starts with your Administrators/Investors. That's why the Medical profession is not what it use to be.
I got my nursing school acceptance 2 weeks before the pandemic caused us to go into lockdown … so when Trevor said who wants to become a nurse in the middle of the pandemic I was like lol that be me
Lessee...a maternity ward in one of my NC hospital system's facilities had an outbreak of almost 60 cases...50 of whom were staff. Here's hoping that every single "exception" for the vaccine requirement for "religious" reasons is rejected...
Once, when admin ordered pizza for us , I was too busy to go to the break room and eat. I had too many patients, too many doctor's orders to get started. When I finally got 15 minutes to eat, all the pizza was gone. As the charge nurse of an ER, I was so hungry and tired, I cried. I never got to eat that shift, or some other shifts.
They send you pizza when No One Has Time To Go To The Cafeteria or to take a break. Pizza actually makes me mad, but then sad.
O hunny i feel that... It just stings... After all the effort and sacrifice to not have them think of you enough to save you some.... It is infuriating and depressing... Ive had the same thing happen to me not quite on the level that you have... But I understand the wave of indignantcy you feel when you walk into that room and all there is is empty boxes... It hurts... It really does... We in the peer support community are here for you... And we appreciate all that you do... We're here to listen and take at least some of that burden off your overworked shoulders...
I tried to send food from a local restaurant to the ER. They said, "don't bother because they didn't have time to eat it". I never thought to send 'finger foods' like fruits, energy bars, etc. Someone mentioned it on this thread. I'm going to call the ER & ask if they would have time to grab that type of food. I feel you, my fellow nurse; I used to get UTI all the time because I didn't have time to go to the bathroom during my shifts (other than dinner break- if I got one).
thanks to all the nurses who take care of us when we are sick for real for real for real
For real
for REAL.
For real
Literally no one acknowledges the clinical laboratory scientists doing all the covid testing! We are severely short staffed, overworked, and trying our best during massive supply shortages.
I did even know what a clinic laboratory scientist was until I was looking at different career paths I could study. Im sorry you're going through a hard time and I hope you get more help soon. Thank you for all you do!
As a nurse I welcome this segment!🤛🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Thank you, beyond grateful for you. Wishing you better days ahead full of healing and rest.
and I'm sorry about all my idiot neighbors
It's like people are waiting for the cobra to bite them rather then running for their lives(From the cobra story)
And then the people have to go to work with that ever-mutating cobra, 5 days a week, forever.. until they go on strike..
And these are the nurses we have to treat us. They went to school for this, and did several science classes and still by into the garbage. If you don't believe go read the science paper just like you did to take the classes.
Well now I question how much reading they actually did in school.
Remember, those who graduated last in their class, still graduated. Sigh
There isn't much science papers in a nursing class, your just taught things as being true. Things like this is how an anesthesia machine works, these are signs to look out for to know whether a patient is too deep under anesthesia or too light, these are some common signs for these common illnesses, this is how you deal with clients, here is a high school level biology course, this is how you run blood work, this is how you you take x-rays, this is how you properly give a vaccine or drug, these are a list of common drugs you would expect to find in a hospital and what they are used for. Now memorize all this to pass the test to get your license
They sounds like Morons. Unbelievable. You did the right thing, Quit for the sake and health of others.
@@aaronrumph3291 I’m an Rn. That’s nothing like the education I’ve received. I wouldn’t want a nurse caring for me functioning at that level.
Along with nurses there are Respiratory Therapists, nursing assistants, housekeepers, and the workload just increases.
Amen
The shortage, is actually driving the shortage. The rates for traveling nurses to the hardest hit areas have skyrocketed, nurses are leaving their hospitals to make double even tripple in these areas.
Yes it is a twisted cycle that has its own feedback loop.
As a nurse in a country where nurses are not appreciated Nigeria I am really glad this is coming out.
This is also REALLY bad for literally anyone who has to go to the hospital. I got vaccinated, I did my part, but now it's taking forever to schedule medical appointments for other chronic health issues that need urgent care, because of the shortage.
This shortage, in combination with the already SUPER complicated and overly expensive system, will cause even more people to avoid going to urgent care when they need it, and a whole different wave of deaths will occur because of that. People already avoid the doctor because of costs, let's not make it any harder for the people who can and want to get the care and NEED it. This could be lethal!
Honestly...this country needs better healthcare NOW.
‘Who would want to become a nurse NOW, in the middle of a pandemic?”
Me, a nursing student: 👀👀👀
Thank you ❤
3 years med surg and going on 3 in ICU… you’re in for a rough ride
How did you get a copy of my xray from the cactus incident? I thought I was protected by HIPAA?
HAAAAA
If they cut your information off the image they can use them all they want. HIPAA only protects you from being linked to it by them.
Both Hospitals and funeral homes have seen too much.
I’ve worked with nurses like this. They’re the ones that think they know more than their entire medical team. Just awful and often bully other workers. It’s unfortunate that of all the times to flaunt their ego they chose to do it now
???
I still hear beeping sounds in my head when I try to sleep.
Another Nurse said same thing about Full Covid Unit! Constant "Beeping"&Many Patients would b Dead by 🌄Morning!
When compassion fatigue sets in along with the endless feeling of burnout. We nurses and other healthcare workers such as respiratory therapists, CNAs etc, are all getting tired but we still got to do our jobs not just because we signed up for it, but because who else would do it.
Why is Trevor's mic volume always so low? Whenever we cut to a clip, the clip is so much clearer than Trevor's voice... Please find a balance 🥲
He needs a real mic in front of him
@@crystyle_NYC ya know?? I just wanna hear the host when he’s speaking for Pete’s sake 😭
I'm an ICU nurse and I'm burnt out 😔
Thank you beloved, we all owe you our lives
"I dont know what the longterm effects are"- maybe experiencing long term effects is better than dying shortterm
That was my thought process when I decided to get the vaccine
Excellent point !
This.
I have long hauler side effects from Covid (I had it last year in Febuary, antigen test proved I had COVID) and I'd rather take the vaccine a dozen more times than experience these symptoms - (constant brain fog, poor memory, constant fatigue and joint pain, insomnia, indegestion for months post-covid, the list goes on). Even if you don't die from covid, you're still likely to have down the road consquences from it. Just get the vaccine people. I had no major health issues, other than my genetic hearing loss pre-covid and it pulled the pin to a cluster bomb of health problems that for all I know, may be permanent.
There's a new strain out that can cause hearing loss aparrently too, and as someone who had bilateral hearing loss from birth you're in for a RUDE surprise trying to get hearing aids under private health insurance (you won't).
Thank you so much for taking the time to talk about nurses and healthcare burnout! It has definitely gotten harder for us to maintain empathy and a compassionate mindset but we are still here trying our best, burnout and all!
Such amazing people. Went above and beyond to save many.
Hello there Connie nice meeting you here
A Venezuelan doctor once told me that one of her teachers told them something they would never forget in their careers: _Nuestros errores se tapan con tierra_ (Our mistakes are concealed with earth). A part of a quote from Frank Lloyd Wright, by the way.
If every city had a long funeral dirge that went through half the town or city, the traffic jams might make them aware that people are dying, actually dying. The die hards of the herd, face it that's what they are, will call every hearse a false flag operation, hopefully pushing those jerks back the the fringe.
I remember back when the pandemic started India was punishing people who refused to use a mask by making them bury those killed by covid
I must’ve sensed disaster was coming. I left the bedside a year before the pandemic and I am grateful, but I feel guilty for not being in the trenches with my colleagues ❤️
Ditto. I retired 7 years ago & I'm high risk.
No don’t, you paid your dues. Take care of yourself
Burnt out, frustrated, and green pediatric ICU nurse here thank you for this! Thank you for shining a light on this insane crisis. What's even more frustrating is when the hospital you work for claims that there is no staffing shortage. Then it feels even more like a slap in the face. When your employer goes on the news and says that "we are managing just fine" when we are not is demoralizing.
Thank you for explaining about the horrible conditions nurses are working under right now. I’m retired now but remember too many times being forced to work 16 hours in a row (in ICU). Then having 8 hours off before returning for another 8 hour shift. I told managers and supervisors that I felt I was not safe to work after 12 hours and they all ignored me…So glad I’m now retired…Prayers and best wishes for all our health care workers…
How are you going to be an Adult & not believe in science?
If you drive, use air conditioning, or a cell phone- that’s f-ing Science at work!
Nobody should believe in science. People should have the knowledge and understanding of basic science.
Hospice RN here. Not seeing m(any) COVID-19 pts. Unfortunately, they aren't making it home. 🤷🏼
With today's modern medicine and equipment, I can do without a doctor but can't do without a nurse.
Well said
As a nurse... no, you can't.
You... really can't do without either of them. WebMD self-diagnostics are a meme for a reason
Without a doctor there wouldn't be modern medicine and equipment.
We had staffing shortages BEFORE COVID-19. Now…it’s miserable. I used to look forward to going into work. No longer. I’m depressed, and so used up that when I get home to my family, I have almost nothing left to give. I’m a tough cookie, but this is pure trauma. There is so much death. It isn’t just nurses like me that are suffering, either. Aides, techs, respiratory therapists, housekeeping, dietary…everyone has given everything they possess. We’re running on auxiliary power. THIS IS AVOIDABLE! I’ve never been so disappointed with society as I am right now. Imagine if during WW2, half of the country refused to ration and sacrifice? Just completely selfish and callous.
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Love you Theresa. I don't know how to say it without sounding fake but I love you so hard. Wishing you better days ahead that include healing and rest. We don't deserve you, honestly
My mom’s a nurse in a nursing home and over half her patients died at the start of COVID. It’s been an extremely traumatizing time