It didn’t have to be like this???!!!😩😩😩😱😱
You’re on a roll.
“No, I’m sorry. My quack supervisor-doctor says you can’t have the benign therapeutic that’s cheaper than a bottle of Walmart Oak Leaf ‘because reasons’.”
but seriously, battle fatigue and crisis burnout is real. Ask any caregiver of an elderly person. The gal in this story is a new RN - that the hospitals are throwing sink or swim into ICU.
One gal in our nursing class dropped the day after she lost a patient first year. Couldn't handle death - nothing like her dream of being a small town school nurse to little kiddies. Death in waves with machines barking, that can get a little overwhelming and harder to box up even for senior nurses. Crisis fatigue affects judgement and performance and reduces immunity. Whether her story is real or a composite is up for discussion sure, but the emotions she describes are very real and have been felt by others. My two cents anyway