Posted on 12/13/2022 7:51:26 PM PST by nickcarraway
A quartet of Atlanta nurses have been fired for recording a viral TikTok video of them grousing about the irritating habits of the patients they’re tasked with helping and their families.
“We already told you to push the call light,” one nurse says in the clip. “But every five minutes you have a family member coming to the front desk asking for something else.”
A colleague then enters the frame and does a sarcastic impression of a demanding relative.
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Actually it’s a mix...not the usual suspects.
Snowflakes and Zeros. The Dirty Diaper Generations.
There you go. :)
I thinking their mocking what patients sometimes do is fine, as long as they don’t break confidentiality to donit.
I see this video as mostly harmless.
These witches with attitudes should have been fired.
Not one one of them has an ounce of compassion in their entire body.
I expected a lot worse, and it wasn’t even bad, really. Wasn’t smart of them to put it on Tick Tock, though. The younger generation has to record everything.
Record it and post it online for the world to see. You can’t fix stupid..
Since I am a person with a mother in a hospital, that might never be able to come home, I’m allowed a different POV.
I think these types of videos can be used for good, to teach people how to go about things when they have a loved one in the hospital. Nurses are doing the best they can and to unnecessarily take up their time by being an annoyance, you are a participant in harming patient care.
Is it too much to ask that a nurse take her nose ring out when on duty? That can’t be sanitary. It creeps me out seeing a waitress with a nose ring delivering food, I wonder what’s falling off that thing into my food.
I think such body alternations should not be allowed if you want to be a nurse. If you are willing to limit yourself to changing badpans, that’s different.
"Stupid is as stupid does" --Forrest Gump
““We already told you to push the call light,” one nurse says in the clip. “But every five minutes you have a family member coming to the front desk asking for something else.”
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They would put my elderly mother’s call button out of reach. I repeatedly reminded them not to do so. We would put it back near her hand and when they came in to take vitals, they would move it again. Finally, we started to not even leave her for more than 15 minutes.
Also, we would call the nurse using the call button, and after waiting ten minutes or so we would go to the nurses’ station. They wanted her to get up and move and go to the restroom, but they wouldn’t come and help her so she could do it. I couldn’t help her by myself and was afraid I’d end up with both of us on the floor. The least they could do was respond and say “We are all busy but will be there as soon as we can”. At least that way we would know they heard the call for assistance.
“These witches with attitudes should have been fired.
Not one one of them has an ounce of compassion in their entire body.”
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I agree. If they will put this video out in the open, just imagine how they actually treat the patients in private.
Nursing is one of those professions where you need to have a lot of compassion, and that they were so casual about their complaints leads me to believe that they did this a lot. If they’re going to be callous about treating patients, this isn’t the job for them.
I’ve complained about customers when I worked at a UPS Store, but only did when a customer was a jerk. It sounds like these nurses were just being plain old mean, chastising people for normal behaviors, like family members showing concern for their loved ones by going to the nurses instead of letting the new mother call. That’s literally almost all they can do.
Some nurses are terrible, but I agree with you. I'm not a nurse, but, at times, I've been a patient and a patient's family member. Even the good nurses will stop responding quickly to patients who hit the call button every few minutes. Whenever I was a patient, I only hit the call button for urgent matters. Whenever I watched over a loved one in the hospital, I did the little things like fetching water and blankets myself.
I'm sorry your mother is ill. Saying a prayer now...
I appreciate that, thank you.
At least for my mother, I can find out everything I meed to know because her mind is still very good.
The only thing I usually need is where they moved her to if she isn’t in the room I last saw her. Otherwisee, I leave them to do their jobs.
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