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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I experienced nurses who obviously hadn’t had any classes on compassion, after my recent spinal surgery. When I asked one young nurse to stop ‘helping’ me as she was actually so rough that she was hurting me, she said ‘you need to be more grateful to people who are helping you’.
I would love to have more compassion for the tough life that nurses have, but I hope I never have to stay in that hospital again. Younger nurses seem to have gone into the profession for the money, not out of altruism. Prayers for all who have loved ones in hospitals these days. Too many nurses are NOT WHAT THEY USED TO BE.
“We already told you to push the call light,”
Then you must understand how often those calls are ignored?
A friend recently in the hospital dealt with this; thankfully the family was large enough to accompany him most of the time (because they can’t ignore the relative going to the nurse station when the call button is ignored). The call button didn’t have the speaker as they did when I was younger (which allowed the nurse to directly communicate with the patient immediately).
so they are saying “out loud” what everybody thinks......
My MIL got some one fired from a nursing home for telling her to “be quiet”.
If anybody deserved a big cup of stfu, it was my MIL.
When a friend was in a hospital recently here in NJ, there was a labor issue with nurses (similar to the train engineers - they didn’t want more money, but more time off). They complained their shifts were longer and they were being asked to do things they weren’t trained for, which could endanger their licenses. I understand, but it isn’t the patient causing that problem.
I don’t know how much they make, but when I see fields with a lot of foreigners I assume it is work most Americans feel isn’t worth pursuing. Not necessarily a bad job, but one for which most Americans don’t feel the investment of time and money in training isn’t worth the effort. As in other fields, the availability of foreign replacements probably lets employers suppress wages and impose crappy work conditions.
When Richard Speck killed some Filipino nursing students in Chicago, it was over half a century ago - far longer than Asians were disrupting the supply/demand relationship in the tech or financial sectors.
OMG. How do I unpack that crazy crap. Foreign imported workers are undercutting the wages of Americans. They don't persue those jobs for the supressed wages being offered. Get it?
I hate "jobs Americans won't do" types. Why, in the long run, the GOP is doomed.
Did you miss the part where I said “isn’t worth pursuing”?
Let me fix it for you. What you should have said was: "isn’t worth pursuing at the wages being offered".
Right; that way you’d know I didn’t mean “isn’t worth pursuing because leap years occur every four years”.
Thank you for clarifying.
I was in the hospital for a week and a half after a heart attack. The ICU nurses were absolutely fantastic. They were all young, alert, and very attentive. None of them, even on the night shift, seemed to be tired or distracted. Then I went to a regular room for a week of observation. Whole different world. My sister, a registered nurse, went to the front desk and complained that my bedding hadn’t been changed in several days. They directed her to the linen closet. She changed the bed herself. Funny story; I have a friend who is a doctor. He came and hung out with me one evening and he was wearing scrubs. The nurses were totally confused. They could not figure out why a doctor was sitting in my room eating Arby’s sandwiches and watching TV.
So it was part of the Tik-Tok “ick” challenge to make a video to complain about their jobs. Anyone who does this is a moron.
Several years ago, a nurse told me she was earning $36/hour. Many people go into the profession because they don’t have to spend too much money or time to become nurses. All they need is a community college degree or certificate.
There is something called “Patient Dignity Issue’’ in a hospital. That should speak for itself.
This kind of behavior is unacceptable.
That’s common, as we learned when our mother was in the hospital. Mostly, the nurses would put the call button just out of reach. When Mom could reach it and use it, sometimes a muffled nurse voice would come through asking what she needed. We informed them several times a day that Mom was hearing impaired, so she didn’t hear. When the didn’t a reply from Mom, instead of coming to check on her, they just blew it off and never showed up.
Pre-Covid, we would stay in her room and basically do the nurses’ job. She had better care when nurses were gone, most of the time.
Plus, they tried to kill her with Remdisivir, but she had the last laugh.
I think there is more of an investment in education for registered nurses, and masters level classes for nurse practitioners.
My main issues were with the aides; they didn’t want to do much at all.
Oh, the aides... AFAIK, most nurse’s aides aren’t paid much.
If the job postings I’ve seen are any indication, you could earn the same amount in retail.
Yes, it looks like they don’t get paid much - and when a loved one is in the hospital, we get what we pay for...
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