I Quit Nursing. Hospitals are EXPLOITING Nurses and I'm DONE! 

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Thanks for being honest. Most nurses run around saying “I love my job” and then spend all day swearing and complaining how conditions suck. We dont have to be nice all the time, we should be able to set boundaries and live up to them. Thank you

Truthful answer: the work is too hard and I simply do NOT want to have to work hard. I want a far easier job where I can relax any time I want ....which is quite frequently ....and NOT have someone waiting for me or needing me to actually DO something. I want to be able to get up every day, WHEN I want to get up, and decide whether or not I want to work or not. I would prefer to NOT have to work at all ....if I had the choice. .

Don’t mind hard work, just do not like being devalued on a daily basis. Abused verbally and physically by patients and sometimes family members. Maybe you think it’s what I signed up for, but I was very naive. Did not know people could be so cruel. Live, learn, and get the heck out. @@taxicamel

Money is necessary for happiness. You missed the point of the video. She was trying to say that there simply isn't enough money paid to nurses.

Is that the reason I see nurses outside building smoking or being stress and irritating because of this?

@@josearvizu5705 I’m not a smoker, but when I’ve walked past the “smoking area” where I work I see: MD’s, nurses, Physical/Occupational/Speech therapists, Pharmacists, housekeepers, transporters, etc. So what’s your point?

⁠@@hottstepherReads like the point is that nurses are stressed out, to answer the question you asked the previous commenter.

Veteran nurse here, its always been a sh^t job.

Charting is such a waste all this reporting is wasting valuable time. I do think the love of helping patients needs to be the priority. If you want to do nursing you could run an out of hours practice to your local community area. If it’s about love and care not money that is.

Ditto.

Learn how to look after yourself and also put the phone away

Same

Exactly

Nursing or hospitals are not the only places struggling with understaffing issues, i worked as a pharmacy assistant and was paid shit and was doing alot of the work and we need to make it work somehow as if its our problem theyre understaffed fuck them all

PCT here, currently in RN school...I quit today as a pct. Nurses look down at thier help...nurses won't be a team player when the night before leaves the next shift with patients stewing in thier own feces all night, cold and humiliated, angry. I get hit by pissed off patients, then I am reprimanded for not obtaining VS. Seriously?! Its a toxic place here. I can't get a transfer to another unit so easily...i have to apply for another position ininternally....and as it would happen....no positions are available for my schedule i need

​@@localppcartist that's due to short staffing. get out of your unit asap.

There is so much I can reply back with...waste of time and energy. All i will say is....I KNOW WHY THERE IS A SHORTAGE OF NURSES AMD WHERE....ITS MED-SURG. AND STAFF PERSONNEL IS TOXIC.

@@bmay282 i am making sub sandwiches now, for same amount of money, with less stress amd abuse.

It’s the dear lady for me 😂

I am so sorry for those two nurses who felt that they had no way out. No job is ever worth committing suicide over. Although I can empathize - I experienced bullying including being publicly mocked for having an abortion at my job in a remote mine. My manager responded by removing me from my position with no notice, at my expense, and moving me to a different shop on a different shift. I was then brought in to see a psychiatrist and basically accused of "lying" and that my "allegations were not based in reality".

Oh no. I’m sorry for the nurses. I really hate that nursing drive them to that. Changes need to made man.

I believe this 100%!!! I’ve always wondered if they created the term nursing shortage as a way to placate us into believing there just aren’t enough nurses to staff properly good luck! Fortunately my bedside nursing job I was kinda specialty med/surg we only had 4 or 5 pts NO MORE and that was a standard at a few hospitals even 7-10 yrs ago. Med surg maxed at 5 pts I can’t imagine 10-13? Holy crapola. We had a union and a pretty good one then. I don’t think pay has increased for GRad nurses and entry level since 2015 though…. It was 36$ for midnights I think? 8 or 10% bonus for 3rd. I think days was 32$.Good then not so much now… i there’s not enough money in the world to take me back to bedside.

Oh, no!!! How sad to feel so stuck that suicide is the only way out. I can see how the more sensitive RNs would have suicidal ideation. Before I left nursing I became cynical, angry & even became argumentative with my superiors.

So happy you found a way to make nursing work! That dead inside feeling is awful!

I am so happy for you! I’ve been an ER nurse for 12 years, however I have three younger children that are between 3 and 10 years old, therefore travel assignments weren’t an option for me. I encouraged all of my coworkers to take those travel assignments, who could! I couldn’t blame them. Many nurses that were working at my healthcare facility left and took local contracts because graduate nurses were starting off with more money per hour than the nurses with years of experience! We used to joke about feeling dead inside, however that is how we truly feel. Understaffed, underpaid, not being able to physically provide adequate care to patients, and being unappreciated, kills a human being on the inside. It totally contradicts what we’re supposed to be as nurses! I agree 💯 percent with EVERYTHING this nurse had to say.

How are you able to be in charge of your hours/pay rate and vacation time??? Are you on a contract or a specific agency 🤔

What is it like? Have you liked every contract? How did you choose an agency?

I worked nights through the pandemic. One stretch was 7 nights in a row, 12 hour shifts. I was an administrative nursing supervisor. Responded to every code, knee deep with the staff, pushed drugs, did compressions, took each body who passed to the morgue. Then I just had my fill. The BS of staff not getting what they needed as in PPE. The escalating violence from the public. How many times can you say, “ you are not allowed to put your hands on my staff.” Shouldn’t they KNOW that? I quit in May and marched in Washington. Seriously considering journalism school.

Oh my gosh this breaks my heart! I feel you! I think you need to try a different type of nursing but as a traveler. Are you inpatient? I hated inpatient. I’m much happier in outpatient facilities.

Yes, ambulatory Care, public health.

I went from working in The prison system/Psych Nursing, to Public Health with the homeless population. I am at peace now, making much more money, with a better pension.

I’m paying out of pocket from those online therapy because insurance only covers one type of therapy. The CBT or DBT has limited doctors and cost out of pocket more than what I pay per month.

As a therapist I commend you on seeking mental health services. Nothing is worth your peace of mind and help! This is the irony and travesty of our fields that we destroy our mental health and wellbeing to care for others!! And we can't afford mental health services ourselves with the terrible lack of benefits and crazy high insurance. The mental health within healthcare is even more underfunded and devalued. It's all corporate greed to just medicate and hospitalize people. There's no care in healthcare. This system is destroying not only nurses but all therapists, social workers, & healthcare workers in this broken corrupt system. No job should be sacrificial and destroy yourself mentally and physically to help others. Many of my clients are in our fields and teaching.

Thanks girly!

Not as much. Even with good pay mammy day the stress is too much. I'm in LTC. Worst than many acute care assignments.

Sure thing LPN

@@KayDejaVu my ass! LTAC is a total step down unit from a step down unit. Get over your pride honey you were at the low end of care.

And I wanted to come to the USA because I thought nurses get paid well, here I am earning only 2200 Euros in Germany as a nurse, around 1500 per month left after taxes :/ I think US nurses are paid way better. My rent is 800 euros, and I have to pay my car and half of the health insurance plus food and high gas prices making me leave with zero Euros at the end of the month.

Hell yes!!!!

Pinning your comment b/c I want everyone to know doctors and nurses stand together. This a SYSTEMIC healthcare problem caused by hospital corporations and if we don't fix it there will be no good nurses or doctors left. Doctors & Nurses (and all frontline workers) deserve higher pay and to work in non-toxic environments. Unless you work in healthcare you really have no idea the tremendous amount of liability and work load we carry at the expense of patient safety. This should be concerning to all Americans.

You ain’t no d@mn doctor if you don’t know the difference between let’s and less.

"According to the FDA,US doctors kill 1.1M Americans/year" from the book the LETHAL dose by Dr. Jennifer Daniels. So far they have killed over 50 million Americans. Life expectancy in USA is the same as in 3rd world countries such as Cuba, Lebanon, Barbados, Panama etc. Age 78

The government is exploiting healthcare workers as well. They’re prioritizing political calculations over common sense prevention measures and just expect healthcare workers to bear the brunt of their bad public policy. I applaud you for putting your well-being first. Enough is enough

Get out while you can! I promise you it does Not get better!

Use the travel money to transition into something else. There's a lotta folks on here discussing that particular move. Seems we gotta slug thru hell to maybe make heaven🤷🏾‍♀️

I so hear you! Been a nurse for 26 years and I can see how health care have changed for worse! I’ve sat in a parking lot before my shift having a full blown anxiety attack. They don’t care

I’m so depressed and dread coming into work… 😢 I paid for all my tuition out of pocket and have sacrificed so much to be a nurse. I hate that I put my family through all of this and they believe in me but I’m NOT happy. I feel my health deteriorating everyday. I’m doing this for my family 😞

Im a telemetry nurse and I do see management not caring for patients or nurses. I have been asking for part-time for a whole year to cope with the stress and to have more family time and they would rather hire new grad no experience lower pay nurses than having experienced nurses. I’m all about teaching the new generation but there has to be a healthy balance of experienced nurses and new nurses. There is hardly any OG nurses in our unit which compromises patient care. I myself have less than 5 yrs experience. It’s crazy what is happening.

Amen sister!

Be prepared. You will get big bucks, but your case load will be heavier. I retired after 50 yrs.

@@reginahinkle7507 I left. I’m co fused by your response about a heavier caseload. 50 years is a long time. You must be in your 70s by now? Were you still doing hospital nursing when you retired?

Take 2 dropperfuls of wormwood tincture from the health food store...(once a month) And an acidophilus tablet

@@Jou204 I have it under control now. Thank you, though. I think leaving that job was part of getting better.

Good luck with your new career- sounds exciting!!

Over the pandemic, I have seen 40 patients to one LVN. Not right

@@justfit71 what the fuck.

Congratulations 🎊🎈🍾

I’m thinking of getting my cdl imma LPN dreading 😟 goin back to school for my RN

Thank yewwww

Teachers social workers firefighters emergency first aid first responder should be making 100k to 200k

Wow this is so eye opening. Thank you so much for advocating for nurses! We need more people like you in HR.

Bless you for advocating for healthcare workers….most HR reps are in the administrators pockets, so I salute you for staying true to your heart and ethics. Integrity is priceless 💗 thank you!!!!!

Thank you for fighting the good fight as long as you did.

I hate Human Resources. Listening to whiney employees all day and psycho management. No thanks.

I hear you loud and clear. I was a healthcare admin, and I quit at the age of 60. Could not deal with the stress anymore, it was quite literally killing me. Hospitals care nothing for patients, it's all about money. Money, money, money, and more money. The President of the healthcare system I left makes 9 million a year.

I don't really like my job but I love what it provides for me and my family. The pandemic has people rethinking working

You're right ma'am what do you do now and how did you planned your self before quitting

@@eiraantoinette6793 I run my own business now and While I was still in service I planned towards early retirement, making about 2k weekly from my retirement investment portfolio trying so much to build more side hustles and extra income

@@julianluke7280 wow impressive! You're making quite a fortune speaking of investing I have heard about this but I don't really know how to start and make a good investment. Can you explain please

Very good Julian it's a nice decision. Everyone needs to find what gives true financial freedom and happiness. We all need to be wise

Ugh doctors are so overworked it’s sad.

This is a really good point. The amount of docs in my area has drastically diminished. Providers are constantly changing. It’s really bad. Waiting times increasing daily.

Because unionizing worked so well for the US auto industry? No thank you. Free agency is where it's at. Travel or work PRN and stop being a doormat.

Don't be loyal to corporations and institutions that are not loyal to you. Agency and traveling. Yes sometimes it is unsafe which is why I had to chose the safest specialty for me.

@@mikecarlton6297 I have traveled many times, per diem as well, where they give you the worst assignments and heavy loads.. California has a union and it’s working for them so zip it, unionism will stop corporations from jerking us around. Nursing is a far cry from the Auto industry genius 🙄

​@@GoldSoul1 Strange isn't it. Nurses always complain about being short staffed and being it dangerous for patients and the pay. But refuse to unionize? Rather run than unionize. So much for all their care for concern of being dangerous for patients

Thank you for speaking on behalf of all of us nurses that are not able or are to scared to speak up.

Curious, what are you transitioning into? Also, helping out with those issues is what those hefty ASRT fees were for. 35 years later….only has gotten worse.

All jobs suck guys

Good for you!!

Recession already hit so right now healthcare is the only real hiring in the near term. Even with high burnout it’s terrible to quit now if you don’t have other work lined up! This is a slow unwind recession but it will be far worse than 2008! A lot of nurses though were probably elementary age kids in 2008 so no one remembers. This recession is going to be even worse as the dollar collapses

Lol. Me too. I had total of 33 years of service in a hospital 14.5 of which is in an clinic. I quit my job 3 months ago. Another RN quit the same day. The one left hang in there for another 5 weeks but now on leave. Poor management, lack of support and disrespectfulness were my reasons of quitting. Cant be happier. Taking a break from nursing.

I worked in a unit in Virginia the ratio 1:6 on a medical unit. I only lasted 6 months.

Thank you for saying this. A lot of nurses think travel nursing is how you get passion back. Its not all its cracked up to be. Same personalities in those CEOs are everywhere. They will work you to death. We have to come together and get mandated ratios and more.

At least no headache.

Our ratio where I work is 1:8. They give night shift more patients where I work and we still get the majority of admissions. It's a rehab hospital, but there's been a HUGE shift in the type of patients we've been receiving in the past couple of years. It's become more of an LTAC than rehab. It's exhausting now. It's definitely become a money game.

Wow, if it's bad in pharmacy you know it's bad!! I love joking with the pharmacists about being in their ice box in peace away from everyone 😂

@@christinatravels6717 haha in our ice box. People expect medication with click of the fingers. Because apparently we are just picking something off the shelf. Not knowing an error from the prescriber or pharmacy can lead to fatal consequences. I could go on.

Thank you!! We need to stand up to the unfair treatment of nurses!

Everything you say is spot on! Thank you for sharing

My moms a RN and I feel so bad for nurses like her my mom has to work alone every single night and she worked at a much shittier nursing home I won't name the place for legal reasons but she quit because they were so understaffed and the young "nurses" they didn't help at all they did God knows what I had to comfort her one day because she had a really bad night she came home crying because those damn nurses were not helpful at all and the place got sued and the people that sued them won I think that place will be out of business before you know it if you have any relatives that need rehabilitation do not go to my moms former work place its not worth it.

I refuse to take the mandated clot shot, so I can't work in the hospital. I have thrombocytopenia. There's an article about a lady named Jessica Berg Wilson who took the clot shot and it gave her that blood condition and she died. Imagine what the shot will do to me when I already have that blood condition. I am a certified respiratory therapist. I graduated with high honors (Magna Cum Laude) in 2020. I am currently working at an Amazon warehouse closeby to my home because they aren't forcing the clot shot there, and let me tell you, wonderful humble people work at Amazon. Not like the jaded burned out resentful gossiping nurses, RTs and other hospital staff that I met during clinicals. One of my instructors would literally drag her feet when she came to meet us in the mornings and she didn't even give me and my colleague eye contact. She would always complain how she feels like she is just working to pay for her huge mortgage. She needed a long vacation. Money is not worth peace, joy, and health. I am not stressed at Amazon, but during clinicals, I was so stressed that I started forgetting things. Why? Because I get told somthing once, and I have to remember it or else I get scolded. I am thrown into a patient's room and I have to try to remember everything I learned from Egans and practicums. I tried to consume as much ginko, sharp thought pills, dark chocolate, blueberries and walnuts as I could to stay on top of things. I was chewed out in front of everyone in the MICU Because when I went to lunch, my Sunday instructor texted me she already started to wean one of my patients off the vent. When I got back from lunch and I didn't chart it, guess who she came to yell at. I noticed that same bitter RT instructor was out to get my colleague when she kept telling him to calculate the simple RSBI over and over even though he had it correct. She was a bad instructor who didn't want to even be there. She was only there because her friend asked her to fill in on Sundays for her. She was from a different hospital. I was told many times how nurses treat RTs like the red-headed step child and I saw how the nurses were annoyed when we were there in the same room with them for a call. The nurses don't have the decency to cover a male patient's genitals after they stuck a catheter, so I had to cover it for him because he was shakily trying to do it himself with little strength he had. I remember wanting fast pace, I wanted to work in the ICU and the ED so my main instructor (the good one) took me there. But when the Sunday instructor came, she didn't want to deal with any of that, she wanted it to be easy so she just took us to work in the boring upper floors not learning anything new. When I was a patient, I never knew all these layers of stress, pridefulness, bitterness, unwelcoming attitude, and hostility were part of regular hospital staff life. I remember this one woman with scrubs from surgery walking into the cafeteria all flustered because she had to wait a small moment, and said something in a rude tone asking about if we ordered yet. We were all waiting for our turn to order and she thinks she's entitled because she has things to do. Just horrid people at the hospital. They are there not to help people, they are there for the money. They hate their job, and they don't know how to do their job well because they need to study more, which causes them to despise their patients and their cowrokers, as if it was their fault problems happened. This is why I am happy working at Amazon. No dreading work because they train you very well, with much care, patience and respect. From the very beginning, you are taught if someone is harassing you, or you feel retaliation for voicing concerns about higher ups, it will be dealt with swiftly. The learning ambassadors know that the workers are the backbone of Amazon, so they try to get out of your way and apologize for walking by your work space. Sure it's a lot of time on your feet, but nobody is there belittling you. If you need help, they don't make you feel less for asking. They are happy to help. At Amazon you accrue PTO, personal (paid) time off that you can choose to use, how much to use, whenever you feel like it, no questions asked. They will even pay 100% of your school tuition. They hire everyone who can pass a background check and drug test, and then it's trial by fire. They fire about 50-100 people a week who are not good employees, people who steal, people who are late, who waste time not doing their work, all kinds. That's probably why I meet so many good people there, all the bad apples are dealt with. But in the hospital, it's like your licensed to treat people like dirt because nobody is going to do anything about it.

@@ala-freaking-bama1750 Consider working a phone line at a poison control center. You can do this at home.👍

@Mary C. Brame no, nurses are highly trained life-savers. Do you get upset with doctors for wanting to be compensated? We pay out the backside and work our backside off to get our degrees in nursing. We are not better than anyone, rather the profession deserves to be treated fairly for the level the nurses attained.

@Mary C. Brame what are you talking about??It is normal for nurse and any profession that they want and need money. If you want to go to yoir job for free then go, but that will not provide you with food and pay your bills. So dont play a fool here. Nursing profession is based on helping others but does it mean they if they work job where they help some human they dont need money????And yes that is called job you know, just a job and you must get paid for the job you do!!And is it hard job yes!!And it deserves to be paid well, it is one of the most stressful and hard working job that never will fit in some easy category job !!!Never !Whether you will accept it or not!!!And first you have to be a nurse to know what is this lady or anyone who is a nurse talking about!!We encounter many many rude and patients and co workers but we chose the profession yes , but we dont need to tolerate bulshit, disrespection and low paymet, no.Who wants to disrespect us should go home and treat their fsmily or anyone that way , and who wants to put work on one nurse that is triple that at least 3 nurses should do and pay her the same ,should be reported and all nurses then have to protest for their rights of decent work!!!!

Exactly! Alot of people want to get into nursing and not everyone gets in the first time so they keep on reapplying. There are alot of nurses available but not all are treated well so most end up quitting. The industry needs more nurses because they keep burning them out.

@@mileksun7907 Good points. I don't know about you all, but I owed well over $64K in student loans for my BSN. That cut my salary way back...and I never paid anything but the interest payments. We couldn't afford to! So free to finally have that forgiven after a 5 year battle to get my much needed disability. I loved working retail and should have quit nursing and never gone back after my breaks from the nursing I took between jobs. Nursing about killed me, and I'm not just saying that.

Lol, exactly!

I'm a nursing student at the moment, 2 nd year and I feel the same... How is it going for you ?

You’re such a strong person. I wish you all the best ❤

@@johnpositive2386Not an easy transition, but after leaving nursing I'm definitely feeling better. I'm taking a gap year this year travelling to europe befrore doing a post grad at uni next year :)) not trying to make a rushed decision about what to do next for my career.

@@wendymarshall2132 Aww Thank you ❤

Same girl

What did you decide to do Chou?

Even if they were nurses or doctors before, they will forget when they get elevated. Amnesia suddenly sets in

I think that everyone should work on everyone’s shoes. No job in the hospital is easy. Especially with all the shortages.

TRUE!!!

Oh don't sell the CEOs short. I remember one time after our hospital merged with another healthcare conglomerate and we got a new CEO we all the sudden had to start calling downstairs for each individual F/C, urinal, etc. and we were advised to ask the family members to bring in towels /sheets for the pts. Little bastard was very busy, it was embarrassing and demoralizing .

Well said. They would never understand how hard and exhausting unless do a hands on

Facts 💯

Well said

Whew I needed to hear this

What you doing now?

@@prettygirl_1626 outpatient Urgent Care

Lawyers do not have a duty of care towards patients or nurses, so the court culture is mirrored in the work culture in hospitals. Regulatory lawyers are behind all this - think they're experts but they're vultures!

I’m so sorry. I feel you ❤️

I want nurses to know they have options. We do not need to work for hospitals/clinics. Contracted positions are the way to go right now.

Hospice nurse here. Pay much better but could always be better .Do my 12 hrs shift's a few times a week . Work when you want too.Don't live above my needs. Have time to myself. Would not go back on the floor. I'm good here.

Yikes!!! So bad for patient outcomes 😢

They are doing this testing crap too and making people wear N-95's all day...AND NO ONE IS SICK! People need to call out BS when the see it and have a right to BREATHE! It's such a horrible job anyway.

Yes. I work in LTC and it is a nightmare.

We appreciate patients like you 💕💕💕

I once worked a night shift, then had to drive about 75 miles to a nurses meeting at a park. I kept falling asleep and nearly wrecked.

Exactly Lucinda! Nursing has changed so much. It is a travesty. We are pushing more paper, attending meetings after meetings and mandatory classes. It never ends. It's impossible to have any work/life balance they speak so highly of. My health has definitely deteriorated immensely in the past 10 to 15 years. I'm retiring and not looking back.

@@lynnerodgers4461 Good for you. I quit earlier this year after 30 years. My license expires in a few months and I am not renewing it. I am done.

You won’t regret it

you are either worked TO DEATH or told to leave early and denied your hours...find another career

Yes you made a great decision please don’t be cna

I work in a hospital level rest home alongside many RN's and they work 12 hour shifts 5-6 days a week because of the 'shortage' aka shortage of jobs offering nurses what they're actually worth. I too was offered to become a Registered Nurse for free but seeing the stress and hours they work I can't imagine it's worth it. I'm now ready to start university next year in teaching! Good luck with software engineering. It's an exciting field.

I have been in Nursing over 20 years. I have worked in So many settings. I am now working in Public Health , as a Registered Nurse for the Homeless, and am being compensated very well. I am at peace with my current position. It is not the Career choice, it’s the career path. Don’t let yourself get stuck, try new areas of nursing, to see if it fits.

Tell the public to come take your job!!! If people think being a nurse is so easy and all we do is complain about pay HAVE AT IT BOO!

I'm currently an LPN, but i've been thinking about opening a food truck. Any info on starting would be helpful. Thanks ☺

@@simplyshanbrown3684what? You don’t like working as an LPN?

Truth.

FACTS.

Truth

VERY TRUE. we nurses and CNA's are tire.

Government underfunding? 17% of taxes in America go to the healthcare system. France has a healthcare system free to all its citizens and its medical professionals are paid well, and only 12% of their taxes go to support their healthcare system. No, the issue in America is that our healthcare system's true purpose is to make money, not help people. The hospitals, medical staff, and patients would do far better if CEOs and hospital administrators learned how to find it in their hearts to allocate some of the 100,000s to millions they make a year to pay to actually adequately staff hospitals and buy up-to-date equipment.

Be happy!! You only live once.

It used to be that bs king out of a terrible but good pay job was feasible for a time to learn something new even if working a lower pay job, but now rent and other housing cost inflation makes nursing a low pay job! There’s a new form of healthcare shortages and it’s due to the fact that housing costs in most areas of the US are out of reach for the average starting healthcare worker! And yes nurses need more pay since even before hyper inflation but this inflation makes it dramatically worse

Not all nursing jobs are like this... So many options out there for RNs, don't give up on it.. Like maybe get your RN and join the Navy Nurse Corps.. 🤔

What did you end up doing? Hopefully the hobby into a career thing.

Walmart is NOT the answer..

So true-I say the same thing with Welders and Plumbers etc. I had to give myself a raise to go to travel nursing just to save $ to fund new skills to get OUT of nursing! But travel companies take 20-60% so that’s a hustle too.

I hope you find something that works for out! It’s not worth it to be stressed. Look for a cardiac clinic job.

You got me with the homeless 😂😂 I feel you. Travel nursing is much better bc you don’t have to deal with staff politics and you get paid.

What is rather disheartening for myself is when your spouse, who has never worked in any healthcare setting, tells you, “ get over it”. They have no idea the literal horror show we as nurses live through on a daily basis.

Ypu don’t want to be homeless, I was homeless now I’m a CNA making over $35 an hour and I can’t wait to get in Nursing school. There’s over 100 things I can do with an RN degree. My friend never did bedside Nursing and is doin Botox making over $5K a week. I wish I had a Nursing degree.

@@fitnessbabe7958 I came to say the same. She must have never been homeless cause I dead ass would do anything to NEVER be homeless again. I start my pre reqs this fall and apply for the program next fall. Healthcare will always be about money and new nurses wanna tackle the job let them, when they get tired there will be another new nurse to replace her!

I told the nursing supervisor I would rather be unemployed than work for y’all. So I quit.

Teachers are in the same boat!! I feel you!

Ugh I’m sorry! Can you get a clinic job? Outpatient nursing is less stressful on your body. There’s also a lot of work from home phone call type of nursing out there. Lots options if you are willing to consider!

Once you don't have health you don't have a job anyway. He'll no to vaxx

I'm sure I could. Definitely going to look into it. Thanks.

screw that

Wow!

I live In dallas- what hospital are you working for? I'm an outpatient nurse so I don't deal with admits in the same way. I did 2 years inpatient and was like NOPE I'm out lol. I work in a very specialized field (outpatient oncology) so it's a lot different than most types of nursing.

I hear this a lot. I’ve been a traveling Covid team for awhile it’s been amazing but we’re all travelers unfortunately it’s ending 2 yrs prematurely due to funds being sent in a different direction overseas so thousands of us are losing their jobs 2 yrs earlier than planned idk what I’m going to do, the thought of bedside gives me ulcers!

You are so sweet!!! ❤️❤️❤️

That was always my answer Heck No!!!

Yes it’s so much more lucrative!

Can you share agencies you recommend?

@@jessica36245 yes my description box shows the agency and recruiter I work with!!

AMEN

I feel you! A much deserved retirement is in your future!

Don’t feel like a prostitute, but sometimes I feel like a waitress in a factory with acute patients and set up for failure as some kind of test to see how low $$$ the hospital and other ‘non-profit’ corporations can get away with…

@@travelnurseadventures3225 I was a waitress for 7 years prior to becoming an RN. In the last 41 years I've done med-surg, ER, CCU, LTC and i was a CCRN. For the last 14 years I've worked in home care. The patients and the challenges have been rewarding. BUT.....employers treat nurses as a dispensible commodity. One hospital administration had the nerve to tell is staff nurses that we did not contribute to the income of the hospital in the way lab, radiology, therapies and the rain maker doctors do. This started in 1985 after Medicare switched over to PPS. They had to cut costs so nursing took the hit - "learn to do more with less" is what we were told. Most of the RNs is see on RU-vid are young and already quitting. Treatment of nurses will only get worse as health care costs rise. The cost of education is astronomical. When you quit, how do you pay your bills and loans. Don't count on the government to help. Oh yes, and I was a travel nurse in critical care. Big mistake. The only places that hire travel nurses are so desperate for staff that they pay for it instead of offering a decent wage and benefits and scheduling to the local professionals. I've seen and lived it all. Good luck to you. My only advice is to pick your career wisely.

@@retired69 you are so right! Wishing you the best my fellow nurse!

The medical technology field isn’t looking to well either there is a shortage. I’m a med tech and my shift hasn’t been fully staffed since I got hired. Almost the entire shift has turn over since I started three years ago. It’s ridiculous how much they expect from you without sufficient resources and expect good turn around time. Benches that should have three people only have two. I work the off shift so management never sees what we go through. They just think we are exaggerating. So frustrating. When you complain they say yeah ok but never do anything about it. Or whenever they make changes that effect workflow they don’t consult with the actual techs like really so stupid. Sorry I’m venting but I feel the shortage in nurses is similar to lab people as well we are under appreciated.

@@Nina7x1887 yea this is true. It really also depends where you work. I work in the microbiology department. I do enjoy my job and work but I understand in some locations it can be frustrating

@Stephanie Gomez. Lab shorts are real, I don’t know if the HR dynamics are the same but what I fear is a mentality in admin that since there’s these great (or not so great Sei ens exl chem anylizers) that lab staff have to just babysit anylizers. Wow how sucky it is to have to deal with bad calibration and downtime during a busy part of the shift! Now some lab departments are more trouble prone then others but nonetheless. Also extreme care even with high tech type and screen anylizers is required in blood bank and that’s not something to rush, but resulting patient orders in the easier dept like chemistry and hematology when you’re the only person doing both dept on a busy afternoon, docs on the phone in addition, that’s cause for concern in potentially forgetting other tests like urine scope sediment or leaving centrifuge with tubes unregulated by accident. You need a minimum of one tech per department even if urinalysis is handed by whomever can get to it first, and I think mandatory two techs at blood bank regardless of how busy! This is relatively small hospital mind you but still serving a lot of clinic orders!!

That is what I wanted to do! I loved biology in university! But my family insisted on me becoming a nurse, and they held the purse strings. I had been left an inheritance, but my aunt and uncle invested it. Told me not to worry about student loans that they would pay it all off at graduation. Nope! Rich Dr. Uncle and Rich Dr. of nursing Aunt kept it for themselves. And got mad because other family members and friends gave me $300 total in gifts when I graduated...which I spent on getting my dog out of the hospital with. Jerks. Narcissists...gone no contact with them for almost a year now. My mom was an LPN...that would have been a better deal for me if they didn't want to pay for my BSN. My poor mom worked herself ragged at the VA. Hosp. but they were good to her with her retirement and continued insurance and other benefits. Have fun in the lab! Smart!

invest in a back brace!!! and good shoes, at least 2 pairs to take and change when your feet start killing you.

Thank you!

CORPORATE AMERICA DOES NOT BELONG IN HEALTHCARE. More concerned with making money than caring about anyone under the higher echelon. They are more concerned with how the surveys look than the actual care being given to the patients. Fiscal responsibility is constantly shoved down our throats. "You need to send someone home" mentality is worsening the problem as well. Nurses can no longer even expect to work their full scheduled number of hours. All so the multi billionaire partners can make even more money. Then they wonder why nurses and other employees leave in droves. God help us all if we land in a hospital!

Congrats on your retirement, Speedy!! I agree about your hospital management comment. Management looked at nursing staff as "red ink" at the budget meetings. I worked in a level 2 trauma teaching hospital affiliated with UCLA in my last 12 of a 26 year career. I smelled a rat when threatened by administrators to wear a face mask for 12 hr. shifts for not taking the worthless flu jab. The H1N1 manure was a warm-up to the recent con19 manure. I'm truly impressed you tolerated the system as long as you did. May you enjoy your retirement my fellow colleague. You deserve God's Love and Peace.

Hi Zinah!! 💕💕💕 Thank you!

I can’t stand that!! It’s manipulative bc we are a 90% dominant woman based field. They use buzz words to try and make caretakers feel some kind of way. If we were men, we wouldn’t be treated like this (same for teachers).

@@christinatravels6717 yes exactly! An that part about giving us PIZZA when we’re short staff drove me crazy. Like that helped the situation, and then they would stand there and act like we were suppose to be happy! I can buy my own dang pizza!!!

Something will have to change bc there isn’t going to be enough nurses staffing hospitals. So many are leaving altogether or finding creative ways to use their degree with work from home jobs or traveling.

Yup

There’s first line problems and daily stress of working a job where you’re essential to keeping day to day success in order. Owners and managers have the stress of guiding a company through future planning to stay in biz. All involved are essential. I agree that you are going to get abrasive treatment day to day. Healthcare seems to be run worse then the ave business

Thank you for watching! So sorry about your Mom 💕

@@christinatravels6717 thank you so much. I wish the very best to you on your career, and your endeavors.

I get that!!

Thank you! I know as nurses we try very hard to give great care for our patients despite what’s going on behind the scenes. I’m so happy to hear you are being well cared for! 😀

Oh my gosh love you 😘

FYI, it's not just the nurses, it's every employee and we are all equally important at the hospital.

@@mrbubblebuns3994 i agree. This video is about nursing tho and thats why i made my statement about nurses.