@@pugparty9839 maybe that patient was very brave, motivated, optimistic and never gave up during tough times? U would want your daughter to be like that too.
@@531haze A pulse ox is what counts blood oxygen and pulse....not respirations...this is how many times a nurse sees the chest rise in a minute period. But yeah I'm guilty of this whoOPS
btw, It's much more difficult than checking pulse. Because sometimes it's blocked by patient's shirt and they can't even know that we're counting on their breathing because that way, the result might be biased
Exactly. Like when they were asked about laughing at a patient I thought about how I've had to work with psych patients. Ik it might be mean but sometimes you can't help but laugh.
Not a nurse but a frequent psych patient and omg you guys are amazing and have so much patience. Not all of you are cut out for that type of work but the ones that are dedicated are a complete god send. I was having a really bad episode and one of the nurses during the nightshift let me stay up and talk with her about the weirdest stuff. It’s hard to watch people mutilate themselves or just go crazy or literally throw poop around and still show up for work and help out.
The guy nurse seems to be a great nurse! He looks so focused and soothing at the same time, his patients must be really lucky to have him taking care of them.
When my dad was in hospital they ignored the call light. He ended up laying in his own wee for 8 hours on the floor because he fell out of bed. Since that day he had nightmares and never went back into hospital,he died at home.
My grandpa was in a home like that for a little over a month and he would say they'd wait for hours even to just give him water. When I see them joke about ignoring the call button it pissed me off because I think about those times. He couldnt even get up on his own to use the bathroom or sit up to eat and here they are joking about it.
Yeahhhh....I was a med surg nurse for about 4 years. That was enough for me, personally. Cannot believe how poorly nurses are treated by patients and by those in charge of staffing.
Chronically ill/disabled person here and I gotta say, nurses are some of the nicest people. Whenever I go into the hospital I'm scared, sick and usually in a lot of pain, but my nurses have always made such an effort to make me more comfortable. If you just treat them nicely they'll be your best friend.
I agree. I'm also someone with a chronic illness and the nurses try their hardest to make you feel better. Being in and out of the hospital so much and seeing how the nursing are made me want to be a nurse and I am not pursuing that dream
kat: “oh im the bad nurse” everyone else: “well i mean ur not wrong. You said it.” 💀💀 THIS IS JUST A JOKE AND KAT IS PROLLY A GOOD NURSE AND ALL THT GOOD JAZZ :) and please dont judge her based on some questions she just answered. im no nurse so i wouldn’t kno how to take this information to determine if she is a good nurse or what.
how is she a bad nurse?? maybe you should try being a nurse for a week in a toxic environment like the E.R. then come back and talk to her about it. ignorant boob
I have done both, I am currently a nurse and nursing is ridiculous. It is challenging, and painful, and draining emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually. But it's rewarding too.
I’m Filipino so you know my whole family is filled with nurses lmao. I can say I’ve seen my mom and dad go through so really tough days! They each have 35+ years with two jobs each!
Lmaoooooo, Kat is constantly digging herself into a deeper & deeper hole. First she avoided helping clean up a BM & now she admitted to treating them later lmaooooo
It's a real problem. After putting in the time and money for the education you can guess how hard it would be to say "I don't like this, despite the great pay, I think I'll go back to school". Also, I'm not an RN, I'm an RT, but once I got really burnt out and got out of healthcare for 2 years. It was incredibly hard to get a job, I was unemployed for 9 months and only got jobs through contacts. With eally less pay. But I couldn't keep on working not caring about the patients. And then, some people are just sociopaths-up to 25% according to some studies.
The nurse that helped out with me after my epilepsy came back with full force and landed me in the hospital along with my son cause I dropped him (he is okay) the nurse jokingly said something about how she is working with all the babies tonight.
In the ER a young patient came in for chest pain and it turned out he just wanted his script for lexapro filled! Why come to the ER and lie about having chest pain!
I feel like people who do that should just be flagged in the system as manipulative lying shits. Your time is no more important than anybody else's in the waiting room. Narcissistic douches...
beaglechen That's terrible! I'm so sorry that you have to deal with that :( Just curious, are most of these patients male? Because I went to a pulmonary doctor a week ago because of some fluid around my lungs. I had to have it drained via tube and needle in my left side. He said that I was the easiest patient he dealt with. He went on to say how male patients are always screaming, shouting, kicking, swearing, etc. I must admit that I may have slightly assualted a few eardrums next door, but nobody was physically or mentally hurt lol. I'm female by the way.
Nurses work REALLY hard...in my opinion harder than doctors. (You won't see a doctor taking your temp, getting you water or a blanket, making sure you get your pain meds, etc.) We all need to appreciate what they do for us. We are not their only patient. They work long hours and have other patients who are worse than we are. Personally, when I need something, I try to get it or do it on my own instead of hitting the call button. But only if it is safe. I've been in a room with other patients and get frustrated when they call for stuff they can do/get on their own. If everyone stopped calling for a straw, more water, Kleenex, etc. it would make it so that they can spend the time they need with other more serious patients. And when you are discharged or are leaving an appointment, take a minute to thank them for being there and helping us. Trust me, it will make them happy.
Debbie Green that is so true! thank you very much for understanding that. i‘m a certified nurse and some of my patients (i always have ~16 patients) get little to no time with me because of other patients who can actually walk but ring the bell for irrelevant things
This is why I respect the hell out of nurses and am always nice and accommodating to them. The stuff they do, I couldn't even begin to deal with. I'm just not that type of person. And yes, nurses always appreciate when you're nice and cooperative and always take good care of me.
My dad was cracking up all his nurses and his doctors, he was a pretty funny guy and he was dying of cancer but he used humor to cope so all his nurses loved him because he stayed up beat and was funny without being inappropriate
My problem with the “faking it” question, is that sometimes that’s a perception. I was having severe chest pain and shortness of breath for 3 days and was told to go to the ER. After I walked there, I had a nurse laugh at me bc EKG didn’t show anything.
In general i have more respect and admiration for nurses than doctors. Not to discredit doctors for their hard work but nurses put up with alot. Cheers to all nurses 👏🙌
Am 12 and my mom has been a nurse for I think she told me 19 years that's about 20 years that pretty cool and my mom is is da best I love nurses for what they do
ha hahah Not necessarily. A lot of nurses are mistreated (in hospital settings especially), overworked, and treated as expendable. It doesn’t matter what the job is or how much you love something, if a selfish money-driven company without morals abuses you happiness is not in your path. This is coming from a future med student and pharmacy tech.
While in the hospital I try not to annoy the nurses much since I worked at the hospital and know how busy they get. I was a house keeper so before we check out ever I clean the room the best I can so they can just come in and bleach the room down and wipe the bed and sweep and mop the floor and dust. I put all the linen on the bed wrapped up in the blanket and I have the trash out and tied next to the door for them to get. Even house keeping gets hectic and at times the rooms are sooooo nasty... you would not believe the crap you’ll see and have to disclose of. I’ve had even nurses smile at me for doing this because I try to be a good patient for both them and house keeping.
NONE of these are fireable offenses. Do you know how hard it is to be a nurse, and how much education, and work experience you need to be a RN? This isn’t a part time job you can pick up.
This was hard to watch. I was hospitalized for a ruptured appendix when I was 23 and I had a slew of other medical issues on top of it. I was not fed for 3 days, and the nurses that looked after me were either very abusive (yelled at me, treated myself and others in very rough ways), or did not care at all. I live in Canada Ontario in a well populated area, yet the nurses were absolutely horrid. They also ignored the call light from several people at night to sit and talk to each other for over an hour. Out of those 5 days where I had no strength... I only had one good nurse on the last night who actually stood beside my bed and made sure I was okay before leaving.
Lindsey Pindsey I try my best to help out my PSW’s and I’m a nurse. I’ve been a PSW before I became a nurse and I have a lot of respect for the PSW’s. Not all nurses think like that.
LocaChinchilla Agreed, I have high respect for my aids and believe they are definitely underpaid for what they do. I’m sorry you had that experience. I strongly believe every member is valuable and should be treated with respect and help each other out when possible.
I've been nursing for 30 years sweetie and I have answered tens of thousands of bells. It just depends on where you work. You obviously worked in that poopy place with a horrible hierarchy
@@personincognito3989 I'm glad you answer lights when you can. I worked in 3 different facilities and out of the dozens of nurses I worked with, maybe 3 of them would answer lights.
I never comment and I understand this is just a light video. However, I don't sit well with one comment and I hope it doesn't happen often. When has it ever been okay to move people down the waitlist because you think they were being rude, especially in the ER? That is using your power in the wrong way. You have to consider many aspects, maybe that's just their character but you perceive it as them being rude...people are in pain and in desperate need for help when they come to the hospital. Makes me sad to see how unprofessional and apathetic some nurses can be.
Yeah when I'm in pain, I'm not the nicest. It has to be hard though, when you do the best you can as a nurse and someone is being rude for no reason. I can only imagine how stressful it is to work in healthcare and to top it off have someone treat you like crap.
i got what she meant though. i'm sure she doesn't mean people who are in actual danger. the blonde nurse said she's done it too. You gotta understand, a lot of people go to the ER when they actually are supposed to be going to Urgent Care. Triage is when you asses who's pain is most urgent... i'm sure nurses have moved people who are at a 1-3 level of pain. not the 7-10
Or shouldn't it make you sad how awful people can be to those who they perceive to be below them. Story time: a woman talking loudly to the nurses how she should go ahead of everyone because all the other people in the room are brown and therefore are on a benefit and should have to wait longer because she's a hard working citizen and the brown people are spending her tax money. Or how about the woman who on Christmas day yelled loudly in the waiting room that she should be seen soon because she had a turkey in the oven, right next to the family whose father was being resuscitated due to a heart attack and who then died. Or the guy who was screaming abuse and threatening the receptionists because the guy having an allergic reaction got taken ahead of him and his sore pinky finger. You can tell when people are being short, or rude due to pain or stress, and then there are the entitled a**holes who deserve to wait because they're not a priority.
I’m a CNA at a nursing home. Those residents who are constantly on their call light for no reason, or they want their medicine (even though they have already had it) are frustratingly annoying. We have other residents who need care, we can’t just wait on you because your straw isn’t ‘bent enough.’
It’s a big deal to ignore call lights, no matter how much your patients annoy you. I had a patient that said at his last facility he rang his call light since he felt funny, no one came, and he seized and fell on the floor and got hurt. I try come as soon as I can to call lights, and I was able to keep him safe when he had seizures during my shift
Me -just being released from a private hospital- can very much relate to the “i’ll treat you with a spongebath” those bath’s are the bests vs a wet towel. My goodness
Q: what would a nurse attend to first? (a) a respiratory distress patient (b) hang blood (c) give meds or (d) answer a call light. the answer is will always be a>b>c>d. A tech can answer the call light. A ward clerk can answer the call light. A RN must answer the call light, but in context of critical thinking and priority. Also! If 2 patients with the same non life threatening issue come in the ER and you have to pick 1 to help first... who would it be? The a*hole or the nice one??
This is low-key why I want to be a nurse. 😂 Of course helping people is amazing. But like the stories I would come home with if I worked in the ER. I'm actually hoping to work in the Neonatal intensive Care unit, so I don't know how many stories I would come home with then 😂
I work in paediatric intensive care and you can still have a great time. For example I was looking after a post-cardiac surgery patient once and supporting first-time parents to do a nappy around all the various wires. They were quite slow, making sure everything is perfect when all of a sudden their baby girl opens her bowels all over dad, the bed and the side of her incubator. Me and parents laughed for like 3 minutes solid 😂
Have any of these nurses ever worked in Hawai’i? I’ve heard so many mainland friends say that they’ve never had nurses that are so caring as the nurses in Hawai’i. I didn’t believe them until I went to hospitals in California and they’re so clinical there...meaning zero warmth and compassion. It was pretty jarring for me ‘cause I’m usually really friendly with nurses back in Hawai’i and the reciprocate that friendliness.
How the hell do you work in the ER (EMERGENCY CARE!) and you take the nice person first? The one with the worse injury should go first if they don’t have stops filled it, or moved to another hospital. Sounds like a violation and someone needs to be fired.... I want to be a lawyer and a lot of people have their bad card revoked because they don’t follow protocol and ethics.
btsfavgirl I think she meant like some came in with a broken leg and someone else came in with a broken arm. The person with a broken leg came in first but was rude and nasty towards the nurses while the other wasn’t. Both have the same priority but one was nicer. She wouldn’t put someone who was very ill but rude below someone who was nice but had a minor health concern
ive actually had surgery and had to stay at the hospital for about a week. all my nurses were the best. they treated me with so much respect and vice versa. i wasnt the type to call for a straw or anything. i would only call if i needed to use the restroom or something.
When I was 17 I went to the ER because I was extremely sick and even though there were people waiting they took me back right away because of how sick I was.
Nurses in my country will always treat you badly no matter how nice you are to them.. I was recently admitted to the hospital, it was my first time staying at a hospital.. I was already very scared cause no family is allowed to stay with you.. You're in these huge room with all the other sick ladies.. I had one nurse who put some needle in my hand for intravenous fluid, that needle was literally piercing my insides.. I told her to slightly move the needle cause i couldn't move my hand.. As proof, my hand was slightly swollen and around the needle turned blue.. But nope, she told me it's normal, just bear with it.. So i refused to stay 1 more day, i cried and called my husband and they let me go home
I'm a senior in high school but when the school year is done I'm going to college to study nursing. No job is perfect and I'm well aware of how stressful it is but what job isn't? I'm sure I'll grow out of the honey moon phase but I really want to help people that can't help themselves
Just spent 4+ weeks at a hospital and never had a problem with any of the nurses. For the most part, they were awesome. However, I did meet two nurse techs who were less than awful. While I filed a formal complaint against one of the techs, I made sure to praise the nurses who really made a difference as well.
One of my brother's nurses, before he passed, (he had 24 hour home care) would with out fail sleep almost the entire shift day or night. Worst was that my brother didn't feel safe if me or my mom left because of this. He would call for him at the top of his lungs (nurses were in the next room, he didn't have a door, and there was a monitor right next to him) and he would not wake up. Once I had to go to the er and my mom had been with me. My brother had called for help for over an hour before the nurse woke up to answer his cell phone. Only after he answered the phone did he finally go to my brother
