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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Four nurses at Emory were fired after making a TikTok of their “icks” which include patients who don’t want an epidural despite reporting high pain, and family members who come to the nurses station instead of using the call button.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna61114

I found the video triggering because I had a traumatic birth (can’t even describe here because it will immediately identify me if someone from the hospital saw it) and a part of that trauma was feeling like the nurses and staff at the hospital were judging me and talking about me. I felt like I had screwed up (I had not, they were severely understaffed and that’s what caused the issue). Literally until we left the hospital, I felt like they were looking at me weird. Obviously compounded by hormones and pain medication.

Not everything they say is that bad but to me it’s just terrible form to discuss your patients in this way. Giving birth is such a vulnerable experience. I also feel like you would never see something like this from medical staff about other patients. The nurses in the pediatric wing or the cancer ward or even the ER (where crazy stuff goes down), I don’t think would go this because I think it’s really impressed upon them that their patients deserve grace, or at least not to have their challenges joked about online. I think these nurses thought this was okay because pregnant women and new moms are viewed as fair game. There’s some inherent misogyny at play which makes this extra gross coming from a bunch of women. [/quote]

I think it's a terrivble thing that they did this, and I'm sorry it's triggering for you.

As someone who has spent a total of about a year at a child's bedside in the hospital.  I think that being jealous of parents in pediatric units, or making assumptions that nothing bad happens there is in really bad taste.

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