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Anonymous wrote:Sadly, I think they are probably more of these types of nurses out there.

I feel sorry for the nurses having to put up with Pregnant American Princesses and their over entitled families. Nobody should be bringing your young children to the hospital. They can see their new sibling when you get home from the hospital a day or two later.

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly, I think they are probably more of these types of nurses out there.

I feel sorry for the nurses having to put up with Pregnant American Princesses and their over entitled families. Nobody should be bringing your young children to the hospital. They can see their new sibling when you get home from the hospital a day or two later.

Anonymous wrote:Sadly, I think they are probably more of these types of nurses out there.

Anonymous wrote:I don't agree with what they did however the vitriol towards nurses is crazy. I'm assuming these are the same people who complain about lazy, stupid teachers all the time. Nurses are often the ones who catch the mistakes doctors make, they are often the best advocate for patients, and they are the ones who determine whether you have a good stay or not. They deal with behavior and horrors we can only imagine and then take a deep breath and do it again and again. They wear out their bodies and their souls. I have been the grateful recipient of wonderful care from a number of nurses and I'm grateful for them every day. Yes, I've had not great care but I've also had a bad mechanic, a bad boss, a bad service worker etc... You are dealing with humans - there's gonna be a variety. Y'all keep slamming nurses and you aren't gonna have any there when you need them. We are already seeing that. Again, yes these tik tok fools were bad but that's not all nurses.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a veteran ICU nurse.

Then you all really, really don't want to know what we say about you family members of the critically ill -- out of earshot.

Their mistake was blabbering in a showy public way.

I know you all have a stressful job, but you have no right to mock and criticize people who are trying their best to navigate a stressful situation, even if their behavior appears inappropriate to you. Find a new line of work.

Actually, we do have that right. Free speech and all.

Ummm... you can have free speech as an unemployed person.

Look, if every nurse or physician was fired for talking bad about patient families then there would be no nurses or physicians left.

Nope. I know some wonderful people in the medical profession who do not talk trash about the people they care for. You just run with a terrible crowd.

Alright, you keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better. Just know if you’re in critical care and your family member is acting a fool, the whole floor has heard about it at the break room or nurse’s station.

First off, who are you to determine if a family is acting a fool as you say? If they are 1. dangerous to themselves or others 2. making it difficult for patients to rest 3. physically or verbally assaulting staff or patients or other family members that is unacceptable. Anything else is mouth closed. You can complain about family. Dont utter a word about patients and their conditions/etc outside of medically necessary sharing of info. You are repugnant. Go see a therapist and talk it out.

You clearly don’t work in health care. If a patient is rude and whiny and mean believe me, we still provide the same good care but we complain about you and make fun of you at lunchtime. We aren’t robots.

Yeah exactly you aren't robots- you're humans and you have biases. Even complaining about it on some level can be productive but it's not when it becomes toxic. When it changes other people's perception of that patient. There's a difference between telling a nurse who's coming on shift that patient in room 24 is a little bit prickly and will complain about the food and saying something about oh man the chick in room 24 is one of those f****** hippies who won't take an epidural. I can't tell if I wanted her to take the epidural and shut up or if I want her to put on deodorant.
You can complain about the husband being lazy and taking up space and making it harder to do your job but don't gossip about how he is always on his phone so much and checked out and if you were her boyfriend you be checked out too cuz she's such a crazy bit h.

Again as a healthcare provider I really wish you'd take a look at the Instagram post that I linked about the woman during labor who was shushed by her nurse. Physically put her finger up to her mouth and not in the comforting way it was in a dismissing way.

Part of it starts at the top with how doctors treat patients because I've seen doctors do cervical checks without asking just walk in the f****** door put on a glove sit down and do a check. I've seen them break water without discussing it with the patient. I've been ignored by nurses I've been dismissed by nurses. And I do work in healthcare I've worked in healthcare since my early 20s. The one thing you should remind yourself every day is that patient doesn't get to choose you as their nurse but you get to choose the type of nurse you're going to be that day. And talking negatively all the time and b***ing all the time isn't productive and it absolutely plays into the type of care you provide. Don't f****** kid yourself.

You're projecting an awful lot from my 3 sentence post. Yes, I agree that fostering a culture of complaining and being negative ends up being a terrible thing, both for happiness in the workplace and for patient care. But if you don't think I'm going to give a heads up to my coworker that the patient in room 5 will cuss her out if she suggests getting out of bed and taking a few laps around the unit, you're crazy.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a veteran ICU nurse.

Then you all really, really don't want to know what we say about you family members of the critically ill -- out of earshot.

Their mistake was blabbering in a showy public way.

I know you all have a stressful job, but you have no right to mock and criticize people who are trying their best to navigate a stressful situation, even if their behavior appears inappropriate to you. Find a new line of work.

Actually, we do have that right. Free speech and all.

Ummm... you can have free speech as an unemployed person.

Look, if every nurse or physician was fired for talking bad about patient families then there would be no nurses or physicians left.

Nope. I know some wonderful people in the medical profession who do not talk trash about the people they care for. You just run with a terrible crowd.

Alright, you keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better. Just know if you’re in critical care and your family member is acting a fool, the whole floor has heard about it at the break room or nurse’s station.

First off, who are you to determine if a family is acting a fool as you say? If they are 1. dangerous to themselves or others 2. making it difficult for patients to rest 3. physically or verbally assaulting staff or patients or other family members that is unacceptable. Anything else is mouth closed. You can complain about family. Dont utter a word about patients and their conditions/etc outside of medically necessary sharing of info. You are repugnant. Go see a therapist and talk it out.

And who are you to determine how a stressed healthcare worker can blow off steam? Gossiping in the break room is way better (and a lot cheaper) than therapy.
Your superior attitude is repugnant.

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I don’t think that saying mean or nasty things about the people you’re caring for is an acceptable way to blow off steam. It’s one thing to vent but these women were sarcastic and just obviously has contempt for those patients. I see the same things sometimes with teachers and their students too and I don’t think it’s okay.

DP. I guess you don't know any nurses or doctors. Or anyone else, for that matter.

Do you seriously not know people who aren’t mean?

And I do know nurses and doctors. I’ve worked in a doctors office before as a transcriptionist. Yes a lot of doctors and nurses made unkind jokes but not all of them.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a veteran ICU nurse.

Then you all really, really don't want to know what we say about you family members of the critically ill -- out of earshot.

Their mistake was blabbering in a showy public way.

You're right, we really don't. Please keep your callous, mocking, and unconstructive comments away from your patients and amongst fellow catty nurses only. TIA!

It doesn't take much to be a nurse does it. It's like real estate. Everyone who can't do anything else.

Anonymous wrote:I was prepared to come in and laugh a bit at OP being so sensitive but uh, wow. I also thought there’d be atleast baseline agreement that it shouldn’t have happened. How do so many people think it’s perfectly fine to make fun of people - let alone their own patients - amongst coworkers behind their back? I teach my kids if you don’t have something nice to say don’t say it at all, and apparently some of y’all need to revisit that fairly universal concept. No, trash talking people isn’t a form of “therapy” and not wanting to be the subject of trash-talk isn’t “the height of privilege”. LOL what world do some of you live in where that’s acceptable?? Now we atleast know who is parenting the school bullies!

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Anonymous wrote:I am a veteran ICU nurse.

Then you all really, really don't want to know what we say about you family members of the critically ill -- out of earshot.

Their mistake was blabbering in a showy public way.

I know you all have a stressful job, but you have no right to mock and criticize people who are trying their best to navigate a stressful situation, even if their behavior appears inappropriate to you. Find a new line of work.

Actually, we do have that right. Free speech and all.

Ummm... you can have free speech as an unemployed person.

Look, if every nurse or physician was fired for talking bad about patient families then there would be no nurses or physicians left.

Nope. I know some wonderful people in the medical profession who do not talk trash about the people they care for. You just run with a terrible crowd.

Alright, you keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better. Just know if you’re in critical care and your family member is acting a fool, the whole floor has heard about it at the break room or nurse’s station.

First off, who are you to determine if a family is acting a fool as you say? If they are 1. dangerous to themselves or others 2. making it difficult for patients to rest 3. physically or verbally assaulting staff or patients or other family members that is unacceptable. Anything else is mouth closed. You can complain about family. Dont utter a word about patients and their conditions/etc outside of medically necessary sharing of info. You are repugnant. Go see a therapist and talk it out.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a veteran ICU nurse.

Then you all really, really don't want to know what we say about you family members of the critically ill -- out of earshot.

Their mistake was blabbering in a showy public way.

I know you all have a stressful job, but you have no right to mock and criticize people who are trying their best to navigate a stressful situation, even if their behavior appears inappropriate to you. Find a new line of work.

Actually, we do have that right. Free speech and all.

Ummm... you can have free speech as an unemployed person.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a veteran ICU nurse.

Then you all really, really don't want to know what we say about you family members of the critically ill -- out of earshot.

Their mistake was blabbering in a showy public way.

I know you all have a stressful job, but you have no right to mock and criticize people who are trying their best to navigate a stressful situation, even if their behavior appears inappropriate to you. Find a new line of work.

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Anonymous wrote:Those nurses are skummy and unprofessional and should be fired. Someone in the clinical job I am very embarrassed for them.

They have been fired.

Good. Hope they aren’t easily rehired.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a veteran ICU nurse.

Then you all really, really don't want to know what we say about you family members of the critically ill -- out of earshot.

Their mistake was blabbering in a showy public way.

I know you all have a stressful job, but you have no right to mock and criticize people who are trying their best to navigate a stressful situation, even if their behavior appears inappropriate to you. Find a new line of work.

Actually, we do have that right. Free speech and all.

Ummm... you can have free speech as an unemployed person.

Look, if every nurse or physician was fired for talking bad about patient families then there would be no nurses or physicians left.

Nope. I know some wonderful people in the medical profession who do not talk trash about the people they care for. You just run with a terrible crowd.

Alright, you keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better. Just know if you’re in critical care and your family member is acting a fool, the whole floor has heard about it at the break room or nurse’s station.

First off, who are you to determine if a family is acting a fool as you say? If they are 1. dangerous to themselves or others 2. making it difficult for patients to rest 3. physically or verbally assaulting staff or patients or other family members that is unacceptable. Anything else is mouth closed. You can complain about family. Dont utter a word about patients and their conditions/etc outside of medically necessary sharing of info. You are repugnant. Go see a therapist and talk it out.

You clearly don’t work in health care. If a patient is rude and whiny and mean believe me, we still provide the same good care but we complain about you and make fun of you at lunchtime. We aren’t robots.

Yeah exactly you aren't robots- you're humans and you have biases. Even complaining about it on some level can be productive but it's not when it becomes toxic. When it changes other people's perception of that patient. There's a difference between telling a nurse who's coming on shift that patient in room 24 is a little bit prickly and will complain about the food and saying something about oh man the chick in room 24 is one of those f****** hippies who won't take an epidural. I can't tell if I wanted her to take the epidural and shut up or if I want her to put on deodorant.
You can complain about the husband being lazy and taking up space and making it harder to do your job but don't gossip about how he is always on his phone so much and checked out and if you were her boyfriend you be checked out too cuz she's such a crazy bit h.

Again as a healthcare provider I really wish you'd take a look at the Instagram post that I linked about the woman during labor who was shushed by her nurse. Physically put her finger up to her mouth and not in the comforting way it was in a dismissing way.

Part of it starts at the top with how doctors treat patients because I've seen doctors do cervical checks without asking just walk in the f****** door put on a glove sit down and do a check. I've seen them break water without discussing it with the patient. I've been ignored by nurses I've been dismissed by nurses. And I do work in healthcare I've worked in healthcare since my early 20s. The one thing you should remind yourself every day is that patient doesn't get to choose you as their nurse but you get to choose the type of nurse you're going to be that day. And talking negatively all the time and b***ing all the time isn't productive and it absolutely plays into the type of care you provide. Don't f****** kid yourself.

You're projecting an awful lot from my 3 sentence post. Yes, I agree that fostering a culture of complaining and being negative ends up being a terrible thing, both for happiness in the workplace and for patient care. But if you don't think I'm going to give a heads up to my coworker that the patient in room 5 will cuss her out if she suggests getting out of bed and taking a few laps around the unit, you're crazy.

Okay but... did you try praying about it?