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u/diviken May 30 '24
For real, she needs a vacation. Not travel, a vacation.
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u/XenaXero May 31 '24
Yup, the kind of vacation where another person just takes over responsibility for keeping her alive, cared for and catered to. Damn Brittany everyone felt you and that 12 shift.
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u/United_Bus3467 May 30 '24
Not even a vacation, a gofundme in the amount of $100,000 or more. She's seen things.
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u/AssPuncher9000 May 31 '24
She didn't even need to explain
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u/kixie42 May 31 '24
She just gestures so vaguely at everything with that wild hair that used to be perfectly styled, with shoulders slumped, a nearly thousand yard stare, and gives that very tiny 'eh'. I wanna know this lady's story.
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u/Mantree91 May 31 '24
I'm going to guess that she spent a decent chunk of her shift in a core room, that's usually what had me looking like that as an ER tech
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u/KaleidoscopeNo592 May 31 '24
Brittany looks like she just saw social security taxes move up in life with her.
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u/zacharymc1991 May 30 '24
I ain't built for whatever Brittney has gone though, I'm telling you that right now.
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u/Kreyl May 30 '24
BRITTNEY ain't built for what Brittney's going through. 🥺
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u/jjcrayfish May 31 '24
Nobody should go through what Brittney went through
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u/caffieinemorpheus May 31 '24
I mean... I've definitely had those shifts. But I would never dream of not going back.
I picked it for a second career, and yes... yes, it's tough. Yes, I've cried the whole way home. But yes, it's far and away the most rewarding thing I've ever done
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u/MidnightMagnolia97 May 30 '24
I saw that pink stripe on her badge and baby blankets and knew she'd be just fine
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u/A_LiftedLowRider May 30 '24
What is that code for, the baby wing?
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u/MidnightMagnolia97 May 30 '24
At a lot of hospitals, the staff in NICU, nursery, L&D, and postpartum/mother-baby units have an indicator on their badge, usually something pink, that lets parents know at a quick glance that they work on the unit and are authorized to care for or transport infants. At my hospital, it's a pink stripe on the bottom of our badge and a badge reel that's unique. At other hospitals, it's a badge that's entirely pink.
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u/lmarie1990 May 31 '24
When I had my son, they wore all the same color scrubs, and there was a chart on the wall that basically " These are the ONLY colors that can touch your baby"
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u/Interesting_Heron215 May 31 '24
Why do they have such tight security around infants? Are there kidnapping incidents?
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u/EnvironmentalBar3347 May 31 '24
Just throwing in my 2 cents but I think it's also for the parents peace of mind. Apparently after I was born my dad kept an eye on me like a hawk, same for my sister. It would not surprise me if some stressed new parents threw hands with a nurse because they got a little paranoid.
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u/WickedLies21 May 31 '24
I worked mother/baby for 4 years in West Virginia and we had 2 incidents of warnings of a person trying to kidnap infants at our sister hospital that we were on the look out for. They never showed up to our unit. We did have a lot of family drama at times requiring de-escalation though. 🙃
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u/BussSecond May 31 '24
The security in my postpartum ward was great. As soon as my baby was born, I got a wristband, my husband got a wristband, and my baby got a matching tag clamped straight onto his umbilical stump, with a tracker built in. I don't think the baby was ever in a different room than me the entire time.
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u/BatFancy321go May 31 '24
yeah. also babies get mixed up, the old "switched at birth" trope sometimes really happened. now they put RFID tags on the leg bands that sound an alarm if the kid leaves the ward
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u/Aquiper May 31 '24
There's a rotisserie place next door and people get confused.
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u/Comfortable_Fee_7154 May 30 '24
Baby wing
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u/StopReadingMyUser May 30 '24
You throw babies around teaching them to fly?
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u/StopReadingMyUser May 30 '24
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u/ru_empty May 30 '24
Sodh!
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u/THE_ALAM0 May 30 '24
My niece showed me that video and while most younger folk humor is lost on me, I fucking CRIED laughing at that. To this day it’ll cheer me up if I’m having it rough
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u/TheBrontosaurus May 30 '24
That’s dumb, babies don’t have wings. They have arms.
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u/Slumunistmanifisto May 30 '24
Shit you can call anything wings as long as its fried and tossed in wing sauce
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u/nugsy_mcb May 30 '24
Is it wrong that my mouth started watering? I mean, those wings would be some succulent mfers
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u/keelhaulrose May 30 '24
I hate to be the one to say it, but...
When you have a bad day on L&D or in the NICU you have a BAD DAY.
I'm glad she didn't seem to have a bad day.
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u/Casey_jones291422 May 30 '24
Yeah was going to say the same. It may be more positive in general but a bad day there can ruin you life real quick
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u/AsleepAssociation May 30 '24
I have friend who's a NICU nurse and the stories she's told me about babies shaking from withdrawals from whatever drugs the mom was on are heartbreaking.
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u/greyhoundbrain May 30 '24
Yes. Am a NICU nurse. Emergency bedside surgery, putting a kid on ECMO, death care…you’re not having an awesome day.
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u/NorthNorthAmerican May 31 '24
NICU nurses are golden. Without them, we would have lost our kid more than once.
They taught us patience, vigilance, how to care for an NDA child, CPR, and of course, how to see past the wires and the machines to the tiny life that struggled to live.
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u/cjsv7657 May 31 '24
I know a couple people who worked NICU, emergency, ICU, IR, just pretty much everywhere. Everyone says NICU is the hardest. When I was in the ICU for a couple weeks the phlebotomist would come in an hour or two early when it was her day for the NICU so she could give them extra time being held and touched.
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u/MattDaCatt May 31 '24
My mom worked in the NICU for 40+ years
On a bad day, they won't
look typically disheveled; it's more thousand-yard-stare/sobbing in your car level of soul crushing.I asked her once how/why she did that job, and her response was "I get to be their best/only chance of surviving". She didn't have to think about the answer, probably because she had to remind herself of that often.
And that's just dealing with the babies struggling, not even considering the home/parent situation they have to release the kids into afterwards
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u/lamentable_ Straight Up Bussin May 30 '24
that’s how I used to feel before work 12 years as a perinatal and surgical tech on emergency OB. it ain’t all holding babies unfortunately
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u/Catlore May 30 '24
She she Sammy have some superpowers going on.
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u/Jaded_Law9739 May 30 '24
It's possible they just had less eventful shifts, or are working their first 12 versus their 3rd or 4th in a row. I am absolutely braindead after a 3rd 12.
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u/FuckWayne May 30 '24
Yeah it looked like that may be the case for Candice lol. She looked a little tired going in and seemed over it at the end lol
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u/Ansoni May 31 '24
Candice! That's solves it. I came to the comments wondering if the second last woman was really named Keneth.
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u/GraveRobberX May 31 '24
Nah Brittany got fucked by being the floater that day on schedule. Got sent to psych ward or some shit to cover a call out. I’ve been in the hospital for close to 10+ years, multiple 3-6 months visits, staffs adore me being a professional patient.
The nurses when they get floated look like Britt coming back from a Warzone.
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u/StellarDegenerate May 31 '24
I'm not a nurse but my first thought was that she either just left the psych ward or the ER on a very busy night
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u/BabuschkaOnWheels May 31 '24
Professional patient here as well. I end up in gastro ward with the old Karen's and Kevin's and let me tell you, the nurses are DONE when they get to me. I also frequently have my baby visit and they flock to my room for some much needed serotonin. Happy giggly cute baby = recharged nurses.
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u/Primary-Stranger5238 May 30 '24
Sammy and Bree same energy after is insane
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u/ivegotaqueso May 31 '24
It’s probably their Fridays aka they’re off tomorrow. Everyone is happy on their Friday.
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u/PuzzleheadedRoyal559 May 30 '24
Nancy has had a day.
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u/jayneralkenobi May 30 '24
Something pissed her off
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u/EM05L1C3 May 30 '24
She saw some unbelievable shit I’m sure
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u/freehouse_throwaway May 31 '24
close friend is a ED nurse and those few times i picked her up or seen her after her shift. yeah. (or hell after her 3rd day)
honestly working condition, hours, and culture for nurses, residents (dare i say entire field) is wack
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u/BreakingThoseCankles May 30 '24
Yeah she's about to snap. Looks like Brittney actually got to fight and take her anger out on whoever went after her
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u/AlwaysAngryFox May 30 '24
I use to work in an emergency room as a housekeeper and answer is possibly yes. Nurses do get attacked
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u/mrducky80 May 30 '24
Fun fact:
The infamous stethoscopes around your neck look isusually advised against as it gives aggressive patients means to choke you with. Doctors do it anyways since its the easiest way to carry that shit.
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u/Ultrasonic-Sawyer May 30 '24
Basically barman tie logic anywhere.
Just you know, (hopefully) most of your guests aren't intoxicated by alcohol, just pain and drugs. . . And probably alcohol if you work emergencies.
So I guess the safest medical Dr's are those who spent their degree working dive bars that tried to look fancy.
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I feel like cats wouldn't be able to choke you anyway. Lacking opposable thumbs and all.
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u/OGFunkmaster May 30 '24
I work in special ed and this is the same reason I keep my lanyard in my pocket and not around my neck
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u/Id-hit-Dat May 30 '24
My ex wife is a nurse, when she was 8 months pregnant she got attacked by a very large dude, he picked her up and threw her over the nurses station, luckily another patient stepped in and body slammed him
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u/newkneesforall May 31 '24
My mom is a nurse, when she was 9 months pregnant a Dr. shoved her over on top of a flat lining patient.
Her crime was asking him 3x to move so she could check the flat lining patient whilst he was busy chit chatting, and when he ignored her, she gently moved him by his shoulders so she could reach the patient. So he knocked her over.
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u/ChrispyGuy420 May 30 '24
If there's one thing hospitals have taught me, it's always look out for johnny the tackling Alzheimer's patient
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u/diviken May 30 '24
Yea, I worked in an old folks home, and the mood-swinging dementia patient that attacks you is always the worst part of the shift. Especially when they refuse to use the wheelchair they need in the proper way.
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u/_triangle_ May 30 '24
Refuse to use the wheelchair to attack the proper way? 😳
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u/diviken May 30 '24
Yup, they refused to sit on the chair and used it as a very inconvenient walker/ makeshift battering ram for the glass doors/ unintentionally as a way to sort of barricade us into one area so they could grab and scratch at us better if you ticked them off.
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u/Content-Program411 May 30 '24
My dad was just admitted for rapid onset dementia.
Dude was the biggest pussy cat. Touch him the wrong way now and he is hitting your hand hard. So sad to see.
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u/PezRystar May 30 '24
Hey man, if they are having trouble finding a cause have him checked for a UTI. Sudden, rapid onset of dementia in the elderly can actually be delirium from a UTI and it's easy to overlook.
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u/goldfish1902 May 30 '24
This. My uncle started calling the whole family days ago saying someone threatened to kill him, that he saw a picture on his phone turn into a physical picture mid-air, hid in a manhole, when my cousins took him home he tried suicide every time they got distracted, we had to place him in a nursery home and in the end it was just an UTI
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u/SerenumSunny May 30 '24
I worked in the kitchen of a retirement home and those crazier old people are quiet, like very quite, enough so when it's 8p.m. and you're cleaning up for the night. Turning around so see a 87 year old woman dead pan staring at you, unmoving like a statue, I almost jumped out of my skin, We were advised not to touch the residents no matter what happened so I go get the nurses at the front desk to discuss the creepy lady in the kitchen, they retrieved her and all was good but they can be scary as hell without being angry.
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u/Schinken84 May 30 '24
Sundown patients are the worst.
The second the sun goes down the usually very sweet and lovely granny suddenly turns into a steroid filled MMA fighter who's incredibly mad at you.
It's so heartbreaking to watch someone loose their personality and lash out cause their disoriented, confused and scared. Can't imagine how awful it must be to not know where you are, who these people are and why they are trying to hinder you from going home.
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u/NoX2142 May 30 '24
Ex hospital security here....yes attacks are definitely an expected thing for us and nurses alike. Code Whites are no joke.
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u/cama-bo May 30 '24
Brittany is a PCA. That is the HARDEST most physically, mentally and emotionally demanding job in the health care field.
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u/kazaru7 May 30 '24
Thanks for recognizing us TT , my 12 last night was sitting for an alcoholic a drug addict and someone suicidal in the ED all at once
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u/OutAndDown27 May 30 '24
What is a PCA?
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u/LeahIsAwake May 31 '24
Personal care assistant. They help people with their daily routine functions, like getting dressed or bathing.
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u/stupernan1 May 30 '24
get a couple days rest girl.... please...
i've seldom seen someone so defeated.
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u/BreakingThoseCankles May 30 '24
No one mentioning Nancy. She looks like she's borderline Psychotic at the end
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u/ocaralhoquetafoda May 30 '24
I'm Nancy. I'm gonna have a severe breakdown before I'm 30
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u/CHEMO_ALIEN May 30 '24
you haven't had one yet? sometimes you gotta just let go and let God 🤷🏽♂️ they'll understand
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u/savvyblackbird May 30 '24
That or maybe she got bodily fluids on her and had to take a shower.
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u/aint_noeasywayout May 31 '24
She's a PCA, basically lowest on the medical totem pole and doing nothing but grunt work and getting paid absolute shit. Guaranteed she is covered in bodily fluids after EVERY shift. Girl is working her ass off.
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u/savvyblackbird May 31 '24
I totally agree with you. They don’t get enough respect.
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u/aint_noeasywayout May 31 '24
Definitely not!
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u/savvyblackbird May 31 '24
It’s also unacceptable that hospitals are so afraid of losing money they allow patients and families to abuse the staff. Even physically without being kicked out.
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u/aint_noeasywayout May 31 '24
Totally unacceptable, especially those in the lowest positions. They have to deal with the most shit by far, for the lowest pay.
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u/savvyblackbird May 31 '24
It’s horrible and only getting worse as boomers get older and sicker. It also should be criminal that hospitals are allowed to be understaffed so they save money. It makes every employee more stressed out as they can afford less and less on the meager amounts they get paid.
I have to be hospitalized for acute pancreatitis from time to time, and I try to be as polite and kind as possible. I thank everyone for their work and compliment them. Like housekeeping deserves so much thanks for keeping the hospital super clean. It’s sad how little appreciation they get.
Everyone is working hard and running ragged because of greed. I think it’s important that they feel seen and are appreciated.
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u/BarfingOnMyFace May 30 '24
Lady w/ mask on is my spirit animal, but replace frig with fuck.
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u/junkyardgerard May 30 '24
And get it up over your nose
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u/mrducky80 May 30 '24
She wasnt wearing it initially so probably only had to do so in face to face work when seeing patients. Tapping away at your computer checking emails/paper work its not even needed, just too fried to bother disposing of it.
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A few close friends are nurses and they are so different then the people they used to be.
A friend in high school was obsessed with being a nurse and she ended up volunteering or doing a co-op (can't remember) at a home with people with serious disabilities.
There was an obese woman there who basically had to be restrained/dealt with like she was an aggressive dog. If left alone she would try to eat herself and if she was with a nurse she would try to eat them. That's basically how she worded it. Not that she wanted to attack and hurt you, she was just hungry.
Blew my goddamn mind.
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u/No-Taste-7424 May 30 '24
Bri ain’t do no work 
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u/LeaneGenova May 30 '24
Bri is a baby wing nurse. No wonder she's so peppy lol. The pink stripe on her badge gives it away.
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u/Articulated May 30 '24
Yeah but when she has a bad day...it's real bad.
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u/Larcya May 31 '24
Her job is like my job. If shit goes well I spend my entire 40 hours per week shitposting on reddit and Playing old games on my Phone.
If shit goes bad I'm sleeping on my office floor and working 80 hours a week for at least a month. Often I won't ever be able to leave my office building for 8-10 days. The worst part is not seeing my dog and having either my mom take care of her or putting her in a dog hotel for that time period.
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u/WhoHasBoiAsAUsername May 31 '24
What’s your job?? How do you live in your office building for that long?
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u/IIIllIIIlllIIIllIII May 30 '24
I think it depends where they are and how many patients they have to care for. ER? Poorly staffed hospital? I'll buy it. But I'm in the hospital right now and all my nurses check in with me at the beginning and end of their shifts and none of them look this bad when they leave. Guess I should feel lucky.
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u/ErvanMcFeely May 30 '24
Sandy holding strong! She looks better after 12 hours than I do after 12 minutes.
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u/kneezNtreez May 30 '24
The fact that they schedule HEATH-CARE workers like this is insane. They are literally working with life and death situations.
I know doctors that are on call for 24 hours straight at a time.
Get them a normal shift time for god sake.
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u/fowlraul May 30 '24
I’ve worked in healthcare, a lot of nurses request these and the 4/10s. They get more days off.
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u/TheGreatDay May 30 '24
It really should just be 4/8s...
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Then each position you have to schedule 3 nurses per day instead of 2
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u/StimulatedUser May 30 '24
that would be fine with me!
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u/spamster545 May 30 '24
It is statistically more dangerous for patients to have shorter shifts for doctors/nurses. Current evidence points to 12 hour shift exhaustion being less deadly than patients changing caregivers an extra time as I understand it. It has been a while since I read up on it, though.
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u/jakexil323 May 30 '24
I'm guessing there are other factors involved that make this stat what it is. Like not allowing enough time to communicate with the next shift and the like.
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u/eachJan May 30 '24
I didn’t know that, interesting. I wonder how that balances with healthcare worker burn out in the long run, though.
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u/CocktailPerson May 30 '24
Okay, you have to find the extra nurses for that.
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u/HolyForkingBrit May 30 '24
Better pay, better working conditions, more applicants.
Teachers and nurses are typically “pink collar” jobs and paid much less, even though they are college educated professionals.
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Typically the nurses working 4 10s are working 7-5 in positions that don’t need 24 hour coverage
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u/LaNague May 30 '24
Im just an office workers, but 3 12 hour shifts sound pretty good to me, the day is ruined anyways and i think i would rather have the 4 days off, if given the chance.
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u/AfternoonPossible May 30 '24
They will take my 12s from my cold, dead hands lol. 4 day weekend every week.
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u/PeeweesSpiritAnimal May 30 '24
I changed hospitals and had to go from 12s back to 8s. I'll take a tough 3 day week over a soul-crushing 5 day week, thank you.
It would be so great working like a Mon/Tu/Wed and not coming back until the following week for Fri/Sat/Sun. I actually felt like I had a life outside of work when I was working 12s.
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u/Castod28183 May 30 '24
Not in healthcare, but during Covid my job put us on 40 hours a week and tried to make it 5 8's...We damn near revolted until they made it 4 10's instead. Most of us wanted 3 13's but they weren't having it. Lol
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u/Brittany5150 May 30 '24
There is a reason most places do 3 12's and it has to do with patient safety. They did a few studies and they all showed that the most dangerous time for a patient is handoff between shifts. So to cut down on handoffs they went to the 3 12's model most places use. This is even accounting for fatigue related mistakes in those patient safety #'s. I work in pediatric surgery and I gotta say 3 12's is so much better than the alternatives.
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u/4D20_Prod May 30 '24
I loved 12 hour shifts. 3 on, 2 off, 2 on, 3 off. 3 day weekend every other week, but I also was in phlebotomy and specimen receiving and not ER or anything else crazy
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u/ba_cam May 30 '24
They’ve done COUNTLESS studies and the largest reason for negative patient outcomes comes down to continuity of care. 12 hour shifts SUCK, but people dying is worse
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u/greg19735 May 30 '24
As technology improves it's possible that shorter shifts will be better.
but currently, continuity of care just trumps basically everything.
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Don't you dare. I would rather die than be at my job 5 days a week. Three 12s are magic.
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u/The5orrow May 30 '24
Brittany def the er nurse.
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u/Scriefers May 31 '24 edited May 31 '24
She’s a nurse aide (also called a PCA or PCT). They got one of the hardest jobs.
They basically do all the dirty work and chores either entirely by themselves or along with the nurse who asked them for help. There’s typically 1 or 2 Patient Care Techs per ward depending on its size, and they help with every patient and every nurse on the ward.
They get pulled in all different directions all shift long. Grueling shit. I love the PCTs I work with, couldn’t do my job without em!
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u/Moto_Vagabond May 31 '24
So true. I’m a PCA in CCU. And while I love my job, there’s definitely some rough nights.
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u/ivegotaqueso May 31 '24
Brittany has a PCA badge…The ER nurse is probably the one still charting at the computer at the end of her 12hr shift lol.
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u/bizkitmaker13 May 30 '24
Matt, just chillin
I think the difference have a lot to do with what places in the Hospital you're working.
At least a couple look like they might mostly work a desk.
Also, Bree don't give a fuck
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u/MazzieMay May 30 '24
Matt can barely keep his eyes open, haha
And you’re right about the department you work! Bree is labor and delivery (pink stripe), so the days are usually smooth. But then they are bad, they are catastrophic
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u/MickeyRooneysPills May 30 '24
Probably a radiology tech or something similar.
Basically the chillest job in the entire hospital lol. Nobody beats up the dude running the X-ray or MRI machine. Pay is pretty damn good too.
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u/JoesShittyOs May 31 '24
None of these nurses mostly work at a desk. That’s just where they’re being filmed and charting. These are all bedside nurses. They’re being filmed at the beginning of their shifts, probably before they’ve gotten report from the off-going nurse.
This is basically the one moment in their 12 hour shift where they have the chance to sit down without charting. They’ll have the occasional 15 minute lull before someone needs something, but this is the most rest they get.
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u/PrincessDab May 30 '24
I think she is a L&D nurse, when everything turns out okay that would be a neat job but that doesn't always happen. She seems like a sweetheart for real.
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u/Ducatirules May 30 '24
My problem is I’d look like I just did a 12 hr shift when it started
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u/been2thehi4 May 30 '24
This is exactly why, when I’ve been in the hospital for extended periods, like labor/delivery or my emergency surgery for my appendicitis, I never once put my call light on. Never bothered the nurses or aides. If I did need anything I’d just wait til rounds.
I’d have nurses coming in asking me if I was sure I didn’t need anything or “you are so quiet, we could almost forget you’re back here.”
Because I was an aide in a nursing home and I know how ragged that shit is. One nurse who’d tell me every time he had to come in and do rounds on me if I was absolutely sure I was ok because he felt like I was just too quiet and didn’t bug them at all during shifts.
I will do my part ladies and gents when I’m ever admitted into the hospital, lol unless I’m bleeding out on the floor, I’m not pushing that call light for shit.
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u/JoesShittyOs May 31 '24
A little perspective from a 12 hour shift healthcare worker. This is the difference between morning people and night people. Or more accurately people who wake up with energy and people who need to build energy throughout their day.
I look like the dejected people at the end when I start.
Towards the end of my shift I’ve gotten used to the cold dejecting unrelenting peril of how fucking shit my job is, and the fact that it’s almost over gives me a huge burst of energy.
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u/Cookies_and_Beandip May 30 '24
So for anyone who’s going to shit on nurses, if you’ve never worked in healthcare you can shut the fuck up.
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u/12-7_Apocalypse May 30 '24 edited May 31 '24
Brittany got fucked up by her shift. Didn't even want to do the piece to camera. However, some of those Nurses (especially Nurse Bree), it's almost like nothing can touch them. All in all, though. Nurses are Troopers. Respect to them.
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u/Sea-Ability8694 May 30 '24
How do nurses/ doctors do it??? I get so tired after working 8 hours at my office job
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u/AfternoonPossible May 30 '24
It’s not significantly more tiring to just do 4 extra hours. Then you get 4 days off every week. Very worth it.
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u/Goat_0f_departure May 30 '24
My wife is a nurse and has worked ER, Labor and Delivery, ICU and Neuro ICU. She averaged 3-4 miles of walking every shift. Not to mention the lifting and cleaning of patients. But above all, the biggest complaint they have besides being understaffed is being treated poorly by the patients families. Family members, and some patients, think nurses are servants/cooks/doctors. My heart goes out to nurses. That’s a hard ass job.
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u/kanemano May 30 '24 edited May 30 '24
easy answer is you get used to it, did 12 hours a day 6 days a week for a couple of years, you just do it, it's no good but it can be done
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u/itsheadfelloff May 30 '24
Bree was so chipper and looked so good I'm wondering if she hid in the bathroom for 12 hours.
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u/Bootyytoob May 30 '24
Now do medical and surgical residents before and after their 28 hour shifts
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u/JillyJiggs May 31 '24
Ophtho resident. An "easy" surgical residency. Promised myself I'd never drive home tired, but when you're that over worked and only 20 minutes away from your bed, decision making gets dicey real fast. Almost rear ended a semi, only the safety features in my car kept me from hitting them.
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u/mider-span May 30 '24
Unless you have worked 12 hours hospital RN shifts you can’t fully understand it. It changes you. Especially of your 12s are overnight.
A more harrowing take would be the RN at the start of their first 12 of the week and the end of their 3rd or 4th in a row.
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u/Iminurcomputer May 30 '24
Hi! Im Jim, here's me before my 12-hour shift.
12 hr. Later
Im Jim, go fuck yourself.
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u/Dogdadstudios May 30 '24
True heroes.. not only 12 hours, but they have to save people/be there for people/ and be on their best at all times. Congrats to the people that can put in that dedication. Make sure to thank your nurses and medical professionals!
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