They might be severely unhinged because they have gone for hours without a bathroom break, or for gotten yelled at at for being late on meds because they had to deal with an emergency, or because they get treated like waitresses when they are actually dealing with serious medical shit.

Hear, hear. The only times I was ever comforted in a hospital, it was always because of or by a nurse. Nurses make that shit liveable and that’s saying a lot. Sure, there are crappy nurses as there are in any profession, but without those good nurses, I shudder to think of the state of healthcare in America. And they…

I’m pretty upset with how Jezebel readers are being so incredibly dismissive and actually shitty about this.
Nursing is a predominantly female occupation and as such has routinely been dismissed as a less than vocation for exactly that reason. We have to fight to be taken seriously ALL the time. I get shitty comments…

I was thinking the same thing. But I was also thinking that she’d get the same level of care as anyone else. Because above all else nurses have patience. (and big hearts)

Now if we can only unite on the facility level so we can stop administrative bullying, low staff to patient ratios with a population that is getting sicker. We need more nurses at the bedside who have the security of full time employment and protection from asinine scripting. We are supposed to stick to the script no…

Never go in against a nurse, Joy.

“Who knew the nurses of America moved like the mob?”