Preach! My father is a physician and while he doesn’t face the day-to-day “being treated like a servant” shit that nurses put up with, he can go on for hours about how patient satisfaction usually =/ good medical care. He knows how horrible this can be for nurses especially as he sometimes has 22 patients to round on…

My wife is a physician, and she has some vigorous opinions about nurses and the nursing profession that she’s shared with me.

This teacher agrees!

substitute “teachers” for “nurses” and it’s exactly the same, with stupid scripted curriculum nonsense. whoever thought of this should have to listen to a script in hell for ever.

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.

It isn’t just the doctors. Nurses are almost always caught between doctors, administration and patients’ families when it comes to giving the best care possible to their patients.

You SHOULD BE PROUD!

I think of the nurse who coached me through childbirth almost every day. Same with the ones who held my hand when I was scared, rubbed my back to help me through contractions, or offered kind words and gentle guidance with my newborn. I am so fucking grateful for nurses.

My husband went BANANAS this morning when I told him about all the brouhaha. I’m a nurse. I am so proud of those two letters at the end of my name it’s insane... we work fucking hard, man

I’ve been cared for by probably no fewer than 100 nurses and the worst I can come up with is “brusque”. They’ve been more likely to kill me with kindness than any other way. I’ve had them come and sit with me, do mini-makeovers, gone through September’s Vogue with them. Met kids. Talked about boyfriends and husbands…

Fuck yeah, don’t fuck with the nurses! We have to deal with so much (literal) shit that we are not going to take condescending comments like this sitting down. The profession has worked so hard to elevate it’s self above the usual compassionate ‘Dr’s little helper’ and ‘sexxxy nurse’ tropes that shit like this pisses…

We take care of our own precisely due to stupid comments like Behar’s

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…