Thank you, countless Nurses at various hospitals in WA and AZ, who helped keep me alive through my various surgeries and cancer treatments. And more thanks to my LPN who was my PCP and was with me through it all.

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The cardiac nurse I had during my heart attack was awesome. I was 10 days post childbirth, and the blood thinners they give you....well, let’s just say you don’t bleed much after that. After literally bleeding all over the table while having the stents put in (and you are awake enough to know and SEE that’s what your…

And teachers - DON’T FORGET TEACHERS, RUINING AMERICA WITH THEIR...YOU KNOW...BASIC BENEFITS AND SHIT!

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.

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.

I’ll bet they do. Someone saw that outcomes were not as good as they could be, and decided that incompetent nurses were the problem. It couldn’t possibly be under-staffing. So they give the nurses a bunch of scripted bullshit to get through, just to slow things down a little bit more.

Yes. Most nurses now are given a list of talking points when we interact with our patients. It’s a push to improve patient satisfaction and hospitals are spending millions hiring companies to train and facilitate this. One of the problems is that great medical care and achieving high patient satisfaction aren’t…

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.

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…

Yup. When you have to ride herd on 60 patients, 7 nurses, ambulance traffic, a two hour waiting room filled with people, no bed assignments, new residents (happy summer!), it’s like navigating the maze in the TriWizard.

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…

Overall, as a group, nurses are hardworking, dedicated, smart, and severely underrated in how the public views the education and continuing education needed to get a license and keep their license up-to-date. Just to graduate from nursing school, much less to stay in the field any length of time is a talent. A huge…

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

I could have told ya that (mom’s a nurse.) Those tough birds have to routinely face down screaming doctors, who have more money, more prestige, and usually more power than they do, even though they do a lot of the every day patient care (patients are also sometimes screaming.)

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…

Every nurse that I know is a) stronger than I; b) very loyal; and c) not to be fucked with.