i was informed that someone at a birthday party last weekend let my 4 year old try soda for the first time (it was sprite) and when he tasted it he said "wow that is really zigzaggy"
a nurse won $41 million in a lawsuit against kaiser yesterday because they fired her for speaking up against unsafe working conditions and all i have to say is hell yeah good for her
Shout out to the resident that silently, and very casually, walked over and pulled my sweatshirt over my scrubs pants while I was bending over fixing a patient's oxygen, because my thong was kind of showing.
I questioned a medication order yesterday, one that I don't routinely see, and got chewed out for questioning it.
As a reminder, if a nurse or any other team member questions an order, check your ego please.
Tomorrow is Friday the 13th. There is a blood moon this weekend and it's going to be the biggest and brightest IN A DECADE!?
All you healthcare workers don't stand a chance this weekend ๐ฅฒ
STOP ๐ BRINGING ๐ NURSES ๐ DONUTS ๐ I ๐ HAVE ๐ NO ๐ SELF-CONTROL ๐ AND ๐ WILL๐EAT ๐ 12 ๐ AND ๐ THEN ๐ EVERYONE ๐ IS ๐ MAD ๐ BC ๐ THE ๐ BOX ๐ IS ๐ EMPTY ๐
If you are a doctor and suggest nurses sweep and mop floors when the hospital is dirty I'm going to need you to shut the fuck up real fast and understand that we are not servants or maids.
I will continue to mask in the hospital now that it's optional, because I very much liked not letting anyone see my face or having to do my makeup the last 2 years.
The CDC relaxing the guidelines is not only a slap in the face to the general public, but especially to healthcare workers, who are burnt out and exhausted.
I'm just a girl, standing outside the room that's coding, asking if any of the 5 docs in there want to intubate my new admit in another room like stat, but no rush.
Attendings, if you have a resident who needs to pump milk for their baby, you better fucking let them. It's federal law under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
idk what will eventually break me in healthcare, but i think it will be the constant keeping patients alive well past any chance of a meaningful recovery and then watching them suffer a slow, agonizing death
My sister had her medical school graduation yesterday and I couldn't make it, because of work, but my mom sent me about 10 very blurry photos of it, so it was like I was there.
I very recently took care of a suicide victim, who I worked really hard trying to save, and I haven't been the same since and I realized I never will be.
"This nurse looked at me the wrong way once and I just collapsed on the floor and they had to do CPR. ROSC was never acheived, so I'm tweeting this fake story from the afterlife to support a personal belief that all female nurses are bullies."
Let's get one thing straight. I don't have to respect a veteran nurse, and her unhinged takes just because she's a veteran. Experience does not automatically make you right. Age does not mean wisdom.
the other day i was mid breakfast burrito when the surgery team was rounding on my patient and the way the residents, and even the attending, were staring at my food had me genuinely concerned for whether or not you all get to eat ever
Intensivist: Please tell me something good.
Me: Someone paid for my coffee in the drive thru this morning.
Intensivist: I meant about the patient!
Me: Oh. Yeah. I've got nothing.
I just remembered that in report the other day I asked if the vented neuro patient had a gag and the nurse said, "like a ball gag?"
I was like, "Um, no. Like a gag reflex? Does the patient cough when you suction them?"
I think it's kind of crazy how providers get free, safe, accessible parking and the rest of the employees have to park in an alligator infested swamp a full 5 miles from the hospital
I love when nurses leave bedside and go into upper management and instead of advocating for any meaningful change, they become the worst person you've ever met in a suit
A palliative care team member messaged me yesterday, on their day off, to check in on me and make sure I was okay after a very difficult case Friday, and I think that's the nicest thing anyone's ever done.
I saw a post on IG about an email admin sent to nurses telling them they can't put their hair in a 'messy bun' and it made me LOL cause that's literally all my hair can do