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M, RN 👩🏻‍⚕️

5 years

Is anyone else OVERLY nice to other customer service workers (retail, restaurants, etc) because you know what it’s like to be yelled at for something that’s not your fault 🥺

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M, RN 👩🏻‍⚕️

@PostOpPrincess

2 years

Guess who's request off work got denied for their own wedding 🤪 PTO BABY prepare the others I ain't gone be there 😚😚😚

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M, RN 👩🏻‍⚕️

@PostOpPrincess

2 years

You can't be an anti vaxx nurse and post on Instagram about burnout in the ICU. ✌🏻

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@PostOpPrincess

2 years

I maintained my 1:4 ratio today and you know what? My patients were appropriately cared for, families were updated often, and my call lights never went off 🤷🏻‍♀️

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@PostOpPrincess

11 months

Night shift told me patient was belligerent, aggressive, screaming at them etc. I asked the patient what the problem was. Lemme tell you I would have probably screamed too 😡 Patient complaints are VALID 👏🏻

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@PostOpPrincess

1 year

We don't talk enough about blatantly incompetent nurses and I think we should stop trying to pretend that every nurse is amazing just because of the hardships of staffing/management/rude patients 🤷🏻‍♀️

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@PostOpPrincess

4 months

The downfall of healthcare was when we started rating your hospital stay based on how nice everyone was to you and how good the food was. 🤡

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@PostOpPrincess

4 years

Hospital culture is so toxic that staff members are afraid of calling off because they’re sick due to fear of leaving their team short staffed and fear of attendance record that they come to work sick and then infect the whole unit. What do we need to do to change this?

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@PostOpPrincess

1 year

Probably gonna get roasted for this. Does anyone else work with a nurse that just really really needs to retire?

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@PostOpPrincess

3 years

Lmaoo at nurses who refuse to float to COVID floors based on medical exemptions and then are out on Snapchat partying it up. If you feel attacked by this, maybe evaluate your life choices

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@PostOpPrincess

4 years

I’m in literal tears at Walgreens watching an elderly gentleman figure out how he was going to pay $250 for his novolog 🥺 We have to do better as a country. The price of literal life saving care is astronomical. 💔

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@PostOpPrincess

2 years

Surgeons complaining about patients not walking in the biggest nursing shortage / staffing crisis I've ever seen is just embarrassing. Come work the floor with us and see why we don't have time to walk a 2 assist down the halls for 15 minutes.

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@PostOpPrincess

1 year

Q15 minute anything should be illegal on a med surg floor. I said what I said 😤

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@PostOpPrincess

3 years

NURSE TWITTER!!!! What do you make hourly? Where do you live? Has your hospital done any retention bonuses?

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@PostOpPrincess

10 months

I don't think surgeons prepare their patients at all for post op pain. Sorry not sorry.

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@PostOpPrincess

2 years

Who still wants to/likes being a nurse? I want to find people like me 🥺

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@PostOpPrincess

4 years

Does anyone’s family (not like live with them family) literally not understand the concept of working 12 hour days with little breaks, no phone, and PURE EXHAUSTION?

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@PostOpPrincess

3 years

Would you rather A.) Wear a mask in public and have people think you're unvaccinated but still following health regulations? B.) Go mask-less and have people wonder if you're vaccinated or an asshole

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@PostOpPrincess

4 years

It’s amazing how staff satisfaction is almost directly related to patient ratios 🤷🏻‍♀️

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@PostOpPrincess

4 years

The nurses that do the most bitching about brand new nurses are the ones that are in an online DNP program after 18 months at the bedside. I said what I said 🤷🏻‍♀️

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@PostOpPrincess

3 years

People are disproportionately shocked when I tell them we're on visitor restrictions due to the covid surge. Like are you paying attention at All?????

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@PostOpPrincess

1 month

A patient's visitor threatened me today and somehow still wasn't escorted off property. That's what it's like working in healthcare these days.

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@PostOpPrincess

11 months

I wish the public knew how much advocating a nurse does in an average day. For better staffing. For orders. For equipment needs. It's honestly so exhausting 😭

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@PostOpPrincess

4 years

Three years ago today was (unknowingly) the catalyst for the rest of my life. I was still a tech. I was working 60 hours a week because I wasn’t going to school. I had just been rejected from PA school. I didn’t really want to do it anyway. I was stuck but I loved my job. 1/

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@PostOpPrincess

1 year

One of my serious pet peeves is the push back med/surg gets when advocating for a higher level of care. I cannot be checking BPs every 15 minutes when I have four other patients!

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@PostOpPrincess

1 year

It just shocks me every day how people talk to us in healthcare. I literally had someone say "get this fucking thing out of my way" when referring to the LID ON HIS MEAL TRAY 🤯

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@PostOpPrincess

8 months

I'm not sure what's in the water but we've had a WAVE of newer nurses falsifying charting and it's mind blowing 🥴🥴🥴🥴

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@PostOpPrincess

11 months

@Colleen1596 What the patient told me is borderline negligence and they absolutely should have been aggressive with them

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@PostOpPrincess

4 months

In 2024 I want different services to stop using the nurse as the go between and talk to each other k thanks 🫡

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@PostOpPrincess

1 year

Sorry to my ED friends but trying to call report to a dirty room and then charting that the nurse refused report is just WILD to me.

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@PostOpPrincess

3 years

1 like and I'll get into a fight with my step sister about whether ivermectin cures COVID

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@PostOpPrincess

3 years

@Potato_Chip I literally would never think of taking the whiteboard. I couldn't fathom that being my first though. I would probably just laugh. I'm sorry some people are so cruel. They don't deserve to be in healthcare.

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@PostOpPrincess

1 year

POV: you're an experienced nurse googling why it's less of an infection risk to straight cath than to leave an indwelling foley

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@PostOpPrincess

1 year

What's the most new grad nurse thing you used to do? I would notify the provider of every K that was 3.4 🙃

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@PostOpPrincess

1 year

Honestly don't be a nurse if you're sent to a unit to be helping hands and then won't answer call lights because "it's the tech's job" 🙄🙄

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@PostOpPrincess

1 year

Unpopular? opinion: it should not take you more than 5-6 minutes to give report on a singular med/surg patient. Please discuss.

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@PostOpPrincess

5 months

I'm gonna need nurses to stop letting their lines run dry and program the bag to 50 mL less than full 😒

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@PostOpPrincess

3 years

Are you a morning routine kind of nurse or a roll out of bed 5 minutes before you have to leave kind of nurse? 🤗

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@PostOpPrincess

11 months

Muting replies to this. Please don't come onto this thread and talk about violence to HCW which I am a huge advocate against. This complaint was legitimate mistreatment by healthcare professionals.

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@PostOpPrincess

3 years

For $5 Venmo I’ll start commenting on peoples Instagram and Facebook photos that have large gatherings “COVID isn’t over yet because of people like you.”

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@PostOpPrincess

4 years

Patient yesterday had sudden increase in heart rate and O2 demands. MD thought it was a response to bolus for low urine output. Still unresolved this morning. I said I want more tests. V/Q scan showed PE 🙌🏻 Heparin drip started!

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@PostOpPrincess

2 years

@LaDonAdams @thatnrselife You poor sweet summer child

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@PostOpPrincess

4 years

I feel like I’m drowning because no one else is acting like there’s a pandemic and having weddings and going to bars and going on road trips and I miss living life but also there’s still a pandemic???

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@PostOpPrincess

3 years

Does anyone else work COVID med surg units? So much of nurse twitter is COVID ICU and I just want to feel like I’m not alone in the exhaustion just being a med surg nurse. Disclaimer: My main floor isn’t COVID but we get floated * a lot *

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@PostOpPrincess

4 years

I got my first Daisy nomination today 🥺😭🌼

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@PostOpPrincess

4 years

I truly believe being a tech prepared me as much for being a nurse just as much as nursing school did. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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@PostOpPrincess

4 years

We have a plastic surgeon who • Has great outcomes • Great bedside manner with patients • Nice to the nurses • SEXY AS HELL And after talking about our patient today he goes “So how are you doing today separately from work?”

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@PostOpPrincess

5 years

Does anyone have good IV start tips/tricks? I never fail to get the flashback but I think I advance the catheter wrong because when I flush it leaks or blows. I’m about 50/50 on IV starts right now 💉

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@PostOpPrincess

1 year

Would you rather have a coworker that's super nice but you're constantly picking up their slack or someone who's "mean" but gets their shit done?

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@PostOpPrincess

4 years

I think fate has a funny way of putting your life right where it was supposed to be. A lot of things had line up to get me to where I am today. But damn, the ride sure is sweet 💕 8/8

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@PostOpPrincess

4 years

Ya girl is a FIANCÉE 😍😍💍💍

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@PostOpPrincess

4 years

I looked at my team of friends who were so proud of me. I said “I’m going to nursing school.” That night we booked the trip to Paris. And three days later my ex and I broke up. It sounds silly to think that one code changed my whole life. But it did. 6/

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@PostOpPrincess

1 year

@TransNursing But how will my work husband know my butt looks good

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@PostOpPrincess

11 months

Would you as a charge nurse take patients so your team members didn't have to go up to 6 patients (med surg)?

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@PostOpPrincess

3 years

@DrigoMunoz We have a very old school nurse who admitted a trans patient and she sent out a text to everyone working that day to please refer to the patient as the chosen pronouns and I cried because it was just so inclusive and wonderful

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@PostOpPrincess

2 years

Please stop following me from my wedding tweet I promise I'm not interesting 🫣

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@PostOpPrincess

3 years

So just to be clear everyone bashing @VP won't be enjoying their long weekend and will only be sitting in silence to honor the fallen right?

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@PostOpPrincess

1 year

This pain med discourse is absurd. I give the pain meds that are ordered and advocate for something stronger if they say it's not working 🤷🏻‍♀️

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@PostOpPrincess

10 months

Bedside nursing is the greatest trauma bond you'll ever have because one minute you're banging your head against the wall and the next your patient is telling you you're the best nurse ever 🫠

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@PostOpPrincess

3 years

@KisoneG @franca_lynn Unpopular opinion I don't think the entire workforce should be made of travel nurses. I think staff should be appropriately compensated and have adequate staff and travel should be filling the holes

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@PostOpPrincess

3 years

Most of you know that l made the decision to cut off my family after a long long string of emotionally abusive and gaslighting behavior and it’s been the best thing I could have done for myself. My mental health has done a complete 180. ✨

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@PostOpPrincess

3 years

My parents truly just told me, their daughter, a nurse, that Trump has handled the COVID crisis perfectly and I should stop listening to CNN, MSNBC, etc because it’s all fake news. Meanwhile, I’m gonna go to work tomorrow at capacity black and 15% COVID positives and climbing.

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@PostOpPrincess

4 years

Today was a day I felt like a really good nurse. I made good correlations between lab values, made sure we were checking blood sugars on a patients starting steroids, communicated with families, advocated for pain management, and still connected with my patients 💕

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@PostOpPrincess

4 years

What’s one special thing you do every shift for your patients? After bedside report, I always say “Thank you for letting me take care of you today.” I say it to remind myself this job is a privilege 💕

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@PostOpPrincess

1 year

Now that it's social media official.... baby boy due September 2023 💙✨

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@PostOpPrincess

4 years

We were told we don’t need to wear N95s for routine care of COVID patients unless we are doing intubations, nebulizers, suctioning, etc. Is that true?

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@PostOpPrincess

8 months

We have a "no tolerance" policy for verbal abuse but then there's no action to take. Make it make sense.

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@PostOpPrincess

1 year

@BuffyDunes They SHOULD 🤷🏻‍♀️

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@PostOpPrincess

1 year

What's one trivial thing you wish patients knew about hospital stays? Mine is that it's an incredibly difficult process to change your pharmacy once you're already getting discharged and to please just pick one and stick with it 😩

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@PostOpPrincess

4 years

Got accepted to start a BSN program on 4/6! 🥰🎉

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@PostOpPrincess

3 years

Is there anyone who loves being a nurse and isn’t totally burnt out? I feel like everyone on my TL is 😓 I’ve been in healthcare six years now and I love it most of the time (there are hard and bad days of course).

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@PostOpPrincess

3 years

Today all my patients were alert oriented minimal assist and THE NICEST PEOPLE IVE EVER MET 😭😭😭😭

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@PostOpPrincess

4 years

I got accepted to nursing school in March. And in August (the very same week) I started school and met my fiancé. So maybe if I hadn’t started that year, I wouldn’t be where I am. I wouldn’t have been on Tinder for a study break (🤣). I wouldn’t be at a job I love. 7/

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@PostOpPrincess

1 year

When I ask my husband if I need to go to work tomorrow and he doesn't immediately offer for me to quit my job and be a stay at home dog mom 🚩🚩🚩🚩

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@PostOpPrincess

3 years

Does everyone have those coworkers who are just negative about EVERYTHING 😒

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@PostOpPrincess

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@kaylamellis_ WHAT

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@PostOpPrincess

1 year

@GabbysViews I love crusty older nurses. I more meant ones who are unsafe at a certain point

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@PostOpPrincess

1 year

I had a new one today. Patient asked if they could get all their doses of IV abx back to back so they could discharge faster 😅

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@PostOpPrincess

10 months

I am probably in the minority but you should be available during your break for patient emergencies.

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10 months

Is this a break though?

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@PostOpPrincess

3 years

When I was a tech there were nurses that I admired so much followed them around like a puppy dog to learn from them. Yesterday as 2 of the techs were sitting next to me, asking me questions and asking me them to show them how to start an IV I realized I’m that nurse for them 🥺

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@PostOpPrincess

4 years

Today was the worst day I’ve had as a nurse. I didn’t pass a single med on time. I had a patient 100+ years old asking me to let her die all day and screaming at the top of her lungs. Another one asking for pain meds every 15 min. My “easy” patient who was a nurse & questioned me

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@PostOpPrincess

10 months

For the nurses: if you unexpectedly wake up with a sick kid and have to call in, do you still get an attendance point?

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@PostOpPrincess

3 years

Six months after a very painful conversation in which I was told that I wouldn't make a good charge nurse and working on some of my bad work habits, I'm finally going to be training next month 🥺💕

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@PostOpPrincess

1 year

@TweetleDuh13 To be totally fair retirement in this country is a joke

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@PostOpPrincess

8 months

Baby boy came on Wednesday and we are just so in love 💙

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@PostOpPrincess

4 years

Got a $1000 scholarship through work to finish my BSN 🥳

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@PostOpPrincess

7 months

Did you have an emotionally intense friendship with a female friend that ended abruptly and that you still think about 10+ years later or are you straight? 🫠

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@PostOpPrincess

1 year

I'm so glad I got to experience pre pandemic healthcare 💔

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@PostOpPrincess

1 year

To me walking into the nurses station is the equivalent of walking behind the bar at a restaurant or the cash register at the store and it's so fucking weird that people do it with reckless abandon. 🥴

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@PostOpPrincess

3 years

I don’t want to hear shit about how burned out you are as a COVID nurse and see your pleas on Facebook to stay home ... and then see you GO TO FUCKING VEGAS

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@PostOpPrincess

11 months

How do you handle family calling for updates and getting annoyed when you say that the nurse is with another patient?

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@PostOpPrincess

2 years

It literally just hit me that I am 27 goddamn years old. I literally see myself as 17. When did this happen? I'm panicking

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@PostOpPrincess

2 years

TW: su*c*dal thoughts Grateful I gave my medication time to kick in. Grateful I'm still here. 🫶🏻

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@PostOpPrincess

4 years

I GOT AN A IN MY FIRST BSN CLASS!!!!!!! Thanks so much to #MedTwitter for all your help! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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@PostOpPrincess

4 years

Not to brag but I really am ✨ that bitch ✨ Floated to a unit and was 6:1, had all my meds and assessments done on time, discharged 2 got 2 back, placed a 2nd IV for the night nurse, and still clocked out on time 😙

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@PostOpPrincess

2 years

@HeathER49366593 @nurse_charming And why isn't this surgeon facing jail?

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@PostOpPrincess

3 years

I just saw a tweet where someone said they've been to over 100 clinics/hospitals and only met one nice person. How are YOU treating people if you've been to that many facilities? 🥴

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@PostOpPrincess

3 years

People don’t question wearing a seat belt so why is mask wearing such a big deal? I seriously don’t get it.

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@PostOpPrincess

3 years

Honest question. Do you ever think we’ll ever not wear masks at the hospital ever again?

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