Let’s be perfectly clear here, icu nurses especially (although I know ER and others too so don’t come at me) have PTSD because we fought a COVID war that so many seem to deny existed. Mass death is one thing, but mass death with public denial is just……it’s traumatizing
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@RNSuperHero
Another of my faves is fellow nurses proudly crying “I’ll never take the vaccine.” 🙄
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@RNSuperHero
It won't make a dent in the PTSD of medical professionals, but I do think it would ease their suffering if hospitals would require vaccines for all employees. If medical pros aren't 100% behind vaccination, how can we expect the general public to believe in them?
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@WackwitzL
They are in Michigan! Except it’s absolutely contributing to ptsd because now we’re seeing how many healthcare workers are having a bitch fit and us icu nurses are like……we could have died though?
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@RNSuperHero
Having a covid positive patient vehemently deny that covid is real as you’re trying to wrestle high flow oxygen on them with a 02 sat in the 60s while they’re literally blue in the face yelling that they don’t need it because they don’t have covid was just mind blowing
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@RNSuperHero
Covid unit nurse here… not ICU but this shit was traumatizing. So many chose to die rather than go to ICU and keep fighting. Seeing people come to that realization was heart breaking. And the phone calls before rapid intubation on the floor…. 💔
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@amsutika
Well I mean if it makes you feel better majority of the icu didn’t live either they just prolonged their suffering 😔😔😔
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@RNSuperHero
Yes. The denial is nearly as bad as the death. I swear we live in an alternate universe
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@RNSuperHero
I left medicine and don't really plan to go back for some of the same reasons. My dad also died from covid so it was an even bigger slap in the face
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@RNSuperHero
I'm not even icu, but the rage I have against non-believers frightens me. And don't get me started on politicians who received the vaccine but continue to promote denial and misinformation.
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@RNSuperHero
yes, and exacerbated when our own bosses throw us under the bus for speaking up about safety
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