re: When Health Workers say they are Exhausted and Overwhelmed...

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RogerTheShrubber

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Touche, although a spell check change is a bit different than grammar.

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My MIL is a regional nursing director in DFW who coordinates nurse schedules and balances nurse staffing needs among several large hospitals . You are full of shite.

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If your mother in law is working more hours.... It's because she's fricking someone on the side.

There is zero nurse shortage.

Congrats.

You want to act like king dick? My friend sits on the board for MD Anderson. They're upset with how much staff/money they are losing.

“Many have not had a day off since June”

If this statement is even remotely true it’s because people are capitalizing and going all-in on OT.

“Haven’t had a vacation this year” I totally believe. I also believe 2020 and 2021 will be ultimately much more stressful for the medical community will than they would have been without Covid, but the same (for different reasons) can be said about everybody.

But well, this is life, and sometimes it’s going to suck. Sometimes it’s even going to suck much harder and much longer than you want it to. And if you working your tail off for an obscene amount of time is the difference between life and death for some, and livelihood vs. despair for everyone else, and this is most likely the one period of your life that this is going to be asked of you....whelp, guess what it is you’re going to be doing.

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So let’s hear it what bad arse masculine difficult job do you have?

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I mean I’m a farmer. I worked ~90 12-14 hour days in a row this year. I did that last year too. And I’ll do it next year as well.

It sucks but it’s the job and it’s what I signed on for. When the rest of the world shut down and y’all crazy fricks bought all the toilet paper I was in the field wiping my arse with shop towels. It is what it is.

You either accept the job and do it or your don’t and you quit. I don’t understand what good bitching and moaning about being tired is going to do.

From my perspective in our 12 hour shift, we had about 4 hours of downtime.

Now we only have about 2 hours of downtime

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the big difference is the “siege” mentality that might develop seeing patients die for months on end

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If you work in ICU you are used to this.

What a stupid, stupid post.

So the next time you go to the hospital and a nurse has to administer meds after working 40 hours in a three day span, after watching patients die at an astounding rate, after having to explain to a family that Grandma or Grandpa or their diabetic father or mother will not survive due to the respiratory implications of Covid, after having no where to put an ailing patient but in a hallway, recall what some have said on this board. Karma can be painful...

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What does this really mean? If a nurse works a 12 hour shift prior to COVID-19 or now, they are working 12 hours, what’s the difference? Is this the game school teachers always use to get attention and sympathy? Is this a ploy to argue for student loan forgiveness, pay increases or fewer duties while at work?

Do they know that many, many people have stressful jobs with long hard hours? Instead of crying about their situation, go work at a doctors office or another type of healthcare facility. Maybe change careers, you are obviously educated.

Personally, I am not sympathetic. Come on nurses and teachers, let me have it!!

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Well not being incredibly busy and able to take naps in that 12 hour period is beneficial.

You should check out "Why We Sleep" - by Matthew Walker - the just tough it out and work longer hours mentality is really hurting industrialized societies. Increased inefficiencies, major detriment on healthcare from stress and ability to interact effectively in the short term to increased risk for Alzheimer's, cancer, heart attack, dementia, etc.

Where do all of you people see all these nurses complaining all the time? I know tons of nurses and have maybe seen like 1 or 2 instances of them really just posting about being proud of their job and not really complaints.