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

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Stepmom is a respiratory therapist and works on covid floor. They have a ton more patients. Are exposed to the virus constantly, patients want to argue about every little thing you ask them to do, especially the old ones, doctors don’t follow protocol when changing settings on ventilators, etc from what they were set on. If something happens, there’s no chain of who did what. They’re also working a ton more hours. I don’t see why internet dumbfricks want to attack these people because some of them are obnoxious on Facebook.

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I agree. And the jealousy abounds, otherwise why start these threads?

I’m a nurse on a Covid unit and it can be anywhere between an awesome shift where all my patients are great, or a terrible shift where my patients are whiny bitches like you all,
or where we terminally extubate someone who has lost the battle.

Why are you guys so jealous? Or maybe you aren’t but just like to gossip like a bunch of housewives?

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You don’t see infantry Marines crying about having people shoot at them.

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Disagree. NONE of them ever come home with TBI or PTSD or depression. Military members never commit suicide either or have substance abuse or mental illness.

Moron.

As I posted above, soldiers and Marines in combat arms positions have lower rates of PTSD, compared to the military at large.

It’s probably a mixture of self selection, selection, and training.

Regardless, you don’t see people holding it up like a badge, like some people in the healthcare field do, with covid.

As a rule of thumb, people who complain about how hard their jobs are, usually have it pretty easy. They complain because their job is easy, and because that makes them feel insecure.

Before they sat on their asses 4 of the 12 hour shift. Now they have to work 10 of the 12 hours.

Seriously. Ever notice how few thin old nurses there are? Lazy jobs are the ones people get fat in.

I had the word overwhelmed. Just suck it up and keep going.
PUSSIES

Save your breath. People who have their minds made up and won’t change under any circumstances.it would mean admitting they might be wrong. Which might mean changing or adjusting their world view. Yes I make overtime. I’ll have a pretty good year paycheck wise. But I didn’t get thanksgiving with my family and don’t get to spend as much time with family. May not get Christmas.
But they won’t answer my questions. How many dead will make it serious. What makes it bad enough to take seriously? As long as it doesn’t affect you directly, it’s not a big deal?
And yes, travel nurses are making a killing. I get text and emails everyday from companies for 70, 80 to 100 an hour to go to th hotspots. But there are no guarantees. And you commit to 48-60/hrs a week under uncertain circumstances and you have no control. I know people who did it. Most are thrill junkies and want to make big bucks fast. That’s fine. I would have done it when I was young. But none felt safe or felt like they were always doing good work. Just trying to get to the end of a shift with everyone still alive. The conditions they were working under were terrible.

CRNA here. shite was bad in the icus in March April and may. shite is much calmer now. Felt bad seeing the nurses and rt taking care of the covid icu pts. It was crazy and a lot busier than any other day. Burn out was bad then. Things are much calmer now. But BR is heating up and I expect NO to follow soon.

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You don’t see infantry Marines crying about having people shoot at them. You knew exactly what you were getting into.

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Only about someone kneeling

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Called charting, Baw.

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Yeah, not for four hours. On normal shifts there is a ton of BS time. I have seen it.

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Nurses specifically are making tons of money for overtime. $50 more an hour type money.

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My niece is making $102 an hour for hazard pay.

Sign me effing up.