ED/Trauma RN, learning the ways

sprinklersart:

this hospital has everything: autism, teen abortion, pittfest, 53 year old noah wyle with the biggest tiredest eyes you’ve ever seen, rats.

queern-bn:

ALT

“The private agencies are taking advantage of the fact that our health-care system is a meat grinder for nurses.”

@allthecanadianpolitics @politicsofcanada

It’s not private agencies poaching nurses that’s the real issue. Hospitals and other government-funded nursing programs refuse to pay their nurses well and have them working insane schedules. What person wouldn’t want to leave for a job that pays better and allows for more rest and flexibility?!

emermedtech:

Hospital patient arrested for allegedly switching off neighbor's 'noisy' oxygen machine | CNN

A hospital patient has been arrested after she allegedly twice switched off the oxygen equipment on which a fellow patient depended because

CNN

feministism:

funnytwittertweets:

jaysunshappyhour:

I’m transferring departments and my coworkers are taking it well 😂

theglowstickchronicles:

Our hospital chaplain posted this on Facebook. Can’t disagree, especially since our morgue overflow is open and filling up 🙃🙃🙃

ceevee5:

In Berlin, Overworked Hospital Staff Went on Strike for a Month — and Won

The COVID-19 pandemic has heaped even more pressure on understaffed hospital wards. In Berlin, medics organized to do something about it, la

jacobinmag.com

“We had said we would meet for an hour, as no one had much time, but then we talked for two and a half hours,” Wetzel recalls. Together, they hammered out the team’s demands for decent staffing levels on the cancer ward: six patients to a nurse during the day and twelve overnight. “That was the point where I first noticed something had changed.” Talking about their working lives was empowering his colleagues and motivating them to get active. Several of them joined the union on the spot. These discussions, taking place in every department of the hospital, had been the result of a months-long organizing process. They were a key moment in the building of an unprecedented fight against understaffing involving fifteen thousand hospital workers. The new campaign managed to engage thousands of previously inactive workers, leading to a month-long walkout and eventually to a contract with binding commitments on staffing levels. How did the nurses in Berlin beat neoliberalism — and what can we learn from them?

ceevee5:

kenniegeex2:

Fuck I’m exhausted. We get patients, keep them for a few weeks, and then they all die at one. Wave after wave, rinse and repeat. 2 of our patients are younger than I am. All I can do is hold their hand and be sure they’re not alone when they die because their family doesn’t want to see them this sick. It breaks my heart. But here we are, slogging through one day at a time.

sophism:

funny how this pandemic is literally never going to end bc the people who keep complaining about the pandemic keep engaging in activities that prolong the pandemic

pathcend:

confessionsofanicurn:

Originally posted by muvana

Every nurse trying to psych themselves up in the parking garage before their shift.