33 years a nurse. The "old school" nurses wanted to make sure you were "tough enough" to take it so they were not nice to new nurses. They made you figure it out. You were lucky to get a preceptor who was truly helpful. I remembered that and never treated my preceptee's that way. I tried to set them up to succeed. Always. Several became nursing directors, one is a Phd nurse, others are charge nurses. If they outdid me, I did it right. :) I never aspired for leadership. I wanted to be where I was, floor nursing on stepdown cardiac.
@darquequeen
11 ай бұрын
I wish I had you as an instructor when I was a nursing student. My last one made it her mission to drive me away from my desire to be a nurse. But, it’s heartwarming to see how many you helped, and how far they went in their careers. ❤
@lizhowerton895
10 ай бұрын
Right. Im not a nurse, but ive always believed to do your best to set a person up as best you can, providing they wanted to know and understand
@catherinehpn3613
10 ай бұрын
I’m an “old school” nurse. I enjoyed preceptor duties. Teaching, not intimidation was my style.
@kathleenkaufmann2084
9 ай бұрын
exactly! You should be setting the new people in ANY carreer or job up to succeed at the endeavor, not to make them fail so you can feel superior or make them seem stupid. Teamwork makes the dreamwork or whatever motto you like. :)@@lizhowerton895
@churchofpos2279
11 ай бұрын
"They need me". Until they don't. Working hard, going the extra mile, coming in on days off, not calling in sick are all great work ethics , but don't have any value to Management. Guess who gets laid off first- that's right. The most senior and highly paid nurses are let go. I spent 30 years in Nursing, and am now retired. Getting out of healthcare was the best thing I ever did.
@mojo4369
10 ай бұрын
Soooo true!! The one thing new nurses need to learn is that they are a commodity, a tool in a corporation. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be committed and go the extra mile but they need to be aware it's a gift they're giving, and they should not expect anything in return.
@ivycutler1907
11 ай бұрын
Healthcare has changed big time. I used to work as a CNA and back in the days you got appreciated and had parties of thanks and all. Nowadays you're just another number and body. It's sad how things have changed for the worse ... Life goes on.. Nurses should be thanked more often and administrative and Doctors need to give more credit to nurses!! 🌹❤️
@nickyjones867
11 ай бұрын
So true! I’m a nurse in the UK and it’s exactly the same here
@darlenekorson3716
11 ай бұрын
Yes, I've been a nurse for 25 yrs and yes things have changed. You are truly no longer shown appreciation. The only time you hear from the uppers is when something is not done to their liking. 😮
@vivinamorrison1186
11 ай бұрын
After all aren’t we the ones who have the most contact with each patient and as such are fully capable of communicating valuable information to the appropriate medical team? Doesn’t appear that unless we acknowledge our individual gifts to each other there’s much room for anything else except for the feelings within ourselves of satisfaction for a job well done. Nearly impossible I understand because of our own self criticism of whatever we did on shift that wasn’t up to our own standards for excellence 😢 ❤❤
@sonjadoyle2761
10 ай бұрын
I agree
@higuain437
10 ай бұрын
that's what u get when 6-8 of u decides to tackle and sit on a psych patient and restrain him for days.
@solarlass5807
11 ай бұрын
It's not just nursing where people no longer select it as a career choice. Police, fire, EMT as well. Pfffft ... include restaurants and retail workers. No one wants to work with the public because it seems that being rude, loud and obnoxious has become acceptable. Bad behavior has become normalized.
@trystanmentzer873
11 ай бұрын
I was thinking the same thing. I am a cashier at Walmart. Anymore, if someone says we need to hire more people, I say, "Want a job?" When the inevitably say no with varying degrees of derision I say, "Neither does anyone else."
@watchdog8058
10 ай бұрын
so true! i was laid off last year and could only find retail work as my career field was not hiring. it was horrible! i was yelled at once a day at least! and that was probably better than most retail workers. just sad! i always try to be nice but i especially do now that i totally understand the stress. thanks to everyone that works the high stress but underappreciated jobs!!!
@dru2506
8 ай бұрын
I semi-recently had a siezure and woke up with blood pouring out of my lip and a police officer and emt standing over me. I appreciate them both.
@dru2506
8 ай бұрын
On reflection is was so weird to have a handful of blood and ask am I bleeding? Seizures are no joke .
@calestaiezu214
11 ай бұрын
The patients being rude thing hits close to home for me. I just had this conversation with my husband about how I’m so exhausted at the end of the day because I have to deal with people yelling at me. I get it that they’re in pain, but yelling at me isn’t going to make them feel better.
@nickyjones867
11 ай бұрын
So true. The patients I care for in maternity are so entitled. They get free care from the NHS and still moan that nothing is good enough. It’s soul destroying. Nobody has respect for nurses/midwives/doctors etc
@darlenekorson3716
11 ай бұрын
Exactly. Society has certainly changed in the 25 yrs I've been a nurse. Manners is a thing of the past.
@vivinamorrison1186
11 ай бұрын
Rude patients? I got THAT ONE! Equally as bad as my own Clinical Specialty. Addiction Detox! My life seemed to be under threat from patients who were in the throes of withdrawal. Nearly thrown out a broken window after patient smashed it with a broken chair really happened to me. Left me wondering whenever I kissed our kids good night before work if they would ever see me again. Detox Meds don’t work that quickly as we all know. I survived because of my love for the field but once I realized what I’d done to my life? Three years of Therapy came to allow me to question the “why’s” of my choice of career. Simple solution… I loved what I did! Years later when our son got into Nursing? He was overheard telling a Resident off over the phone. His Supervisor asked him if he was any relation to me! Huh? Turns out she’d been my Supervisor as well. She asked him to please tell me that I’d been the BEST NURSE she’d ever worked with. Affirmation came late but not too late! 😮 ❤❤
@lynnrowe5091
11 ай бұрын
I used to work security in a very busy state hospital ER. Quite often I was asked by the nurse to try to calm down an agitated patient. (Sometimes a psych patient spent a week in the ER before a psych doc could come talk to them. It seemed like the psych docs were scared of some patients - although they would never admit it. They got TV monitors later that the docs could uses to assess the patients.) Anyway, I could often calm an agitated patient down by speaking kindly and calmly to them. Often, just asking personal questions with real interest like do you have any children - do you have any pictures of your kids?, how long were you in the military?, etc. But once we had a male patient who was extremely manic. He was yelling for hours about being God and demanding food constantly. There was nothing I could do with him, but the young nurse kept yelling at me to: "Make him shut up!" It was frustrating because there isn't anything legal that I could do to make him be quiet, and I won't do anything illegal. And all the staff were completely fed up with his yelling. It was an extremely bad day as I had to stand outside his room for my entire shift (he kept trying to leave but was on a Board hold.) Just before I left, a doc sent a prescription for lithium and other meds. The next day when I saw him, he was a rational, well-spoken gentleman. Very kind. Sometimes the only thing that can help is meds.
@davidestabrook5367
10 ай бұрын
Exactly, it's not fair on the nurses, to have to deal with patients, who are understandably upset and distressed, often by being left in severe pain for days. But doctor's don't realise that not everyone responds the same, and if some people need more, that doesn't mean that they're lying or a heroin addict. Generally if doctors communicate with their patients, they can understand the issue, and get them the treatment they need. But doctor's who assume that they don't need to speak to their patients, that doesn't work out well for the patient.
@steveioe
11 ай бұрын
What'd you think of the episode with Leslee?! Please give us a thumbs up, download on Spotify/Apple if you plan to watch later! Links below Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0LxFDnYVxqIMLYM5eq6eCF?si=2524e960353e487d Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/badass-mufkr/id1708994973
@Mamacat1357
11 ай бұрын
Love these interviews❣️
@rsnell9275
11 ай бұрын
That was awesome! Thank you for sharing. I was shocked when you said Ottawa, IL. I'm from the surrounding area where she works. It would be interesting to know more about the experiences of handling the two local hospitals closing. I can't imagine the chaos. 🤯
@stephaniedavis6531
11 ай бұрын
Steve, I "discovered" you about a month ago. I've been binging on everything you post. I have worked in Healthcare in a variety of positions, but not as a RN. I have a CNA license. I worked in a Hospital as support, so I worked in almost every Dept and Unit. I also did homecare for 13 yrs. I finally resigned this past April and gave myself a Sabbatical. --- Slim chance I will return to Healthcare.--- Love how you use hand sanitizer and rubbing alcohol as decor on your shelves😅. I LOVE "Austin"😊
@stephaniedavis6531
11 ай бұрын
P.S. Love your Podcasts/Interviews with the Nurses who work on the front lines of Humanity.
@bikergirl8028
11 ай бұрын
I'm a 43 year old oncology/hematology nurse from the Netherlands. And I love watching these video's 😊 Your guests are all such great people! ❤ And despite the fact that you're stories originate from working in the ER, there is so much recognition. Please keep these video's coming!!
@heidifruchtl354
11 ай бұрын
I remember getting to work, and the nurse assigned to triage announced on the way to triage that she could be bribed. The food offers were hilarious.
@magicatrn
11 ай бұрын
I had a charge nurse when I was a CMA in LTC and going to college for prerequisites for nursing who would insist on starting the shift with hugs all around. If you were ok with it. It was an AWESOME way to start the day! This was in early 90's. NO WAY would that go over in these times! 😢😮
@alikasaranghae
11 ай бұрын
Also a moment of prayer for Ruth Colby , president of Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox,IL. Pases away complications during surgery you will be miss❤❤❤
@justchelsay
11 ай бұрын
can we have more angels like Leslee in this world please? 😭🥰
@VizAnyaMSC
11 ай бұрын
The hospital I work at has such terrible management. Upper management makes decisions based on getting their bonuses. Middle management has unreasonable expectations and no support from upper management. So, we have experienced nurses, but none of us will take management positions because of what we've seen the business do to those roles. So all our middle management now are nurses with 6 months to 2 years experience, and it's a disaster.
@Magical_Thinking
11 ай бұрын
She sounds like a great coworker and leader. I love the fact that she said that she still learns something everyday. That’s exactly how I feel.
@debbim4172
10 ай бұрын
I’m retired now after 24 years in healthcare and I remember going in and seeing employees treat patients like garbage and thought if I ever stop treating them as if they are my family then it’s time to go! Some people do not belong caring for others and should be doing something else. I’m happy to say I left 8 years ago on a high note, still loving my job, my fellow employees and patients. It was an honor and privilege to help people who were terrified and sick. ❤❤❤. It’s so nice to see someone who still believes that it’s the right thing to treat patients kindly and fellow employees as well!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@audreyannelanfranchi6642
11 ай бұрын
I would feel so much safer going to a hospital with nurses like her…. My last experience was a nightmare
@jamessimpson5575
11 ай бұрын
Hats off to both of you! I must admit when heard Ottawa...I was like Mister Steve is in Canada! Workers on both sides of the border need more recognition.
@IIITheDeadGamerIII
11 ай бұрын
I'm so glad I always treat nurses and doctors I see, medical staff in general, with kindness and respect. Maybe it's why I always get treated so wonderfully by healthcare staff :3
@davidestabrook5367
10 ай бұрын
Generally treating everyone with kindness is the best approach. But hospitals are places where abuse happens, especially if you're gay or another minority. In hospitals I tell the doctor, "Section 1.2.21 of NICE Guidance on Shared Decision Making states that patients should be encouraged to record the conversation. I don't want to make you feel uncomfortable, but I do need a doctor who follows NICE guidance, where do you want me to wait?" If I don't record the conversation on my phone, then I don't get adequate pain relief. But now that I realised that not all doctors are honest or trustworthy, I'm more likely to get effective pain relief. I wish that all patients would get treated with dignity and respect, but as that doesn't happen, encouraging your doctor to follow NICE guidance, is the best way of protecting yourself, when you require healthcare.
@Crystalspanda
11 ай бұрын
❤ Thanks ❤ Yes, Practice the Pause. Every Day❤
@andreahughes1500
11 ай бұрын
I never could understand why patients are so rude and why some even fear medical. I mean, where else do you find an entire group of people working to keep you alive and alleviate suffering? Why would you want to be shitty to the guy who is saving your ass?
@davidestabrook5367
10 ай бұрын
I was sexually assaulted by a surgeon, who rammed his fingers up me, causing me to scream, then he rammed a proctoscope up me, causing me to scream again, which caused bleeding that lasted almost a full day. This lead to a 3 year futile quest for justice, as the hospital, the police and the PHSO all bent over backwards to protect the homophobic surgeon. Reality is, that a minority of people working in healthcare, are there because they want to abuse patients. And because the system is designed to lie, deny and protect abusers, patients need record the conversation with their clinician. Minorities are more likely to experience abuse in hospitals, that's why some people have valid reasons for distrusting doctors.
@SwimDeeep
10 ай бұрын
Not all medical staff is caring like that
@mojo4369
10 ай бұрын
The old saying that "nurses eat their young" is so true. It starts in nursing school with your instructors thru your first few years of practice. I experienced it in school in the early 70s and my daughter had the same experience in 2018.
@flowergirlabc123
10 ай бұрын
It was boot camp in the 80s! Majority of students quit because of it. Only about 17 of that group graduated in the end.
@watchdog8058
10 ай бұрын
just wanted to say thank you to all the nurses! you are appreciated!!❤
@TheKyPerson
10 ай бұрын
My mother was a nurse in the 1940's. She worked in a hospital that was run by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. She often spoke with admiration of Sister Estelle who ran the department with an iron hand. The doctors there never ever pulled rank or tried to condescend to her. She was a good administrator and under her firm exterior was a very kind heart.
@DarthRevanForceMaster
11 ай бұрын
Leslee is such a breath of fresh air. Keep up the great work. We need more healthcare workers like her.
@kellyhinson4221
11 ай бұрын
With regards to Travelers. It depends on your vetting process, manager, charge nurse and overall culture of your department or floor. If you have a floor that is welcoming, takes a team approach to care and views travelers as valuable team members then you will have overall positive experiences. Even if the travel nurse isn't the best fit, knowing that they are only ther for finite amount of time keeps the overall experience positive. If traveler's are viewed as outsiders, interfering, some places treat them almost like strike breakers them the experience is going to be horrible. If the unit or floor your working on is poorly run, the best traveler in the world won't help and if they have a brain in their head they will break their contract and run.
@rachelhowell5536
11 ай бұрын
I have been a LPN in a nursing home for the past 8 years... I absolutely love hearing POV from other nurses and their specialty!!! It's absolutely amazing❤❤❤
@lorihutt2965
10 ай бұрын
Love the SECURITY ball cap on your shelf. I've worked as hospital security for 27 years (cant believe its been that long) in Canada. Theres been so many changes over the years. Security is an important part of the team in emergency and all over the hospital. I've known many great nurses like Leslee. Ive know some not great nurses that make our work lives difficult. We deal with mental health/addiction patients and we are verbally abused and assaulted all the time. Hospital security is very unique and different than any other security position. Ive said many times that there is no way i could do this job if i was 20 years old and walking into this job now. Thank you to all hospital staff. Stay strong, dont take anything personally and have a life outside of the hospital to be able to get away from it all
@davidestabrook5367
10 ай бұрын
Hospital security should be viewed as a valuable part of the team. I meet a really great one at Harefield Hospital the first time my lung collapsed. He was really kind and bought me a cup of tea, and had a great chat with me. Hospital receptionists also go through a lot, and are absolutely essential to the team. They should get more appreciation too.
@kathyduer7108
11 ай бұрын
❤😊 keep these videos coming. Cant get enough of them.
@mojo4369
10 ай бұрын
Love these pods because they give me hope. I recently retired from nursing, but over the last 5 to 10 years of my career, I noticed a gradual change of attitude in nursing. It's more nursing against management instead of partnering-the nurses feel taken advantage of, overworked, and not heard. More and more, it seems a lot of them come to work angry and resentful and just want to get thru their shift, and I can understand (to a point). You also have more patients being rude while management doesnt support you and there's a shift in the patient population with a lot of homeless, mental health and the elderly (I love working with the elderly but there are many who dont). I can understand all that until it affects patient care. My most recent experience since retirement was with a friend, who is also a nurse, who was in the hospital for 3 weeks and overall the nursing care was pretty bad-they just seemed checked out and irritated all the time and literally didnt know anything about her case. Since we are both nurses we rarely asked for anything and did everything we could to be of help but most of them were very aloof and you got the clear message not to ask for anything or to ask any questions (one nurse took 2.5 HOURS to give her a pain pill, for 3 fractured vertebrae and a fxd rib, and then said her other patients came first. There were a few who were the exact opposite but they were the few. It breaks my heart. I dont think 12 hour shifts help either. I worked 8, 10 and 12 hour shifts in my career and I dont care how young and fit you are, you cannot perform at the same level at hour 12 than you can at hour 8. Nursing is physically, mentally and emotionally grueling and if you cannot be civil (never mind kind) and efficient because you are so tired and frustrated then maybe the max shift should be 10 or 8 hours. I hate to leave a comment like this but its one of several exleriences that leave me saddened as a nurse.
@flowergirlabc123
10 ай бұрын
I found 12's great, it were the extensions until midnight and having to work the next two 12's tough. And sometimes they'd need you to work another extension but they were very understanding and kind back then. Try being mandated to work 24 hour shifts due to staff shortage. There's the kicker!
@AngiesASMR
11 ай бұрын
I was recently in the hospital for 2 weeks. 8 of those days was in the ICU. I experienced some amazing nurses and a couple of horrid ones. It takes a special heart in a person to be a nurse. Its a calling.
@davidestabrook5367
10 ай бұрын
There are such amazing, caring people working in hospitals, my sister-in-law is one of them. But there's also those nurses that when you tell them, "My pain relief isn't working", they get a great big grin on their heartless faces, as they say, "Well I can't get you any more". When that happens, it's best to go to the nurses station, and tell them, "My pain relief isn't working, I need to speak to pain management". There are so many nurses who think that everyone who doesn't get 4 hours of pain relief from 60 mg codeine, must be a heroin addict. But really, it's that the NHS current approach to pain management, leaves many patients without adequate pain relief.
@atonalitycollective
11 ай бұрын
I'm loving this series
@marcylinane5977
11 ай бұрын
I love listening to this as an old nurse, I love your attitude about pecepting and charge nursing.
@iashakezula
11 ай бұрын
I believe nurses thrive better in the units of their choice . I always wanted to be in the OR since Nursing school. I started in Main OR did Ortho , trauma, cardiac etc which was high stress and now I’m in a Surgery center leading sports orthopedic at times in charge but I’m almost retiring 😉.I want be healthy in my retirement. But I commend and respect those who are in the ER , ICU,CCU , Peds ICU that’s too stressful to me and for those who hang in there as long as they can in MedSurg. I started in MedSurg by the way…I don’t like being alone…. Thank you for this… it helps nurses share ant vent their feelings .
@alexsummerRain
11 ай бұрын
She's so GREAT and Steve is 🔥 I was an EMT working an ER Trauma Center in my former life and I LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT ! ❤❤❤❤❤
@annapercy3368
11 ай бұрын
Thank you for giving healthcare folks and appreciators a huge live/online platform to feel connected, and not alone in the battles they go through in their own lives! And for educating people who might not have had the knowledge before hand to give them a little bit more understanding, and hopefully empathy into the view of what it is to be a patient and what it is to be on the other side! Brilliant!!!
@annapercy3368
11 ай бұрын
And thank you for making some thing that an audience can see that blows any other “medical show made for TV” out of the competition. Hearing Real situations and true experiences from the side of the people who put on brave and strong heart to help those in need really gives a different appreciation and respect beyond the moon to those in healthcare.
@stephaniedavis6531
11 ай бұрын
Steve, I LOVE how you use rubbing alcohol and hand sanitizer as decor on your shelving unit.😅
@flowergirlabc123
10 ай бұрын
Lol. How can you see that? I actually wondered IF it was rubbing alcohol. 😅
@davidestabrook5367
10 ай бұрын
Smelling isopropyl alcohol relieves nausea. As well as a hand sanitiser, it also works for unsticking IV cannula dressings, and cleaning printer cartridge contacts. I carry a little 10 mL bottle of 70% isopropanol in my bag, in case of nausea, and a bigger 100 mL e-liquid dropper bottle, so that I can remove the IV catheter, when I go into hospital. Generally nurses in the UK don't know that letting patients smell a few alcohol swabs, will relieve their nausea, but I wish more would.
@alikasaranghae
11 ай бұрын
Thank you both for working in the health care , an to all medical professionals around the world that you
@cindyt3416
11 ай бұрын
I want to see an interview with a long term care nurse or from other departments. These interviews are still great😊
@annpangburn394
10 ай бұрын
I’m from the Ottawa area! And a new grad nurse, I’d love working with her! Great interview
@chelseastrmserver2813
11 ай бұрын
she is amazing
@All_forthelove
11 ай бұрын
I wasn’t a nurse but a medical assistant at an urgent care. Working 12 hour mandatory shifts many times 6 days a week, having breakdowns because I never saw my 3 year old and a nanny was basically raising her, chronic understaffing, toxic work environment,horrible pay, management was a whole nother story 🫠 all of this made me say if medical assisting is like this then I don’t want to do nursing as a career because it’s the same situation although the pay is wayyy better 😂 and more responsibility. I wanted to go to nursing school originally but decided against it and chose to do my Masters in Public Health (currently in my program ). I need balance in my life and I know I won’t get that with nursing sadly
@Magical_Thinking
11 ай бұрын
My mom was a nurse in the mid 1950’s to 1990, and forbid me from becoming one. By year two of being an RN I completely understood what she meant.
@SJChronykSpookyBae
11 ай бұрын
The real heroes. ❤
@donigoodwin3580
11 ай бұрын
You know its going to be bad when your admitting ICU nurse tells you immediately they are burned out 😮
@fluffymountainbunny
11 ай бұрын
Loving these podcasts! Really interesting listening.
@dru2506
11 ай бұрын
Practice a pause is a huge takeaway for all of life.❤
@dru2506
8 ай бұрын
I had no idea what happened. I thought I had just fell. Meanwhile it took me a concerning amount of time to remember who the president is. Emergency workers are doing God's work.
@solarlass5807
11 ай бұрын
'Have the day you deserve. ' 😂😂😂 Great comment. Initially, i took it as a sweet remark, because I think of myself as a thoughtful person with manners. So the comment would make me think I deserve kindness in return. But then i realized the other side of the coin, and yeah... that side of the coin, it is saying F-off. I'm going to keep that one in my come-back bank.😆😅🤣
@amiejo
11 ай бұрын
The best part of that comment is the only people that could be offended by it realizing they are being shitty and deserve a shitty day.
@robertgould2565
8 ай бұрын
Whenever i'm in the hospital I am always sure to thank all the staff, not just the Nurses, but the ward aides etc. They are all treated like crap every day!
@abdablelow6031
11 ай бұрын
as a new psw the nurse on my floor told me this isn't the right career for you.. everything changed for me even after getting fired from my first nursing home job.. I now know so much more and I am a way better psw and person because she motivated me to stay the course learned from my mistakes and to prove her wrong!!
@amixeblu
11 ай бұрын
My mom's cousin had schizophrenia. He sadly was on an amazing path, also career-wise, then... he stopped taking his meds and he ended up committing suicide by jumping under a train. Sad day, for all of us. The rest of us (mom has 9 siblings) has 0 psych issue. He was the only one. And he was young too (in his 20s). If you can talk a psych patient down, that's a gift. My gran used to be able to calm him down when he heard voices telling him he was being watched and followed everywhere. I was at my grandma's as a young child, and he stormed in. She quickly closed the door and tried to calm him, because he was convinced he needed to save me from "the bad guys". She was amazing with him. And he loved her, loved to talk to her. It's sad that he did what he did, but in his lifetime, the times where his illness was "under control"... few and far between.
@laurels.6532
10 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed this Great job and I love this lady!
@RobKinneySouthpaw
11 ай бұрын
My hospital has hired new grads to the ER dor a long time, as well as experienced staff. There is a long (like 20 weeks) residency with split floor, class, and simulation time, and a robust preceptor program. You mentioned you felt lost coming in as an experienced nurse. There is so much training needed to transition that starting off fresh is not as much of a disadvantage as it might seem.
@maryjohnston4296
11 ай бұрын
I work in home health. Love my managers- our branch director is the best. And yes there is a learning curve in HH as well :)
@ERYN__
11 ай бұрын
I know I'm out of touch with what is a reasonable number of hours a week to work. My dad (not in health care) would work 80 hours a week sometimes, and 60 hours sounds like a regular week. He was home on weekends to spend time with us and do church stuff. Mom also worked 6 days a week delivering mail. I spent most of my "working years" in school as an off-campus student without a car, show up before the building opens, and stay till they kick me out, and spend hours on the bus. Now I'm disabled and soon to be a stay at home mom, with a work from home spouse, so "work hours" are sort of a foreign concept to me.
@bec7080
11 ай бұрын
I used to think it was normal to work 60-80 hours a week. It almost killed me. Look at the generation that thought it was normal, they were so stressed that they treated their kids and spouses badly (in a lot of situations) . They abused drugs , "legal" painkillers at minimum in good cases. Adults in the 50s/60s/70s/80s were on so many uppers and downers legally that it was a huge cause of mortality. There's a reason my generation was called latch key kids, even before we were old enough we had to let ourselves in to the home and take care of ourselves.
@andreahughes1500
11 ай бұрын
My parents did that too. They worked hard, made decent money, and then died from stress related illnesses before they could retire and spend it. One of a heart attack at age 60, the other of fatty liver & CHF at age 63. Work life balance is so important!
@bec7080
11 ай бұрын
@@andreahughes1500 I'm sorry to hear that, genuinely. That's a reason that the generation under me (Gen Z, and younger millennials) just don't want to do that kind of stressful life. And I don't blame them. It took me until my midlife crisis of about dying thanks to my extremely stressful job not caring that I had a very moderate case of COVID to realize that it didn't matter if I was making more money if it killed me (moderate is very bad. Just not ventilator bad). I make a lot less money now and it's stressful because it took all of our savings to get through the COVID unemployment but we are getting there. And I completely understand the "I don't want to work to die" culture.
@ERYN__
11 ай бұрын
@andreahughes1500 Yeah, dad had a heart attack at work at 52. Mom is alive at 66, but toxic, so keeping my distance. She's retired.
@bec7080
11 ай бұрын
@@ERYN__ as I said to someone else I'm really sorry to hear that
@bec7080
11 ай бұрын
I'm a very chronically ill person and i have to go to an urgent care pretty often when i can't get into my internist quickly. Just for small things like an infection (I'm on a immune suppressant). When I get a very experienced Doctor they are usually overly cautious like "in so sorry to touch you at all, you must be in so much pain existing!" And I'm like it's ok I'm used to it. Just rotate that shoulder lol. One guy even read my chart before he came in the room and when he walked in and saw a mostly healthy looking mid 30s person he was like "i think i have the wrong room" and asked my name and was like 😮. It just blew his mind and he was like "you don't look like your chart!" And i was like thanks!" But the point of that is that I had to go in a week ago for an infection in the tip of my nose. I had a Doctor (not a PA or NP. That would be ok though) and he was obviously so new. He was so nervous about this because of the location. And I'm like, yeah i know it's a bad location for an infection. He was really good but i could see that he had to work through this in his head very hard. For a simple staph infection. It's not the nurses that left. But yes. The nurses are the same way. The ones who know what my conditions are? Gone. Even though they are not extremely rare. But the new ones do seem to care. And they are trying to learn from me But i have seen the preceptors being great to the trainee nurses
@ack153
10 ай бұрын
After having family members in the hospital system as patients, I think one reason why patients are getting meaner is because a lot of people don't feel heard by doctors and the patients pick up on the fact that hospitals are these businesses that you have to fight to keep your life intact.
@squery14
8 күн бұрын
I am thankful for being a nurse and now a nurse practitioner. I started in the ED as a new grad in 2010 at a hospital that was going through the impact of post efficiency expert destruction. I think Covid contributed to the new grad hires in the ED (which is terrifying now with all I have learned), but also taking the importance of appropriate staff ratio and needs to an algorithm that did not take into account the complexity of patients and only the total, greatly impacted the healthcare worker and patient experience. The only way I survived and thrived was an amazing nurse that preceptored me for six months in the ER. Survived a nearly nurse strike at the that hospital and moved to a level one trauma center after 3 years. I loved ED nursing and am so glad I left it in 2019 prior to Covid. Feel like Covid was the straw that broke the flawed healthcare’s back. Total of nearly 10 years in the ED and it was a lifetime of stories, losses, tragedies, laughs, love, and growth. Thanks for telling ours stories. It is greatly appreciated and entertaining!
@kelliedoxiern4308
11 ай бұрын
I have been a RN for 28 years. In many different areas. If I could go back I would have chosen pharmacy though I love nursing.....but if it was today...I would not do it. Or maybe I think that is because I am old. I love doing agency and travel nursing. I am not as much into chaos. Did PCU and LTACH 20 years ago. Now I do psych travel nursing and long term care and rehab. I have fibro and I just cannot move as fast. Very impressed with you 2 doing ED. It is good we all like different areas and different types of patients. I have really loved my co-workers esp recently.
@IFBBProYeo
11 ай бұрын
YES! Another episode!!!!!!!!!
@DianaStuckert-y4x
11 ай бұрын
They used to say nurses eat their own, bone's and all. They didn't expect you to last 2 years. The older nurses were not nice to the newbies.
@stephaniedavis6531
11 ай бұрын
I heard the similar, " D.O.N's Eat their young".
@lindabeard488
11 ай бұрын
I love 💕 her. ❤❤❤
@SuperWhatapain
11 ай бұрын
❤
@sherrilynn33
9 ай бұрын
I think every nurse needs to spend time in the ER
@joanneshaw3071
10 ай бұрын
So glad I found your channel. I’m a nurse in Australia. I was an aged care, palliative and end of life nurse. Last year I lost my mum suddenly. I took time off work which turned into more and more time until I came to the realisation I just couldn’t do it anymore. It just killed my soul. My heart would break every time I lost a patient I cared about. For months I was unsure if I could continue being a nurse. I was lucky, I just happened to interview and get the job I’m in now. It’s been 5 months and for the first time in the 7 years of being a nurse I love my job. I’m now a cardiac nurse working in a clinic. I don’t have to watch people die anymore. They come in, if their issues are cardiac related our wonderful cardiologists operate on them and “fix” them so they can continue to live life to the fullest. Watching your videos have been so insightful. You are truly amazing
@capt.bart.roberts4975
11 ай бұрын
She's never fifty, be safe and always stay free!
@kbrad78713
9 ай бұрын
Listening to the nurses eat their young- I really only had one experience with it. I'm an LPN & had a laid back overnight postition with adults with disabilities. I took a per diem gig at a nursing home & was not prepared lol I was 2 hours behind when the overnight came in & almost in tears I said "Hi, I'm Kim- I can give report, I just have to..." she didn't introduce herself, she just said "Hey, hey- I don't give a FUCK what you have to do". We did the narc count, I took a 15 minute cry break- finished what I had to do and left. Never went back.
@andrewhegstrom2187
10 ай бұрын
I was an LVN for 13 years and went back for my RN during COVID. Thank GOD I was right behind people who did online stuff for clinicals and I was in the field doing real patient care (again). If for no other reason than the young kids around me, some of whom were even LVNs as well, just have no chill under pressure and don't know what to look for. And these poor nurses we'd shadow don't have time to deal with students - they're too busy being understaffed. Even with the 1:4 ratio in CA (well, 1:5 sometimes unless you have tele patients) there would be days with no CNAs, no charges, etc. Somehow it's never been both the worst and best time to become a nurse.
@cynthiarestivo1551
10 ай бұрын
As a Pizza Hut manager, I do my best work under stress.. My hat is off to all of you hard working hospital personnel ❤
@sonjadoyle2761
10 ай бұрын
I’m loving these podcast/interviews. Keep them coming
@janelliot5643
11 ай бұрын
20:35 "the world just is full of humans just trying to be humans, and some people have bad days." Put it on a plaque! Put it in a meme! That is beautiful in its parsimony
@ahhwe-any7434
11 ай бұрын
i wonder if any body out there in any field, helping ppl, or even assisting in any kind of help has had a sign in their office like not tadaye, satan. not tadaye. prob some higher higher up: ugh, could u not?!
@u140550
10 ай бұрын
As someone who has had family that are nurses, or they retired; I’ve got to say that it’s nice to hear y’all’s thoughts!! I agree that patients need to be more nicer, but on the other hand I think there are some that aren’t nice partly due to the environment; and the fact that many places are there for business more than helping. If my insurance can’t pay for most of not all my medical bills, then some people are like why should I be nice; because you’re getting paid and though you’re helping me get better… I’m not prepared to have to pay for the bill (I’m not saying it’s right, but I can relate)!! I think this most relevant to the states more than it is in other countries were you pay less or nothing, because it’s paid for by your taxes that involve the nhs/universal healthcare. I seriously wish we had something like that, but we don’t (yes I know there are problems with those as well, but at the same time would you pay my bill if I was in that situation when a nhs could help?).
@shonah7445
6 ай бұрын
She's a beautiful spirit. I see why they nominated her.
@LovelyWaifu
11 ай бұрын
From now when I find myself in a situation, I'll think WWLD - What would Leslee Do?
@TheJeff0569
11 ай бұрын
Keep doing these they are so entertaining
@maryjohnston4296
11 ай бұрын
Loved this video :)
@annat6249
10 ай бұрын
I had a childbirth in the hospital few years ago. During that stay, nurse and doctors had been an excellent. The only people that were rude is the office related staff, like check in staff, scheduler, and minor health technicians. For example, they tell me what I need to do as a third person while I was right there! Those cold staff even at normal visits during pregnancy. I let it go because I was tired after giving birth but I think more energy patient will not let that go. What I am saying maybe some patient got triggered by bad medical staff.
@TheLastDeadCat
10 ай бұрын
Everyone say they want to help, untill they commit you.
@pristinabread
11 ай бұрын
I think its hard to work in anything that deals wiith people. Let's talk front line behavioral health workers who don't get beneftis, require a master's degree and get paid if they are lucky, $20 an hour in a metropolitan city. They too work through all kinds of crazy ass conditions and are often over looked in the hero dept. My coworker was out in the streets during lockdown, jump starting people with Narcan day in and day out for weeks because there wasn't enough EMS. - I can't wait to retire. - Steven love your video with you mom (she's a sweetie) and your new pod. Please, please do something with your backround? I feel like I need to come there and tidy up. LOLOLOL.
@kangaroojumpoverrabbit10
11 ай бұрын
I think it’s 50/50 patient/nurse rudeness. Rude patients are bc they had multiple traumatic experiences of nurses not caring or listening to their patients. Rude nurses bc they’ve had traumatic education and rude patients taking it out on them from traumatic experience. I had pretty rude nurse after I had a teratoma removed from my ovary. Immediately after surgery she asked me to pee which is normal bc they can’t discharge you unless you’ve shown you can urinate otherwise if you can’t there are larger issues but she yelled at me and made me feel like ashamed like it was my fault for not peeing after I told her I couldn’t pee. The thing is I couldn’t per bc I had nothing in my bladder bc I was told not to drink water at least 8 hours prior to surgery and no one had brought me water after surgery. I told her that but she still looked down at me and shoved a cup of water in my hands like it was a bother to bring water. This experience made me further not want to ask a medical professional when I had excruciating urethral pain on my 2nd urination. I suspect they used too big of catheter during the procedure and didn’t want to admit it bc I had years of recurring uti’s after that. This whole experience could also have been bc I was Asian and the nurse was white and she thought Asians should be much stronger and take any discomfort or pain.
@davidestabrook5367
10 ай бұрын
Exactly whether you've had bad experiences with rude/uncaring nurses, or full on abuse in hospital. Good nurses/doctors get the flack from patients who were mistreated in the past. Also seeing patients purely as a number on an economic balance sheet, as either how much profit or loss they cause, patients feel that, and resent it. There's more stress now, due to financial pressures, and stressed patients/nurses find it harder to stay kind. Once we tax billionaires out of existence, so that everyone has their basic needs met, with enough left over to have a good life, then we'll have less stressed patients and nurses, and a better standard of living for all.
@anastasiaangelikova
10 ай бұрын
@@davidestabrook5367They can’t go after billionaires. Not even the irs goes after them. It’s just a dream politicians throw around to tax the middle class out of existence. All around a bad economy.
@fiercest_calm
11 ай бұрын
I have been close to death several times. A good nurse, there were a few, changed my life in those moments. Others, two, almost cost me my life and another cruelly hung her power over me because she knew she was the only one that could help me. I appreciate good nurses and doctors because Ive had some bad ones. To those who helped me, I'm so very grateful; thank you from my heart. 🙏🤍
@vanderm49
10 ай бұрын
There was a saying when I was in nursing school, "Nursing instructors eat their young." I would add they loved to pound on you first. Horrible human beings.
@maryalicefrazier2817
11 ай бұрын
I gave birth to 4 of my kids in Ottawa Illinois
@jonathanjack1000
4 ай бұрын
At my hospital in TN they ask you to start charging at around 6 months off orientation (that includes the in class training)...so😅
@robertgould2565
8 ай бұрын
My sister city, from Ottawa, Canada
@benzenelover
10 ай бұрын
Do people not know about urgent cares? I will never understand why someone would go to an ER and complain about waiting for hours for something that an urgent care could take care of in ~30 minutes
@hobodarkness7696
11 ай бұрын
😮😮
@amiraazman3180
11 ай бұрын
First! I love you!!!
@darquequeen
11 ай бұрын
Because people have lost respect for each other in general.
@Schtoinkus
10 ай бұрын
The reason why people are less thankful for care now is because there is now less to be thankful for, it is not necessarily the fault of doctors or nurses, but patients are more numbers than people now, health care is so expensive, wait times are so long, bureaucracy is so dysfunctional, and despite the best effort of the front line staff, greed and shitty admin are worsening the quality of care, people are harmed or even killed because of it every day
@sonjadoyle2761
10 ай бұрын
When I heard the phrase “have the day you deserve” I thought something positive. I thought this phrase gave the patient permission to relax and heal. I’m not a mean person, so maybe I see things differently
@trevorlockhorn
11 ай бұрын
what are your thoughts on IT in healthcare?
@u140550
10 ай бұрын
Hmm given the end of this episode, I wonder if Steve needed a job… would he go back to being a nurse!?
@movingforward2570
10 ай бұрын
Manipulated by fear not forced
@williamallen7836
11 ай бұрын
The reason why the attitudes of people have changed isn't you. It's the previous 5 healthcare professionals who were absolute a-holes right from the jump, or not exactly good at thier job they just got done dealing with. By the time we get to you, our last nerve has been obliterated.
@darlenekorson3716
11 ай бұрын
You have to remember every person is different and this isn't that same person. Once you have experienced the others you come with an attitude that makes the next one not care maybe.
@williamallen7836
11 ай бұрын
@@darlenekorson3716 Oh I totally get that. Similarly when your having a series of TIA's, in significant pain, or disoriented every person has a limit of how much BS they can take with a smile. All of which I found my self in a ER for over the last 3 years. A little understanding & descalation tends to make a massive difference. Instead of assuming that the paitent arrived with the attitude on purpose. It's often a state of mind that has been induced by thier own staff. The front end staff plays a huge role in the state of mind the ER nurses & doctors encounter the paitent in. One thing I learned through first hand experience is, which of the local ER's & urgent care centers have better staff. Not all department staff are created equal.
@rebelush8730
11 ай бұрын
✨ First ✨
@KayLeeHoward-vc2ph
11 ай бұрын
For mental health maby we need younger dr just in that aspect Covid and the access to mental health is bs
@ShadowKick32
11 ай бұрын
After all the videos and skits you made full of people who have no idea how their body works, I feel like the ER feels the consequences of failed education.
@dru2506
11 ай бұрын
Thank you! I appreciate Healthcare workers. Just don't come at me with iv potassium. Otherwise much love.❤
@DelilahZoe
11 ай бұрын
Why did the old nurse preceps want their mentees to fail???!
@mojo4369
10 ай бұрын
Having experienced it, I think it was more that you had to prove yourself and they weren't going to help you because you had to be smart and resilient and figure things out for yourself before you "passed the test." Also, I think some nurses are intimidated by new grads because they have all this fresh knowlege and excitement and ask a lot of questions the the more experienced ones may not know or they have their own techniques for doing things that may not align with the way students were taught. Of course, some are just bullies.
@amiejo
11 ай бұрын
Fifth!❤🖐️5️⃣
@wearanter1
4 ай бұрын
His swearing
@Kvhealth
10 ай бұрын
Not to be all preachy. But the Bible foretold people's attitudes. What they would be like in the last days. (it doesn't mean the world will end. It means soon God will step in and get rid of the bad that's influenced by Satan who does a good job making you look dumb if you believe in God) But he won't get rid of the good hearted ones out there.
@bonitaderosa3134
4 ай бұрын
I used to think nurses were like Gods - until I came to this youtube channel and heard this guy. If you're wondering why you're not treated well, I'd suggest you look in the mirror
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