Chelshurr

Chelsey BSN, RN Minnesota ..l've been working Trauma for 3 years in the nations #1 Hospital

[appalachiananarchist]

I hate glamorizing over-working. It’s not healthy. The fact that there are so many people going without sleep, food, personal hygiene (not to mention time for relaxation, personal time, and socialization, which are very necessary for mental health) just to stay afloat is not something to be celebrated or applauded. It’s a problem, not a goal that all good employees should aspire to, or a norm everyone should be expected to perform.

[wordsnquotes]

I am so afraid of disappointing the people I love, I often forget that I am someone I love too. And I need kindness just as much as I believe the people I love do.

Nikita Gill (via wordsnquotes)

[vogueistic]

[whitepaperquotes]

Haruki Murakami

[simply-quotes-deactivated202002]

Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life, you didn’t settle for it.

Mandy Hale, The Single Woman  (via alunit)

[nurse-x-ramblings]

When Nurses Vent, the World Judges.

So I’m sitting in a hairdressing salon, in a chair next to a lady who just won’t shut up in complaining about a nurse. Some nurses, many nurses.

Hmm. My ears perked up. Not sorry.

Despite our inner hospital grievances, there’s a code of sister and brotherhood.

You insult one, you insult us all.

She’s describing a nurse she follows on Facebook, a friend, so she says - A nurse who “just seems soooo angry, and it’s sooooo surprising for that profession. I see it all the time with nurses.”

“Plus,” she continues, “she’s a massage therapist!!”

Ok, I get it lady. You’re maybe reading an outburst on social media and you’ve decided to annihilate a nurse’s character based on what she’s putting out there for her social media circle to see.

Here’s what you don’t see:

Nurses go home at night feeling defeated, and a failure in their work, but it can manifest itself to the outside world as though we are super angry for no reason.  Sometimes the person we are most angry at is ourselves.

Nurses spend their shifts trying to appease everyone; demanding patients, demanding family members, demanding doctors, unsatisfied supervisors, and an array of ancillary staff who complain we aren’t dropping everything to attend to the phone, or their demand. Sometimes we just run into the bathroom  - not to pee, but to escape the demands for just one solitary second.

Nurses have a responsibility that, aside of a doctor - isn’t like any healthcare worker who steps inside the patient room. It doesn’t mean it’s more important, it’s just different and in the spotlight of blame/accountability for everything we do, plus what others do who walk in that room. We see techs of all kinds, students, nutritionists, lab workers, who do their task and leave, and as vital as their role/expertise in their field is in performing a duty leading to patient diagnosis, healing and recovery, they just don’t have the same overwhelming responsibility for overall care, (even though they are certainly responsible for the safety of their task). A great deal of these people are incredibly awesome, are cognizant of patient safety and basics of care, however nurses have the primary responsibility to be vigilant -  as often the patient is left in unsafe circumstances, such as the bed up high, monitoring equipment disconnected, incorrect lines pulled, patients exposed, equipment shut off, and as much as they may receive a reminder, or reprimand, we are ultimately the ones who will be written up, suspended or fired when something happens to the patient on our watch.

Nurses are the primary person who will be accountable for that life on their shift, responsible for catching life threatening events and expected to do it all while juggling multiple patients and sometimes annoying inservices. The nurse is the first to be blamed when something occurs, and usually the last to be recognized when the life is saved. Nurses aren’t looking for any glory, or superiority, but we don’t expect people to minimize or compare how tough this can be, especially if you haven’t walked in our shoes.  

Nurses are exposed to the primate horrors, indecencies, and heartbreaking scenarios in one say that most people won’t see in a lifetime - and what comes with this is pressure, what comes with this is sometimes we make mistakes, - except when it’s human life at stake, screwing up isn’t something we always deal with easily. We try our best to keep it all in and it ends up manifesting itself in ways we can’t always control. Sometimes that is depression, anxiety, denial, burned out voids…and sometimes it is sheer anger at the injustice of it all. 

There’s sugar coating that in a Joint Commission smile.

Nurses need an outlet to express stress . Sometimes it manifests itself in ridiculously funny memes, inappropriate jokes, or sheer frustration in a safe space. It doesn’t mean we are horrible people, or suck at what we do. But it does mean we can’t express it at work in front of the people we care for, and it does mean we can’t always articulate why we are stressed, given the devastation we see daily. So we find an outlet we can. Scroll on if you don’t understand, maybe you’re not meant to - maybe the frustration a nurse is sharing is self catharsis.  

Nurses have rough days, when all it takes every ounce to survive the marathon of the day and sometimes all we are capable at the end of it is relief to have not had anyone live or die on our watch.

Nurses have good days too, but generally we are so damn tired at the end of it we’re asleep by the time we’ve set foot  in the door and have taken our scrubs off.

FYI hair salon lady - I have no idea what you do, you could be a pilot, which I know nothing about but would expect to bring about its own stressful grievances. You could be in the military, and angered by the world today and although I cannot see through your eyes what you may see on a daily basis, I can understand your work will have an incomprehensible amount of stress affiliated with it. You may be a cashier at Zabars, and dealing with the angered, impatient flow of shoppers who break down your spirit, and still, I cannot judge that, since I do not know what it feels to be you when you are in the silence of the night at the end of a long day,

You may have any one  unmentioned respectable profession, with your own set of responsibilities and frustrations that outside of healthcare I cannot begin to comprehend, let alone judge if you so feel inclined to vent.

 Afford us the opportunity to do the same.

…and, don’t you dare judge us.  

I would lean over and show you this, except I would for certain be the talk of your next hair appointment, how nurses are just such a disappointment.

Permit us the days to express a very human reaction to the inhumane things we see.

[simplysini-deactivated20200923]

Love a big ol’ bowl of all the good things 🌿💫 Baked potato and sweet potato fries, corn, green beans, chickpeas & tahini 🍟 had been a while since I’d had a simple buddha bowl like this for dinner and wow was it goood 👍🏼 #wholefoods

[ruinedchildhood]

[snarkynurses]

Can you start over… 😳 #snarkynurses

[idonthaveasquare2spare-deactiva]

I’m just gonna take this as a sign…

[sosodebb-deactivated20190324]

I reblog this every time I see it. Sometimes you just gotta do it.

[nurse-x-ramblings]

We need more understanding of mental health days. We need more acceptance of the notion that while nothing may be physically wrong, some days it’s just hard to face the world - no matter how well things are going. We need employers, friends, teachers, and family to understand that a little mental pondering is just as important as a physical timeout.

Unknown (via dancingnurse-ed)

[suspend]

Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.

-Matthew Fisher on Tamed by Emma Chase (via suspend)

[losinginches-deactivated2018122]

Guess who's gonna wake up early tomorrow and go for a run!!

Probably not me. But someone. Way to go budy!

[jaysunshappyhour]

“I didn’t become a nurse to get a front row seat to other people’s tragedies. I did it because I knew the world was bleeding and so was I, and somewhere inside I knew the only way to stop my own bleeding was to learn how to stop someone else’s.”

Nurse proverb (via jaysunshappyhour)

[licensetomurse-deactivated20200]

Me giving report as a new grad nurse:

Mr. Jones came into this world to a loving family. He was an overachiever from an early age, learning to walk at the tender age of just 8 months old. By 10 months, he was able to verbalize his parents’ names. He spent his formative years studying our nation’s history, mathematics, languages and he was gifted by all accounts…

Me giving report now:

So this dude is like sick as shit. And of course he’s a full code. Any questions?

[braveresponders]

Stop violence against 911 responders.

[braveresponders]

This image has gone viral in the last day or so…so re-post. This is a problem everywhere in the world and of course it isn’t just confined to 911 calls with alcohol or drugs.

[1000-life-hacks]