So...you've had a bad day?

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azhiker96, BSN, RN

1,129 Posts

Specializes in PACU, ED.

Regarding the OP, I work at a level 1 trauma facility that also serves as a safety net for the community. We do have some busy days. However, I am there because I love the facility and my coworkers and I also like earning a paycheck. My patients are there because they got burned, hit by a car, smashed in a MVC, shot, stabbed, developed an infection or broke something. They are definitely having a worse day than me.

It's good to keep things in perspective. I'm on call tonight so I hope they play nice in the hood. I would like a full night's sleep and whoever is out tonight would probably benefit from not being shot or stabbed.

Specializes in ICU.

to the OP-it is NOT all about the patient in MOST healthcare institutions. It would seem that the private sector these days is more about the MONEY. The system appears broken from that regard...

Eh, and I learned that my mother had died while I was working.

That was definitely a bad day.

We are soul sisters in that case hippie. I was at work, got the call my mother was dead.

Totally unexpected death. I know how that feels.

However, that has nothing to do with how we deal with patients and family health care nightmares.

Again.. most of these responses are all about the needs of the nurse.

I was attempting to make it about the PATIENT.

Yes, this is a site to vent about the issues that "ALL NURSES" share. I get that!

I sincerely wished that my post will give us some food for thought.

We get to leave the hospital at the end of our shift. The patient remains... to fight their battle with a life changing event.

We need to remember that, and keep it foremost in our efforts to provide a holistic effort towards patient care.

wooh, BSN, RN

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We get to leave the hospital at the end of our shift. The patient remains... to fight their battle with a life changing event.

And the patient is discharged, and we keep showing back up.

We need to remember that, and keep it foremost in our efforts to provide a holistic effort towards patient care.

I would argue that the majority of us don't need to be reminded of our duty to be selfless martyrs, giving our all to every patient that crosses our path, no matter how obnoxious they may be.

We've got hospital administration reminding us. (Though they seem to forget it's about the patient when it comes time to pay for appropriate staffing.)

We have visitors reminding us. (Though they seem to forget it's about the patient when they're asking for coffee for themselves while you're in the middle of caring for the patient.)

We have the patients reminding us. (Though they seem to forget they aren't the only patient that it's about, there's generally an entire hospital full of them, most being sicker than whomever is complaining the most.)

And now we've even got staffing people reminding us to ignore our immune system, because calling in is unacceptable, even if your immune system is shot to hades by the stress before you spend 8-12+ hours around a bunch of sick people.

I'd venture to say that most of us get that "it's about the patients." Heck, what's our most common complaint? Nurse patient ratios are not safe FOR THE PATIENTS.

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