I am coming back to this forum, after being away for many years, to communicate this message to you:
Are you kidding me? Why is this profession on "blast" everywhere? Every Instagram post has some covid/nursing/hero quote within it. Nurses are now dancing all over tik tok? Do you think this is cool? Do you think this is what professionalism is about? It is to the point where I am almost ashamed of being a nurse; our traditional nurse leaders are rolling over in their graves. Have humility, stop talking bad / complaining about how awful your jobs are. You came into this profession, probably for the $ and cause every other post on facebook influenced you. This is all part of the agenda: flood hospitals with nurses to drive down wages, make working conditions worse, and pay less. Basic supply/demand strategy used by all corporations to make their workers replaceable). There are plenty of good nurses out there, I am sure. I am just disgusted by the profession's turn: Nurses are shaking all their goods for social media; nurses have no respect for their patients and do nothing but talk chit. I am nothing like most of you, I am ashamed of you, have some respect. Be humble, stop fishing for attention on social media.
I guess this means I can’t be a hero, an angel and won’t recognized on The Today Show or Ellen for my compassion and selflessness in nursing (or actually doing my job)? So what, big deal.
Crying videos? Get some counseling folks — seriously. PTSD is real and there is power in self-care.
Go viral? No, let’s hope not!! That means I’ve tested COVID positive and that will burn all my PTO and if I get really sick, who knows what misery or fresh hell my life will be like — if I survive.
So confused. ?
Any revolution in nursing WILL NOT be fueled by social media.
Specializes in Mental health, substance abuse, geriatrics, PCU.
3 hours ago, Jedrnurse said:
Are these other groups doing similar things on social media? (I honestly don't know, as I stay away from FB, Twitter, TikTok, etc. AN is as close to social media as I get...)
Not sure to be honest, the only social media I use is facebook, and that's just to keep up with people and look at dog pictures. I would actually be interested to see a funeral worker make a dance video about their job, but my sense of humor is on the dark side.
Hey @JKL33 I bought one or two of those canvas bags! ? I was so proud to finish nursing school and get into my first job that I had a bunch of cutesy stuff. But yes I do agree some of the nursing tik toks or IG posts can be annoying. I’m a millennial but I use social media way less than my peers, I have seen a few of them that just made me cringe. But like mentioned above, most people use social media and it’s a new way to communicate. I’m sure most of the sentiments have been around for a while, it’s just that now there’s a nice touch of narcissism and it reaches further audiences.
I love a lot of the Nurse Blake videos on Youtube. Check them out for a laugh! They are funny and will brighten your day. Here's one
PS Dudernguy might not appreciate this as not serious and professional enough, although he does bring up the tik tok controversy. LOL
I’m furious that a country with so much wealth chose not to ameliorate the costs of doing what we needed to do to contain the pandemic.
I too am sickened that in the midst of a worldwide pandemic with tens of millions unemployed and lacking health insurance, there has been no real talk or action by politicians to fix our healthcare mess! We are the only wealthy country that does not provide healthcare to its people! It needs to change stat!
But if the pandemic and unemployment crisis doesn't bring the political will to fix it, then nothing will! My God you have Mitch Mcconnell and his republican cronies denying people a $2,000 check claiming we are rich and don't deserve it but the $600 bill provided tax deduction for 3 martini lunches for politicians and business people! What has the world in the US gone too! That is the real crisis, not dumb nurses on tik tok!
See this is part of the problem, eveyone wants to be blind folded like bird box. First it was the birdbox blind fold, now it is the covid mask, what's next?
If you cared about integrity and the profession's future, I think these things need to be considered. Just because the "trend" exposes nurses' lives in the fashion in which it is currently doing through social media does not mean this is best or what should be happening. Can we blame nursing educators for failing to share professionalism and humility with students? Do we blame society as a whole? Or are the days of honor, self-respect, preservation of struggle, and humility only a thing of the past? I, for one, believe we are witnessing a decay in nursing standards. What comes down the road from here, if this trend continues, is nothing good.
Are you against wearing masks? If nothing else I'm sure they have helped lower flu, cold, RSV and maybe helped at least a little with covid. I don't think they hurt anyone.
I wonder why you are taking the videos on tik tok, etc so personally. Why does it upset you so much?
Don't worry, if any of the peeps' coworkers see their videos they will turn them in to HR soon enough and discipline will follow.
But can't we live and let live, especially during this pandemic where nurses are working on the front line, many without adequate PPE during the past year! Hundreds of healthcare workers have died taking care of covid patients without adequate PPE!
Are these tik tok videos really so important. I don't see how complaining about these "unprofessional" nurses here on allnurses will change anything. Even if you could speak directly to the nurses on tik tok I doubt they would listen to you.
I am not a troll but I am a truth bringer. I get it, you are all a "click" and want to gang up on an outsider by calling me a troll. It's cool though I've been doubted and repressed my entire life, I know how to handle this. I m glad I triggered some of you who are doing nothing now other than arguing with me to help cope with an obvious decline in the profession. It's OK; I am here for you and will listen. Please see the Image I posted; it shares the stages of coping. Regarding the recent trend of unprofessionalism in nursing, I believe many of you are in stage 2, judging by your responses. I myself am in stage 3 and approaching stage 4. I hope in the future, nurses will find ways to enhance their professionalism. These tik tok videos are not professional. I m finding here people are defensive // coping // ignoring // just getting by.
I'd like to end this post with the definition of professionalism.
pro·fes·sion·al·ism
noun
the competence or skill expected of a professional.
"the key to quality and efficiency is professionalism"
the practicing of an activity, especially a sport, by professional rather than amateur players.
"the trend toward professionalism"
Interesting post! When I see the stages of coping I think about working as a nurse thru the pandemic without adequate PPE, staff or supplies. I went thru all the stages except optimism. In fact I quit nursing or at least the hospital rather than continue working in an unsafe situation.
Sadly I have no feelings of optimism about my former hospital and its healthcare system! They created a nightmare situation by laying off critical staff before the pandemic that lead to a massive exodus of nurses so we were totally unprepared for this pandemic! Then through this they were not willing to fix the problem, they forced us to work short rather than hire enough nurses, no hazard pay either! They would throw money at us up to $40/hr to pick up shifts, but they couldn't afford adequate staffing in the first place! Give me a frickin break! They had to hire travelers at crisis pay to keep the doors open. The CNO would wring her hands and give us pizza and expired Girl Scout cookies rather than hire enough nurses and PCA's. Eventually they were forced to turn to the labor pool of clinic, or, pacu and PT/OT staff to act as glorified PCA's since they had run off most of the PCA's as well as a majority of the nurses! I finally had to get off the hamster wheel!
But while the majority of us are thinking, worrying and dealing with the effect of the pandemic on our lives, families and jobs; you are worried about some stupid tik tok videos! Really! That is one of the problems of our so called "profession" wanting to judge each other and find fault rather than band together for the common good.
Personally I don't think nursing is really a true profession, at least not for the majority of front line workers that are treated like blue collar workers with an RN license, punch a time clock, work thru lunch, work in unsafe conditions and have no real control or say in their job conditions! The solution we have is to stay in a crappy job or quit and look for another, hoping to find greener pastures. We are a pseudo profession at best.
I am curious what you do as a nurse since you have your Masters. Are you an NP or educator or CNS or mgr? Curious as your job surely colors your perspective.
Specializes in Cardiac, Transplant, Intermediate Care.
I left bedside nursing after a 20 year intermediate care career. I couldn't agree more. Nursing was getting unsafe. Support staff and younger or newer nurses began to say "no" at work, and showed up and did not do their jobs. Instead of a career of service to others, they like to think how "cool" it is to see others at their most vulnerable moments- and almost brag about the privilege given them, to care for other humans. Makes me sick to see all the "selfies" and choreographed dancing videos. How about the "crying" pictures and videos? God help us.
I left bedside nursing after a 20 year intermediate care career. I couldn't agree more. Nursing was getting unsafe. Support staff and younger or newer nurses began to say "no" at work, and showed up and did not do their jobs. Instead of a career of service to others, they like to think how "cool" it is to see others at their most vulnerable moments- and almost brag about the privilege given them, to care for other humans. Makes me sick to see all the "selfies" and choreographed dancing videos. How about the "crying" pictures and videos? God help us.
You're right. How dare we say no to senior RN's and management's BS. That's the difference between my generation and yours. You guys put up with it since "that's the way it is". My generation and the generation after mine see through all the BS and won't put up with it.
You're right. How dare we say no to senior RN's and management's BS. That's the difference between my generation and yours. You guys put up with it since "that's the way it is". My generation and the generation after mine see through all the BS and won't put up with it.
Big LOL. The Millenials have been so brainwashed as to their own specialness, and to never, never, never question the wisdom of bureaucratic overseers.
Big LOL. The Millenials have been so brainwashed as to their own specialness, and to never, never, never question the wisdom of bureaucratic overseers.
Nah, Im a millennial and I don't consider myself special. Never have. I was born in 86 so I align more with gen x than I do the later millennials. Im always questioning decisions made by the overseers LOL.
Nah, Im a millennial and I don't consider myself special. Never have. I was born in 86 so I align more with gen x than I do the later millennials. Im always questioning decisions made by the overseers LOL.
To summarize for anyone just joining the conversation :
the OP (an obvious boomer who won’t know what OP means) is complaining about Tik Tok and trash talking a general sense of what they consider a millennial to be. As a millennial I find the boomers trash talking to be so weird. I could not imagine trash talking the people who are being born today (they’ll be 30 when I’m 60 so similar age gap). If anything I will be advocating for them, admiring them, applauding them. The boomers on this thread are a testament to the BSN degree- most of them had diplomas and they are COMPLAINING that newer nurses (more likely to have BSN) came in and advocated for safer hospitals/units/etc. per normal boomer behavior they are drawing in all sorts of things that don’t compare like blind foxes, politics, tik tok videos, and nursing skills.
boomers- it’s OK to be a new nurse, it’s OK to advocate for good working environments and patient safety, it’s OK to enjoy social media. We don’t wear white hats and bow to physicians anymore and that’s a good thing.
OP there is no Google image you can screenshot into this thread that’s going to sell your mean and incorrect argument. You’re not here for anyone and you certainly aren’t humble in your righteous opinion of how ALL nurses should act. I seriously could not imagine dictating to all nurses how they all should act - it’s literally absurd but here you are doing it and complaining that people don’t agree. And calling people sheep for arguing- that’s an oxymoron! Fitting for a moronic post.
CharleeFoxtrot, BSN, RN
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Okay that made me literally LOL