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 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.
AMEN. My gosh if I see another virtue signaling nurse complaining and saying they don’t want to treat covid patients if they don’t wear their mask.. I’m going to scream. Can you imagine if we said we didn’t want to give Narcan to OD victims because it’s their fault they did drugs? It’s disgusting and disturbing
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I confess, I have never seen the crying videos. I have seen posts showing exhaustion, anguish, distress and pain in nurses in covid units. But they just looked exhausted, none were actually crying.
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11 hours ago, CharleeFoxtrot said:
Interesting, I've not heard that. I'm too late for a boomer but too soon for Gen X though I "identify" as Gen X. I'm an optimist who is super cynical due to life's lessons ?
Me too. I can't really relate to the boomers although I am close to that age group. I am more a Gen-x'er but then, I don't seem to fit anywhere. Iwork with a lot of much younger people that I adore. And admire.
Me too. I can't really relate to the boomers although I am close to that age group. I am more a Gen-x'er but then, I don't seem to fit anywhere. Iwork with a lot of much younger people that I adore. And admire.
I love my millennial co workers, while I am a "technology adopter" they were born with it and help this poor ol lady understand things.
I can't speak for the USA but to be honest here in France, most nurses aren't doing this.
I agree it's inappropriate.
I am not on facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tik Tok, Crap Rap, Clap Trap or whatever. The closest I get to social media is a discussion forum like this one. I can live without being glued to my phone and I contact my real friends in real life via real life means.
I could have written this myself. I left facebook about 3-4 years ago, never had any of the other accounts, and even my linked-in account has so much dust on it that I'm being congratulated for time on a job that I haven't had in years. To be honest, I thought tik tok was some kind of timing challenge that these young folks are doing.
But I do envy those folks who have that kind of time on their hands (before and/or after working 12+ hour shifts or the straight 8-5 Monday-Friday) and are able to show the world every single meal that they eat (Dang!! You got to eat today?!??!) and are willing to check in with said world for approval in every move that they make. That's how it was when I parted ways with social media. Obviously, it has progressed a bit. I have got to get out more.
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AMEN. My gosh if I see another virtue signaling nurse complaining and saying they don’t want to treat covid patients if they don’t wear their mask.. I’m going to scream. Can you imagine if we said we didn’t want to give Narcan to OD victims because it’s their fault they did drugs? It’s disgusting and disturbing