Playing Cards

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Kallie3006, ADN

389 Posts

Specializes in Surgical, Home Infusions, HVU, PCU, Neuro.
2 hours ago, Nurse Beth said:

Go fish is my only game.

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angiebelle440

15 Posts

Specializes in Ortho, peds.

This hits me hard. I work in a critical access hospital. WORK.

Orion81RN

962 Posts

1 hour ago, falconersys said:

I left a hashtag on her Facebook that she keeps deleting/hiding.

#yourcareeriscoding

Haha! I saw it

TriciaJ, RN

4,328 Posts

Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.

Is she saying her "underserved" patients will be worse off if nurses are allowed to take breaks and go home on time? What does she think will happen if everyone leaves to take a job where they do get breaks?

Nurses playing cards. Really. This woman needs to strap on a pair of skates and follow one around for a shift. Then see if she still wants to insult us.

Specializes in Mental health, substance abuse, geriatrics, PCU.

No respect for nurses whatsoever. I'm pretty sure politicians dodge more work than we do.

Specializes in ICU/ Surgery/ Nursing Education.
2 hours ago, Orion81RN said:

Haha! I saw it

There are many of them now. I placed a few more around her facebook page. If I only knew how to twitter..... ?

Specializes in Med-Surg, CVICU.

In case you missed it:

Washington Senator Maureen Walsh makes disparaging comments about nurses “playing cards for a considerable amount of the day,” suggests nurses should only work 8-hour shifts.

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article229483694.html

Specializes in Addictions, psych, corrections, transfers.

I work at a critical access facility and there is not relief if we take breaks because there is only 1 nurse per shift with 1 support staff for 9 medical detox clients. By law, in order to take a break a person that is the same licensure or better must relieve you so we can't take a break. But! We get paid for our breaks and are we fine with it. Even with only 9 pts though we are still running around. They should either be able to take their breaks or get paid if they can't. And no, we definitely don't play cards unless it's helpful for the pt to distract them therapeutically.

Mr. Murse

403 Posts

Specializes in Critical Care/Vascular Access.

I don't know much about critical access facilities, but I do think there's often a misperception of nurses having a lot of downtime because it often appears that way when you don't know what's going on. Our work ebs and flows very quickly, and if I get caught up charting and am waiting for my next med pass or task then I may sit and chat with a coworker or I may do something on my phone. Then things will get busy again for a while and then slow down for a while, depending on the day and where you're working.

I think non-nurses really don't get this, including administration who may walk around and see a couple of nurses chatting or doing something not directly work related and assume they have plenty of free time, when in fact those nurses are waiting on critical patient to arrive, or a lab value to administer a medication, or CT results before taking a patient to surgery, etc etc etc......we wait a lot for things as nurses, but that is not free time.

There's a lot of "hurry up and wait" in our field, and trying to fill the perceived "wait" times by cutting staff or adding responsibilities only jeopardizes the critical "hurry up" time when it soon comes.

Also, chances are that if you're caught up and actually do have free time, then someone else doesn't and your availability to help out coworkers is valuable.

Even on those luxurious days when you're not terribly busy, most people would rather have a couple of nurses at the desk available to answer call lights, help eachother, and respond quickly to emergencies than have everyone stretched so thin they're always stressed and unavailable.

Lastly, non-healthcare people seriously underestimate the dynamics and toll of working with people in a healthcare setting. Most of them are in some of the worst times of their lives, dealing with health, financial, and social hardships and part of the nurses job is to help carry that burden with them. Is it really that terrible when we can afford a few minutes to take our mind off the job?

I may be slightly off topic here, but anyway......

Wuzzie

5,116 Posts

I think every nurse who’s offended about this should send her a deck of cards.

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Lunah, MSN, RN

14 Articles; 13,766 Posts

Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.
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JKL33

6,777 Posts

I do not support some of the type of backlash I'm seeing online (mostly elsewhere).

Discussions, debating, and pointing out the erroneous thinking are helpful.

I do think her words betray disregard (if not disdain) for people she thinks of as workers - and also her ignorance of the workings of CAHs.

But some of the reactions out there are not helping our cause whatsoever, and most definitely do not ask anyone to respect nurses. They practically beg for additional disdain. If you're not careful, you can easily out-vile the person with whom you're disgusted. ?

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