Mqlnurse

The work of a nurse to have compassion and provide healing day in and day weighs heavily on the human body. We use our mind and body to critically think in complex ways most other professions couldn't even fathom. The work of healing, teaching, and saving lives changes us as a person not only as a nurse. At the beginning of everyone's nursing career, it is exciting to get your first nursing job and take care of patients from all different walks of life. It is exciting to learn new things and learn how to use those crucial critical thinking skills we all heard about in nursing school. But what no one warns you of is the sadness, guilt, and overcoming burnout that eventually takes over your body. In one shift we can take care of a new baby, a dying patient, and a tragic accident. These things stick with us, no matter how hard we try to push them deeper and deeper down. Each shift we are changed as a nurse and this is not always for the better. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, healthcare has experienced a mass nursing exodus due to the unbearable stress and burnout. This is a direct result of nursing shortages, unsafe patient ratios, and failed leadership. Nurses went from being praised and celebrated during the beginning of the pandemic to now being thrown to the wolves, so to speak. We are handed some of the sickest patients this decade has ever seen but given the least amount of resources we have ever had. How is this fair? How did we end up like this? These are questions I as a nurse ask myself each shift. The unimaginable demand and constant guilt we have endured to pick up more and more shifts over the past couple of years has taken a dramatic toll on each nurse's well-being in this country. This along with the constant mental fight of dealing with watching our patients be so sick and without a family has caused many nurses to have an increase in mental illness. This should not be an issue. We should not have to receive additional medical or mental health care due to our job being so disrespectful or us as human beings. Many media and news outlets wonder why we cannot safely staff the country's hospitals anymore- this is why. Nurses are not the issue, it is the hospital organizations. The constant greed for more money and more attention without a single thought about the consequences their staff might face. One thing I know for sure; they won't care about those things one day when there are no more nurses to staff their hospitals. Nurse burnout must come to an end before there are no nurses left. We are quickly losing our passion and drive for the profession simply because we are not supported anymore. Without government and hospital organizations seeking out opportunities to make a real change, this issue will continue to increase and nurses will continue to leave. A human can only be expected to endure so much from a job, and it should not cost their well-being.

Hi! I wanted to start a thread to see if there is anyone out there who is applying to the JSRCC Spring 2020 Cohort coming this Monday 08/19/19.

Hi all! I just found you thread. I was wondering if anyone else has received an acceptance email?? I’m afraid this means I didn’t make it. Who do the emails come from? So I know what to look out for. Thanks!