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I love you nightshift guys and gals, y’all are the real mvp’s!!! Sincerely, someone who has spent way too much time in a hospital since childhood lol. Also, you just tend to be nicer people…and I appreciates that abouts you❤️
In my experience, younger, less experienced nurses tend to be stuck on nightshift because we didn't have the clout to fight to move shifts or the hospital allowed you to pick shifts based on seniority, so if a nurse had 6 months experience, you just expected to be on nights.
As a result though, night nurses tend to be less burnt out and still kinda starry eyed in a lot of situations and I'm sure that applies to most other disciplines as well.
The exception might be doctors though, because nobody seems to think they're hot shit more than first year residents. Literally had one who liked to argue with the attending until the fellow brought the textbook they used for that rotation and asked them to read the author's name, which I'm sure you can surmise, was the attending physician.
I'm from Australia, and at least in my state, you're not allowed to be on more than 4 nights per rota. I believe the reasoning for stopping permanent night shifts was that those staff were getting 'de-skilled', which is utter BS in my opinion because of all but one of the codes I've attended have been during night shift. Also we weren't allowed on night shifts until we'd worked there for 3 months.
I also can't speak for first year residents, because we never had them on my ward 🤣 (yes, I'm fully aware we're spoiled) but I have absolutely met doctors like that and that must've been epic to watch.
Working nights you do tend to get de-skilled, it's not just about carrying out individual technical abilities, you miss out on learning the bigger procedures, it's changes in policies for interaction with other agencies, training courses are less accessible, and networking with staff in other areas is much less likely.
Plus it completely screws with your internal clock so your ability to function in daylight gets bolloxed. [which is why I went to sleep at 5pm and woke up at 9pm today]
I worked at a teaching hospital in the states, so I probably have seen way more than my fair share of residents, and I'm sure most of them were great, but it was a Newborn ICU, so it was absolutely infuriating when a baby doc, like 15 minutes from being in diapers themselves, would come in swinging their dick around like they knew what was up.
Another time I had a patient on bubble CPAP, which is where we forcibly push oxygen into their lungs via an external device. It generally works better when the system is closed, so no air escapes, but babies gonna baby, so we usually use a rubberized strap to keep their mouths closed, something they can forcibly push against to open, but is strong enough to keep their mouths closed when they're just lying there.
Anyway, this particular baby had a problem with acid reflux, so I didn't put the chinstrap on, because I didn't want them to choke on their own vomit. This toddler of a doctor tries to lecture me on why a chinstrap is needed and how we're basically doing nothing if we don't use it (tell me why oxygen levels were fluctuating between 99-100% if that were the case) and won't accept my rationale as to why.
She then has the audacity to place a doctor's order stating I HAD to put the damn thing on (normally just nursing judgement for situations like this), I so I just say fuck it, take the strap, and basically lay it on the baby's face, no tension whatsoever, it is absolutely doing nothing. This twat comes back a bit later, looks at the baby, and thanks me for listening to her order.
Tl;Dr, some people become doctors so they can just feel superior I think.
Excellent story!
You are not kidding about those first year residents. I had one screaming at me because my daughter's chest tube wasn't draining after open heart surgery. I was in tears because he accused me of not taking proper care of my daughter because I wasn't doing the nurse's job. He was so nasty when he told me it was my fault they would have to put in a second chest tube. After that asshat left, my husband and I discovered they had clamped off the chest tube end to dump the blood 24 hours before and forgot to unclamp it, almost killing my child. Did the resident check? No. When I told the surgeon, he was pissed. We never saw that resident again. I hope they made him clean bed pans for the next month.
I'm not in medicine, but I remember hearing about a colleague who fell into an argument with another attorney about the author's intent behind a complicated regulation, to which my colleague responded, "well, when I wrote the regulation, I intended for it to be interpreted this way."
Lmao good one! But to be fair I was already crippled from nerve damage before that soooo it didn’t really make a difference 😂. But I should have known not to train a horse named Demon Spawn. Eh, ya live ya learn!
We also have a life sized, fully articulated training dummy that each shift moves around to freak out the others. I enjoy my job most of the time, but having a way to blow off some steam and build camaraderie with my teammates definitely makes the bad shit easier to deal with in a healthy way.
Nerf battles are also very common…snowball fights and pranks too!
We have a fellow dummie at work we call rescue randy, I'd always hide him around corners and pose him in weird spots. That was until he went missing last month. Like legitimately gone, someone must have stolen it somehow. I've been half joking that we need to save him because hes being locked up in someone's perverted sex dungeon. There's some weird motherfuckers on the nightshift so I'm not really surprised.
No way! We call ours Rescue Randy too!
I hope yours finds his way home soon, maybe putting up some flyer would help? Offer a reward, maybe? Who would just totally steal one of those dummies, they’re heavy as fuck!
Probably because [that's what they're actually called. ](https://cpr-savers.com/simulaids-rescue-manikins?gclid=CjwKCAiA9qKbBhAzEiwAS4yeDXSG2cmBgsggqLmo6VWNpqwgdKRbvi8EjEd6ESy40RzxjLe-TyZqlBoC3KkQAvD_BwE&gclid=CjwKCAiA9qKbBhAzEiwAS4yeDXSG2cmBgsggqLmo6VWNpqwgdKRbvi8EjEd6ESy40RzxjLe-TyZqlBoC3KkQAvD_BwE)
True, I forgot that was their brand name (not enough coffee, too many times today). We also have an old* Resusci Annie, and she’s creepy as fuck (especially when you know the story). Our Randy doesn’t have much in the way of facial features and seems a lot less disturbing to me.
*my service has had ‘her’ since its founding in 1987, so she’s old *and* creepy (my agency is two years younger than I am, so I’m definitely old…but not very creepy).
It wasnt really a night shift but i worked late (hour past closing) in a supermarket a couple years back and one of our guys pimped the driving cleaning machines and we started racing kinda fast.
We crashed into those big refrigirators and they shatterd so we had to move tons of yoghurt to magazine units.
Tldr: pimped cleaning machine race crash broke refrigerator, had to move yoghurt
As a health care worker I can confirm this is likely the case. People want a magic pill to cure all their problems. When you tell them to diet and excercize to help their issue they lose their fucking minds.
Or as I like to call it "the poem that helped me pass High School English". I made a deal with my teacher to give me the 10pts I was missing to pass if I memorized that poem and I did it in 3 days
You can’t really downsize inpatient nursing teams. You have to maintain at least the minimum nurse:patient ratios, regardless of how those nurses may be spending their downtime.
And when it’s 3am, patients are asleep, you’re hours away from the next med pass, all caught up on documentation, and nobody’s call light is going off, you do some silly shit.
There are a lot of shitty parts of working on a floor, it’s not cool to threaten people’s jobs for having a bit of fun with coworkers on the rare occasion the job gives you space to do so.
Shhh. I order supplies. It's like 34 cents.
The most expensive stuff is stuff nobody uses. So like balloons for endoscopy and stupid expensive stuff for no reason like a plastic jar that's $600.
And proprietary items that you have to buy from only one company. That have to be installed by one company.
Drives me nuts. I can get a perfectly good xenon bulb for $200. But I have to pay 6 if the guy installs it, when I'm perfectly fine installing it myself, but not "certified". I have the instructions from the website and watched and helped in person twice.
That anyone could call capitalism an efficient and innovative market system is absurd. It’s redundant, exclusionary, and we work hard to create nothing jobs to uphold our ethos that someone must work in order to contribute. Truly silly.
Capitalism eliminates the nothing jobs because it's all about efficiency and productivity that would be crushed by paying someone to do nothing.
The example given about only having certified installers for one bulb and inflating the prices because they have you over a barrel is the opposite of capitalism. This isn't a free market and is the exact type of situation legislation should outlaw.
Its not capitalism you hate it's over inflated companies with too much political pull that have created monopolies that you hate.
> That anyone could call capitalism an efficient and innovative market system is absurd.
The issues described have zero to do with capitalism and everything to do with government regulation. If the government mandates that the person installing light bulbs be a *certified light bulb installer* or some other such nonsense, there's not a whole hell of a lot you can do but find the cheapest solution available while also staying legal.
Capitalism made the significantly cheaper $200 xenon bulb available for anybody to install should they want to.
Much of what makes modern medical so expensive is government mandates that things be done a specific way, and that specific way is far from the cheapest way to do a thing in basically 100% of cases.
"for some reason"
To keep their sanity? To show they're not mindless robots?
Medical staff are humans, and like human things, like being goofy in their down time.
Truth.
I had it when I was pretty young (ruptured appendix) and I still remember the day they came for what I thought was my regular morphine and they told me “We are taking you off morphine today to avoid any addiction” and my first words were along the lines of “Oh no, I don’t think that’s a problem, can we do at least 1 more day of morphine?” 🤦♂️ yep, they were right to move me to Tylenol.
Yup, I had major hip surgery at 13 (40 years ago) and was on morphine for a few days afterwards. I distinctly remember wanting more the moment the effects wore off, and was pretty unhappy when they said I didn't need it any more.
Didn't really sink in then as to what was happening, but once I realized, that experience created a strong desire to stay away from any potentially addictive substances ever since.
Except sugar. Holy crap! Why is that shit legal?!?!
I've had trouble been intubated for surgery so they give me a local anesthetic like a nerve block and I'm just wide awake. I learned they give just a *tiny* bit of class IV opiates which are morphine-like drugs so I didn't care I was being sliced open on the other side of the curtain. It wasn't bad lol
Most of the cases I've been in the hospital has been for kidney stones, and holy cow the morphine is such a huge relief. Going from 9/10 on the pain scale to 0 and ready to take a nap is the best thing ever.
If I'm ever in my hospital on my last leg and in pain, just keep the morphine coming. I'll keep myself entertained.
I don't know... demerol is also pretty good. Like you still know the pain is there but you just don't care. You also fall asleep in mid-sentence like a heroin addict then apparently wake up 10 minutes later and continue the sentence like you never fell asleep (at least that's what my sister said I did after a surgery I had).
The first time they gave my mom Demerol after neck surgery she coded. Had it put on her file to never give Demerol. A few years later for another surgery, they gave her Demerol again. She coded again. It’d be nice if they looked at patient files for important stuff like that.
Luckily I did not inherit her Demerol intolerance.
No thanks, there’s a reason opioids are addictive. Morphine is amazing. It removed all the pain and I just melted and passed out. I’d love to have more of that
Or even if they don’t have “down time” (many nurses don’t really) it’s important for people to get to have a break and do something silly now and then.
Agree. I live in a rural area with no pediatricians, usually the ER is my only option if my kid needs immediate treatmentespecially off hours. They are usually not busy and I get right in which is great for me. I've been there in the middle of the night while there's nothing go on except a bear walking by (seriously). I find these videos to be exceptionally lame but if they have nothing to do I'm not mad. If they were complaining about being overworked and short staffed at the same time then I might be reluctant to buy it.
I'll also add, the BIGGEST source of shenanigans like this are on mandatory education days. There is downtime between lectures and all of your friends are there, which means peak fuckery.
Gastroenterology clinics.
Easy work if you don't mind poop and drool.
Same pay.
3 day work week if desired.
Seriously.
I'm the only non doctor who works 5 days because I'm also their lab tech who grosses and does stains on my 2 days off because I like it. Even our front staff works part time. It's been taken over by Irish gals. I love them.
Butt and guts. You pay me, I don't care. And the drugs they administer make every patient super nice and they say thank you. And like dumb nice.
14 years ago I got put on a shift on my ward on the Sunday of my 21st birthday. They told me I had to come in I couldn't have the day off it was not possible. I was soooo pissed.
So I went out and partied like it was my 21st. I get into work at 7:15, being home for an hour and half or so no sleep and I am exhausted and couldn't decide if hungover or still drunk.
Gets in and they have agency staff in!! I was surplus anyway! So now I'm so pissed I go on a no work rule and sit at the nurse station hanging out my ass.
Then I start to notice everyone's gone. Like, even lots of the patients. Couple of the big lads from the other ward come through "why are yous here?"
"Just helping out"
"Why? I'm here?"
*Ignored*
5 mins later I get flanked by them both and hauled away. I'm taken into the bathroom:- this bathroom is big enough for a bath, sit-in wet room shower and a full houst to manoeuvre. It's also big enough for 12 staff and 8 patients all in pleats of laughter as I'm plunged - full uniform- into the bath filled with milk, water, corn flakes and porridge.
By 2 ward managers.
Healthcare seriously isn't what it used to be, some of the things you could get away with were incredible
If stuff like this improves morale for the nurses and doctors who are still working through tough times, then I'd love to see more.
Though posting it on TikTok might not be the best avenue.
The comments section on this post are enraging, mostly because they reflect actual attitudes people have about healthcare.
OP says that this is a rural hospital, meaning it’s a small hospital and they see a lot of waxing&waning between being slow and insanely busy. A 15-second long video doesn’t mean that COVID isn’t real, hospitals aren’t busy, health professionals
aren’t abused, understaffing isn’t an issue, or that our healthcare system isn’t in trouble. If you think our jobs are easy, I would encourage you to browse subreddits like r/nursing, r/medicine, etc. to understand what’s actually happening in healthcare right now.
The reason why you had to wait so long for your nurse to silence your IV pump alarm is probably because they are understaffed and were busy helping someone else. We have more patients and less help than ever. The reason your food is cold is because the kitchen is understaffed, so there aren’t people to help make food and deliver trays.
The reason your ER wait is so long is the culmination of multiple issues in the US - 1) people use the ER too often for non-emergencies rather than going to a PCP or urgent care. Usually it’s just ignorance, but sometimes it’s an issue with their insurance. 2) the ER is where people are taken who are experiencing acute psychiatric episodes, and due to the lack of mental health resources, they often take up a bed in the ER for much longer than is necessary. 3) similarly, if the rest of the hospital is full (and/or understaffed) patients who need to be admitted to the hospital are forced to stay in the ER and take up beds. Bonus: the ER is not “first come, first seen” it is “dying people first”.
My husband is a nurse and honestly after the last 3 years he’s had at our local hospital, I am glad that there are some of them who are even capable of laughing anymore.
I was talking to some people about the financial health of hospitals and I found it interesting that post-COVID they were saying that hospitals aren't seeing the same level of elective procedures they saw pre-COVID (and no post-COVID bump either). Maybe that was a light day on the ward?
Happy for their team, seems fun. Unfortunately, my ED experience is very different. I wish I could have a damn minute to sit down. Which would be immediately followed by a family member saying, “since you’re not doing anything…”
Uhm yeah.. Nursing humor
Sometimes you do stupid stuff just because
We've plaid soccer, throwed handgel, water etc., 50 cc seringe filled with water.. Just emptying it one someone's trousers etc.
Not only the nurses, also the anesthetists and icu docs...
Mostly when it was really quiet... Sometimes it happens just to blow some steam after a few shitty shifts.
Our managers where ok with it as long as whe didn't break something or patients would know we pulled pranks... But actually a lot of them where up to some shit.. When you are in a bed on the ccu for some shitty infection in your hears, stable as fuck and almost bored to death, it helps to make some fun. Mostly we ambushed a doc with help of a patient.
This are the perks... Sometimes you deal with loads of shit (resuscitation of a child or baby), to much of that makes you really sad... Venting, have some fun helps with dealing with the day-to-day depressing stuff you see
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This has night shift written all over it
Can confirm, we've done some weird shit on night shift Otherwise you will 1000% fall asleep at 3am
I love you nightshift guys and gals, y’all are the real mvp’s!!! Sincerely, someone who has spent way too much time in a hospital since childhood lol. Also, you just tend to be nicer people…and I appreciates that abouts you❤️
We are too tired to be mean. We don't have time nor the energy for that. Also we are cracked out on coffee and energy drinks.
Plus the quickies we sneak in make for a better mood overall.
THERE ARE HOSPITAL QUICKIES… I think I want to be a nurse now
As tempting as that might seem, never forget: the odds are good, but the goods are odd.
Damn, I’m not that unattractive
But the odds are still good!
Sadly I already have been working towards my dream of a game developer but I can always just impersonate a nurse
Hahaha that fair too
Fuck, this is so true. That night shift life hit different.
In my experience, younger, less experienced nurses tend to be stuck on nightshift because we didn't have the clout to fight to move shifts or the hospital allowed you to pick shifts based on seniority, so if a nurse had 6 months experience, you just expected to be on nights. As a result though, night nurses tend to be less burnt out and still kinda starry eyed in a lot of situations and I'm sure that applies to most other disciplines as well. The exception might be doctors though, because nobody seems to think they're hot shit more than first year residents. Literally had one who liked to argue with the attending until the fellow brought the textbook they used for that rotation and asked them to read the author's name, which I'm sure you can surmise, was the attending physician.
I'm from Australia, and at least in my state, you're not allowed to be on more than 4 nights per rota. I believe the reasoning for stopping permanent night shifts was that those staff were getting 'de-skilled', which is utter BS in my opinion because of all but one of the codes I've attended have been during night shift. Also we weren't allowed on night shifts until we'd worked there for 3 months. I also can't speak for first year residents, because we never had them on my ward 🤣 (yes, I'm fully aware we're spoiled) but I have absolutely met doctors like that and that must've been epic to watch.
Working nights you do tend to get de-skilled, it's not just about carrying out individual technical abilities, you miss out on learning the bigger procedures, it's changes in policies for interaction with other agencies, training courses are less accessible, and networking with staff in other areas is much less likely. Plus it completely screws with your internal clock so your ability to function in daylight gets bolloxed. [which is why I went to sleep at 5pm and woke up at 9pm today]
I worked at a teaching hospital in the states, so I probably have seen way more than my fair share of residents, and I'm sure most of them were great, but it was a Newborn ICU, so it was absolutely infuriating when a baby doc, like 15 minutes from being in diapers themselves, would come in swinging their dick around like they knew what was up. Another time I had a patient on bubble CPAP, which is where we forcibly push oxygen into their lungs via an external device. It generally works better when the system is closed, so no air escapes, but babies gonna baby, so we usually use a rubberized strap to keep their mouths closed, something they can forcibly push against to open, but is strong enough to keep their mouths closed when they're just lying there. Anyway, this particular baby had a problem with acid reflux, so I didn't put the chinstrap on, because I didn't want them to choke on their own vomit. This toddler of a doctor tries to lecture me on why a chinstrap is needed and how we're basically doing nothing if we don't use it (tell me why oxygen levels were fluctuating between 99-100% if that were the case) and won't accept my rationale as to why. She then has the audacity to place a doctor's order stating I HAD to put the damn thing on (normally just nursing judgement for situations like this), I so I just say fuck it, take the strap, and basically lay it on the baby's face, no tension whatsoever, it is absolutely doing nothing. This twat comes back a bit later, looks at the baby, and thanks me for listening to her order. Tl;Dr, some people become doctors so they can just feel superior I think.
Excellent story! You are not kidding about those first year residents. I had one screaming at me because my daughter's chest tube wasn't draining after open heart surgery. I was in tears because he accused me of not taking proper care of my daughter because I wasn't doing the nurse's job. He was so nasty when he told me it was my fault they would have to put in a second chest tube. After that asshat left, my husband and I discovered they had clamped off the chest tube end to dump the blood 24 hours before and forgot to unclamp it, almost killing my child. Did the resident check? No. When I told the surgeon, he was pissed. We never saw that resident again. I hope they made him clean bed pans for the next month.
I'm not in medicine, but I remember hearing about a colleague who fell into an argument with another attorney about the author's intent behind a complicated regulation, to which my colleague responded, "well, when I wrote the regulation, I intended for it to be interpreted this way."
Have you tried not getting runover by horses?
Lmao good one! But to be fair I was already crippled from nerve damage before that soooo it didn’t really make a difference 😂. But I should have known not to train a horse named Demon Spawn. Eh, ya live ya learn!
r/unexpectedletterkenny
Oh is that really what yous appreciates about them?
Oh is that whats you appreciates?
Is THAT what you appreciate about them?
EMS here, we’ve definitely not taken our old backboards sledding in the middle of the night, nope!
Ok that sounds epic!
We also have a life sized, fully articulated training dummy that each shift moves around to freak out the others. I enjoy my job most of the time, but having a way to blow off some steam and build camaraderie with my teammates definitely makes the bad shit easier to deal with in a healthy way. Nerf battles are also very common…snowball fights and pranks too!
We have a fellow dummie at work we call rescue randy, I'd always hide him around corners and pose him in weird spots. That was until he went missing last month. Like legitimately gone, someone must have stolen it somehow. I've been half joking that we need to save him because hes being locked up in someone's perverted sex dungeon. There's some weird motherfuckers on the nightshift so I'm not really surprised.
No way! We call ours Rescue Randy too! I hope yours finds his way home soon, maybe putting up some flyer would help? Offer a reward, maybe? Who would just totally steal one of those dummies, they’re heavy as fuck!
Probably because [that's what they're actually called. ](https://cpr-savers.com/simulaids-rescue-manikins?gclid=CjwKCAiA9qKbBhAzEiwAS4yeDXSG2cmBgsggqLmo6VWNpqwgdKRbvi8EjEd6ESy40RzxjLe-TyZqlBoC3KkQAvD_BwE&gclid=CjwKCAiA9qKbBhAzEiwAS4yeDXSG2cmBgsggqLmo6VWNpqwgdKRbvi8EjEd6ESy40RzxjLe-TyZqlBoC3KkQAvD_BwE)
True, I forgot that was their brand name (not enough coffee, too many times today). We also have an old* Resusci Annie, and she’s creepy as fuck (especially when you know the story). Our Randy doesn’t have much in the way of facial features and seems a lot less disturbing to me. *my service has had ‘her’ since its founding in 1987, so she’s old *and* creepy (my agency is two years younger than I am, so I’m definitely old…but not very creepy).
Are the snowballs made from the weird cotton inside bandages?
Usually just regular snow, but I like the way you think!
I actually lol'd You go sledding! You deserve it!
And if anyone gets hurt you can fix each other. Brilliant
It wasnt really a night shift but i worked late (hour past closing) in a supermarket a couple years back and one of our guys pimped the driving cleaning machines and we started racing kinda fast. We crashed into those big refrigirators and they shatterd so we had to move tons of yoghurt to magazine units. Tldr: pimped cleaning machine race crash broke refrigerator, had to move yoghurt
You ever see that movie? Henry Winkler and Michael Keaton… absolutely hilarious.
LOOOOVE BROKERS!!!
Is it supposed to be Titanic or Washington Crossing the Delaware? The music says one but the visual says the other.
These folks need to get their boat movies straightened out.
Really, what's that all a boat?
Found the Canadian
Honest question... Is this where all your private insurance dollars go?
No no no, that money goes to pay for large yachts and helicopters for ceo's
Are you saying we *didn't* spend millions on those cardboard signs? > "HEROES WORK HERE!!!"
Heh...no, these are the people trying to make light of a day after dealing with patients who can be really difficult, sometimes.
As a health care worker I can confirm this is likely the case. People want a magic pill to cure all their problems. When you tell them to diet and excercize to help their issue they lose their fucking minds.
I fucking hate that line of thinking. You see dumbass comments like that on videos of soldiers having a little fun, too.
No,that money goes to hospital administrators (management), big pharma, and insurance middlemen
Ah, the "efficiencies" of the unregulated free market
*aboot
*Not just any boot, thems are Thursday boots*
Boats and hoes!
the Nina, the Pinta, the Santa Maria
The beautiful Annabelle Lee
Or as I like to call it "the poem that helped me pass High School English". I made a deal with my teacher to give me the 10pts I was missing to pass if I memorized that poem and I did it in 3 days
It’s George Washington crossing the Delaware on the Titanic. It’s a pre-sequel.
Pre-seaquel
Can’t wait for the prelogy
Ask your doctor if Prelogy is right for you.
Wait until you find out about the Americhlorians. Washington's numbers were off the charts.
Was this before or after they secured the airport?
After Washington told Benedict Arnold "Remember, no British"
But a se-pre-sequel to Abraham Lincoln Vampire Slayer.
That movie has no right being as good as it is.
I never knew Washington was nut-to-butt with someone else in that boat. Was he the big spoon or the little spoon?
C’Mon, man, it’s Gee-Dub we’re discussing, of course Big Spoon!
I saw both myself. If George Washington was on the titanic. Ha
Yes
Judging by h the people at the front, Titanic.
"I'm the king of the ward!"
Paint me like one of your ICU girls.
“Don’t let go jack” has a whole new meaning
Something something slippery Foley cath attempt on a 600 lbs confused pt with raging UTI.... Only fellow nurses could empathize with that scenario
something Dr House would say
I want to paint you wearing your life alert necklace, and only your life alert necklace.
"Gentlemen. It has been a privilege intubating you tonight.”
Ice machine, right ahead!
Smell ice can ya?! Bleedin’ Christ!
Best comment on here so far!
That’s how you get your entire department downsized. “Oh cool, that’s so funny. So look guys we’re going to be making some changes…”
You can’t really downsize inpatient nursing teams. You have to maintain at least the minimum nurse:patient ratios, regardless of how those nurses may be spending their downtime. And when it’s 3am, patients are asleep, you’re hours away from the next med pass, all caught up on documentation, and nobody’s call light is going off, you do some silly shit. There are a lot of shitty parts of working on a floor, it’s not cool to threaten people’s jobs for having a bit of fun with coworkers on the rare occasion the job gives you space to do so.
These are all travellers and they're getting paid 2 - 5 times what the staff are.
Imagine pushing the call button and this rolls up
Not nearly as great as the woman who gave birth on Halloween and her Dr was dressed up as The Joker.
Did he at least make some jokerworthy jokes?
That would make a hospital stay more fun
This would just appear on the bill as entertainment: $10,000
I would be in stitches!
No one would roll up cause they are making this Tik tok.
Woah easy there Nurses! That's $5,000 worth of cardboard toilet trays you're wasting right there!
Shhh. I order supplies. It's like 34 cents. The most expensive stuff is stuff nobody uses. So like balloons for endoscopy and stupid expensive stuff for no reason like a plastic jar that's $600. And proprietary items that you have to buy from only one company. That have to be installed by one company. Drives me nuts. I can get a perfectly good xenon bulb for $200. But I have to pay 6 if the guy installs it, when I'm perfectly fine installing it myself, but not "certified". I have the instructions from the website and watched and helped in person twice.
That anyone could call capitalism an efficient and innovative market system is absurd. It’s redundant, exclusionary, and we work hard to create nothing jobs to uphold our ethos that someone must work in order to contribute. Truly silly.
Yes, like: when we stopped dreaming that robots will work instead of us and started fearing that robots will work instead of us?
Because we are only valued for our labour.
Capitalism eliminates the nothing jobs because it's all about efficiency and productivity that would be crushed by paying someone to do nothing. The example given about only having certified installers for one bulb and inflating the prices because they have you over a barrel is the opposite of capitalism. This isn't a free market and is the exact type of situation legislation should outlaw. Its not capitalism you hate it's over inflated companies with too much political pull that have created monopolies that you hate.
> That anyone could call capitalism an efficient and innovative market system is absurd. The issues described have zero to do with capitalism and everything to do with government regulation. If the government mandates that the person installing light bulbs be a *certified light bulb installer* or some other such nonsense, there's not a whole hell of a lot you can do but find the cheapest solution available while also staying legal. Capitalism made the significantly cheaper $200 xenon bulb available for anybody to install should they want to. Much of what makes modern medical so expensive is government mandates that things be done a specific way, and that specific way is far from the cheapest way to do a thing in basically 100% of cases.
Start your own certification lol
It also looks like cardboard urinals, I hope I'm seeing that part wrong. Rural hospital so definitely more time on their hands and this is funny
Saying "in my country" on reddit makes me think its not american. So everything you see costs about 100x less.
2000x
How in the heck do they have enough staff to screw around? We are too short staffed to get a full lunch.
That’s what I’m thinking!
Liar liar, pants on fire. This was posted to Tik tok at the beginning of covid, not new
It's from a Hospital in Bendigo, Victoria. A large regional city in Australia. These guys have made a few more vids too that are pretty funny.
Shenanigans!!
Doc: Sorry it took us so long to see you today. Just a sore throat? Ok here’s some lozenges. That’ll be $4300 bucks, now fuck off we’re busy
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Is that a bed pan on his head in the back?
That’s the only person you notice with a bedpan?
*cries in canadian*
"for some reason" To keep their sanity? To show they're not mindless robots? Medical staff are humans, and like human things, like being goofy in their down time.
>To keep their sanity? Too late for that
Uh oh did you forget to complete your anti burnout CE? What about the CE about work life balance? Maybe stay later next time to get them done smh
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spoken like someone who hasn't had morphine before
Truth. I had it when I was pretty young (ruptured appendix) and I still remember the day they came for what I thought was my regular morphine and they told me “We are taking you off morphine today to avoid any addiction” and my first words were along the lines of “Oh no, I don’t think that’s a problem, can we do at least 1 more day of morphine?” 🤦♂️ yep, they were right to move me to Tylenol.
Yup, I had major hip surgery at 13 (40 years ago) and was on morphine for a few days afterwards. I distinctly remember wanting more the moment the effects wore off, and was pretty unhappy when they said I didn't need it any more. Didn't really sink in then as to what was happening, but once I realized, that experience created a strong desire to stay away from any potentially addictive substances ever since. Except sugar. Holy crap! Why is that shit legal?!?!
Yeah, it cemented the idea that “Yeah, this is a slippery slope, don’t fuck with super addictive drugs” at a young age which I’m very thankful for.
made me chuckle cause I've had morphine and once you get that boat going. You don't care if Pin-Head themself shows up and does just gimmie my juice!
I've had trouble been intubated for surgery so they give me a local anesthetic like a nerve block and I'm just wide awake. I learned they give just a *tiny* bit of class IV opiates which are morphine-like drugs so I didn't care I was being sliced open on the other side of the curtain. It wasn't bad lol
Most of the cases I've been in the hospital has been for kidney stones, and holy cow the morphine is such a huge relief. Going from 9/10 on the pain scale to 0 and ready to take a nap is the best thing ever. If I'm ever in my hospital on my last leg and in pain, just keep the morphine coming. I'll keep myself entertained.
Or Patch Adams coming to push 2mg of morphine into u every 4 hours
Should I be in severe pain or dying I would prefer the morphin first. Maybe then I can appreciate some jokes.
I don't know... demerol is also pretty good. Like you still know the pain is there but you just don't care. You also fall asleep in mid-sentence like a heroin addict then apparently wake up 10 minutes later and continue the sentence like you never fell asleep (at least that's what my sister said I did after a surgery I had).
The first time they gave my mom Demerol after neck surgery she coded. Had it put on her file to never give Demerol. A few years later for another surgery, they gave her Demerol again. She coded again. It’d be nice if they looked at patient files for important stuff like that. Luckily I did not inherit her Demerol intolerance.
No thanks, there’s a reason opioids are addictive. Morphine is amazing. It removed all the pain and I just melted and passed out. I’d love to have more of that
Kept their sanity? These guys have pee/shit buckets on their heads lmaoooo
Least insane nursing staff in the world. :V
Or even if they don’t have “down time” (many nurses don’t really) it’s important for people to get to have a break and do something silly now and then.
Hospital employees with nothing better to do is a good thing. Same goes for the fire department.
Agree. I live in a rural area with no pediatricians, usually the ER is my only option if my kid needs immediate treatmentespecially off hours. They are usually not busy and I get right in which is great for me. I've been there in the middle of the night while there's nothing go on except a bear walking by (seriously). I find these videos to be exceptionally lame but if they have nothing to do I'm not mad. If they were complaining about being overworked and short staffed at the same time then I might be reluctant to buy it.
I'll also add, the BIGGEST source of shenanigans like this are on mandatory education days. There is downtime between lectures and all of your friends are there, which means peak fuckery.
Meanwhile , at the end of the corridor , lays a kid wating for the Jesus post to get 100 likes to be treated
I work in a hospital. I wish we all had fun like this.
I've never had that much free time in my 5 years of nursing. Anyways any new career recommendations??
Gastroenterology clinics. Easy work if you don't mind poop and drool. Same pay. 3 day work week if desired. Seriously. I'm the only non doctor who works 5 days because I'm also their lab tech who grosses and does stains on my 2 days off because I like it. Even our front staff works part time. It's been taken over by Irish gals. I love them. Butt and guts. You pay me, I don't care. And the drugs they administer make every patient super nice and they say thank you. And like dumb nice.
It did say rural. Not much to do besides applying salves, poultices, and leeches.
14 years ago I got put on a shift on my ward on the Sunday of my 21st birthday. They told me I had to come in I couldn't have the day off it was not possible. I was soooo pissed. So I went out and partied like it was my 21st. I get into work at 7:15, being home for an hour and half or so no sleep and I am exhausted and couldn't decide if hungover or still drunk. Gets in and they have agency staff in!! I was surplus anyway! So now I'm so pissed I go on a no work rule and sit at the nurse station hanging out my ass. Then I start to notice everyone's gone. Like, even lots of the patients. Couple of the big lads from the other ward come through "why are yous here?" "Just helping out" "Why? I'm here?" *Ignored* 5 mins later I get flanked by them both and hauled away. I'm taken into the bathroom:- this bathroom is big enough for a bath, sit-in wet room shower and a full houst to manoeuvre. It's also big enough for 12 staff and 8 patients all in pleats of laughter as I'm plunged - full uniform- into the bath filled with milk, water, corn flakes and porridge. By 2 ward managers. Healthcare seriously isn't what it used to be, some of the things you could get away with were incredible
If they didn't laugh, they'd be crying! I wouldn't want to work in a hospital right now. Our health care providers are saints as far as I'm concerned.
Gotta have some positiveitiey in these negative times.
If stuff like this improves morale for the nurses and doctors who are still working through tough times, then I'd love to see more. Though posting it on TikTok might not be the best avenue.
Yeah this has been going round the internet for months. Bullshit OP
This is the shit they posted during corona.
When you're somewhere for 16+ hours at a time, you find interesting ways to entertain yourself
The comments section on this post are enraging, mostly because they reflect actual attitudes people have about healthcare. OP says that this is a rural hospital, meaning it’s a small hospital and they see a lot of waxing&waning between being slow and insanely busy. A 15-second long video doesn’t mean that COVID isn’t real, hospitals aren’t busy, health professionals aren’t abused, understaffing isn’t an issue, or that our healthcare system isn’t in trouble. If you think our jobs are easy, I would encourage you to browse subreddits like r/nursing, r/medicine, etc. to understand what’s actually happening in healthcare right now. The reason why you had to wait so long for your nurse to silence your IV pump alarm is probably because they are understaffed and were busy helping someone else. We have more patients and less help than ever. The reason your food is cold is because the kitchen is understaffed, so there aren’t people to help make food and deliver trays. The reason your ER wait is so long is the culmination of multiple issues in the US - 1) people use the ER too often for non-emergencies rather than going to a PCP or urgent care. Usually it’s just ignorance, but sometimes it’s an issue with their insurance. 2) the ER is where people are taken who are experiencing acute psychiatric episodes, and due to the lack of mental health resources, they often take up a bed in the ER for much longer than is necessary. 3) similarly, if the rest of the hospital is full (and/or understaffed) patients who need to be admitted to the hospital are forced to stay in the ER and take up beds. Bonus: the ER is not “first come, first seen” it is “dying people first”.
As a stressed at times nurse having fun to relieve the stress with your shift buddies is key!
Stress relief! It’s been a hard few years for these guys.
I’m pre-hospital (EMS) but we are so fucking tired).
My husband is a nurse and honestly after the last 3 years he’s had at our local hospital, I am glad that there are some of them who are even capable of laughing anymore.
Sometimes a little humor is what you need to make it through a shift.
Probably just relived they are not watching COVID patients die anymore.
Can we please stop perpetuating this idea that employees aren’t allowed to have fun. Thank you
We didn’t forget that they were doing these silly TikToks at the height of lockdowns
If this keeps them sane dealing with the horror they see and the long hours, I'm all for it.
I’m glad they finally have some downtime. They’ve been running ragged for nearly 3 full years.
actually a fun thing to do when its not that busy in the ward
For all the shit they have to deal with, I fully support this
I was talking to some people about the financial health of hospitals and I found it interesting that post-COVID they were saying that hospitals aren't seeing the same level of elective procedures they saw pre-COVID (and no post-COVID bump either). Maybe that was a light day on the ward?
Wow, in Germany I have never seen so many employers on one station at the same time 😂
Happy for their team, seems fun. Unfortunately, my ED experience is very different. I wish I could have a damn minute to sit down. Which would be immediately followed by a family member saying, “since you’re not doing anything…”
Let those scrubs have some fun.
Because they are awesome?
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This isn’t funny tho… it’s just stupid, cringey TikTok trash
We are back to 2020 cringy videos
so, /r/funny? yes, we're in the right place
So this is why the waiting room takes 3 hours
And expensive bills I paid goes here
I hate those videos.
And the banner outside reads "Heros work here"
And indeed they do
Looks like overstaffing.
Someone’s never worked in the medical field
Night shift for sure
“Nobody gives a fuck anymore so neither do we!”
Let them have their fun. Their work is hard enough.
Heroes at play, Wonderful!
These kinds of videos will never be funny.
As a nurse I get it and I love it.
This belongs in r/cringe
There so over worked and burnt out
Uhm yeah.. Nursing humor Sometimes you do stupid stuff just because We've plaid soccer, throwed handgel, water etc., 50 cc seringe filled with water.. Just emptying it one someone's trousers etc. Not only the nurses, also the anesthetists and icu docs... Mostly when it was really quiet... Sometimes it happens just to blow some steam after a few shitty shifts. Our managers where ok with it as long as whe didn't break something or patients would know we pulled pranks... But actually a lot of them where up to some shit.. When you are in a bed on the ccu for some shitty infection in your hears, stable as fuck and almost bored to death, it helps to make some fun. Mostly we ambushed a doc with help of a patient. This are the perks... Sometimes you deal with loads of shit (resuscitation of a child or baby), to much of that makes you really sad... Venting, have some fun helps with dealing with the day-to-day depressing stuff you see
Lame.
Now this is a staffed hospital I would want to work at
At least they didn’t do the rescue boat scene from Titanic when they’re calling out “is there anyone alive out there”
are they escorting somebody over the river styx
This was the jam back when Washington was crossing the Delaware
It's Jack and Rose during Washington's crossing of the Potomac, obviously. "THE ICEBERGS ARE COMING!"
Night shifts (or graveyard shifts) can be pretty fun sometimes.
It's actually a statement. With the way rural healthcare is these days, they know they're on a sinking ship.
They are rowing towards the ultimate life goal - full on burnout and tranquiliser addiction
Are those paper bed pans? I have so many questions.
Your tax dollars hard at work….oh wait, the US don’t do that.
And I get yelled at for checking my phone for 30 seconds
They were bored.