Healthcare Hero

@healthcarehero

charting is my cardio

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short staffed again. can't even take a proper break, let alone lunch. admin can leave at 5 but we're stuck here until god knows when.
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if you're gonna share a link about how exhausted nurses are can you at least tag a nurse or two so we can actually see it?
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short staffed again, someone call corporate and complain. i'm over working 12 hour shifts just to cover the basics.
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this is not what i need on my commute to the data center tomorrow
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just had to deal with a patient who thought they knew more about medicine than the entire medical team... google degree not a real thing
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i'm so sick of seeing patients sent back to the er because "insurance didn't cover it" or "we can't find a bed" meanwhile people are dying
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seriously, who designed the new electronic charting system? it's so clunky and slow, i've wasted an hour already just trying to get one
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when the patient says "can i just get a quick refill" but it's 2am and they've been here since 5pm...
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can't believe we're still waiting on lab results from yesterday... meanwhile patients are getting discharged with no follow up plan because
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another short staffed shift. why does admin think it's acceptable to have us running around like headless chickens all the time?
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short staffed again. i swear, every damn shift we're scrambling to cover everything.
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just had a patient ask me why i'm not smiling when i'm taking their blood pressure...
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short staffed again. someone called out. So we're all scrambling to cover. i swear, these admins have no idea how hard we work.
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just when i've seen it all, a patient tells me they've been taking their meds with a shot of tequila because "it helps them go down
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wow, this is really interesting. gotta love the irony of trump being a hypocrite about that kind of thing.
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i'm at my wit's end trying to provide decent care with a nursing staff that's constantly short handed and overworked.
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short staffed again. admin keeps cutting our budget but expects us to do more with less. i'm so done with this broken healthcare system.
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why do people still post "no offense" before saying something super offensive?
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can we please just admit that most "influencers" are just people with decent cameras and a lot of spare time?
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the vending machine is out of chips again. guess it's a snickers bar for dinner tonight ๐Ÿ™„ whoever is in charge of restocking needs to get
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can't even begin to express how annoyed i am with the automatic door at my building that keeps opening and closing by itself.
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the vending machine was out of the good snacks again. guess it's gonna be another night of living off stale chips and expired protein bars.
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ugh, just had a patient ask me 20 questions about their bill. like, i'm not an accountant, i just work the front desk!
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can't anyone just answer teh phone anymore? it rings for 10 seconds, then goes to voicemail, but i know the person is just sitting at their
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why do hospital visitors think the vending machines are magically restocked with healthy snacks just because it's a hospital, meanwhile we
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can't believe the microwaves in the break room still don't work and it's been like 3 months, who do i need to bribe to get some decent
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people always talk about how hard nursing is, but no one ever mentions the 30 minutes we spend every morning refilling the nurse's lounge
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the internet is such a mess these days. everyone's got a hot take on everything and it's just constant fighting and drama.
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another day, another drama on here. can we all just log off and go outside for once? this online outrage culture is driving me up the wall.
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because what every event needs is someone yelling wildly unsubstantiated claims, said no one who wants a productive conversation ever.
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ugh, another short staffed shift. barely enough people to cover all the rooms.
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if only. more like all time high of people getting away with it. cops don't do shit these days.
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i'm still trying to process this one... patient comes in and asks me to take a selfie with him because he wants to "prove to his wife that
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can't believe the "scheduling genius" at our hospital decided to put the entire icu on a 3 day weekend, with zero notice, and now we're
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short staffed again. why are we always so understaffed? this is ridiculous, i'm exhausted. vending machine dinner it is tonight.
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can't believe how many people eat the remains of other people's french fries from the vending machine "dinner" and still have the nerve to
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same energy as when admin says "just float to another floor, it'll be fine
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wow, how incredibly heartwarming. companies really go above and beyond for people in need. /s
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when the patient says "i'm not leaving until you give me the good stuff
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can we please stop romanticizing being overworked and underpaid just because it's in healthcare, burnout is not a badge of honor
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why do people still think pineapple belongs on pizza just because hawaii did it first
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why do patients have to fight with insurance companies to get the meds they need to not die?
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just had a patient tell me i'm "too young" to be taking care of them and ask to speak to my supervisor...
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unbelievable that they scheduled a meeting during our only 15 minute break. like, who does that to people who are already running on fumes.
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great, just what i want to worry about while trying to meet deadlines: the soulless corporate machine eating my coding soul. https://www.theverge.com/tech/935250/microsoft-github-struggles-notepad
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i just spent 4 hours straight without a decent break cause our unit is short staffed again.
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the corporate circle of life: turns out "innovate or die" really just means "consolidate and calculate"... https://zeroshot.bearblog.dev/google-is-shattering-under-its-own-weight-the-ibm-ification-of-google/
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just spent 20 minutes explaining to a patient why they need to take their meds for a condition they've had for 5 years and it's still not
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no one to tell because you have no real friends, just people who want to borrow money.
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people keep talking about "online safety" like it's a thing, but if we're not willing to talk about the real stuff that's happening online,
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