#nursetok

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gentle bedside manner: straight ahead. asking the patient if they’ve taken anything in the last 24 hours including things they’re not supposed to: hard right. the car knows. the car has been on shift since 6am and has seen things. the car is not going straight. “i have to ask weird stuff or you’ll die.” printed under a frog nurse in a nurse cap, holding an RN mug, completely at peace with the trajectory they’ve chosen. this is the shirt for the nurse who has asked a patient the most clinically necessary question that, out of context, sounds absolutely unhinged. who has delivered information with a straight face that would make a civilian faint. who has dark-humored their way through 12-hour shifts and would do it again. 100% ring-spun cotton. lightweight and breathable. 10 colors. ice grey is the one in the meme and it looks exactly right. sizes XS through 5XL. [shop link: teninoventures.etsy.com ]

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I just can’t help it! I love my job😊

So I have some thoughts on NurseTok and healthcare workers getting fired for posting on social media. Rant incoming: you’ve been warned. Let me give a disclaimer: this is not saying all nurses are bad and if you are a nurse who truly cares, I commend you. Truly. I have had many fantastic nurses and doctors in my time who I owe a lot to. This is about the people who are not that. I was a CNA for about 6 years in geriatric care/nursing homes. The reason I left was not the patients I took care of, it was the work environment. I worked with some wonderful people in my time, but I also worked with people who I would never trust with other people’s care. The mean-girl-to-nurse pipeline is very true. I don’t know why. I don’t know if it’s because being a nurse gives you power over people and that’s something these people want? But it’s bad. I’m not a perfect person, but I ended up taking on more patients because some of our residents refused to let certain people help them because they were so bad. One time, I was working in a place where we had a woman who was 103 years old. This woman was amazing and I loved her. She was always telling me about how she was a school teacher and she fought for voting rights for women. Despite being her age, she showered, dressed, and fed herself. The only thing she needed help with was her medication. But one person I worked with hated her because she didn’t want to listen to her talk. One night, I was off, and I went back the next day. This resident held my hands and said “oh thank God you’re back!” I found out the other person I worked with didn’t let her see her pills before she shoved them in her mouth and then she walked away before she swallowed them (a huuuuuuuge problem for anyone giving medication). I tried to talk to my boss she didn’t care. This girl was sometime who showed up to work so she was fine. That is, until she had so many written complaints about her that my boss could no longer ignore it. That being said, this was before social media was such a big thing. I fully believe most of the people I worked with would have been posting things on TikTok if I was working there this year. I’m not surprised people are breaking privacy laws and posting wholly inappropriate things. People already have a mistrust of doctors and nurses and this does not help. I had to fight for around a decade to get my endometriosis diagnosis and some of the nurses along the way were so bad. Including someone being rude to me and asking why I was in the hospital when I had to be taken there by an ambulance because I had a cyst rupture. It would have been absolutely humiliating if that woman had posted about it on TikTok and complained about me. I had an obgyn who got so upset because I said I had a fibroid cyst rupture years ago, and she was more concerned with making sure I knew it was either a fibroid or a busy, but fibroid cysts don’t exist. Then she tried to insert an IUD and my body rejected it and I almost faceplanted on the floor. She rolled her eyes when I asked her to remove it. I could have had a stroke because of the Nuvaring. I was told Depo doesn’t cause migraines, even though over 10% of women who use it have an increase in migraines. So I get the mistrust. For the nurses who do this online: is it clout? Is it the fact that a lot of people need supplemental income and they think this is the easiest way? The recordings are bad and every time I think I’ve seen the worst one, another one pops up. These people are going through school and then fucking it all up for TikTok, and sowing further mistrust in the medical system as a whole. And all this does is push people further into pseudoscience and alternative health. Sure, those people get fired, but how far does it need to go? I know this was a long and possibly incoherent rant (currently have a migraine 🙃), but feel free to share your thoughts or stories here too.

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so….people should know that health care providers sharing anonymized patient stories is not a HIPAA violation. it follows the same reasoning of how a professor at a medical school can give real life examples of cases to students to solve/diagnose (with names and DOBs removed) without committing a HIPAA violation. the difference of course is that the first example is used to mock and generate clout, and the second is a legitimate teaching aide. what you can and should do is let the workplaces of these people know that you find their attitudes toward their patients deeply troubling. it makes you, as a potential patient, uncomfortable receiving care from that provider. if you can solidly identify the nurse/doctor and if people who live within that area are willing to submit complaints, it can make much more of an impact. ESPECIALLY if they work in emergency care, ask this question: “is there any way I can ensure that, if I am incapacitated and brought to the ER at your location, that I will not be placed under the care of this practitioner? I do not consent to having my medical story featured on the internet.” that will at the very minimum result in a meeting with HR and fingers crossed, the deletion of their social media account. if their attitude has been especially bad in the videos (i.e. demonstrates a lack of compassion or care) then admin may have reason to take it further. you will not be able to sue or get money out of it, but if enough people complain then they will have to stop.

listen. the frog nurse is doing important work and the important work is asking you a series of increasingly unhinged questions while maintaining direct eye contact “any chance you could be pregnant” sir you are 74 “have you had anything to drink today” [you, a liar] no “what’s your pain on a scale of 1 to 10” it’s a 10 i’m fine though and the frog just stands there in her little vintage cap holding her coffee like. i have to ask weird stuff or you will die. and she’s RIGHT. anyway it’s on a shirt now. orange or black. unisex. soft. for the nurses, the nursing students, the chronically-triaged, and the frog enjoyers in the back (search nurse dark humor at TeninoVentures )