"A nurse whose first job was at a Fort Worth hospital owned by HCA Healthcare, one of the biggest for-profit health care systems in the US, told me a supervisor suggested she learn procedures on YouTube." #Nurse #Nursing #NursesOfMastodon

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/08/nurse-debt-trap-training-repayment-agreement/

So this is one of the reasons I'm a burnt out nurse. We don't want labels and endless hollow gratitude, just to be respected for the professionalism.

After 5 years of study to become an ICU nurse and ten years working on the frontline there comes a point where the combination of repressed trauma, platitudes and anti-science nuts causes you to break.

It's been over 12 months since my PTSD diagnosis, things are improving but I can't step foot in a ward. I'm done and never going back. I just can't.

Change the narrative. Nursing is not a "calling" with religious overtones, it's a profession.

#nursing #trauma #ptsd #ICU #nursesofmastodon #mentalhealth #psychological

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-10/nurses-want-better-conditions-not-hero-labels-study-finds/101748056

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#NursesStrike
#NursesOfMastodon

In most of my current projects I am working with nurses on health equity issues. Can we start a roll call of #nursesofmastodon ?