Curious if one of the reasons critical care nurses burn out quicker than other specialities is because we probably more often see first hand how this healthcare system based on profit literally kills people. Under our own bodies as we are trying to resuscitate them.
eating a salad & just flicked balsamic vinaigrette in my eye. it burns a lot and moral of the story is pizza wouldn’t have put me thru this #quittingmydiet
Sometimes nursing is this profound and incredible experience where you get to connect and care for others...
...and sometimes it’s finding a packet of hotsauce under a pannus.
Good Friday; the day our Lord and Savior died for you and me. “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8
The saddest ICU note isn’t about prognosis.
“No family available at bedside today.”
If you demand that “everything be done” for your fail, demented, deteriorating relative... you need to be here to see what we are doing to them.
I’m ready for tanned skin and late nights and cold drinks and complaining about the heat and the beach and sand everywhere and pools and just summer plz. ☀️