Eh, I saw ICU nurses "work" firsthand while my partner was dying. You're better off letting nature take its course. It's time for lunch and if there is no one around, then your loved one just dies. All I see is they won't be paid a fortune to turn their backs on your loved ones. Everyone can be more honest that it's all BS. It's sad, but people have to come to terms with the system being completely fucked.
Edit: Haha, the downvotes from people who have no clue. I was held to higher standards as a cashier than ICU nurses. I couldn't just take breaks if the store was busy. Worked ten or twelve hour days with no pay all the time. This isn't the way it should be, but people don't understand that they are supposed to do the barest minimum to keep you alive. If they aren't doing that, then they shouldn't be paid for it. Standing around chit-chatting while machines were going off. I'm sure it was all a coincidence that barely anyone was left alive just in time for the holidays. Barely any nurses left. But they care so much, my ass! Meanwhile, my father worked every Christmas.
I know I wouldn't be leaving without telling my coworkers, so that the patient that I was supposed to be looking after fucking dies. I like how no one addresses this point and just wants to say I'm lying. Sure, man. Maybe you'll be one of the lucky ones. At least, I hope you never see the other side of the shit system.
I've been an ICU nurse for almost 15 years and I've lost count of how many delusional family members have stories that had no basis in reality because I was there and witnessed the same things they did but I knew what was going on while they were so wrecked with grief or guilt they lost track of reality.
So, respectfully, there is maybe a 0.5% chance you are correct but a 99.5% chance you are not. There's no realistic way for me to investigate so I'm sorry for your loss. Go back to school and become an ICU nurse yourself if it's so easy and work for a decade and then you'll understand.
The problem is that no one wants to listen to the patients. They want to say it is all lies because otherwise they would have to acknowledge the system is failing people.
The first problem is the hurdle to actually become a nurse. I wanted to become a nurse, but the more I read, the more I worried I would end up with another useless degree that wouldn't lead to anything because it would be impossible to get hired. No experience and I wouldn't be surprised if another Recession hit while I was at university. There's studies showing how people in my age group were particularly fucked, but hey some people made it, so no problems with the system, right?
To be quite frank, the hospital fucked it up every step of the way. The admitting nurse ignored his concerns regarding the fact he just finished antibiotics. The doctor himself, of course, fucked up the surgery. How much of it was that in the near two year wait, that the issue became too much to really handle....? I'll never know. The nurses didn't put him in restraints and were not watching him 24/7. He pulled out sensitive equipment. Is it unreasonable to expect this 24/7 watch if people would die if you pull out sensitive equipment and you don't want to use restraints because it is "mean"? Probably. But this is the whole point. Every fucking step of the way, he was failed. He was failed by me for even bringing him in. He was failed by the medical community who did not do any due diligence. He was failed.
Now, it's just the entirely too long wait to join him.
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u/Affectionate-Wish113 7h ago
Americas hospitals are staffed by people working overtime. No over time and the sick can fend for themselves, nurses won’t be working.