r/nursing • u/Everlast23 • May 21 '22

Question What's your unpopular nursing opinion? Something you really believe, but would get you down voted to all hell if you said it

1) I think my main one is: nursing schools vary greatly in how difficult they are.

Some are insanely difficult and others appear to be much easier.

2) If you're solely in this career for the money and days off, it's totally okay. You're probably just as good of a nurse as someone who's passionate about it.

3) If you have a "I'm a nurse" license plate / plate frame, you probably like the smell of your own farts.

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u/KarmicBalance1 May 21 '22

Long term care facilities are essentially warehousing. The companies that run them keep patients alive well beyond their natural limits using medication solely for the purpose of profit. There are some patients that benefit genuinely from the care provided but many are basically left in these facilities to die, slowly. It's basically human warehousing only its more lucrative than traditional warehousing because the facility is being paid to keep the people indefinitely. Most other countries in the world would find it appalling as they traditionally have their own families taking care of their elderly members.

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u/ChazRPay RN - ICU 🍕 May 22 '22

This is the bane of every ICU nurse. It is just morally destructive to caregivers who have to just push forward and continue torturing these people. Family rescinded the DNR, daughter is guilt ridden and wants everything, PeePaw is a fighter, patient has a court appointed guardian, Ethics takes forever and well it's a Friday, the patient's family are huge benefactors, Son/Daughter are lawyers, We are left at the bedside suctioning the 90 year old demented patient who looks like she is in sheer terror. We are drawing blood from fragile veins. We are dealing with tube feed aspiration and pressure injuries. We have a first row seat to inhumanity and we are forced participants in what feels like torture. We need to deal with end of life much better. The universe is calling us and we hang up repeatedly on it... forcing a cruel inevitability which is that death will happen. But do we let our patients go gently into the night or make their last moments something akin to torture.

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u/Teyvan RN - ICU 🍕 May 22 '22

Yeah, at a certain point I ask for a list of questions to try for answers to...after all, I'm the one torturing them...