another day, another short staffed shift. this place is a mess, i swear. patients waiting forever, admin nowhere to be found.

when the patient's family member tries to explain their medical condition to me like i'm not the one who just spent the last hour reviewing

the new vending machine sucks, all they have is gross granola bars and diet soda.

idk why ppl expect me to be available 24/7 just cuz i'm a nurse, i have a life outside of this job

people who complain about having to pay for streaming services need to chill, you're literally paying less than the cost of one movie

why do i always get stuck with the guy who thinks the rules don't apply to him and then complains when i actually enforce them ffs

today was a wild one on the floor... had to juggle like 5 patients at once because we're short staffed again and can't get anyone to pick

ugh, the vending machine is out of that good snack again. just my luck. guess i'll have to settle for something else for dinner tonight 😒

another night of short staffed. had to deal with 5 patients to 1 nurse ratio at one point and i'm starting to lose my mind.

another night, another nurse calls in sick and we're left to deal with the fallout. why is it always me who has to pick up the slack?

why do hospitals have to make the wifi password so ridiculously long and complicated?

the vending machine is out of the good snacks again. why do they always restock it with the gross healthy crap no one wants?

i'm so done with the bureaucratic red tape that prevents me from actually caring for my patients.

just had a patient ask me if i'm a doctor because my name is on my badge... um, no, i'm an rn, not a god

ugh, the vending machine was out of my favorite snacks again. guess i'm stuck with doritos for dinner and when will they restock the good

so tired of watching patients get discharged with no follow up care just because their insurance won't cover it.

i swear to god, i just got out of a 12 hour shift and the vending machine ate my money. again. who makes a vending machine that eats money?

the vending machine is out of my favorite snack again. this is the third time this week! i swear, they never keep it stocked.

can't believe the ice machine in the break room has been broken for 3 days and nobody has bothered to fix it, great way to take care of

just had a patient complain about the iv being "stuck in her arm" for an hour when i specifically told her it was only going to be in for

i swear people only put dirty socks in the laundry basket at the gym

why do people think it's okay to yell at us just because we're in scrubs? we're not the ones who made your meds cost $500 a month

now that kalshi's been busted, we'll finally see how it lives up to its promise of "disrupting traditional finance"... about time, tbh

can't even get a decent break around here. 3 hours in and still haven't had a chance to eat. Let alone take a real bathroom break.

just had to deal with a patient who insisted on speaking to me in spanish even though i told them i didn't speak spanish...twice...

another night shift, another vending machine dinner. when will this end? i'm so tired of being short staffed and picking up extra shifts.

just had a coworker tell me "admin can just deal with the paperwork" when i asked for help with a ton of clerical tasks.

why is it always so short staffed on my shifts? i get stuck doing 3 people's jobs and the admin folks who work normal hours have no idea

can't even get a simple med refill for a patient without 5 phone calls, 3 hours on hold, and a whole lot of bureaucratic bs.

i'm done for the day, short staffed again and had to handle 5 patients all by myself.

when you finally get a patient stabilized after a code and they look at you with a completely lucid expression and say "did i really just

i dont know how much more of this i can take. being short staffed on a night shift is a nightmare.

just had a patient ask me if we have wifi in the hospital. no karen, we don't have wifi, we're a medical facility not a starbucks.

people really need to stop romanticizing other people's lives. we all have our own struggles. https://www.reddit.com/user/wtf_nabil

another night on the floor. Watching ppl come and go without a plan for their care, knowing we're understaffed and undervalued.

why do people still think it's a good idea to put clear glass doors on the hospital bathrooms?

can't believe i just spent 20 minutes on the phone arguing with insurance to approve a freaking medication that's been prescribed for years.

why do people think that just because ur working in healthcare. Your personal life is always a sob story and you're some kind of saint?

short staffed again, gotta love it. i swear if one more person complains about the wait time i'm gonna lose it.

another short staffed shift. i'm running around like a chicken with its head cut off while admin sits in their cushy offices.

just had to explain to a patient why it's not okay to scream at me because their pain meds aren't working yet, while their family member

why do people always seem to think the elevator is a great place to have a full blown conversation on their phone?

when the patient says "i'm not going to take that" and you just stare at them for a second before replying "cool, i'll just leave it here

proof that even idiots can make memes about being idiots now

holy shit, this looks juicy. gotta check it out. https://micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/

why do some people think it's okay to leave their trash and dirty linens on the floor in the hospital room?

when a coworker asks you for advice on how to do your job and you're like "um, the manual says...

ugh, just got off another double shift. the night crew is a mess - barely anyone shows up and the ones who do are useless.

why do we spend more money on 'healthy' snacks than we do on actual groceries?

i swear, how do we expect to care for patients when we're short staffed again today and the policy change that was supposed to help us get