PSA: Do not ever speak the Q word to a healthcare worker. Don’t even think it. Don’t speak synonyms. Don’t allude to it. Don’t drop hints. Not even gestures. Just. Don’t. Do it.

We will resent and blame you for the next fall/rapid response/crisis/ED surge/code/etc. we encounter.

#healthcareworkers

There is nothing more I hate in this line of work than a VIP. It’s unethical and disgusting.
#healthcareworkers

Floated to the admissions unit (10 bed ED overflow unit) this morning. It’s either going to be the longest day or the shortest. You can literally never tell around here. #healthcareworkers #inpatient

Covering both Neuro and Med/Surg today and I want to cry a little bit. 🥺 #healthcareworkers

Code lavender. So. Much. Code. Lavender. 😭💜
#inpatient #healthcareworkers

ICU today, who knows where tomorrow. Then no more floating for another two weeks. 😮‍💨 I can do this. #healthcareworkers #inpatient

I’ve got the parade up on my auxiliary monitor because if I have to work, then I’m enjoying the balloons, floats, dancing, and bands. While I try to enjoy my free hospital cafeteria breakfast. Counting down the minutes until 3pm.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

#hospital #inpatient #healthcareworkers

Came in today expecting to be in ICU. Floated instead to Med/Surg. It’s not a bad float but I really don’t like not knowing where I’m going until it’s go time. I’m the type that needs to mentally prepare for about 10 minutes at minimum.

Lots of Code Violets for a Saturday.

#healthcareworkers #work

Happy #NursesWeek to all nurses, nurse aides, and nursing support personnel! May your ratios be safe, your acuities low, and your lunch breaks attainable & uninterrupted. 💉 🏥 🚑 💊 ⚕️
#healthcareworkers

#TFW there's a planned hot water shut off in your building and they accidentally shut it all off and you have 5 COVID pts on your unit. #healthcareworkers

Today in #signs that I shouldn't have to make... For the locker room bathroom. #healthcareworkers

Waking up physically rested, mentally exhausted, and emotionally spent. Gonna crush this 12 hour shift because there's always someone having a worse go of it than me. #healthcareworkers

#TFW someone asks you to "just drop off some stuff to their patient real quick..." But neglects to tell you that said patient hasn't worn a shred of clothing all week (or even covered herself with a bedsheet) and doesn't plan to any time soon and your poker face is non-existent, even under a mask. #healthcareworkers #healthcare

It looks like the hospital Starbucks employees have woken up and chosen violence. This is an ominous start to the day. #healthcareworkers

Is it too early to decorate my inpatient nursing unit for Valentine's day. (Read: change decorations over from New Year's--which already feels like ages ago...) #healthcareworkers #valentines

Woke up feeling more tired than when I went to bed. Then I realized I have to stick to my stupid new years resolution of not giving Starbucks any more of my money...
...and being conscious just got a lot harder.

I'm gonna need a bigger thermos. (Recommendations appreciated.)

#healthcareworkers #caffeineclub #coffee

Hospital employee holiday menu NEW YEARS:
Pork loin or Cajun Jackfruit
Choice of 2: Glazed carrots, roasted potatoes, collard greens, and black eyed peas.
Sweet potato pie or coconut cream pie.

#healthcareworkers
IDK... gonna see about this jackfruit.

Friends, this has been the saddest #Christmas in my living memory. I worked Christmas last year and it was bad...but not sad. Numerous times today I've tried to forget it was Christmas. So many people feeling hopeless and alone and abandoned (#healthcareworkers) trying to help other people who also feel hopeless and alone and sick AF (#bloodcancer patients)... We don't have enough people to clean rooms, we don't have enough staff to feel supported or spend time giving support to patients. 💔

The hospital holiday meal offerings? Beef brisket or grilled tofu. ...Or buy yourself Panera. 🤔 I don't love red meat. But I've never had hospital tofu. But I don't want to spend my money when I can spend the hospital's on Christmas day... #healthcareworkers

#Grateful for the awesome co-worker nurse is going to pick me up on Saturday morning because she knows our little hatchback is no match for the bomb cyclone blizzard we're about to get smacked with on Friday night. Because hospitals don't get to close down for holidays or declared weather emergencies. Scary Christmas!🎄😬 #healthcareworkers #blizzard