 Okay, sorry guys, I'm back. I got a phone call and I hit end and then it made it look like the video restarted and then I hit end and then it made it look like it was the same video. So I'm sorry, I am going to restart what I'm talking about because I really wanna publish this for the people that don't get to watch it when I'm done. So I'm sorry, I'm back. I had some technical difficulties. I got a phone call and it all jacked up. So anyways, I wanna talk about nursing burnout. I'm gonna kind of start over for any people who were already in the last live chat like a few seconds ago. So I just got off working three shifts in a row which is a lot. And for those of you who have never worked three shifts in a row, you're probably like, oh that's only three shifts. Like most people, most jobs do that. But when you're working shift work, especially 12 hour shifts, especially as a nurse, it is very physically and emotionally exhausting and I really want to talk about tips for the, not tips, sorry, I was reading comments. I just hit the chat off because it just tracks me. But I will answer your guys' questions when I'm done talking about this. I wanna talk about nursing burnout because it's a very real thing that happens to nurses especially bedside nurses. And some of the causes of nursing burnout at least from like my own personal standpoint in viewing and knowledge is that nursing is a very, very emotional, physical, mental job. Emotionally because you are dealing with people who are sick or you're dealing with people who have bad outcomes or people who are in the hospital because of decisions that they didn't make for themselves. And being an ICU nurse especially, we deal with a lot of people who are very, very sick who are probably not gonna make it or who have slim chances of making it. And we're working with their family members in being that emotional support and we're advocating for our patients and what they need. And that takes a lot out of you even if you don't realize it. It's physically exhausting because you're turning patients, you're getting patients out of bed, you're helping patients to their commode, you're boosting them up, you're helping them move so that way they can be active because we know how important early mobility is for patients and moving around in general is so important. Mentally exhausting because sometimes you have patients who don't just, they just don't get it, they're very disrespectful, they treat you like you're their maid, they treat you like you're below them, that you're just there to serve them when in reality you're there for their health and yes we care about their feelings, yes we care about that they got dinner and all these things but in the end like you're there for their health and you're there to save their life especially in the ICU and little side note, they're gonna go off on a tangent, personal side note. In the ICU patients are very, very sick and most of the time they're not eating because they're intubated, they'll get feeding tubes and we'll feed them so don't worry about that but things you know and we're saving people's lives and then sometimes we get these patients who maybe are gonna be downgraded to telemetry or med surge who are doing better which is great who are very, very demanding of you and your time and you know little things like oh their dinner tray took too long to get there and they're so mad and they're yelling at you and screaming at you and you just wanna say do you understand that right next door that person is literally two seconds from dying like I'm sorry your dinner is late. Anyways side note but that can get very, very mentally, physically, emotionally exhausting when you've got these you know, emotional situations, physical situations and you know when people are just very demanding of you and also you know a side component is you know maybe your management isn't super supportive or your short staffed or things like that that can all tie into nurse burnout so I can see how nurses easily get burnt out especially at the bedside because you know when you just don't feel like you're appreciated or you don't feel like I don't know where you saw something really tough it can be hard so with that being said what can we do about this? So an important thing is one to have good coping strategies so if you see something that's terrible if your patient codes are just a really hard situation make sure you have an outlet to talk about that with another nursing friend or your manager or friend or whatever or have a healthy outlet like working out things like that you really have to find the balance between leaving your work at work and bringing it home and I'll admit my first six months of nursing I did not sleep that well because every day I went home and constantly thinking about the days events did I forget to chart this, did I do this, did I do that and it just became you know one I was exhausted because I was a new nurse but it just you just play all those events in your head so you really have to learn how to shut that off work is work and when you go home you go home and one thing I've realized as a nurse especially being in the ICU is I know my nursing abilities and I know that I am going to do the best that I can and treat my patients the best that I can and do everything I can for them and at the end of the day that has to be good enough that has you mean yes we always need to learn and grow yes we need to be striving to be our best but if you are providing the best possible care that you can then that is what it is all the outside factors you know the doctor that didn't respond to the phone call or the doctor that didn't answer this or the tech that couldn't come in to help you I'm not trying to put place but I'm not all the people but if you do the best that you can that just is what it is another thing I tell my nursing students that get paired with me a lot is you know we as nurses tend to emotionally invest ourselves in our patients which is healthy and good to a certain extent but you don't want to get too emotionally involved and sometimes it's hard sometimes you just it just happens but at the end of the day and this is gonna sound super super mean and I hope people don't take offenses but it's true at the end of the day none of the patients that you take care of matter what matters is your health and your life and your family's lives and the people that you care about most in your life and yes it's important that we care for our patients and we know that they have loved ones and we need to treat them like a loved one so to speak but at the end of the day they don't matter and I know that sounds terrible but it's true what matters is your health you have to take care of yourself first because if you don't take care of yourself you can't take care of others and that is 100% true so often and I'm guilty of this too we skip our lunch breaks we hold our bladders because we have to pee we don't drink water because we don't want to go to the bathroom because we're so busy trying to meet other people's needs and which is a great thing but it also leads to people getting really tired and burnt out and you need those breaks you need that time to kind of step away and just decompress even if it's just for your 30 minute lunch break and I know I'm guilty of you have so many things to do that you can't even enjoy your break because you're just so busy that you just sit there and think about all the things you have to do when you go back but it's really important to just be able to sit down at least eat something so that way you are fresh and on your best game especially if you're working with really sick people where you need to be mentally and physically and emotionally strong for your patients so that is my little spiel on nursing burnout make sure you have a healthy life balance make sure you're talking with other people and if you really are truly feeling burnt out and there's like nothing is working then maybe consider switching specialties or spicing it up or changing not doing bedside maybe going out of a business or management side of things there's so many jobs that you can do as a nurse which is a wonderful thing because if one thing is tiring you out and burning you out then you can go back and do something else so that's my spiel I'm going to open up the comments now and answer a few questions that I'm going to go because I have not eaten dinner yet and I'm hungry and I want to shower I want to go to bed because I'm so tired after working three hours and I realize how much I'm doing this with my hand and I know it's probably annoying so I'm sorry but I'm not because I just talk with my hands all right I'm going to turn the comments back on oh my gosh what is going on here so Andrew's my brother so if you guys are seeing any annoying comments by him he just likes to come on and like purposely say annoying things because he just yeah likes to do that because he's 16 and he's a teenager and he likes to try and be cool so anyways that is why he likes to tease me but anyways I'm going to open up for a few questions if anyone has questions and if you're on right now you should give this video a big like thumbs up that's always fun sorry going down so Imani I think that's your name ask if I take my scrubs off before I come in my house I typically do I know that's kind of stereotypical or like I'm lying because I did it tonight I did it tonight because usually I take my scrubs off right in my laundry room which is right behind me and my garage comes into my laundry room and then I go straight to shower or I just eat dinner in my underwear which I know is kind of TMI but I didn't want to come on here to my underwear surprise surprise I know that's totally what I do all the time just kidding and I didn't want to like change my pajamas because I feel so like just like I need a shower I just feel gross like I smell I know that's TMI but I just feel like sweaty if that makes sense and I just need a shower you know that feeling you know what I'm talking about what GPA did I have to get into nursing school so that it depends on which program you're going into I think for mine you had to have a 3.75 3.8 was kind of the recommended average it really depends I had a 4.0 going to nursing school and I'm not saying that to Bragg just answering your question do I think I will precept soon yes and no so I already take on nursing students take on that sounds bad but I already get paired with nursing students during my shifts so I guess I meet the criteria for that I didn't get nursing students my first like 6 or 7 months of working as a nurse because they just don't want to overwhelm you especially being in the ICU but I need to take a class to precept in order to be a preceptor and get paid the extra hourly amount for being a preceptor and I want to but I also there's other classes I want to take first I want to be more knowledgeable how's life with my husband finally home it is great it's nice to have him home do I ever talk back to patients who are rude how do you respond to make them not become violent so this is a good question so I have come to a point in my nursing career where I'm the very patient person and I understand if someone's confused and being just rude I want to say disrespectful because if someone's truly honestly confused that's a different story but if someone is being rude just to be rude and continuously is rude or for example I had a completely alert and oriented patient who just thought it was okay to scream their head off outside the room screaming my name yelling for things when they were perfectly capable of one using their call light and two being a little bit more patient because I can't be in there every two minutes so anyways after you know once this patient just kept yelling so I finally when I went in the room I said I said their name I said look you cannot be yelling that we have many sick patients here and you're yelling is being very disrespectful and very rude to all these other patients who are trying to rest and trying to heal and so I've learned as a nurse how to better I guess put my foot down if that makes sense or I just don't really tolerate being disrespected as much by patients and I'm not saying I come out and am rude to them or anything there's a professional way to talk to people who are being inappropriate or rude or disrespectful to you but I also think it's important to not just take everything I know it sounds bad but like you're not there be for lack of better words bitched at or yell that or downright disrespected and every situation is different and I'm not saying I'm like that for every patient but that who does that it really depends on the situation and I'm a very patient person and I'm very like I don't get overwhelmed and I don't I'm very like calming but there's a time and a purpose and I don't think that nurses should have to take a beating by someone who can be in control of their actions if that makes sense I hope I'm I hope I'm coming off the way that I'm trying to I don't want to sound like I'm just like this nasty neat nurse because I'm not sorry going back up to read some questions so tired I just need to need to get off of your neat dinner and shower do nurses really earn good money or as I just will say I think it really depends on where you're at I think that nurses make decent money for having a four year degree I also think that we do a lot of things to earn that money and I also think some days we don't get paid enough so that is my feel on that everyone's different I think it depends on how you're raised and what like you think that good income is for the job that you have when I say the majority of the patients I work with are a patient of your care yes and no I feel like I see both in the ICU because people are scared in the ICU their family members are scared people are dying like they're sick they're very sick and it's very scary seeing all this stuff so I feel like family members are usually pretty appreciative of everything that you're doing you form kind of this good relationship with the family members and the patients but I would say there's also a lot of them that are just downright not appreciative or manipulative or I don't know what their deals are but you take it with a grain of salt because it's the people that do appreciate that really makes it worth it so Shalisha you got an interview that's awesome yes I've considered becoming a CRNA sorry if you hear the squeaking my dog squeaking his toy why do you dislike psych I don't this can sound bad I want to say I dislike psych it is not my strong suit and it's not something that really interests me I can appreciate the nurses that do psych we see a lot of psych no matter what job you do in nursing even if it's not psych you still will see it so I appreciate the nurses who are really good at psych because it's a very hard thing for me to understand and comprehend and sympathize with not sympathize that's that's the wrong word but it's not something that I've really dealt with on a personal level in my life so I it's well I've most of the things I do with I have never dealt with in my personal life either but it's just not my strong suit and everyone has things that are not their strong suit so but bless the nurses I do psych because you guys are rock stars seriously any tips for the ICU I actually have a video on this so go check that out going through going through sorry sorry so many things what's for dinner I don't know I'm thinking about just having yogurt and granola I know that sounds so bad but for some reason it sounds good I also have a leftover piece of chicken parm in my fridge but I don't have like anything to go with it so I don't want to just eat chicken parm in marinara or maybe I will maybe I just will eat chicken parm marinara so that kind of sounds good I don't know um how do I take care of my dogs as a nurse working long hours I have a dog sitter and my husband's home how long did it take for me to get my BSN it took me three years um I worked through my program really quickly and I also um had a lot of credits going in 108 people in here you guys should all give a thumbs up if you haven't given this video a thumbs up already give it a thumbs up I'm going to answer like five more questions and um then I'm off because look at me guys can you tell that I've like I'm literally so exhausted I know it looks like I have big bags in my eyes I think it's kind of just a shadows but I went down if I actually do so um uh therapeutic communication yes very important that's like the first thing they tell us in nursing school yay all the thumbs up everyone's thumbsing thumbsing up that's a word what do I think is a good GPA before you get into nursing school I think it really depends on your program but I would say if you have a 3.5 or higher then that's really good what advice do I have recoping with the stress of nursing school um really having a good outlet good friends healthy ways to um relieve stress exercise cooking dinner with your friends I was going to say drinking wine but that's not really a healthy way to cope but it's always nice to have a glass of wine if you're a drinker I just don't like it alcoholic clearly every time I post these videos do these live chats in my kitchen everyone's always like oh my god she's an alcoholic guys I have been collecting these bottles for a long time okay and it's not just like me who drink them it's usually like when I have family over or parties or things like that I save them all so I'm not an alcoholic I have done my little scale thing at work when you have to like when you get into admission you screen them for alcohol abuse and I'm like a three out of 15 or whatever I'm a very low risk for alcohol abuse so don't worry does anyone else do those scales on themselves because I do this all the time have I had patients pass away yes several patients have passed away on my shifts huh am I going to go back to school and work at the same time I have no idea I don't know as a nice e-nurse do I see a fair share of suicide attempts how do I handle emotionally different my normal cases I have had several overdose cases intentional and not intentional but I don't know I guess you handle them like any other patient and pretty much by the time that they if they're intubated by the time they get extubated they get transferred to the other floor and psych comes and sees them so you're not really involved too much but it's really just working with the families and then keeping the patients safe hey that's loud don't bark so loud they're all excited am I interested in OR nursing not really does the ICU have PCAs are you talking about like PCA pumps or like texts and yes we have both I know I look tired and true I did not kill someone my first nursing shift he's just saying that because he's my brother and likes to be annoying all right do you do a lot of CNA work as an ICU nurse yes I won't really classify a CNA work because I feel like that puts kind of this separation between CNAs and nurses which obviously there is because you have different licenses but if you're talking about CNA work like vitals changing patients and blood sugars things like that yes because as a 24-bed ICU we have one tech and so we are pretty much do all the total care and the tech helps us out but there's a lot of 20 like if we're fully if we have 24 patients and there's only one CNA they basically cannot possibly help out every single nurse with every single turn and boost and things especially because we have a lot of people that are intubated and they poop all over the place and they need turned every two hours and so really you rely on your neighbors your buddies who are there so anyways I am gonna go I'm super tired I'm hungry and no I have not fallen asleep at work but I'm about to fall asleep right now and yes I talked to doctors about AVDs a lot that's what we spent a lot of time doing and I'm gonna go that's what I that's my two cents on nursing burnout and all your questions so thank you guys for watching again actually I don't know if I said this in this video I'm not gonna have a video up tomorrow I've been spending time with my husband and have not made time to record videos but my plan is to record on Sunday to get videos up for the next couple of Saturdays so thanks for sticking in if you're still on give this video a thumbs up and I'll see you guys in the next video