How Grief Can Enable Nurses to Endure | Hui-wen Sato | TEDxPasadena

[@alinasato]

To clarify, Alina (as seen in the bio) is the English name I use in casual settings, but Hui-wen is my legal, given name. Thank you for taking the time to watch this!

[@chelsiabaya6273]

Alina Sato Been looking for this since you talked about it when I was your student nurse for a day. Thanks for this great talk! You did really well!

[@alinasato]

Hi Chelsi! You're too sweet - thank you so much for remembering and for watching this! I hope it encourages you throughout your career. Please share with your classmates if you feel it will help them as well! Wishing you all the best.

[@yeetskeet4657]

Anyone would be lucky to have you as a preceptor, oh my gosh. Phenomenal talk!

[@alinasato]

@@yeetskeet4657 Thank you so much for watching and for your very kind words!

[@emilyb5557]

This is so relevant now in the pandemic, nurses doctors and other HCP, all surrounded by grief and fear. Thank you for sharing xx

[@francessaelua3883]

Totally relatable. I started off as NICU, ICU, ER nurse....and yes, have seen so much sick and dying. I, at some point, became exhausted and drained from emotional rollercoaster ride. Became depressed and manifest grief from suffering with the patients and their families. Love your speech. Thank you❤️

[@alinasato]

Thank you for all you have borne on behalf of your patients and their families. I really appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment on this.

[@janenicolemelendez9852]

Grief is an inevitable part of life. It allows us to acknowledge that life is fleeting. As nurses we will encounter this throughout our career, and I hope it will strengthen our resolve to better our care for patients. Thank you for your presentation.

[@beccab9724]

Watching this during COVID pandemic. I’m an ICU nurse at an academic hospital. We have the largest Covid icu in our city. We get all the prisoners from the state and all of the outside smaller hospital’s patients that are too sick for them. I’ve seen so much death in the past year and a half. I was going through grad school full time also. I think I was too busy to deal with the grief. When I graduated in may, I cried for four days. I took a break and then started studying for boards. This Monday I cried for hours. I had a very sick Covid patient this weekend and then we got another one in the room next to them. The thought of going through another peak is bringing in so many emotions that I don’t think I have dealt with yet. It is heartbreaking to see another wave coming and also to see all the burnt out coworkers. I love my job, but grief is not talked about enough. I need to know that I am not the only one that has reruns of these people’s last moments in my head. Thank you for your tedtalk, it was helpful.

[@emilyallen6359]

I'm sorry more people didn't respond back to this. I was in a very very similar situation & I want you to know that you were not alone at this time. I do think this video has a wonderful message, but speaks to a pre-COVID world. The grief we've experienced (me as a baby nurse graduating in 2020) is trauma I will never forget. But now I work as a wellness nurse instead of an ICU nurse and have found so much purpose and a renewed sense of the profession of nursing through patient education. Hope your situation looks better than when you made this comment as well 💞

[@suemartinez4647]

This is fantastic. Thank you Alina, we at CHLA are so proud of you for this amazing presentation and for speaking out about such an important topic. It is timely and so relevant in our world of nursing. Thank you so very much.

[@alinasato]

Thank you so much, Sue!

[@bigchocolate283]

Thank you, Hui-wen for sharing this insight about grief. It’s invaluable info for me to keep this in mind when going through this challenging emotion during my nursing career.

[@alinasato]

It is challenging without doubt. It'll be a lifetime process to learn a different perspective towards grief.

[@jenniferlupo2850]

Moving and powerful talk, I am not a nurse, but as a social worker found this to be applicable and helpful to my everyday work.

[@alinasato]

I'm so glad it speaks to people in other disciplines as well!

[@sherimatsumoto2620]

What a wonderful talk! Inspirational and heartrending. Every nurse is a true hero!

[@alinasato]

Thank you Sheri!

[@daniellearbios9039]

As a new critical care RN, this talk has given me a refreshing perspective on grief & some wonderful insight on how to handle this emotion we inevitably encounter in our field.

[@alinasato]

I hope it speaks to many new nurses. I would have loved to have people address this topic more in depth with me at the start of my nursing career.

[@dogvlogs5696]

I'm her neighbor

[@jonathanmcgarrity7613]

Thank you so much for sharing. I always struggled with how to handle grief in the PICU. I really appreciate this perspective. I was forever changed by the PICU and those experiences are very much a part of me today. Those experiences are never very far from the front of my mind. The frame of grief as teacher is probably the healthiest way I have coped (healthy coping was not necessarily my default). I guess it is still teaching. Looking forward to whatever you have in store next!

[@alinasato]

Grief in the PICU is so multi-layered and complicated. We have a lot to learn from it but that's not to say it's easy by any stretch of the imagination.

[@jennyb9607]

So important and so refreshing to hear as a nurse!

[@alinasato]

We all need this conversation on a fairly regular basis.

[@SanctifiedLady]

If you think it was bad at the time of this video….we’ll guess what? I am a hospice nurse and most my long time friends that are nurses are not able to return to work due to CPTSD of Covid…now that I’ve returned, I’ve noticed all the families are also dealing with Covid PTSD. This is the worst and hardest time to be a nurse.

[@SanctifiedLady]

I had 5 out of my 9 patients dye in this one week

[@joepaul1763]

Lost me when you opened with Jimmy Kimmel