ICU Hospital Nurses Have Very High Rates Of PTSD

Researchers in Colorado are studying the issue in hopes of easing the pain of PTSD.

[@francescaprecious17]

I don’t know how anyone could handle being an icu nurse. Just having to deal with patients at there worst , traumatized families and so many deaths. They truly are such amazing people.

[@m8trxd]

Here's an idea to reduce burnout in nurses: adequate staffing!

[@BillDerBerg]

No such thing as burnout they were initially into nursing for the money and the social status/pseudo elitism of being a nurse and the sanctimony wore off as they had no inherent desire to benevolently help the sick, dying or injured people. FACT

[@BJ-eh4ol]

John J. Sanchez You're definitely not, nor have you ever been, a nurse. Stay out of conversations you're unfit to take part in.

[@msladyg32]

Are you sick, John?

[@genuinelyhonest1991]

@@BillDerBerg ELITISM STATUS?! as a nurse, HAHA no one thinks that, nurses are shit on more than any other medical staff, LOL

[@pinknatty2000]

@@BillDerBerg we've always been the bottom of the barrel. The stress of understaffing is Real.

[@candaceparker7705]

I loved when the news reporter said "if you have a loved one being discharged, thank the staff. they are angels on earth" I am a nursing major in pre-reqs, and I want to work in ICU as a new grad.

[@candacesmithers6701]

Candace Parker thank you, I went into complete respiratory falure after surgery.. You are angels with invisible wings.. I saw heaven.do you hear a lot of stories of heaven

[@jvolstad]

I am a retired soldier, disabled veteran, and a VA Volunteer at my local VA Hospital. One of the areas I spend time in is our MICU. My hat is off to our nurses. They do a great job in a very stressful environment. I typically spend around 10 hours each weekend with our hospitalized veterans. I work one-on-one with our most severely sick and injured patients. The stress level is unbelievable but I carry on as this is what a retired NCO should be doing.

[@yesterday4893]

should be paid more

[@BillDerBerg]

Your ass they should be.

[@BJ-eh4ol]

John J. Sanchez Lol. What nurse hurt you darling.

[@msladyg32]

He is having a stressful day

[@TheMaleNurse777]

LOL MONEY WONT SOLVE IT ONLY IF YOU KNEW

[@NurseDoll3277]

Nursing school doesnt teach you how not to get attached or how to not replay that day in you're mind nursing is one of the best jobs in the world i just wish they offered us therapy

[@fidanborn4419]

mostly due to full code patients that should be dnr but the family wants everything done. so youre left to torture them until they code 90 times and die.

[@elzabethbettis5928]

Fidan Born Yes. Yes. Everything you said!

[@deepposeidon289]

Why not? If you're a nurse you shouldn't expect that a family would allow their loved one to just die even if there is a hope they can stay alive because you don't want to care for them.

[@Flint9250]

@@deepposeidon289Most of these people do not want to live longer and suffer, but a good portion of them sign over their medical decisionmaking to family members who often act against their wishes (sometimes malevolently). We aren’t trying to avoid caring for them. We don’t want them to continue suffering.

[@candacesmithers6701]

Thankyou so much..nurses like you saved my life after I crashed in pacu

[@onekickrick]

My mother was in the exact same state as the elderly person on the hospital bed. She had to be put in a coma because of a sepsis caused by a pancreas inflammation. All these machines, cords and noises were scaring me so much. The doctor called us that she won't make it and we said goodbye to her. She died October 2018 when i had just turned 18. Since then I need to see a therapist and was diagnosed with PTSD. Sometimes i try to confront myself with videos like these to try and remove my scares, but it rarely ever works. I can't go to the cashier in the supermarket alone because of the beeping noises and the numbers on the screen that tell me how much i pay, it just reminds me so much of a ECG. When someone drinks the rest of a soda with a straw it sounds like the thing to suck out the stuff that blocks the breathing ways. It truly is a nightmarish thing to have, I can't feel safe anywhere and people don't really understand when I suddenly have to leave the room. I have so much respect for the nurses that work their butts off to help people in need, and to stay with them in their last minutes when their time has come.

[@rnmama364]

Nursing school doesn't teach you how to deal with distraught, angry families who take their grief out on innocent nurses trying desperately to save their loved ones life. I've been cornered and screamed at in a waiting room by nasty family because their loved one was dying. Hard not to take that shit home.

[@KGX470]

Yea...care for the caregivers 🙌🏻 it takes a lot of effort and wear n tear on caregivers to care for another person

[@IronReef77]

After covid, this PTSD has worsened ten fold. Extreme burnout mentally, physically and emotionally. It helps if you actually are passionate for what you do but even then its challenging

[@montanagal6958]

100%

[@montanagal6958]

My hospital fires every few months, walks people out who gave years of their lives to help this community making low wages. The PTSD is real and when the public wonder why there are only travel nurses left...know the hospitals had something to do with running off all the great nurses.

[@sarahhelmer7902]

That’s why I don’t won’t to be a nurse too stressful

[@huss98]

i love ❤ my job im i work in rcu hospital 🏥

[@fatoomabbas2984]

حسين البلدي helo Hussain anta iraqi?

[@laxmipainclinic3081]

may I ask you one question are you using a cap o not in icu

[@patrickslouck7172]

streaming every night removing PTSD from healthcare workers @

[@caribaez5711]

But I like ICU Nurse and then I want to be a teacher and teach others.

[@kennethpace9887]

As a 10 year nurse in icu, the nurses I've seen leave simply don't care for the job. They are gung-ho in school, then after 2 years, they are tired of yuck, whining and dealing with burned out doctors, they would rather be somewhere else. Or a 22 yr old starts the job and, 3 years later, she's pregnant again and wants better hours for family life. If you become a nurse for any reason other than helping patients who are in delerium, in uncontrollable pain, have rotting wounds or comforting families of dying 20 yr olds, you need to pick something else to do.

[@jvolstad]

Kenneth Pace I am part of our No Veteran Dies Alone program at the VA Hospital. As a VA Volunteer working directly with our hospitalized veterans, I am overwhelmed at times by what I see. My hat is off to our nurses who do this full-time.

[@BillDerBerg]

Thank You you prove my point.

[@yeetskeet4657]

This is reassuring as a student who is considering the ICU post-grad because those things you listed are exactly what I am looking to do.

[@TheMaleNurse777]

I BLAME THIS FAST TRACK PRIVATE SCHOOL NOT SURE WHAT CURRICULUM THEY FOLLOW FOR TEACHING...YES 22 YEAR OLDS LOL

[@blueya1]

This is very wrong. Typical response from a nurse who most likely bullies others on the unit.

[@Luckimee]

what about the NICU?

[@m8trxd]

That takes a reeeeeeally special kind of angel!

[@mirahampton2593]

or even the behavior health side of things.

[@beccabean5770]

That's always administration's solution " mindfulness training" " resiliency training." Give me a break. How about better staffing and taking stop piling more work on the nurses.

[@johnmcsmith594]

I'm sorry but this is ridiculous horse 💩. Anyone else wanna play the victim card??