Nurses are the backbone of healthcare. They put up with and deal with more in a day than a lot of people could in a lifetime!

The BEST advice I received from someone I trusted explicitly. Someone in the medical field.

Eever.

Well I have been called girlfriend but that was just gay slang

she might tell you to stop whining and get a bandaid

My heart would have to stop beating before they'd take me to the ER. They've always seen much worse.

Oh, yes. You described my childhood, for sure.

And not an especially good thing. Not because they let you die, they don’t. But because it’s so invalidating to be told your sliced finger doesn’t really hurt, since it’s not like you chopped your arm off or something. I STILL don’t know when it’s OK to be upset, and I’m 60!!!

They sure do!!

I have been in hospitals, and my wife has been in them more than she ever hoped to need to be. Two rounds of heart trouble for me, two LONG rounds of cancer for her.

Nurses ABSOLUTELY rock.

Whenever we check out of a hospital (and we never go in unless it's something really serious, which it has been WAY too often for us), we always leave €40 or €50 in the nurse station's "Kaffeekasse (coffee fund)" so they can buy occasional treats for the nurses in the station. They are there day and night for us, and never once unload their personal problems or weariness from the long hours on us.

Definitely in the unsung heroes category of people.

but it seems not only outside the hospitals. In TV series (at least American ones), they are often shown as in a very strong position in comparison to doctors. In a stark contrast, when I had short internship during my studies in hospitals, it was at times shocking to see how some doctors, a surgeon in particular, behaved. So I'm pretty sure they value these little signs of appreciation because there is no question they have to deal with alot.

I don't know about other parts of the world, but in the US doctors are trained to listen to nobody else. It's partly a sexist attitude because the vast majority of nurses and technicians are women. But really it's more of an "I'm the boss" behavior than anything, whether the doctor is male or female.

I don't know how the nurses can bite their tongues and work near them, or for them.

Goes w/out saying.
But how about that bill? How much and for what?

Waves of controlled chaos.

...for testing back in the day. A nurse came in with a morphine dose and said "enjoy it while it's legal..."

When I went to the ER with a kidney stone.

Who say "NURSES ROCK"

my last ER visit was like 3k out of pocket for an ultrasound exam & urine test, about an hour stay.

Those nurses saved my life.

I've seen more nurses save DOCTORS from making serious mistakes in ICU... They are with the patient 8-10-12 hours a day and know what's going on. The eyes and ears of the unit..
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Nurses rock!

home from a week long hospital stay... and I agree: the nurses were great!!

CNAs, too.

In fact, good people who do their best to help those in need all rock.

CNAs are so under appreciated.

Specialty nurses. Neonatal. Watching the sick babies. Emergency (my sis in law). what they see..

Then my SIL nursed her mother until she passed.

I don’t know how the do the work and then eat lunch or decide on dinner.

Thank YOU for your service.

It's demanding, emotionally exhausting and hard on their bodies. Also true of nursing, but CNA's paychecks are truly woeful in most areas.

I'm insured with a PPO from work. So far the bills are in excess of $1000, and that doesn't count any of the post-care.

I considered going again this weekend based on symptoms, but opted out. I guess it was worth the gamble because I am still here and have the $1000 I guess I would have spent.

Yes, nurses rock.

I've suffered ER visits that multiplied into unpayable bills over $10,000. That's after supposedly "good" insurance paid.

I once made the mistake of showing a hospital my VISA card. I haven't had a credit card since, and I don't want one.

You can blame that on the shitty health care system of this nation.

My ER billing experience is a nightmare.

...and can attest to the professionalism and dedication of nurses who put patient comfort and treatment above all else.

I should say that my wife is a nurse, too! I know.

I never fail to tell them so

My stepdaughter is an RN/Administrator who runs two departments in our hospital. She's the fourth generation nurse in the family.

Something nurses say amongst themselves:
You what's the first thing they teach you in nursing school? How to keep doctors from killing patients.

Near cut my arm off in a work accident falling off of a roof onto an iron fence with spikes last summer here in Las Vegas. Had to tie my belt around my arm to keep from bleeding to death. The EMTs took me straight to the Trauma ward instead of the Emergency Room and I was on an operating table within hours. I'm sixty and yet the surgeons and nurses were able to restore full use of my arm. I will forever remain in debt to these people. Think I'm going to hold on to this belt also...

I remember when I was about eight I climbed a chain link fence, slipped off, and was hanging upside down from the wire that was dug deep into the side of my groin for several minutes until someone happened along to rescue me. My story rather pales in comparison to yours, however!

my lesson only cost me $25,000 - no insurance.

Awhile back I had open heart surgery. It's not a lot of fun, and after the surgery you really don't feel like eating. The nurses try and coax you into eating, since you really need calories because your body is working like a mule trying to help you heal. One morning breakfast arrived and I just couldn't eat it. My nurse suggested just some toast fingers and I agreed I would try. I didn't realize until she showed back up with the toast that it wasn't the kitchen that had made the toast, it was my nurse who had gone back to their break room and toasted it herself, and then cut it into strips to make it easier to eat. They are angels.

My doctors have all been professionals, but they are concerned only with my physical condition. My nurses have been concerned with both my physical and my mental condition.

Nurses make hospital stays bearable and I have never, ever met a grumpy nurse!

i was past the time schedule. they did have low light + it was quiet.

.....spine surgeries over a 16 month period and each one requiring a hospital stay of varied lengths, I can honestly say that the RN's are far and away the very best and they are the people who keep the hospitals humming and keeping everything as it should be......a great big.......THANK..... YOU....NURSES......YOU.....ROCK !!!!

Last 3 hospital stays in which I was involved, I was surprised by how little the nurse was "seen". Everyone that came in was a "technician" or "specialist". Most of them under 25 as well. If everything is going to plan, one just doesn't get to actually see the nurse that much. I guess it's because their time is too valuable for the routine stuff.