“Get In, Get Out As Quick As You Can”: Hospital Workers Are Not Sugarcoating Their Reality (51 Stories)

If you’ve been boarding in the ER and suddenly get a room in the middle of the night.. it’s because the person who was in that room most likely passed away 🙊

Most hospitals ignore regular scheduled cleaning of air ducts so mold grows uncontrollably and can cause hospital-acquired fungal infections due to breathing in the mold spores circulated throughout the HVAC. I know a guy who works for a commercial air duct company and he sends me pictures of the mold growth inside the units but never reveals the location. Absolutely horrendous.

In the ER you can have a patient come in for an STD check, one with a sore throat, someone for poison Ivy, someone with a stubbed toe, someone with a broken arm, someone having a heart attack or stoke, maybe they survive, maybe they don’t. You clean them up, allow family in, then you hop into a room with impatient/disrespectful family or patient, or maybe have to deal with a child immediately after. All in a 12 hr shift. AND legally document all those events so as not to lose your job/license.

You can come in with a minor infection/open wound and contract something much more difficult to treat , If the hospital isn’t practicing the right sterile procedures.

How dirty the hospital really is.

Doctors make mistakes in surgical procedures all the time and nobody ever hears about it. They puncture things they chose the wrong spot for a tube, they forced something that shouldn’t have been forced, etc. either nobody else but doc knows, or most everybody knows what truly happened but for some reason we don’t admit it to patients that complications could have been avoided.

How tired the doctors are! I may put a smile on my face but I just worked 24 straight hours and am still about to scrub into your surgery :( A good concealer got me through my intern year but if I didn’t do my makeup i’d probably scare the patients

I don’t work there but I was in the ER the other day and had to use a bedside commode for a urine sample and I accidentally peed on the floor, alerted the nurse and she said “ah just leave it”…. Nobody came and cleaned it up for hours, I threw paper towel down before I left and used my shoe to wipe it up but damn… no disinfectant or nothing???

The amount of waste we generate. 😢

Our charge desk is at the front nursing station and I get soooo annoyed when family members walk up to me and ask for stuff. I get that I don’t seem busy because I’m sitting, but I’ve got 70 things I’m trying to do. Please use the call bell.

We call donor services on EVERYONE THAT PASSES. I never see your drivers license to see that star

There’s a few dietary techs that I’ve seen go to the bathroom and return to work without washing their hands so there’s that

You're being charged for everything we bring in that room, down to the kleenex so take it home with you. However wipe it all down & PLEASE take those damn shoes off before you get in your car. Yes car!! Housekeeping is 24/7 but a lot of them are lazy af & dont clean thoroughly. The hallways are mopped the least.

The bedrails are not always throughly cleaned. I once had a patient empty his colostomy bag and dropped the container. It splattered everywhere. Housekeeping didn’t bother to clean the inside of the bedrails or the handles that let them down.

We try to advocate for more for our patients. But in the end the doctors make the decisions.

You wanna yell at someone about your pain, discharge, diet? Yell at the doctor.

I hear so many housekeeping staff say they wanna become cnas and nurses because all they do is sit down.

Then when you see housekeeping make the transition to be cnas, they quit. Same for cnas. Older cnas be talking about how they should have become nurses and just sat all day. Then they become nurses and do the same exact thing.

Things are always greener on the other side of the pasture when you're looking at it from the outside.

Nurses are also expected to fill in roles for other departments that are "short staffed" for example: Social work, house keeping, child life, food service, formula room, bio med, security, distribution, IS, and engineering (who gets off at 2p anyway so we generally hope nothing breaks after that).

Because we are expected to fill these roles to make their staffing issues less troublesome for them, though the opposite can never be expected from these roles for a nurse. Examples, you will never see: a social worker, house keeper, child life specialist, formula room, bio-med, security, distribution, IS, or engineering giving meds, turning patients, feeding patients, ambulating with patients, bathing, or changing a patient.

The cafeteria and morgue are always close together. The floors in hospitals carry mortal bacteria and diseases. Nurses and staff track that stuff everywhere. Do what you will with that information, but don’t let your kids play on the floor and clean your shoes before you take them into your home.

First, if they say they are tested by FDA approved laboratory, don't believe them because FDA does not approve any laboratories. Second, if they say they are third-party tested without telling you which third party, chances are they are not third-party tested because if they were, trust me, they want to put it out there. And this next one is very common.
I see it all the time. Contains clinically tested ingredients. Now keep in mind, just because an ingredient is tested does not mean it's proven to work because it can be tested and proven not to be working.

Patients get into the emergency room with loaded firearms because the hospital authorities are too cheap to install metal detectors.