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[FULL] Farah: “I Cry A Lot Because It Is Really Exhausting”, Handling More Than 10 Patients All At Once As A Surgical Nurse, Offering Kindness To Total Strangers
As far as I can remember, I have never spoken to a nurse before, of course excluding the times I woke up in the middle of the night to get my blood drawn when I was at the hospital. But I didn’t speak to the nurses either, it wasn’t a conversation. In this episode, I sat down with Farah to learn the stories behind a nurse and all the kindness a nurse would offer to any random stranger, something even I struggle to do when times are bad. Think about nurses.
The conversation helped me understand a few things. First and foremost, the empathy and kindness a nurse can offer to any stranger is unmatched and it melts my heart to see and hear any stories from a nurse taking care of their patients. They really take care of their patients as if they were their kids. But also, the issue of short-staffing never seems to get solved and the longer the problem sits, the more underappreciated these nurses go. The same goes to doctors and all healthcare providers. I hope conversations like this get heard and together, we can sit down and take the next step to solve a problem. Step by step.
Listen on to know what nurses go through in their shift.
Timeline:
[00:00] What does a surgical nurse do?
[05:41] A day in the life of Farah
[08:38] What kind of decisions do nurses make?
[10:05] Her early days of becoming a nurse
[12:54] The career prospects of a nurse
[19:07] The working hours of a surgical nurse
[20:26] All about vital signs
[22:16] False alarms from nurses
[24:49] Things that happened in the ward that she would never tell
[26:30] Teamwork in wards
[27:43] Short-staffing in hospitals
[31:48] Advice to future nurses
[34:26] Difficult patients
[37:51] A bad day in the life of a nurse
[44:18] Room for errors
[48:56] How would AI or technology help nurses?
[50:37] Wards during Covid
[59:28] The most rewarding part of the job
[01:07:11] Does it ever get boring?
[01:09:49] Ethical dilemma
Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com and https://www.epidemicsound.com/
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By Ray LowAs far as I can remember, I have never spoken to a nurse before, of course excluding the times I woke up in the middle of the night to get my blood drawn when I was at the hospital. But I didn’t speak to the nurses either, it wasn’t a conversation. In this episode, I sat down with Farah to learn the stories behind a nurse and all the kindness a nurse would offer to any random stranger, something even I struggle to do when times are bad. Think about nurses.
The conversation helped me understand a few things. First and foremost, the empathy and kindness a nurse can offer to any stranger is unmatched and it melts my heart to see and hear any stories from a nurse taking care of their patients. They really take care of their patients as if they were their kids. But also, the issue of short-staffing never seems to get solved and the longer the problem sits, the more underappreciated these nurses go. The same goes to doctors and all healthcare providers. I hope conversations like this get heard and together, we can sit down and take the next step to solve a problem. Step by step.
Listen on to know what nurses go through in their shift.
Timeline:
[00:00] What does a surgical nurse do?
[05:41] A day in the life of Farah
[08:38] What kind of decisions do nurses make?
[10:05] Her early days of becoming a nurse
[12:54] The career prospects of a nurse
[19:07] The working hours of a surgical nurse
[20:26] All about vital signs
[22:16] False alarms from nurses
[24:49] Things that happened in the ward that she would never tell
[26:30] Teamwork in wards
[27:43] Short-staffing in hospitals
[31:48] Advice to future nurses
[34:26] Difficult patients
[37:51] A bad day in the life of a nurse
[44:18] Room for errors
[48:56] How would AI or technology help nurses?
[50:37] Wards during Covid
[59:28] The most rewarding part of the job
[01:07:11] Does it ever get boring?
[01:09:49] Ethical dilemma
Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com and https://www.epidemicsound.com/