Senator Says Nurses Don’t Need Breaks As They Spend Most Of The Day Playing Cards, Nurses Respond With Sarcastic Pics
Republican state senator Maureen Walsh is in for a wild ride. The lawmaker came under fire after saying that nurses in smaller hospitals “probably play cards for a considerable amount of the day” during a debate about legislation that would provide nurses with uninterrupted meal and rest periods.
Senator Maureen Walsh is facing backlash after she said that nurses in smaller hospitals “probably play cards for a considerable amount of the day”
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She opposed the legislation, saying it “does not apply” to districts like hers with many critical access hospitals, which have fewer than 25 beds.
It didn’t take long for people to point out that her words didn’t match reality
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Outraged by Walsh’s comments, nurses and everyone who sympathize with them started reacting. Chicago nurse Juliana Bindas even created an online petition Saturday that calls on Walsh to shadow a nurse for a 12-hour shift. As of this article, over 764,000 people have signed it. Many of them showed their outrage on social media as well.
One of the outraged nurses wrote this public letter to the senator
The public reaction has made Walsh reconsider her stance. “I want to offer my heartfelt apologies to those I offended with my comments on the Senate floor last Tuesday,” she said in a statement. “I was tired, and in the heat of argument on the Senate floor, I said some things about nurses that were taken out of context – but still they crossed the line.”
The lawmaker said she was trying to make the point that many small hospitals already face financial problems and that the bill would only make them worse.
But that didn’t stop there and people continued to flood social media with their reactions
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According to USA TODAY, The Washington State Nurses Association website crashed on Friday after too many people viewed a blog post describing Walsh’s comments as disrespectful and patronizing.
Also, the state nursing association said recruiting nurses to rural hospitals is already challenging. The organization believes that denying them uninterrupted breaks and imposing mandatory overtime would further complicate the hiring process.
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Walsh was arguing in support of an amendment that would exempt rural and smaller hospitals from a bill that would guarantee uninterrupted breaks for nurses. She had also introduced another amendment to the bill that would prohibit nurses from working more than 8 hours in a 24-hour period. On Tuesday, the Senate passed the bill with both amendments included. Walsh voted against the bill.
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And as for the petition, Walsh said she’d be happy to see how the job is actually done. “I love my nurses,” she told KOMO. “I’d be happy to come and work in a hospital with them for a while and shadow them and see their job.”
I am sorry but I will never understand how rich politicians dont give a c**p anout other human beings. There isnt enough nurses to have a normal humane 8 hour shift and she still thinks that they dont work enough? Nobody should be allowed to do 12h shifts, it is inhumane and the quality of their work will decrease.
Goverments should invest much more time, laws and resources in ensuring proper health care.In Spain we dont have doctors or nurses enough. It is so bad thaf my sister was sick today and the next apointment that she could do to vusit her house doctor was in May... By that time she will either be cured or really sick...
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Republican, who would have guessed? When I was a student, I worked at a care home for the very old and cronically sick. One day a polititian (M) from the municipal came to visit. M is the swedish equivalent of republican. He asked my boss if we closed during the summers. Like yeah, the old people become young and can take care of themselves just because it's summer? Idiots.
Nurses are vitally important in keeping people alive and comfortable. They are just as important as Drs. Nurses are the first people you see, take blood tests, administer medications, administer IVs, clean bodily fluids etc. They work long hours, often without uninterrupted breaks in an often thankless job. They are also the ones more than likely to receive abuse from drug and alcohol violence etc. They deserve so much respect.
My neighbor's husband is in a wheelchair and spent some time at the hospital for medical procedures. She found out how the nurses rarely get a chance to eat. She tried to bring them snacks as much as possible, but the hospitals had strict rules about food consumption and breaks. This needs to change. There should be time for nurses to take care of their own basic needs. Unfortunately..there aren't enough nurses.
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Then she had the audacity to "apologize" by saying she was "tired". B***h, please. You were tired because you were fighting to deny uninterrupted breaks to the nursing community.......you know......it's not like THEY ever get tired or anything.
I'm also amazed that she claimed it was taken out of context. Unless she was being sarcastic to make a point in favor of nurses getting scheduled breaks, the context is irrelevant.
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I've worked in healthcare for 16 years. Ten as a psych tech on inpatient psychiatric units. 5 as an RN on an inpatient psychiatric unit and 1 as a psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner. For which I got a doctorate. Most places I worked didn't even require breaks or lunches. If we got to eat we ate when the patients ate and were still taking care of them. I can't just go to the bathroom while a patient is in crisis and tell them "sorry you want to die. I have to pee. Be right back" most shifts of my life there was no food, no drinks, one to two bathroom uses per shift which typically entailed me getting paged/called etc to get out and come back within 20 seconds of walking off the floor. And most of it thankless with patients being demanding, rude, and swearing at me for not giving them triple portions. In addition to the risk of getting spit on, hit, kicked, punched and stabbed. Nurses are one of societies most valuable professions and we all should treat them as such.
This republican fool wouldn't be able to keep up with a nurse for one shift. She wouldn't even survive a 5 minute rest break. It's a wonder that America still has nurses, seeing the way these people are treated.
I live in the UK. I'm disabled and chronically ill, so am a little too familiar with hospitals for my liking. I'm also an ex care assistant. If I ever needed something as an inpatient, I was always apologetic and grateful, because that's a thankless job and nurses are taken for granted far too often.
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This infuriates me. I work in the nurse staffing industry. Do you know that there is a nursing shortage?? Do you know how much nurses do????? They are over worked, exhausted, and probably one of the most underappreciated professions. Salute to our nurses, This woman is such a dingbat. I hope when you need medical care, the nurses grab a fresh deck and sit down for a nice game of rummy.
If nurses were paid according to the work they do and had normal working conditions there would be no shortage of nurses.
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When I had a heart attack the nurses at the Anderson Mercy Hospital in Anderson Township, OH (Hamilton County Ohio) treated me as if I were the most important person in the world. They demonstrated a higher level of professionalism than any loud mouth politician.
I think this senator played her cards wrong and may leave the table
She needs to know when to hold'em. Know when to fold'em. Know when to walk away. Know when to run.
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I don't know what is more stupid, stating that the earth is flat, or that nurses have so much free time while working that they start to play cards. Politicians say a lot of stupid things, but this is really next-level-stupid!
When my son was born, we had to spend some time in the nicu. The doctors were great, but only available in short bursts of time. The nurses, however were there 24 hours a day, not only providing medical care to the babies, but support and emotional care to the families. Surely could not have done it without them.
I dare her to work one year under the current conditions. I dare her to get a degree in the profession. Though all the nurses on the planet hate her guts now, they will be the ones caring for her when she has her next heart attack, day and night, until she is well enough to make an international fool of herself again.
Now, please ponder for a while, that political decision-makers usually know as much about the subject of their decision as Mrs. Walsh apparently knows about nurses' work.
Senator Maureen Walsh is an ignoramus. She would be hopping mad if I said that senators spent their days playing cards. Well, they do, don't they?
As the daughter of a nurse who knows from a firsthand source how rough that job is, I cannot begin to explain how angry this makes me. I was also hospitalized recently and couldn’t believe how kind and helpful nearly all of the nurses were at any time of day or night with me or any other of the patients. Anyone, politicians included should have to work or watch a shift of a job before they make these types of comments on it.
I used to work as a care assistant. It's nowhere near the amount of work a nurse has to do (the RGNs I worked with were almost never off their feet, unless one of their two care assistants were spare and offered to go and deal with particular residents themselves). However, if I was sat at the nurse's station, I was filling in care plans that I'd not had time to fill in six hours ago because I'd been up to my elbows in human waste of all kinds, or I was reading the nurse's diary of what might still need to be done, and adding what would need doing the next. Sometimes I was dealing with a patient who was prone to violent episodes, and was once actually attacked by a large male resident who didn't want to have his soiled incontinence pad changed and didn't want me to wash him. Dementia patients can be dangerous, and in a hospital setting a nurse would have to put up with 100 times what I had to deal with as a carer.
My shift patterns were normally twelve hours, and I would often sacrifice my precious days off because the home was short staffed and I was needed. If I was lucky the emergency alarm wouldn't sound during my half hour lunch break and I'd be able to get my lunch down me before it went cold. Seriously, playing cards? Us carers didn't even have time to sneeze!
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I work for a large healthcare IT company. When I get called in on a client issue, the first people I want to talk to are nurses. They know what is going on and how to describe the workflow around the issue. IT staff second, and doctors only as a last resort!
Oh my goodness this pisses me off so much!! I am not a nurse, nor do I live in the states, but I am chronically ill and have spent way too much time in hospital in different wards and doing all kinds of tests. I´ve seen nurses with blood,puke and poop on their scrubs who didnt have time to change because another patient crashed. I´ve seen a nurse faint because she did doubleshift and hadn´t had anything to eat for too long. I´ve seen nurses cry. I´ve seen nurses holding babies and kids when mum got wheeled into ER. I´ve seen nurses drop everything to assist a bleeding woman who was carried into ER by a taxi-driver. No cardplays.
I´ve met so many,many,many nurses and none of them have been playing or treating it like a joke. What I have met are nurses who save lives. Who put others above themself. Who spend their days taking care of other people they dont know, who spend time to read up and get better at their work. I´ve met so many nurses and the thing they have in common is that they make you and the place feel better. Which this senator does not.
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I suggest no nurse, therapist, OT, PT, or Dr work on this "senator" or any of her family members in retaliation, including basic preventative care. If she came into my hospital, I would invoke that "against my beliefs" clause people like her put in place to let and watch her suffer for her ignorance and arrogance.
Cheeky f&&&! I've been a nurse for over 30 years, I would love to have time to play cards! X
I was in hospital for a bit over a week with a broken ankle last fall. I saw first hand what the nurses had to deal with, hour after hour after hour. I sincerely hope this big mouthed fool ends up in the hospital for a long stay.
here comes another idiot who likes to put their foot up their asses. pray that you don't need medical attention in the future, senator, because, as you know, 'those nurses play cards for a considerable amount of the day' and they don't have time for you. just saying.
Because the competition is any better? If the competition was better you wouldn't have the leader you have now. Try taking a look in the mirror first.
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Nurses are grossly under-appreciated. They work their a--es off, and have no time to play cards. Really! Look who's talking - a Senator, who probably works on less than half the days of the year. We could survive a lot, lot longer without politicians than we could without nurses.
I'm not sure what universe this senator lives in that she thinks there are enough nurses to set up 8 hour shifts. Most hospitals and nursing facilities are so short staffed, they are offering thousands in signing bonuses to any nurses willing to work for them. Eight hour shifts are not an option. Make that a law..and people are going to start dying from lack of care....
Not only are they short-staffed, but they can't necessarily leave at the time they actually are scheduled to. "I'm sorry you've gone into cardiac arrest, but my shift is up. Someone will be with you in the next 15-20 minutes."
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I live in a rural community. The hospital here is always busy. The emergency department is always packed with people who sometimes have to wait up to 6 hours - the longest I had to wait was 10 hours, and even then I only got admitted because I passed out on their floor. In the decades (I refuse to say how many) I have lived here, and in the many visits to our small hospital, not once have I ever seen a nurse have time to sit down. Oh wait, I had one sit with my daughter as she got her leg plastered. Politicians should have mandatory shifts within a real hospital before they're allowed to make rules regarding nurses.
Can we line up all people that say any type of worker "doesn't need breaks" or doesn't a living wage because they only "flip burgers"? Then have everybody kick each one in the balls. The only worker who doesn't deserve both is a dead worker.
If you saw a episode of "Grey's anatomy", you will know that was a show about playing cards. Nurses work more more and harder than Dr's. No offense to Dr's.
I have a deep admiration and respect for nurses. When my son was hospitalized a couple of weeks ago, every nurse who came in was so sympathetic and professional. I'm sure they had a million things to do and felt hungry, tired, thirsty, stressed, and everything else, but they were doing their best and I would never disrespect someone who works so hard, way harder than I've ever had to work in my lifetime. Much love to all medical professionals; you are incredible. <3
I work as paramedic for 7 years, then 10 years ago changed to IT business. My past work is of course female dominated, while my current is the opposite. Physical and mental energy that I spend now is hell more easy considered my old job. As a paramedic working on a shift of 2 person (with one doctor standby) handling 10 patients, I have to keep track of their condition every minute. Not that I have to be on side their bed every time, but I have to know each of their condition and can take action in some second when needed.. I will only have like 30 minute in each 8 hour shift for relaxing. And I have constantly walk during my shift to help their need. Being a paramedic is like working in hell if compared to my present job. Be we are very proud of our achievement..
Her comments made me sick. As a nurse myself, I found it offensive, stupid and ignorant.
Who's waiting for Karma to come around when the (honestly, Former) Senator has an overnight stay :'D
God forbid if this woman ever ends up at a hospital and the nurses decide to play poker instead of restarting her heart...
More care, less coding, and zero politicians weighing in on a profession b/c they want to sound as smart as they are ignorant. Deal that politician OUT!
Excellent! I think that this is one of the best subjects BP has ever dealt with.
Perhaps she'd better hope she never goes into hospital (although no doubt she'd go into a very posh expensive hospital, but nurses might unite) The nurses would of course still take care of her, but I like the idea that they might leave her a playing card after every visit to her bedside to give her pills, take her temperature, adjust her drip, bring her a bedpan etc etc.
She better watch out that she don't need a useless nurse who just plays with cards anytime soon....
Frankly, she is typical of a couple of idiot politicians in that state. I'm related to some nurses, my husband depended on his nurses during and after serious surgery, the nurses in the doctors office helped with my kids when they had illnesses or I had questions the doctors didn't explain. Nurses do so much and aren't given the rights they deserve. Even in very small hospitals (I lived in a town with one) they work their butts off every day.
I am a retired nurse. Let me tell you that a nurse has a bladder with a 3-5 gallon capacity and often does not get any breaks! Senator Walsh needs to stop talking about things she knows absolutely nothing about!
As a patient on the receiving end of nurse care I was very upset about the playing cards remark. All of my nurses, and I have had quite a few, every one has been hard working, helpful, willing to go a step farther with care. The health care profession is not an easy field. It takes special people. Thank you everyone who do this job.
I also suggest Senator Walsh take a tax payer funded ride over to one of our combat zones and follow a military nurse around for a day. For the record the first service woman to win a Silver Star which isn't handed out at every mess call was an Army Nurse. I'm pretty sure she didn't play cards to get it. Almost forgot, the eight women listed on The Wall were Army nurses. Nurses saves lives. I wonder Walsh has done to justify her time on this planet.
Wow how the hell has she got away with this ludicrous statement wot an ignorant b***h shocking beyond belief,,,,,
when your patient is flat lining but you saw that Jeff had a +4 uno card
My wife is a nurse for the NHS, she works her fingers to the bone every shift, as i'm sure all nurses do, she and the rest of the nurses are angels and heroes. Disgraceful and typical out of touch, rich politician. Makes me beyond angry.
The utter ignorance of some politicians is mind blowing. Nurses work harder than most people. They rarely stop their entire shift. In small hospitals, they have few staff - there are still similar numbers of staff to patient ratios as st big hospitals (usually even less actually, particularly if they need to escort a patient on an ambulance transfer like here in Australia where I live). And people in hospital tend to be very dependent for everything... meds, toileting, showers, water, assistance to roll over in bed etc. If Why can’t they all be like AOC - do research & don’t say totally stupid untrue things... oh & don’t cover the a** of corrupt scum
I can only say that this person is moron for thinking that about nurses. As someone said, of course she's a republican. Supposedly, the repubs are in favor of small gov't and pull yourself up by your bootstraps. After a 12+ hour shift, I would dare to guess that a caregiver would not even have the strength to do it. But that doesn't explain all the money the "small gov't" is spending right and left. But the money never seems to go to the right group. Nurses, teachers, police and firefighters are all dreadfully underpaid, yet they are expected to work long, hard shifts with no complaints. All lI can say: No Matter Who VOTE BLUE.
I want to see the speech in full context without the edits. Short, heavily edited clips always raise my eyebrow. I want to know if she is indeed specifically talking about tiny places with less than 25 beds like the article mentions. Also, I think she has a point about 8 hr shifts. I would NOT want someone on a 12 hr shift taking care of me because you just aren't sharp after that long. The level of care would absolutely for sure go down towards the end of it. Maybe she's an a*****e, but I'll reserve judgement until I get the complete picture. Always take any video you see that has multiple cuts with a grain of salt. (Now bring on my typical downvotes).
As Ms. Walsh herself said, though her remarks were taken out of context, "they still crossed the line."
Load More Replies... Please get another heart attack and die. Ugly old fat hick. Just die already. Nurses shouldn’t have saved you the first time. People like this add no value to Earth, America or their own community. She should die and nurses should refuse her care when she’s coding. But nurses wouldn’t do that to her. They would put down their cards (lol jk) and tend to her grease-saturated arteries.
"Tolerance of hate and pulling this pseudo enlightened centrism is immoral". Yeah, you sound very tolerant and not hateful at all in your comments here. I've said it many times before and I'll say it again, on average the left is more hateful than the right.
Load More Replies... Congratulations on everyone in the post and in the comments to take it out of context. She said that not aiming at all nurses but the ones at Criticial ascess centers, where you get between 5-20 patients (not even daily) in rural, isolated areas. These nurses do get breaks. She’s not referring to nurses in other clinics.
Well in Poland they maybe do not play cards but they do everything to stay away from the patients. So the patients can grow abscesses from laying in their own urine and feecies I unchanged diapers. Or starve because they are not able to eat on their own. Or have blood venture all the way up the IV tube because the contents already are finished and reverse pressure is created. Not to mention that to show their displeasure when being called by the patient they toss him or her like a sack of potatoes.
Accountability and lawsuits loom over nurses and other healthcare employees in western countries. First thing drilled into your mind would be ‘cover yourself’ meaning do the right thing in the first place at all times. Follow care plan and safety procedures, read charts and be updated about everything- equipment, procedures, policies and your skills. What they learn in the textbooks will be different in the floor. And of course document, document, document. Without documentation, things did not happen. Mind your attitude as well. Remember you do not want to be accused of abuse or harassment and a sourpuss is more likely to be complained against. So you see, with all of these in mind and a revolving door of patients a nurse in this part of the world will be exhausted and burnt out.
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I am sorry but I will never understand how rich politicians dont give a c**p anout other human beings. There isnt enough nurses to have a normal humane 8 hour shift and she still thinks that they dont work enough? Nobody should be allowed to do 12h shifts, it is inhumane and the quality of their work will decrease.
Goverments should invest much more time, laws and resources in ensuring proper health care.In Spain we dont have doctors or nurses enough. It is so bad thaf my sister was sick today and the next apointment that she could do to vusit her house doctor was in May... By that time she will either be cured or really sick...
Load More Replies... Republican, who would have guessed? When I was a student, I worked at a care home for the very old and cronically sick. One day a polititian (M) from the municipal came to visit. M is the swedish equivalent of republican. He asked my boss if we closed during the summers. Like yeah, the old people become young and can take care of themselves just because it's summer? Idiots.
Nurses are vitally important in keeping people alive and comfortable. They are just as important as Drs. Nurses are the first people you see, take blood tests, administer medications, administer IVs, clean bodily fluids etc. They work long hours, often without uninterrupted breaks in an often thankless job. They are also the ones more than likely to receive abuse from drug and alcohol violence etc. They deserve so much respect.
My neighbor's husband is in a wheelchair and spent some time at the hospital for medical procedures. She found out how the nurses rarely get a chance to eat. She tried to bring them snacks as much as possible, but the hospitals had strict rules about food consumption and breaks. This needs to change. There should be time for nurses to take care of their own basic needs. Unfortunately..there aren't enough nurses.
Load More Replies... Then she had the audacity to "apologize" by saying she was "tired". B***h, please. You were tired because you were fighting to deny uninterrupted breaks to the nursing community.......you know......it's not like THEY ever get tired or anything.
I'm also amazed that she claimed it was taken out of context. Unless she was being sarcastic to make a point in favor of nurses getting scheduled breaks, the context is irrelevant.
Load More Replies... I've worked in healthcare for 16 years. Ten as a psych tech on inpatient psychiatric units. 5 as an RN on an inpatient psychiatric unit and 1 as a psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner. For which I got a doctorate. Most places I worked didn't even require breaks or lunches. If we got to eat we ate when the patients ate and were still taking care of them. I can't just go to the bathroom while a patient is in crisis and tell them "sorry you want to die. I have to pee. Be right back" most shifts of my life there was no food, no drinks, one to two bathroom uses per shift which typically entailed me getting paged/called etc to get out and come back within 20 seconds of walking off the floor. And most of it thankless with patients being demanding, rude, and swearing at me for not giving them triple portions. In addition to the risk of getting spit on, hit, kicked, punched and stabbed. Nurses are one of societies most valuable professions and we all should treat them as such.
This republican fool wouldn't be able to keep up with a nurse for one shift. She wouldn't even survive a 5 minute rest break. It's a wonder that America still has nurses, seeing the way these people are treated.
I live in the UK. I'm disabled and chronically ill, so am a little too familiar with hospitals for my liking. I'm also an ex care assistant. If I ever needed something as an inpatient, I was always apologetic and grateful, because that's a thankless job and nurses are taken for granted far too often.
Load More Replies... This infuriates me. I work in the nurse staffing industry. Do you know that there is a nursing shortage?? Do you know how much nurses do????? They are over worked, exhausted, and probably one of the most underappreciated professions. Salute to our nurses, This woman is such a dingbat. I hope when you need medical care, the nurses grab a fresh deck and sit down for a nice game of rummy.
If nurses were paid according to the work they do and had normal working conditions there would be no shortage of nurses.
Load More Replies... When I had a heart attack the nurses at the Anderson Mercy Hospital in Anderson Township, OH (Hamilton County Ohio) treated me as if I were the most important person in the world. They demonstrated a higher level of professionalism than any loud mouth politician.
I think this senator played her cards wrong and may leave the table
She needs to know when to hold'em. Know when to fold'em. Know when to walk away. Know when to run.
Load More Replies... I don't know what is more stupid, stating that the earth is flat, or that nurses have so much free time while working that they start to play cards. Politicians say a lot of stupid things, but this is really next-level-stupid!
When my son was born, we had to spend some time in the nicu. The doctors were great, but only available in short bursts of time. The nurses, however were there 24 hours a day, not only providing medical care to the babies, but support and emotional care to the families. Surely could not have done it without them.
I dare her to work one year under the current conditions. I dare her to get a degree in the profession. Though all the nurses on the planet hate her guts now, they will be the ones caring for her when she has her next heart attack, day and night, until she is well enough to make an international fool of herself again.
Now, please ponder for a while, that political decision-makers usually know as much about the subject of their decision as Mrs. Walsh apparently knows about nurses' work.
Senator Maureen Walsh is an ignoramus. She would be hopping mad if I said that senators spent their days playing cards. Well, they do, don't they?
As the daughter of a nurse who knows from a firsthand source how rough that job is, I cannot begin to explain how angry this makes me. I was also hospitalized recently and couldn’t believe how kind and helpful nearly all of the nurses were at any time of day or night with me or any other of the patients. Anyone, politicians included should have to work or watch a shift of a job before they make these types of comments on it.
I used to work as a care assistant. It's nowhere near the amount of work a nurse has to do (the RGNs I worked with were almost never off their feet, unless one of their two care assistants were spare and offered to go and deal with particular residents themselves). However, if I was sat at the nurse's station, I was filling in care plans that I'd not had time to fill in six hours ago because I'd been up to my elbows in human waste of all kinds, or I was reading the nurse's diary of what might still need to be done, and adding what would need doing the next. Sometimes I was dealing with a patient who was prone to violent episodes, and was once actually attacked by a large male resident who didn't want to have his soiled incontinence pad changed and didn't want me to wash him. Dementia patients can be dangerous, and in a hospital setting a nurse would have to put up with 100 times what I had to deal with as a carer.
My shift patterns were normally twelve hours, and I would often sacrifice my precious days off because the home was short staffed and I was needed. If I was lucky the emergency alarm wouldn't sound during my half hour lunch break and I'd be able to get my lunch down me before it went cold. Seriously, playing cards? Us carers didn't even have time to sneeze!
Load More Replies... I work for a large healthcare IT company. When I get called in on a client issue, the first people I want to talk to are nurses. They know what is going on and how to describe the workflow around the issue. IT staff second, and doctors only as a last resort!
Oh my goodness this pisses me off so much!! I am not a nurse, nor do I live in the states, but I am chronically ill and have spent way too much time in hospital in different wards and doing all kinds of tests. I´ve seen nurses with blood,puke and poop on their scrubs who didnt have time to change because another patient crashed. I´ve seen a nurse faint because she did doubleshift and hadn´t had anything to eat for too long. I´ve seen nurses cry. I´ve seen nurses holding babies and kids when mum got wheeled into ER. I´ve seen nurses drop everything to assist a bleeding woman who was carried into ER by a taxi-driver. No cardplays.
I´ve met so many,many,many nurses and none of them have been playing or treating it like a joke. What I have met are nurses who save lives. Who put others above themself. Who spend their days taking care of other people they dont know, who spend time to read up and get better at their work. I´ve met so many nurses and the thing they have in common is that they make you and the place feel better. Which this senator does not.
Load More Replies... I suggest no nurse, therapist, OT, PT, or Dr work on this "senator" or any of her family members in retaliation, including basic preventative care. If she came into my hospital, I would invoke that "against my beliefs" clause people like her put in place to let and watch her suffer for her ignorance and arrogance.
Cheeky f&&&! I've been a nurse for over 30 years, I would love to have time to play cards! X
I was in hospital for a bit over a week with a broken ankle last fall. I saw first hand what the nurses had to deal with, hour after hour after hour. I sincerely hope this big mouthed fool ends up in the hospital for a long stay.
here comes another idiot who likes to put their foot up their asses. pray that you don't need medical attention in the future, senator, because, as you know, 'those nurses play cards for a considerable amount of the day' and they don't have time for you. just saying.
Because the competition is any better? If the competition was better you wouldn't have the leader you have now. Try taking a look in the mirror first.
Load More Replies... Nurses are grossly under-appreciated. They work their a--es off, and have no time to play cards. Really! Look who's talking - a Senator, who probably works on less than half the days of the year. We could survive a lot, lot longer without politicians than we could without nurses.
I'm not sure what universe this senator lives in that she thinks there are enough nurses to set up 8 hour shifts. Most hospitals and nursing facilities are so short staffed, they are offering thousands in signing bonuses to any nurses willing to work for them. Eight hour shifts are not an option. Make that a law..and people are going to start dying from lack of care....
Not only are they short-staffed, but they can't necessarily leave at the time they actually are scheduled to. "I'm sorry you've gone into cardiac arrest, but my shift is up. Someone will be with you in the next 15-20 minutes."
Load More Replies... I live in a rural community. The hospital here is always busy. The emergency department is always packed with people who sometimes have to wait up to 6 hours - the longest I had to wait was 10 hours, and even then I only got admitted because I passed out on their floor. In the decades (I refuse to say how many) I have lived here, and in the many visits to our small hospital, not once have I ever seen a nurse have time to sit down. Oh wait, I had one sit with my daughter as she got her leg plastered. Politicians should have mandatory shifts within a real hospital before they're allowed to make rules regarding nurses.
Can we line up all people that say any type of worker "doesn't need breaks" or doesn't a living wage because they only "flip burgers"? Then have everybody kick each one in the balls. The only worker who doesn't deserve both is a dead worker.
If you saw a episode of "Grey's anatomy", you will know that was a show about playing cards. Nurses work more more and harder than Dr's. No offense to Dr's.
I have a deep admiration and respect for nurses. When my son was hospitalized a couple of weeks ago, every nurse who came in was so sympathetic and professional. I'm sure they had a million things to do and felt hungry, tired, thirsty, stressed, and everything else, but they were doing their best and I would never disrespect someone who works so hard, way harder than I've ever had to work in my lifetime. Much love to all medical professionals; you are incredible. <3
I work as paramedic for 7 years, then 10 years ago changed to IT business. My past work is of course female dominated, while my current is the opposite. Physical and mental energy that I spend now is hell more easy considered my old job. As a paramedic working on a shift of 2 person (with one doctor standby) handling 10 patients, I have to keep track of their condition every minute. Not that I have to be on side their bed every time, but I have to know each of their condition and can take action in some second when needed.. I will only have like 30 minute in each 8 hour shift for relaxing. And I have constantly walk during my shift to help their need. Being a paramedic is like working in hell if compared to my present job. Be we are very proud of our achievement..
Her comments made me sick. As a nurse myself, I found it offensive, stupid and ignorant.
Who's waiting for Karma to come around when the (honestly, Former) Senator has an overnight stay :'D
God forbid if this woman ever ends up at a hospital and the nurses decide to play poker instead of restarting her heart...
More care, less coding, and zero politicians weighing in on a profession b/c they want to sound as smart as they are ignorant. Deal that politician OUT!
Excellent! I think that this is one of the best subjects BP has ever dealt with.
Perhaps she'd better hope she never goes into hospital (although no doubt she'd go into a very posh expensive hospital, but nurses might unite) The nurses would of course still take care of her, but I like the idea that they might leave her a playing card after every visit to her bedside to give her pills, take her temperature, adjust her drip, bring her a bedpan etc etc.
She better watch out that she don't need a useless nurse who just plays with cards anytime soon....
Frankly, she is typical of a couple of idiot politicians in that state. I'm related to some nurses, my husband depended on his nurses during and after serious surgery, the nurses in the doctors office helped with my kids when they had illnesses or I had questions the doctors didn't explain. Nurses do so much and aren't given the rights they deserve. Even in very small hospitals (I lived in a town with one) they work their butts off every day.
I am a retired nurse. Let me tell you that a nurse has a bladder with a 3-5 gallon capacity and often does not get any breaks! Senator Walsh needs to stop talking about things she knows absolutely nothing about!
As a patient on the receiving end of nurse care I was very upset about the playing cards remark. All of my nurses, and I have had quite a few, every one has been hard working, helpful, willing to go a step farther with care. The health care profession is not an easy field. It takes special people. Thank you everyone who do this job.
I also suggest Senator Walsh take a tax payer funded ride over to one of our combat zones and follow a military nurse around for a day. For the record the first service woman to win a Silver Star which isn't handed out at every mess call was an Army Nurse. I'm pretty sure she didn't play cards to get it. Almost forgot, the eight women listed on The Wall were Army nurses. Nurses saves lives. I wonder Walsh has done to justify her time on this planet.
Wow how the hell has she got away with this ludicrous statement wot an ignorant b***h shocking beyond belief,,,,,
when your patient is flat lining but you saw that Jeff had a +4 uno card
My wife is a nurse for the NHS, she works her fingers to the bone every shift, as i'm sure all nurses do, she and the rest of the nurses are angels and heroes. Disgraceful and typical out of touch, rich politician. Makes me beyond angry.
The utter ignorance of some politicians is mind blowing. Nurses work harder than most people. They rarely stop their entire shift. In small hospitals, they have few staff - there are still similar numbers of staff to patient ratios as st big hospitals (usually even less actually, particularly if they need to escort a patient on an ambulance transfer like here in Australia where I live). And people in hospital tend to be very dependent for everything... meds, toileting, showers, water, assistance to roll over in bed etc. If Why can’t they all be like AOC - do research & don’t say totally stupid untrue things... oh & don’t cover the a** of corrupt scum
I can only say that this person is moron for thinking that about nurses. As someone said, of course she's a republican. Supposedly, the repubs are in favor of small gov't and pull yourself up by your bootstraps. After a 12+ hour shift, I would dare to guess that a caregiver would not even have the strength to do it. But that doesn't explain all the money the "small gov't" is spending right and left. But the money never seems to go to the right group. Nurses, teachers, police and firefighters are all dreadfully underpaid, yet they are expected to work long, hard shifts with no complaints. All lI can say: No Matter Who VOTE BLUE.
I want to see the speech in full context without the edits. Short, heavily edited clips always raise my eyebrow. I want to know if she is indeed specifically talking about tiny places with less than 25 beds like the article mentions. Also, I think she has a point about 8 hr shifts. I would NOT want someone on a 12 hr shift taking care of me because you just aren't sharp after that long. The level of care would absolutely for sure go down towards the end of it. Maybe she's an a*****e, but I'll reserve judgement until I get the complete picture. Always take any video you see that has multiple cuts with a grain of salt. (Now bring on my typical downvotes).
As Ms. Walsh herself said, though her remarks were taken out of context, "they still crossed the line."
Load More Replies... Please get another heart attack and die. Ugly old fat hick. Just die already. Nurses shouldn’t have saved you the first time. People like this add no value to Earth, America or their own community. She should die and nurses should refuse her care when she’s coding. But nurses wouldn’t do that to her. They would put down their cards (lol jk) and tend to her grease-saturated arteries.
"Tolerance of hate and pulling this pseudo enlightened centrism is immoral". Yeah, you sound very tolerant and not hateful at all in your comments here. I've said it many times before and I'll say it again, on average the left is more hateful than the right.
Load More Replies... Congratulations on everyone in the post and in the comments to take it out of context. She said that not aiming at all nurses but the ones at Criticial ascess centers, where you get between 5-20 patients (not even daily) in rural, isolated areas. These nurses do get breaks. She’s not referring to nurses in other clinics.
Well in Poland they maybe do not play cards but they do everything to stay away from the patients. So the patients can grow abscesses from laying in their own urine and feecies I unchanged diapers. Or starve because they are not able to eat on their own. Or have blood venture all the way up the IV tube because the contents already are finished and reverse pressure is created. Not to mention that to show their displeasure when being called by the patient they toss him or her like a sack of potatoes.
Accountability and lawsuits loom over nurses and other healthcare employees in western countries. First thing drilled into your mind would be ‘cover yourself’ meaning do the right thing in the first place at all times. Follow care plan and safety procedures, read charts and be updated about everything- equipment, procedures, policies and your skills. What they learn in the textbooks will be different in the floor. And of course document, document, document. Without documentation, things did not happen. Mind your attitude as well. Remember you do not want to be accused of abuse or harassment and a sourpuss is more likely to be complained against. So you see, with all of these in mind and a revolving door of patients a nurse in this part of the world will be exhausted and burnt out.
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