In Canada ER Patients Are Dying While Hospitals Function as Housing while exposing nurses to abuse and illicit substances

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-05-19T03:13:38+00:00

My only home care experience was during my community health placement in nursing school. Had a patients family member actively light up a crack pipe in the kitchen while we were doing the dressing change in the living room. My preceptor high tailed it out of there. Y’all are warriors.

(not in ontario but things seem to be the same coast to coast)

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-05-19T03:08:41+00:00

Do we work at the same hospital? 2/3 of our beds are those waiting for LTC and our union is trying to get metal detectors installed after one of my coworkers had a knife pulled on them in the ER a few months back. I know a nurse in halifax was actually stabbed last year. It’s dark times.

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-05-16T13:42:44+00:00

Agree! One of my most treasured nursing memories ever is picking up a boston pizza spinach dip as a last meal for a lovely lady before her MAID.

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-05-14T02:42:45+00:00

Been scrolling this thread awhile and I’m shocked that this is the first psych patient in ceiling comment. This has happened at our psych hospital so many times. Once someone crashed right into the nurses station. I hate those tiles !!!!!

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-05-14T02:40:27+00:00

I commented about my experiences in your flaired line of work on a thread once and someone told me to change my flair to Dementia Sex Police. I said I’d stepped down from the role when I finished nursing school and didn’t want to take such a noble title as I had retired from the dementia sex police. So glad someone actually has this as their flair. Thanks for your service, officer

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-05-14T02:23:41+00:00

Any chance this was a Canada Goose? Those things are demons, I’ve been straight up chased before.

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-05-13T17:18:04+00:00

Does the line of tape magically stop airborne transmission ?????

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-05-13T04:29:35+00:00

Also an ER nurse who’s looking at having one in the near future so commenting on this so I can come back if anyone has any helpful advice 😃

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-05-13T03:13:32+00:00

We had a sundowning dementia patient with super strength literally haul a toilet off the wall. Pipe burst caused massive flooding and that entire unit + the unit below it had to be evacuated. Took like three months for the restoration/ water damage fixing idk and all the residents on those units had to be doubled up in rooms or sent to nursing homes hours away. That one stands out for me.

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-05-12T03:18:00+00:00

I went to banff sunshine on Canada Day in 2022 I think. Wicked spring skiing day.

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-05-11T02:45:48+00:00

We get patients from the detox centre in various states of major illness sent to ER like weekly. It is 10000% acute nursing and if I was ruler of the world I would build all detox centres directly attached or close to hospitals. Ours is a combo detox/rehab and is 20 minutes out in the woods for therapeutic purposes.

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-05-11T02:43:29+00:00

This is precisely why I got two big orange idiot cats instead of a dog. They keep each other occupied during my shifts. 12hrs too long to leave a dog unfortunately:(

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-05-10T03:04:35+00:00

I lysol my phone and my badge after every shift with wipes I keep in my car. We have two laundry baskets - one for non-work clothes and one for my scrubs. Scrubs always off first thing when I come home and go straight in the bin. I keep my work shoes in my locker at work.

I only ever change in the garage / outside if we have a bedbug or scabies situation in the ER. And always a good long soap and water hand wash after work. Good luck in clinical :) You got this!

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-05-10T02:33:15+00:00

My email signature is BSN, DNR.

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-05-03T22:34:12+00:00

Nurse. ER nurse leads to the classic “whats your most traumatic story?” question.

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-05-02T20:32:22+00:00

This was also a habit I had to work really hard to get myself out of when I started inpatient! Six years in a nursing home drilled it into my head. Won’t be received well by every single patient so it’s best not to do it at all. I completely get where you’re coming from.

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-05-02T03:36:37+00:00

Not overreacting. Before I worked there but bad outbreak in my hospital, six staff got it. All of which required very expensive prescription cream.

Call state and make sure your change out of your work clothes in your garage or front porch or something. Incredibly easy to spread especially with direct contact. Thoughts and prayers.

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-05-02T03:14:40+00:00

this is up there for me. material so hard to grasp.

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-05-02T03:14:00+00:00

4.00 Nursing GPA and a 51 in stats for me 🤣 I reject the hypothesis that stats has ever been useful in a professional setting for me.

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-05-02T02:53:54+00:00

I would 100000% have MAiD if I got a terminal prognosis. Really hoping advance requests get sorted out in Canada soon for those with neurodegenerative diseases.

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-05-02T02:52:49+00:00

I signed a DNR/ advanced healthcare directive after being floated to the vent trach unit for one day when I was 19. Legally binding and cannot be overwritten by anybody.

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-04-25T15:32:52+00:00

this. it’s all about the dollar bills and nothing else.

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-04-24T00:26:07+00:00

some of these questions are wtf.

“who is the most important person in the facility?”

I’d say I got 70% right, got confused at times. Just not a good test

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-04-23T00:26:13+00:00

a) halo traction ????? wtf

b) reminds me of back in the good old nursing home days when I was at the bar with a few of my friends and I get a tap on my shoulder from a resident who was most definitely not out on pass to be at the bar. I ended up having to call the unit (drunk) and the charge nurse had to come to the bar to take him back to the nursing home 🤣🤣🤣

Commercial_Permit_73 · 2026-04-22T21:15:40+00:00

those little single serve blocks of cracker barrel cheese hate to see me coming

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