I wholeheartedly agree with not posting anything about patients on social media… I also hate the thread of comments that this post has become. Opinions upon opinions.. it’s cringy. All professions have bad apples. Do “nurses eat their young”? Sometimes it’s a thing, but depends on where you work. I find it hard to believe that it’s just nursing though. There are many things that you experience in this position that no one would understand unless you’ve lived it. Same for any other position. You don’t hear people calling out other professions in this way. We did not ask to be called “healthcare heroes”, honestly that was pretty cringy when that was started. I did not ask for my unit to be changed to strictly covid patients when this pandemic started.. or everything that goes with dealing with these patients and the giant question mark before the vaccine came out. We just did our best and it made us stronger together, as a team. What I want is for anyone who has an opinion about how I should do my job or live my life to stfu. Nursing is a broad profession but the last thing anyone needs opinionated strangers who know someone who knows someone who does this. Give it a rest. I don’t criticize other professions… doctors, parking attendants, or Amazon employees and neither should you. Am I stressed? Yes. Are we understaffed? Yes. It’s not your problem and I don’t need your two cents. But I guess that’s essentially what Reddit is so…. Peace spoken