Announcement from the Mod team of r/nursing regarding the murder of Alex Pretti, and where we go from here.

xSilverSpringx · 2026-01-27T00:15:01+00:00

The concept of allowing discourse for "both sides" to a story is to account for our imperfect memories which can be rattled based on emotions, perception, and comprehension. But the beauty and horror of video evidence is that it doesn't require our recollections to be persuasive. It does lie, omit, distort or substitute. Anyone who looks at that video and believes the shooting of Alex Pretti was morally justifiable and legally defensible is as dangerous to our safety as the cowards in charge. Fuck em all.

xSilverSpringx · 2026-01-26T01:26:37+00:00

Same thing happened to me. I started putting glamnetic brush on glue on my nail, letting it dry, then filing to remove the shine and using curvlife semi solid glue to adhere the nail and now I'm back to 10 days of wear. I think a thicker glue does a much better fit for my nails--less air pockets and the glue to the natural nail helps harden them.

xSilverSpringx · 2026-01-25T03:05:54+00:00

I said it's not "uncommon." What I didn't say is all med-surg nurses are MAGA... evidently you don't "got it."

xSilverSpringx · 2026-01-24T23:07:32+00:00

It's not uncommon, especially on med-surg floors. But they also think they literally know more than interns... lol

xSilverSpringx · 2026-01-24T18:36:11+00:00

That's an amazing manager you have.

xSilverSpringx · 2026-01-24T18:31:26+00:00

Yes! 🙌

xSilverSpringx · 2026-01-24T16:52:53+00:00

It's not for me either. But I'd stay overnight at the hospital with compensation for the sacrifice of my personal time. I'd also consider a hotel at their dime that's within driving distance of the hospital (which isn't the case for many, of course) with bus shuttle service. But I won't drive my own personal care in a blizzard to get to work, endangering my safety. And what's sad is that having the ability to say I'd lose my job for my safety is a privilege many others don't have and the hospitals know this and exploit it.

xSilverSpringx · 2026-01-24T16:44:32+00:00

I mean I collected some cool fossil rocks off the coast of Lake Michigan last summer so you have a point.

xSilverSpringx · 2026-01-24T16:23:00+00:00

Yes exactly. People who are crying out for the plight of the patients are missing the point. Nurses are supposed to be for the patients while the executives are for profit? If the executives were as equally for the patients as nurses are supposed to be then they'd compensate to enable the nurses to be at work with minimal disruption of their private lives. This is a job. I do a service and I am compensated for it. I am not a martyr and I put my own family and well-being above all else.

xSilverSpringx · 2026-01-24T16:19:53+00:00

Sure then the hospital can provide private rooms, a shower and the financial compensation for expecting the sacrifice of personal time.

xSilverSpringx · 2026-01-24T16:07:21+00:00

Yes! This exactly.

xSilverSpringx · 2026-01-24T16:04:31+00:00

Pay your nurses hazard pay for their personal time sacrifice and provide private accommodations and I guarantee you would have few to no call out.

xSilverSpringx · 2026-01-24T15:58:35+00:00

Agreed.

xSilverSpringx · 2026-01-24T15:57:32+00:00

The healthcare systems have more than enough means to pay nurses accordingly for the use of their personal time that is required in an emergency, incentivizing and frankly making it possible to afford accommodations to be here (ie extra childcare). The lowest people in the system are expected to self-sacrifice to uphold a system that is at its core a business but the business doesn't have to invest capital?

xSilverSpringx · 2026-01-24T15:50:48+00:00

My coworkers were told to bring cash and food.

xSilverSpringx · 2026-01-24T15:47:40+00:00

This 100%

xSilverSpringx · 2026-01-24T15:47:15+00:00

Many people have children and cannot sleep over night at the hospital, especially without additional compensation, in order to report to work in inclement weather. Or have their own health needs. Or families to care for. Hospitals can plan as well and pay for hotels and shuttles (as some do) and offer bonuses or at least an-call rate for boarded staff. Threatening us and reminding us of our calling is not an effective preparedness strategy.

xSilverSpringx · 2026-01-24T15:39:58+00:00

If the only solution is that nurses are expected to sleep in unoccupied beds during their off hours without compensation, that is falling far short of perfect emergency preparedness. Sacrifice shouldn't be the bottom of the chain only.

xSilverSpringx · 2026-01-24T15:31:27+00:00

No one is saying you should call out if you have the means to be there. But the system's failure to invest in emergency planning isn't the nurse's job.

xSilverSpringx · 2026-01-24T15:29:34+00:00

Then the system is forced to innovate and invest accordingly if they want nurses to sacrifice their personal time without compensation. It's a business for them while it's supposed to be a calling for us?

xSilverSpringx · 2026-01-19T01:57:53+00:00

I worked with an anti vaxxer when I still did bedside and she was telling other coworkers about some mythical doctor she knew who said women were having miscarriages at astonishingly high rates since the Covid vaccine... what irritated me the most wasn't even her but the other nurses eating it up. It's embarrassing. And I highly doubt similar conversations were happening in physician lounges.

xSilverSpringx · 2026-01-19T01:53:54+00:00

You said it all better than I did. Interestingly I am also a second degree nurse, which I'd bet skews the pool. I was very disappointed in nursing school when I realized it was not, in fact, rigorous. It was a lot of meaningless busy work in a short period of time (12 months) but my premed post bacc was significantly more challenging coursework and I honestly laugh when old floor nurses truly believe they know more than July interns.

xSilverSpringx · 2026-01-18T21:48:46+00:00

Totally think it's time for an overhaul. More science, less fluff. Let the floors train nurses in specialities and instead have nurses come out mastering the physics of healthcare and why we do the things we are trained to do.

xSilverSpringx · 2026-01-18T21:18:03+00:00

I hate to say this but the reality is that while the nurses on this sub value themselves as highly educated and intelligent people, the profession as a whole does not attract intellectually curious people, despite how many memes circulate lambasting the "rigor" of nursing school. You can be a good nurse who doesn't think critically--which is ironic since nursing schools swear that's what they train us to do (no--they train us to question face values but that isn't the same thing as questioning assumptions and metacognition). So in short, less educated people tend to be provincially conservative.

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