I am an emergency room nurse in a large U.S. city, and after a decade of working in hospitals, I want out. And I’m not the only medical professional who is quitting ―. The stress we are encountering currently because of the fallout from a mishandled pandemic is what is finally breaking my colleagues and myself.
I am watching my country’s health care system crumble in front of me, and this man is just one of its many casualties. Soon after, the woman’s discharge paperwork comes in, but she is still crying from intractable pain. She is a multiple myeloma patient and the medications she is taking at home are not helping with her pain today. Are we allowed to admit her because she is unsteady and her pain is severe? The answer is no. We can’t allow her to occupy the bed ― there’s simply no room for her.
I approach the nursing office at 7 p.m., which is the end of my shift. I let my superiors know about the fall, reiterate my concern about the unstable discharges , and apologize for pulling my contract. They respond by stating, “Why didn’t you call us at the time of the fall? Did you make an incident report?”
On my first day at this particular ER, the unit had run out of pulse oximeters, which measure oxygen levels, for several hours. I had two patients going to the ICU, both of whom were incredibly unstable, one other in respiratory failure with COVID-19, and another with SVT .
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