What has your experiences taught you about the healthcare system?
I graduated from Nursing when I was twenty-three and worked on psychiatry/med/surg/peds, in public health, in a clinic, did covid swabbing and worked in a long-term care facility for years.
What did this teach me?
Stay healthy.
Appreciate your health while you have it.
If you’re young, don’t live for retirement or even look forward to retirement, live for right now.
Also, you just never know what other people are going through, so be nice.
There is a really great video I show to my students before we go out on Clinical to do their long term care and acute placements. It shows a day in a hospital and how each person there, whether they’re patients or staff, are going through their own problems.
Everyone had their own shit. It might be different shit but it’s shit just the same.
In case anyone is interested, it’s a quick video.
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