[FULL] Farah: “I Cry A Lot Because It Is Really Exhausting”, Handling More Than 10 Patients All At Once As A Surgical Nurse, Offering Kindness To Total Strangers

As far as I can remember, I have never spoken to a nurse before, of course excluding the times I woke up in the middle of the night to get my blood drawn when I was at the hospital. But I didn’t speak to the nurses either, it wasn’t a conversation. In this episode, I sat down with Farah to learn the stories behind a nurse and all the kindness a nurse would offer to any random stranger, something even I struggle to do when times are bad. Think about nurses. The conversation helped me understand a few things. First and foremost, the empathy and kindness a nurse can offer to any stranger is unmatched and it melts my heart to see and hear any stories from a nurse taking care of their patients. They really take care of their patients as if they were their kids. But also, the issue of short-staffing never seems to get solved and the longer the problem sits, the more underappreciated these nurses go. The same goes to doctors and all healthcare providers. I hope conversations like this get heard and together, we can sit down and take the next step to solve a problem. Step by step.  Listen on to know what nurses go through in their shift. Timeline: [00:00] What does a surgical nurse do? [05:41] A day in the life of Farah [08:38] What kind of decisions do nurses make? [10:05] Her early days of becoming a nurse [12:54] The career prospects of a nurse [19:07] The working hours of a surgical nurse [20:26] All about vital signs [22:16] False alarms from nurses [24:49] Things that happened in the ward that she would never tell [26:30] Teamwork in wards [27:43] Short-staffing in hospitals [31:48] Advice to future nurses [34:26] Difficult patients [37:51] A bad day in the life of a nurse [44:18] Room for errors [48:56] How would AI or technology help nurses? [50:37] Wards during Covid [59:28] The most rewarding part of the job [01:07:11] Does it ever get boring? [01:09:49] Ethical dilemma Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com and https://www.epidemicsound.com/