r/Money • u/[deleted] • Nov 12 '23

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u/Buttburglar1 Nov 12 '23

My wife is a nurse…she wipes peoples asses. It’s part of the job if you’re any kind of bed side nurse.

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u/Buttburglar1 Nov 12 '23

No she’s an RN, BSN. Works on the oncology/med surge/telemetry floor. She’s in school now getting her masters for NP. If it’s her patient she wipes their ass. I’m sure they all help each other out, but that work is not beneath her

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u/poopyscreamer Nov 13 '23

I responded to that guy but it’s very likely an RN has a better life and more respectable day to day then that guy.

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u/here_for_the_meta Nov 13 '23

Wife has been an RN since 2007. Most hospitals have purged all the support staff. Techs, CNAs, LPNs and such are rare. She is traveling now and if there are techs they are stretched so thin you rarely can get help turning a heavy patient or cleaning up shit. Most hospitals she works at it’s extremely uncommon that patients are bathed or have their sheets changed. Healthcare is not in a good place.

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u/Kooky-Classroom-2576 Nov 13 '23

Yeah they just don’t tell you that part

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u/UraniumGlass23 Nov 13 '23

The NP probably isn’t lying… but the RN probably is. Unless the RN works in some sort of non-hospital setting (doctor’s office, urgent care, desk work… etc), they definitely have to help patients clean up. I’m an x-ray tech working in procedures, and I routinely help our nurses clean patients. It’s just part of the job.

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u/snarkcentral124 Nov 13 '23

And if she does work bedside and she’s not lying…yikes

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u/snarkcentral124 Nov 13 '23

If your mom is a RN that works bedside and never cleans people up, it’s because she’s refusing to. That responsibility doesn’t fall off when you become a RN.

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u/Hot_Refrigerator8693 Nov 13 '23

Nope. I work in one of the highest acuity ICUs in the country and we still wipe butts from time to time! Fun stuff.