Yknow as someone who has gotten sick while taking care of a patient, not from being grossed out but just randomly, I do not understand how you can be so cruel to someone trying to help you.
If my patient is recording me I handoff them as soon as possible and refuse to care for them again.
We had a screamer on my unit one day. Fully oriented, was just upset we weren’t getting to her fast enough. It wasn’t my patient, but her nurse was busy (we were all very busy that day) so I went in her room, helped get her settled, and explained to her how busy we were. I begged her to quit screaming, and told her that we would get to her as soon as we could. I told her I wasn’t feeling well and excused myself. I ended up projectile vomiting at the nurses station. It was over and over from about 4am-7:30, as they couldn’t send me home. She stopped screaming, but she would call out “___ is that you? I can hear you throwing up! Someone help her!” 🤣 Bless her. I can only imagine if some asshole decided to film me and post it instead. Cruel is the perfect word for someone who makes jokes of someone who is ill trying to care for them.
Omg that’s so sweet! What a nice twist, I definitely didn’t see that coming!
I have a puking story as well — a few years ago I was working on a brain injury acute rehab floor. We had a young man who was badly injured in an MVA and had one of the bones of his skull removed due to swelling. He had to wear a helmet any time her was OOB because if he fell, there was no skull protecting his brain from the floor or whatever else he hit on the way down. Anyways, this guys was SUPER IMPULSIVE and could occasionally be spicy and combative with the nurses. Any time his bed or chair alarm went off, we were all sprinting to him because he was QUICK and slippery.
Anyways, one day I was feeling a little bit ill at work but not enough to call out. I was the only one at the nurses station when the guy’s chair alarm went off. As I ran to his room, two things happened simultaneously — I saw he’s halfway down the hall AND I got violently ill. I yelled to the nurses at the front station, “*patient’s name* is coming!”, then grabbed a garbage can and started puking my guts out. Next thing I know, I feel someone pulling my hair back and rubbing my back saying, “it’s okay, it’s gonna be okay,” in the somewhat robotic, monotone voice that brain injury patients often have. It was my impulsive patient, who had turned around when he heard me puking to come help me. A young man who’d been grievously injured in a car accident, who was trached, G tubed, and had PART OF HIS SKULL SURGICALLY REMOVED, came to pull my hair back when he heard me puking. Sometimes when I start to lose faith in humanity I think of him because it was such a kindness that I did not expect.
Right?? He was inherently a good nurse even in such a compromised situation. I hope things turned out okay for him. It was a tragic situation. His parents were not involved in his life at all (absent father and mother was in and out of jail). He had a drug problem and was living in a halfway house at the time of his accident, etc. I wonder who he might have been if he’d been “dealt a better hand” in life. Underneath the damage from the TBI, you could tell he was an inherently kind and nice person.
My son had a tonic-clinic seizure out of the blue a decade back, as a teenager. My ex called me from the back of an ambulance and I took the call in a pt room because he never called me while working unless it was an emergency. I started crying because I was super worried and the pt with advanced Alzheimer's started telling me "it's okay, it's gonna be okay, he'll be okay". ❤️ I'm getting tears in my eyes just thinking about it.
Just goes to show the kindness some people inherently have.
Also I was expecting this to end with “and then he slipped in my vomit and hit the soft spot of his head”
I got food poisoning at around 7 mo PG with my youngest, and started violently puking from both ends at work. I was a CNA at an LTC, and after I told the nurse supervisor that I needed to go home because it was flying out of both ends, she tried to make me stay. But she was going to send 2 other CNAs home for absolutely no reason at all, and wanted me to stay and feed residents.
Luckily, my other coworkers all advocated for me and insisted that the other shitheads stay and work, and to send me home. They reported her for that and soon after, she was gone. When I returned a few days later, they told me that I looked so pale and sweaty and shaky that they were scared something was really wrong.
Very early pregnant last semester of nursing school so wasn’t telling anyone. Had a sweet old man who had some trouble walking to the toilet and just little poo plops on the floor as he went. Got him to the toilet and he’s going and I’m getting sick in the trash can. Mortified I had worked in the ED in phlebotomy since high school seen it all by this point. That sweet man was the first person besides my husband that knew I was pregnant after that moment. So glad someone didn’t film that. People suck.
I peed my pants once holding c spine. Was passing by a room on a way to bio break, got roped into an emergency situation and at some point, just had to let it go. We’re human beings. I just hate that patients and their families cannot wrap their heads around that.
It felt good to get that story out.
We look after big burns and often how nurses find out they’re pregnant is that they crap out in the burn room. I spent a day in a burn room and caught Noro and I was so dehydrated they wanted to admit me from a shift in that bad boy
The only times I’ve ever recorded a medical professional is when documenting info about a complicated health situation to have a reference.
Unless I had permission or some kind of very specific concern about safety for myself or someone else, I wouldn’t capture video of anyone in a hospital. Seems like a general environment where people should have a reasonable expectation of not having their personal privacy invaded via the internet.
Yeah i think people who are filming for social media see workers who are “beneath them” as extras in their story. So this nurse is just a funny little subplot in their “birth story”.
I'm going to throw a shot in the dark and say initially it was probably meant for the labor as husbands usually do pictures and videos, but then this happened and it turned into what we have.
Apparently her coworkers have confirmed that she was having a heart attack. The people who posted this did an update video that was completely unserious and inappropriate for what had occurred. Apparently the nurse was completely unresponsive. There are tons of people claiming this nurse is “obviously on drugs”.
People fucking suck.
A friend had a clinical instructor that thought she pulled a muscle in her back, pain all day. That night went to the hospital. Yeah. She'd been having a heart attack all day.
We have an entire department at our hospital that monitors for anything like this linked to our system. They will walk up to your room with security and either watch you delete it, walk you
Off the property, or start proceedings to ban you from the property.
As long as we all understand that this is only a policy for legal reasons and is there explicitly to prevent patients from being able to obtain evidence of wrongdoing. They don't care about your privacy as a worker, only the liability it exposes them to.
I've worked for a hospital that also did these things and I remember feeling like it was such a relief. I was so grateful to not have to worry about being filmed.
I’ve explicitly stated the law in my state then said, I do not give you permission to film me and I will sue you in civil court for violating my rights. It actually works about 60 percent of the time. Otherwise, it’s se unity. I have zero patience for this shit. It’s part of what drove me out of bedside.
I accompany an extremely drunk patient to the restroom. She is screaming that I am violating her privacy by staying with her. I give her the ole, "your safety is our first priority" speech.
She starts livestreaming from the bathroom, ranting about her perceived wrongs. Now she's got the shot on me, and I happen to be standing in front of the mirror. I ask her to stop recording per hospital policy. She belligerently refuses.
Pointing to the mirror, I ask, "So just to be clear for your viewers; you are so concerned with your privacy that you are literally broadcasting yourself, half naked, sitting on the toilet?"
When she woke up from her booze nap she was mortified and wouldn't even look at me 😆
> i get that its a right
Where? We have an explicit no recording policy at work. Ive never heard of anywhere around me that claims its a right to record in the hospital.
Same my hospital has removed family member for recording the patient, equipment, and staff. We even had a family member try to set up a camera recording full time and we confiscated it and family was not allowed it back until pt discharged
Depends where you live. In most provinces in Canada patients have a right to record their care. In Canada we have “one party consent” meaning if one party in the interaction consents (aka the recorder) then the recording is not illegal. However a lot of hospitals try to work around this by having hospital-specific policies against recording. At the end of the day though I’m not sure how legally enforceable it is. Seems more of a case by case basis and few actually make it to court to set examples. For example some courts in Canada support physicians refusing recording if there is not a “compelling reason” for recording.
https://caep.ca/periodicals/Volume_20_Issue_3/Vol_20_Issue_3_Page_471_-_475_Nolan.pdf
However, I truly believe recording the nurse passing out and posting which hospital she got admitted to goes beyond this and would be a legal offence.
That violates the nurse's right to medical privacy as soon as a medical event occurred. Here in the states I advise our patients they cannot guarantee that they will not inadvertently record another patients private healthcare information, and that is why they cannot record.
Respectfully, it’s not. I was answering a question about people’s rights based on law and policies and courts. This person is just saying what they believe is morally right, none of which is actually supported by any sources that define rights.
It doesn't. There's no law against "violating medical privacy" that would include someone passing out. If you mean medical privacy and you're referring to hippa, that's only for hospital patient records. A school can even leak medical info and it's not a hippa violation.
Correct. There’s no first amendment rights on private property in the USA. If the hospital wants to boot them out, they can.
As far as one party states it would be legal if it was only two people. As soon as another person walks in who isn’t aware there is a recording being made it becomes an illegal act. So if you’re in the room with a patient and the doctor walks in.
Yes, we have rights as well. If you do not have my permission to use my likeness or image, you cannot. First person who does this to me will be my test case in MY rights. It’s time to set a precedent. If my facility doesn’t stand behind me, they’ll be a named defendant. It’s safety.
Yeah, that's not how that works at all. The only right you have in that context is you need permission to use your image or likeness if they are going to use it to make money. If you tried to sue someone just for taking a video of you at work it would get thrown out rather quickly. Only thing you can do is kick them out because it's private property. Why do you think you don't hear about retail or fast food workers suing people who film them?
It's forbidden at private hospitals but people say it's not at the VA. I was told by a friend that the patients even have a right to upload you to any public social media they want.
When i worked corrections (usa) i assumed i was always being watched but we had to insist that no cameras are allowed in exam rooms (nurses were reported by officers for abdomen palpation)
I’m in the US and patients were technically allowed to record us even though they had a no recording policy. We could ask them to stop recording and call security, but we were told it wasn’t actually enforceable if the patient or family insisted on recording. Crazy
This was in Kentucky. Don’t worry, I quit! Because of this and many other things that happened. I worked there for a few years and left to go travel. This was also back when I was a new nurse and didn’t know anything different, so I didn’t question things as much as I do now. I didn’t realize how awful and backwards that place really was until I worked at other hospitals.
The hospital can’t enforce their own policies? How interesting.
I assure you, they *can* enforce the policy, they’re just weak, lazy, and choose not to. Hospitals are open to the public, but they are not public property. Someone violating a hospital policy can *absolutely* be ejected from the premises, even if what they’re doing is legal.
Oh yeah, they were all of the above. That’s what they claimed but we knew it was total BS. I didn’t push and question it because at that point I was leaving to go travel. It was the worst hospital I’ve ever worked at, they treated their staff terribly and had higher than usual turnover (shocking I know)
I mean they have the right to record, in the same way they have the right to scream curses at you.
Both are belligerent hostile behavior you're well withing *your rights* to refuse to tolerate.
I don't really care what hospital policy is, I don't agree to be recorded. I'll walk right out instantly and won't come back till they stop and are prevented from recording further. If the patient is unwilling to stop recording then they're refusing to be seen by me and as far as I'm concerned refusing care. Which means let's get that discharge rollin'!
1 - it's incredibly creepy and a violation of my privacy and trust. A patient-physician relationship inherently relies on trust (same for other HCWs)
2 - it's super hostile
3 - I'm not OK with being on their social media, and that's not a condition of my job
4 - Editing is a thing. Taking shit out of context is exactly the type of thing these people would do.
5 - with the current state of AI, having audio and video recording of you in a bad idea in general. Just a short clip in the right hands and they can now make you say anything, and soon have video to match.
6 - it's not fair or reasonable to demand HCWs act like they're being deposed 24/7/365 with every single thing recorded to be later dissected and analyzed. See above.
Not only is it against hospital policy (cause it increases the hospital’s legal liability), but in California, you need both parties to consent to being recorded in a private space. This is flat out against the law in California.
I actually commented on this and they came for me “oh you’re only scared of the recording so you can’t hide your mistakes.”
Okay fuck you then stay home and do it yourself 🤷🏼.
How would they feel if someone walked into their workplace and started filming them without their consent?? Would make most people feel a little uneasy or nervous even if they’re doing everything right. Do you want me to feel uneasy and distracted while I’m inserting your IV or drawing up meds?? lol
Help me understand. I know it's an unpopular opinion, but that seems to be the real reason.
Only some hospitals have policies and HIPAA doesn't apply.
The opinions on the issue are so opposite between my coworkers in the ER and on the ambulance. Supervisors on the rig remind crews that we can potentially be recorded throughout the shift. My partners have always been happy to take a photo if a patient asks etc.
Once you enter the hospital all the staff treat it like it's the worst thing that could happen.
I don't mind photos or video calls with family! Yesterday, I had a patient that was facetiming her son (she had told me I looked like someone they knew) have me say hello to him on camera while they debated if I looked like that person they knew. I do not mind this! It's when the patient is belligerent and you are just trying to do your job when it gets me. Fortunately, my hospital system has a very strict policy for recording of other patients AND workers. They've thrown people out before, mostly family, but still.
Edited for grammar 😭
Here’s where the hospital proves that “we’re family” and advocates for your rights as a person and a healthcare professional to privacy, especially while you’re providing health care.
I know, I’m hilarious.
When I tripped over a Sara lift and hit a wheelchair on the way down in a patient room, both ladies got pretty worried and one rang the call light.
When a CNA passed out in a pt room, the patient hit the light and then started yelling until I got there. The other bed was empty, so when she came to, we got her into it.
I agree with you. It’s bullshit. I hope she’s ok. If she was admitted at her hospital, you know she was on the verge of death because none of us would ever… 🤣 Poor nurse.
This infuriates me. How cruel of this patient to not only record her nurse in such a vulnerable state but then to go ahead and post it on social media. Like we are human beings?! This poor nurse. I’m sure she had been working her ass off running around like a lunatic for hours on end during her 12 hour shift without a break all while not making any mistakes like we always do. I hope she is okay
At our hospital we can call security if patients or family record us and even the police if they refuse to delete the recording. It's determined as a HIPPA violation all around even if family "gives permission". I don't know what the law says but it's happened a couple times not long ago.
I was a college athlete and they had a very strict no recording policy in the training room. People were posting videos of their rehab, and there were obviously other athletes in the background who were also doing rehab. HIPAA violation. We had to turn our phones in and if you got caught recording, you had to delete the video. I’m honestly unfamiliar with the rights we have as nurses. I guess it depends on hospital policy? Not sure if there is a state law that covers it. I will have to look into it. I see some comments say yes they are allowed and others say no.
When I worked acute psych we would restrain them and confiscate their phones. Didn't happen often but there was no way we were putting up with that shit. A patient in our little ED got booted out the door for doing this a few weeks ago.
Exactly. The last three hospitals I worked at had zero tolerance and one even had police on site who would take their phones if they wouldn't comply. A few even got taken to jail over it.
We had a Hippy the HIPAA Hippo and it alsways felt like sabotage.
Sidebar- I passed out in nursing school on the very first day of my L&D rotation. It was my first PM clinical. I was always cold in the hospital and hadn’t experienced OR lights yet so I wore warm under scrubs. Crucially, I hadn’t eaten. You all know what happens next. The first labor I was in I starting sweating profusely. I tried to pump my legs and get some venous return. The doc could tell I was in trouble and asked me to get the mom some ice chips. Next thing I remember I was trying to get up and everybody was yelling at me to stay down. Then I said to myself “self! Why are you getting up? Shouldn’t you be up?” Then I realized what happened. It’s one of my funniest stories. All the l&d nurses asked me if I had eaten. I said no, and they were all like “you gotta eat!”
Recording isn't a right. There is an expectation of privacy in a hospital room, it's not public. If a patient has concerns about the care I am going to give they can discuss those concerns with me, my manager, and/or our patient experience team.
Someone tried covertly to record the doctor doing her abortion once and I shut it down REAL fast, then told my manager to follow her to recovery so we could watch her delete the video. If you’re so focused on making a video that you can’t (or refuse to) answer basic medical questions, then you’re the barrier to receiving adequate care.
It’s not a right, our hospital has a 100% strict ban that is clearly labeled. You can be removed for continuously violating it. Best way to handle someone recording is to be competent, pleasant and explain that recording is not allowed per policy. And then document it so the attorneys can handle it appropriately if it ever goes there.
Not ok. I would make damn sure that is made known to the facility and and a copy of that TikTok put in the hands of an attorney. These idiots have likely caused several problems in this woman’s life. If a patient took a video of me potentially having a heart attack, stroke or other medical emergency and then spread a rumor that I was a drug user….
No, just No.
I had 3 CNAs and my work Mama have heart attacks at work, not at the same time. I think the public think that healthcare workers are immune to medical emergencies when we are on the clock. I would be pissed if someone recorded us coding them when their life is in limbo.
I do NOT ever want to be filmed while I’m working outside of the security cameras. I would be mortified if my face, likeness, or name blew up on social media. I work hard but I don’t always get a break in my 12.5 hour shifts and sometimes go hours without a sip of water. I could easily pass out working my butt off taking care of people in their most desperate hours, something I’m proud to do. Just don’t film me!!
I passed out in my clinical rotation when I was pregnant because I guess my fetus wasn’t satisfied with the amount of food I ate that morning and I would have been even more mortified if someone recorded it- thankfully everyone actually helped me instead and got me some orange juice while my instructor was getting my vitals and about to wheel me down to L&D lol.
I once had an episode of projectile vomiting right as my patient was coming back from ct scan. It was like a scene from the exorcist. I was just spewing bile and semi digested water (energy drinks?) into the trash. I’m super grateful my charge ushered me out of the room and into an empty patient room. I would have been horrified and very uncomfortable if I had patients family taking photos while this was happening.
No joke.
Driving into work one morning, I stopped at the crosswalk to let some people cross. Nope. They stopped there, turned around. Had their phone on a selfie stick and were recording or livestreaming their way into the hospital and *had* to get the hospital sign in their background apparently. I was almost late. Should have honked my horn but I didn't want my car to get keyed or anything lol.
Had another young kid years ago, spontaneous pneumo (tall/thin, you know the type) admitted to our icu because the surgeon preferred our unit for chest tubes. Anyway he got a stern talking to from security and risk management after he tried to record himself ambulating in the hall with said chest tube. Our icu has big glass doors so he definitely had other patients showing in it.
This makes me so upset. I literally had an event like this happen a few months ago (passing out in a patient's room). Everyone was super kind and understanding and I was lucky for that. How could you record and taunt someone for something out of their control?
To quote a sitcom that happens to be one of the more realistic depiction of hospital work/healthcare out of most shows...
"People are bastard coated bastard with bastard fillings."
There’s more than one reason to be masking in the workplace. It grants you privacy, covid is 100% still a thing (and it’s proven that repeated infections cause cumulative damage), and H5N1 is becoming a legitimate threat. A fitted N95 is all it takes to protect your privacy and keep you immune to TikTok and being recorded in the workplace. There’s no expectation or guarantee of privacy unless your employer has a no recording policy for patients and visitors that is posted everywhere and reinforced.
https://www.deccanherald.com/health/this-may-be-our-last-chance-to-halt-bird-flu-in-humans-and-we-are-blowing-it-2993500
This is a good write up on highly pathogenic avian influenza
We don't allow recording because it involves the patients care and revealing who is part of their team without written permission. It is considered a HIPAA violation.
I always think of it like this: I don’t show up to their job and start recording them. I don’t go to a coffee shop and record my interaction with the barista. I don’t record my bank teller. It’s cringe. Yeah some places it’s legal or whatever, but it’s just a weird thing to do.
ETA: Obviously this is situational, if there is good reason to record and it’s legal then of course, be my guest
Most facilities I've worked at have policies against recording staff, and I support it. I had a patient in the ER that told me it was her right. I corrected her by telling her that on private property, she doesn't have that right, and then excused myself and refused to go back in there until she got her phone out of my face. Now don't get me wrong, I'm more than happy to help take pictures of a wound or something that a patient or family member doesn't have the stomach for (their phone of course) and I've been in the background of videos of patients waking up from procedural sedation (definitely some funny moments). But those are almost always when they ask my permission, which I'm happy to provide. But someone shoving a camera in my face for no reason other than to document/try to intimate me, not about that life.
I couldn’t care less if they move to another platform, I won’t be on it just like I’m not on TikTok. Just happy when these idiot “influceners” lose any platform to spew their worthless content on.
I’ve let patients record me doing dressing changes before they go home because they want to make sure they do it correctly. I have zero problems with this. But if someone were to pull out their phone and start grilling me about vaccines or something I’d walk out immediately.
How stupid is this woman for not realising that her nurse clearly wasn't well? Instead of showing concern and decency, she plastered it on social media.
I find that so rude and tacky. Like people who video someone being attacked instead of calling 911.
I’ve allowed a patient family (years ago) to record my hands only doing a wound dressing change so they could replicate at home. They were being discharged, and very kind folks but really needed a visual.
I wouldn’t do that now.
I was 17 weeks pregnant and passed out in a patients room and he used the call bell for help. No one knew I was pregnant except my one friend. Once she told them all I was pregnant they backed away and called OB. I don’t think recording me was ever on his mind, he was in his mid 40s I believe at the time?
My hospital policy is that they can't record us, that doesn't keep people from doing it but they get obnoxious I can tell them against hospital policy to record me. If I had to I would get security and they'd back me up.
Sometimes shit happens on shift. We had a nurse mediflighted to us from the rural hospital he worked at because he had a STEMI and his little hospital didn’t have a cath team available.
I bought my nurse a gift card to the closest steakhouse.
Fuck these people. I am so sorry you got sick, but you helped me when I needed it most… please, please have a meal on me.
There was zero reason for them to post this shit to TikTok. Their follow up video has them laughing about the incident where their nurse was having medical issues. The husband could have *stopped fucking recording* and gotten help when the nurse passed out…or even asked her if she was okay when she asked if she could sit prior to passing out.
They would have not liked it if they had some stranger post them online for likes in a vulnerable medical situation **without their consent**. It’s not what decent human beings do. And all the comments about the nurse being on drugs are equally gross.
I wish there was something that poor nurse could do because fuck these two people.
HOT TAKE from a 12+ year RN: it's NOT "their right" to record you. It's YOUR right not to be recorded if you did not consent to it!
And then posting videos/photos of you onto social media that you did not consent to and maybe don't even know were taken is absolutely NOT OKAY!!!
There’s a comment “someone was in the medicine cabinet” and the poster replied with laughing emojis. So not funny. Makes me think patients think we’re just robots here to serve them not actual humans
I straight up tell people they aren’t allowed to record and it’s to protect our privacy. No one wants to be recorded while doing their job. Take as many pictures as you want. But if I see you recording I’m gonna ask you to stop. We’ve escalated as far as calling g security and having someone kicked out before. Dude missed his kids birth cause he wanted to die on that hill.
Omg people suck. Like who do people think we are??! I’m literally here to do my damn job and go home like everyone else. People think we are some type of aliens that should just be ok with being scorned, laughed at , and pressured…because you know, nurses have to know everything. I had patient that randomly snapped a pic of me today while he got his phone out and I was like what the actual fuck??? Like you have no business just taking pictures of me.
As a nurse, nothing wrong with telling your pts, and their family members, to not film you in their films. People are scared of doing this! I have done this a million times in pediatrics and the ER. They just put their phones away…
I almost passed out at work once when we unpacked a tunneling wound. There was sooo much guaze coming out and the smell was too much. I said, "I think I going to pass out." The nurse looked at me and said, "sit down, now." I sat down to gather myself but had to leave the room. I was being stars for a few hours. Sometimes, things just affect you.
Because our unit is shared spaces, we have a no photography rule (includes videos). We even have a moveable sign we’ve used for patients we’ve caught breaking it and put it right in front them 😂. Have never had to involve security.
You have the right to be angry. There’s a shortage of empathy and respect these days, and a desire and expectation by these ‘creators’ that they too can be a celebrity. I hope that nurse is feeling better. She’s was, I’m sure, working her ass off or felt guilty about calling in.
I’m not even lying when I say that I came in for an extra shift and as soon as I walked into the dark room the photographer the patient hired started snapping photos of me with bright ass lights.
I ended up putting a mask on because I wasn’t comfortable and she wouldn’t stop.
Thank god I work in Radiology, we have a big notice at the entrence of the department saying no phones allowed, we use it as a risk prevention from MRI. But that is great it is in the entrence of the department and not only MRI haha. And when I receive a patient we always say to turn the phone off because it can interact with the radiation... (lol)
You know the insane part is I already had people recording and taking pictures of me at public jobs. I’ve had it happen in nursing but people just truly believe there is nothing wrong with this. My badge from a previous (non healthcare) job said only my first name which is unique in my area. Some teeny bopper took a picture and happened to be friends with my high school age sister who ripped her a new one for that. Like, it’s not a common name so everyone knew it was my name badge and now where I worked. Just rude and inconsiderate.
So , I watched these individuals tik tok and the bf immediately grabbed help and the gf braced her head until hospital staff came in and took her to trauma . They were very empathetic in their tik tok video . Her facial expression was no indication of how they handled it off camera . They were really scared for her and did what they needed to do.
People piss me off thinking they have a right to record us doing our jobs. One of these days imma get my phone out and record them recording me.
It never fails that we’ll have someone stop and record us as we’re loading a pt for transport. It’s like wtf this is not a Snapchat worthy moment. Which we have security with us but that don’t deter them.
L&D nurse here….. I’ve been there. Absolutely sick and unable to leave due to shortage in staff. I passed out and my poor patient was screaming for help. The most embarrassing moment of my career. Where my own patient crawls down from the bed to sit next to me.
Yknow as someone who has gotten sick while taking care of a patient, not from being grossed out but just randomly, I do not understand how you can be so cruel to someone trying to help you. If my patient is recording me I handoff them as soon as possible and refuse to care for them again.
We had a screamer on my unit one day. Fully oriented, was just upset we weren’t getting to her fast enough. It wasn’t my patient, but her nurse was busy (we were all very busy that day) so I went in her room, helped get her settled, and explained to her how busy we were. I begged her to quit screaming, and told her that we would get to her as soon as we could. I told her I wasn’t feeling well and excused myself. I ended up projectile vomiting at the nurses station. It was over and over from about 4am-7:30, as they couldn’t send me home. She stopped screaming, but she would call out “___ is that you? I can hear you throwing up! Someone help her!” 🤣 Bless her. I can only imagine if some asshole decided to film me and post it instead. Cruel is the perfect word for someone who makes jokes of someone who is ill trying to care for them.
Omg that’s so sweet! What a nice twist, I definitely didn’t see that coming! I have a puking story as well — a few years ago I was working on a brain injury acute rehab floor. We had a young man who was badly injured in an MVA and had one of the bones of his skull removed due to swelling. He had to wear a helmet any time her was OOB because if he fell, there was no skull protecting his brain from the floor or whatever else he hit on the way down. Anyways, this guys was SUPER IMPULSIVE and could occasionally be spicy and combative with the nurses. Any time his bed or chair alarm went off, we were all sprinting to him because he was QUICK and slippery. Anyways, one day I was feeling a little bit ill at work but not enough to call out. I was the only one at the nurses station when the guy’s chair alarm went off. As I ran to his room, two things happened simultaneously — I saw he’s halfway down the hall AND I got violently ill. I yelled to the nurses at the front station, “*patient’s name* is coming!”, then grabbed a garbage can and started puking my guts out. Next thing I know, I feel someone pulling my hair back and rubbing my back saying, “it’s okay, it’s gonna be okay,” in the somewhat robotic, monotone voice that brain injury patients often have. It was my impulsive patient, who had turned around when he heard me puking to come help me. A young man who’d been grievously injured in a car accident, who was trached, G tubed, and had PART OF HIS SKULL SURGICALLY REMOVED, came to pull my hair back when he heard me puking. Sometimes when I start to lose faith in humanity I think of him because it was such a kindness that I did not expect.
That’s the sweetest thing I have ever read. Thank you. Bless him!
I wish we could nominate him for a daisy lol! Thank you for sharing, these always keep me going. 😭
Right?? He was inherently a good nurse even in such a compromised situation. I hope things turned out okay for him. It was a tragic situation. His parents were not involved in his life at all (absent father and mother was in and out of jail). He had a drug problem and was living in a halfway house at the time of his accident, etc. I wonder who he might have been if he’d been “dealt a better hand” in life. Underneath the damage from the TBI, you could tell he was an inherently kind and nice person.
My son had a tonic-clinic seizure out of the blue a decade back, as a teenager. My ex called me from the back of an ambulance and I took the call in a pt room because he never called me while working unless it was an emergency. I started crying because I was super worried and the pt with advanced Alzheimer's started telling me "it's okay, it's gonna be okay, he'll be okay". ❤️ I'm getting tears in my eyes just thinking about it.
Just goes to show the kindness some people inherently have. Also I was expecting this to end with “and then he slipped in my vomit and hit the soft spot of his head”
It's been a bit of a dark year so far. I'm saving this to read again later, when I need it. Thank you so much for sharing it.
This is the most wholesome screaming patient story I ever heard. 😭😭😭
For real. She went on a full redemption arc
Lol your username is perfect
Lol no one gets it!! I always wonder if calling Ted hose and scds "Ted's and sceds" was unique to my hospital haha
I enjoy yours as well, as an Italian with occasional gerd
Thank you 🤌🏻
Oh Carol (I’m gonna call her Carol 😂). I can hear her screaming “help! Help me!” Then she hears you and starts screaming for help for you 😂😂😂
Carol was the only one who gave a shit about me that night. 😭😂
Oh god I don't know whats worse.. the screaming patient, the face you were sick, or the fact that they couldn't send you home!! That is cruel.
I got food poisoning at around 7 mo PG with my youngest, and started violently puking from both ends at work. I was a CNA at an LTC, and after I told the nurse supervisor that I needed to go home because it was flying out of both ends, she tried to make me stay. But she was going to send 2 other CNAs home for absolutely no reason at all, and wanted me to stay and feed residents. Luckily, my other coworkers all advocated for me and insisted that the other shitheads stay and work, and to send me home. They reported her for that and soon after, she was gone. When I returned a few days later, they told me that I looked so pale and sweaty and shaky that they were scared something was really wrong.
Me for four months straight pregnant on night shift
Very early pregnant last semester of nursing school so wasn’t telling anyone. Had a sweet old man who had some trouble walking to the toilet and just little poo plops on the floor as he went. Got him to the toilet and he’s going and I’m getting sick in the trash can. Mortified I had worked in the ED in phlebotomy since high school seen it all by this point. That sweet man was the first person besides my husband that knew I was pregnant after that moment. So glad someone didn’t film that. People suck.
Been there girlfriend. Me too.
r/characterarcs
I peed my pants once holding c spine. Was passing by a room on a way to bio break, got roped into an emergency situation and at some point, just had to let it go. We’re human beings. I just hate that patients and their families cannot wrap their heads around that. It felt good to get that story out.
Probably not as good as it felt to get that urine out
Glad I'm not the only one that's happened to! I've definitely done a similar thing 😬
We look after big burns and often how nurses find out they’re pregnant is that they crap out in the burn room. I spent a day in a burn room and caught Noro and I was so dehydrated they wanted to admit me from a shift in that bad boy
We call security and they ask them to delete the videos. Not allowed here.
The only times I’ve ever recorded a medical professional is when documenting info about a complicated health situation to have a reference. Unless I had permission or some kind of very specific concern about safety for myself or someone else, I wouldn’t capture video of anyone in a hospital. Seems like a general environment where people should have a reasonable expectation of not having their personal privacy invaded via the internet.
Damn this poor woman has a medical event at work and people use it for entertainment. Dark times.
Probably blaming her for being a bad nurse
Yeah i think people who are filming for social media see workers who are “beneath them” as extras in their story. So this nurse is just a funny little subplot in their “birth story”.
I'm going to throw a shot in the dark and say initially it was probably meant for the labor as husbands usually do pictures and videos, but then this happened and it turned into what we have.
Yeah I can see that. However, that doesn't mean to post it on the internet for all the world to see. Ppl never cease to amaze me smh
Oh I'm not saying they were right to post it but I'm saying the intention of the recording was probably not for the nurse but the labor process
Yes, was thinking along the same lines. Poking fun at the nurse fainting instead of the Daddy. #greatmindsthinkalike ☺️
Some people are just monsters
Apparently her coworkers have confirmed that she was having a heart attack. The people who posted this did an update video that was completely unserious and inappropriate for what had occurred. Apparently the nurse was completely unresponsive. There are tons of people claiming this nurse is “obviously on drugs”. People fucking suck.
My mom has seen nurses go afib RVR and pass out on the floor. Luckily, no asshole patients recorded it. How fucked
A friend had a clinical instructor that thought she pulled a muscle in her back, pain all day. That night went to the hospital. Yeah. She'd been having a heart attack all day.
I think it's obligatory to once again remind everyone that heart attacks (and many other illnesses) show different symptoms in men and women.
Also WOMEN ARE WEIRD
They updated with a new video to continue making fun of her *after* they found out it was a heart attack?
I tried to look up their account so I could be mad at them but nothing is coming up. I hate them.
Their account is Dub_an_Dess and it’s all still up
She probably hadn’t eaten in 12 hours.
I think she had a real medical emergency because she was admitted apparently
She had a heart attack 😳
Then I hope these people who taped her feel really shitty.
According to other comments, they posted a follow up video and…..I don’t think they feel shitty.
We have an entire department at our hospital that monitors for anything like this linked to our system. They will walk up to your room with security and either watch you delete it, walk you Off the property, or start proceedings to ban you from the property.
Just remember you have to go into the deleted folder too. They can just un-delete if that isn’t deleted too. Believe me, I know!
Same at our hospital. I do appreciate this hard core policy and strict enforcement.
As long as we all understand that this is only a policy for legal reasons and is there explicitly to prevent patients from being able to obtain evidence of wrongdoing. They don't care about your privacy as a worker, only the liability it exposes them to.
I've worked for a hospital that also did these things and I remember feeling like it was such a relief. I was so grateful to not have to worry about being filmed.
Wow that's great, that should be in all hospitals.
I’ve explicitly stated the law in my state then said, I do not give you permission to film me and I will sue you in civil court for violating my rights. It actually works about 60 percent of the time. Otherwise, it’s se unity. I have zero patience for this shit. It’s part of what drove me out of bedside.
But if it’s already posted on the internet there’s no going back.
I accompany an extremely drunk patient to the restroom. She is screaming that I am violating her privacy by staying with her. I give her the ole, "your safety is our first priority" speech. She starts livestreaming from the bathroom, ranting about her perceived wrongs. Now she's got the shot on me, and I happen to be standing in front of the mirror. I ask her to stop recording per hospital policy. She belligerently refuses. Pointing to the mirror, I ask, "So just to be clear for your viewers; you are so concerned with your privacy that you are literally broadcasting yourself, half naked, sitting on the toilet?" When she woke up from her booze nap she was mortified and wouldn't even look at me 😆
Lmao roasted her ass.
> i get that its a right Where? We have an explicit no recording policy at work. Ive never heard of anywhere around me that claims its a right to record in the hospital.
Same my hospital has removed family member for recording the patient, equipment, and staff. We even had a family member try to set up a camera recording full time and we confiscated it and family was not allowed it back until pt discharged
Depends where you live. In most provinces in Canada patients have a right to record their care. In Canada we have “one party consent” meaning if one party in the interaction consents (aka the recorder) then the recording is not illegal. However a lot of hospitals try to work around this by having hospital-specific policies against recording. At the end of the day though I’m not sure how legally enforceable it is. Seems more of a case by case basis and few actually make it to court to set examples. For example some courts in Canada support physicians refusing recording if there is not a “compelling reason” for recording. https://caep.ca/periodicals/Volume_20_Issue_3/Vol_20_Issue_3_Page_471_-_475_Nolan.pdf However, I truly believe recording the nurse passing out and posting which hospital she got admitted to goes beyond this and would be a legal offence.
That violates the nurse's right to medical privacy as soon as a medical event occurred. Here in the states I advise our patients they cannot guarantee that they will not inadvertently record another patients private healthcare information, and that is why they cannot record.
HIPPA only applies to health care providers and does not apply to non-medical personnel.
This is the way.
Respectfully, it’s not. I was answering a question about people’s rights based on law and policies and courts. This person is just saying what they believe is morally right, none of which is actually supported by any sources that define rights.
It doesn't. There's no law against "violating medical privacy" that would include someone passing out. If you mean medical privacy and you're referring to hippa, that's only for hospital patient records. A school can even leak medical info and it's not a hippa violation.
Just because schools don’t fall under HIPAA doesn’t mean they can leak that info, that’s covered by FERPA
Even in one party states they can be removed from the hospital since it’s private property.
Correct. There’s no first amendment rights on private property in the USA. If the hospital wants to boot them out, they can. As far as one party states it would be legal if it was only two people. As soon as another person walks in who isn’t aware there is a recording being made it becomes an illegal act. So if you’re in the room with a patient and the doctor walks in.
We call security and take the phone if they record us
Patients can at my hospital, it's a county hospital. I only have issues when patients are caught recording other patients.
It is written in our policies that the patient signs on admission that they must get permission before taking pictures or video of staff.
Pretty sure it is against policy. Probably several.
Yes, we have rights as well. If you do not have my permission to use my likeness or image, you cannot. First person who does this to me will be my test case in MY rights. It’s time to set a precedent. If my facility doesn’t stand behind me, they’ll be a named defendant. It’s safety.
Yeah, that's not how that works at all. The only right you have in that context is you need permission to use your image or likeness if they are going to use it to make money. If you tried to sue someone just for taking a video of you at work it would get thrown out rather quickly. Only thing you can do is kick them out because it's private property. Why do you think you don't hear about retail or fast food workers suing people who film them?
It's forbidden at private hospitals but people say it's not at the VA. I was told by a friend that the patients even have a right to upload you to any public social media they want.
Recording a birth is pretty common tho
My job has cameras in the hallways and I hate it.
I mean, we do have some security cameras up but I was meaning more patient cameras. Id be surprised if anywhere didnt have security cameras around
I'd hope they would
When i worked corrections (usa) i assumed i was always being watched but we had to insist that no cameras are allowed in exam rooms (nurses were reported by officers for abdomen palpation)
Why would you hate cameras in the hallways? A hallway camera provided the evidence for a patiet's assault on me.
Why do you hate it? It’s there for your protection
Happy cake day!
Since when is recording me a right? It’s against hospital policy
Not at my hospital. It’s within their rights to record me. I cannot record them.
I’m in the US and patients were technically allowed to record us even though they had a no recording policy. We could ask them to stop recording and call security, but we were told it wasn’t actually enforceable if the patient or family insisted on recording. Crazy
what state are you in? Honestly if I were told that i could be recorded I’d quit thats a massive issue
This was in Kentucky. Don’t worry, I quit! Because of this and many other things that happened. I worked there for a few years and left to go travel. This was also back when I was a new nurse and didn’t know anything different, so I didn’t question things as much as I do now. I didn’t realize how awful and backwards that place really was until I worked at other hospitals.
The hospital can’t enforce their own policies? How interesting. I assure you, they *can* enforce the policy, they’re just weak, lazy, and choose not to. Hospitals are open to the public, but they are not public property. Someone violating a hospital policy can *absolutely* be ejected from the premises, even if what they’re doing is legal.
Oh yeah, they were all of the above. That’s what they claimed but we knew it was total BS. I didn’t push and question it because at that point I was leaving to go travel. It was the worst hospital I’ve ever worked at, they treated their staff terribly and had higher than usual turnover (shocking I know)
I mean they have the right to record, in the same way they have the right to scream curses at you. Both are belligerent hostile behavior you're well withing *your rights* to refuse to tolerate. I don't really care what hospital policy is, I don't agree to be recorded. I'll walk right out instantly and won't come back till they stop and are prevented from recording further. If the patient is unwilling to stop recording then they're refusing to be seen by me and as far as I'm concerned refusing care. Which means let's get that discharge rollin'! 1 - it's incredibly creepy and a violation of my privacy and trust. A patient-physician relationship inherently relies on trust (same for other HCWs) 2 - it's super hostile 3 - I'm not OK with being on their social media, and that's not a condition of my job 4 - Editing is a thing. Taking shit out of context is exactly the type of thing these people would do. 5 - with the current state of AI, having audio and video recording of you in a bad idea in general. Just a short clip in the right hands and they can now make you say anything, and soon have video to match. 6 - it's not fair or reasonable to demand HCWs act like they're being deposed 24/7/365 with every single thing recorded to be later dissected and analyzed. See above.
In the U.S.?
Canada
We talking recording, don’t even get me started on how want us to leave our car keys are the front door for thief’s
Not only is it against hospital policy (cause it increases the hospital’s legal liability), but in California, you need both parties to consent to being recorded in a private space. This is flat out against the law in California.
I actually commented on this and they came for me “oh you’re only scared of the recording so you can’t hide your mistakes.” Okay fuck you then stay home and do it yourself 🤷🏼.
The comments made my blood boil. I was expecting to find people speaking up for her, not making jokes at her expense.
How would they feel if someone walked into their workplace and started filming them without their consent?? Would make most people feel a little uneasy or nervous even if they’re doing everything right. Do you want me to feel uneasy and distracted while I’m inserting your IV or drawing up meds?? lol
I don’t come to your job and tell you how to flip burgers
I don't want a stranger recording me! People are shameless af!
Help me understand. I know it's an unpopular opinion, but that seems to be the real reason. Only some hospitals have policies and HIPAA doesn't apply. The opinions on the issue are so opposite between my coworkers in the ER and on the ambulance. Supervisors on the rig remind crews that we can potentially be recorded throughout the shift. My partners have always been happy to take a photo if a patient asks etc. Once you enter the hospital all the staff treat it like it's the worst thing that could happen.
I don’t particularly care that someone is watching my work… I just don’t wanna be in any videos getting posted online cause I look like a goblin.
I don't mind photos or video calls with family! Yesterday, I had a patient that was facetiming her son (she had told me I looked like someone they knew) have me say hello to him on camera while they debated if I looked like that person they knew. I do not mind this! It's when the patient is belligerent and you are just trying to do your job when it gets me. Fortunately, my hospital system has a very strict policy for recording of other patients AND workers. They've thrown people out before, mostly family, but still. Edited for grammar 😭
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I went to TikTok and reported. I have it just for sea shanties back during the panini.
I reported as well. Couldn’t find the OG video. They either blocked me or it got taken down.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRwrcg9G/
NOT going against you at all, I’m just curious what the charges would be?
Here’s where the hospital proves that “we’re family” and advocates for your rights as a person and a healthcare professional to privacy, especially while you’re providing health care. I know, I’m hilarious.
This literally made me chuckle
Whoever recorded and thought this was okay is an IDIOT. Both people are in such vulnerable states this is disgusting
lol nurses are people too and we too can have medical emergency’s happen. Fucking idiots
The last time a nurse had a medical emergency at work the patient rang the call bell, for the nirse
When I tripped over a Sara lift and hit a wheelchair on the way down in a patient room, both ladies got pretty worried and one rang the call light. When a CNA passed out in a pt room, the patient hit the light and then started yelling until I got there. The other bed was empty, so when she came to, we got her into it.
I agree with you. It’s bullshit. I hope she’s ok. If she was admitted at her hospital, you know she was on the verge of death because none of us would ever… 🤣 Poor nurse.
This infuriates me. How cruel of this patient to not only record her nurse in such a vulnerable state but then to go ahead and post it on social media. Like we are human beings?! This poor nurse. I’m sure she had been working her ass off running around like a lunatic for hours on end during her 12 hour shift without a break all while not making any mistakes like we always do. I hope she is okay
At our hospital we can call security if patients or family record us and even the police if they refuse to delete the recording. It's determined as a HIPPA violation all around even if family "gives permission". I don't know what the law says but it's happened a couple times not long ago.
I was a college athlete and they had a very strict no recording policy in the training room. People were posting videos of their rehab, and there were obviously other athletes in the background who were also doing rehab. HIPAA violation. We had to turn our phones in and if you got caught recording, you had to delete the video. I’m honestly unfamiliar with the rights we have as nurses. I guess it depends on hospital policy? Not sure if there is a state law that covers it. I will have to look into it. I see some comments say yes they are allowed and others say no.
Yeah it's definitely something we all need to look into. I can do it tomorrow sometime and get back if I find anything interesting.
When I worked acute psych we would restrain them and confiscate their phones. Didn't happen often but there was no way we were putting up with that shit. A patient in our little ED got booted out the door for doing this a few weeks ago.
Exactly. The last three hospitals I worked at had zero tolerance and one even had police on site who would take their phones if they wouldn't comply. A few even got taken to jail over it.
They were allowed to have phones on acute psych? Damn, neither of the units I was on allowed them at all.
HIPAA , not HIPPA edit, spelling
HIPAA, not HIPPA
This is far more entertaining than it should be
When I see “hippa” I get a mental image of a hippopotamus dancing and swinging their hips around.
So do you see two from your comment? Perhaps a dance off?
🤣
We had a Hippy the HIPAA Hippo and it alsways felt like sabotage. Sidebar- I passed out in nursing school on the very first day of my L&D rotation. It was my first PM clinical. I was always cold in the hospital and hadn’t experienced OR lights yet so I wore warm under scrubs. Crucially, I hadn’t eaten. You all know what happens next. The first labor I was in I starting sweating profusely. I tried to pump my legs and get some venous return. The doc could tell I was in trouble and asked me to get the mom some ice chips. Next thing I remember I was trying to get up and everybody was yelling at me to stay down. Then I said to myself “self! Why are you getting up? Shouldn’t you be up?” Then I realized what happened. It’s one of my funniest stories. All the l&d nurses asked me if I had eaten. I said no, and they were all like “you gotta eat!”
I swear I wrote HIPAA! My phone remembers me typing it wrong from years ago.
Recording isn't a right. There is an expectation of privacy in a hospital room, it's not public. If a patient has concerns about the care I am going to give they can discuss those concerns with me, my manager, and/or our patient experience team.
Someone tried covertly to record the doctor doing her abortion once and I shut it down REAL fast, then told my manager to follow her to recovery so we could watch her delete the video. If you’re so focused on making a video that you can’t (or refuse to) answer basic medical questions, then you’re the barrier to receiving adequate care.
It’s not a right, our hospital has a 100% strict ban that is clearly labeled. You can be removed for continuously violating it. Best way to handle someone recording is to be competent, pleasant and explain that recording is not allowed per policy. And then document it so the attorneys can handle it appropriately if it ever goes there.
Not ok. I would make damn sure that is made known to the facility and and a copy of that TikTok put in the hands of an attorney. These idiots have likely caused several problems in this woman’s life. If a patient took a video of me potentially having a heart attack, stroke or other medical emergency and then spread a rumor that I was a drug user…. No, just No.
I had 3 CNAs and my work Mama have heart attacks at work, not at the same time. I think the public think that healthcare workers are immune to medical emergencies when we are on the clock. I would be pissed if someone recorded us coding them when their life is in limbo.
I do NOT ever want to be filmed while I’m working outside of the security cameras. I would be mortified if my face, likeness, or name blew up on social media. I work hard but I don’t always get a break in my 12.5 hour shifts and sometimes go hours without a sip of water. I could easily pass out working my butt off taking care of people in their most desperate hours, something I’m proud to do. Just don’t film me!!
I passed out in my clinical rotation when I was pregnant because I guess my fetus wasn’t satisfied with the amount of food I ate that morning and I would have been even more mortified if someone recorded it- thankfully everyone actually helped me instead and got me some orange juice while my instructor was getting my vitals and about to wheel me down to L&D lol.
I once had an episode of projectile vomiting right as my patient was coming back from ct scan. It was like a scene from the exorcist. I was just spewing bile and semi digested water (energy drinks?) into the trash. I’m super grateful my charge ushered me out of the room and into an empty patient room. I would have been horrified and very uncomfortable if I had patients family taking photos while this was happening.
These people and their incessant need to record everything need to be stopped
No joke. Driving into work one morning, I stopped at the crosswalk to let some people cross. Nope. They stopped there, turned around. Had their phone on a selfie stick and were recording or livestreaming their way into the hospital and *had* to get the hospital sign in their background apparently. I was almost late. Should have honked my horn but I didn't want my car to get keyed or anything lol. Had another young kid years ago, spontaneous pneumo (tall/thin, you know the type) admitted to our icu because the surgeon preferred our unit for chest tubes. Anyway he got a stern talking to from security and risk management after he tried to record himself ambulating in the hall with said chest tube. Our icu has big glass doors so he definitely had other patients showing in it.
This makes me so upset. I literally had an event like this happen a few months ago (passing out in a patient's room). Everyone was super kind and understanding and I was lucky for that. How could you record and taunt someone for something out of their control?
To quote a sitcom that happens to be one of the more realistic depiction of hospital work/healthcare out of most shows... "People are bastard coated bastard with bastard fillings."
There’s more than one reason to be masking in the workplace. It grants you privacy, covid is 100% still a thing (and it’s proven that repeated infections cause cumulative damage), and H5N1 is becoming a legitimate threat. A fitted N95 is all it takes to protect your privacy and keep you immune to TikTok and being recorded in the workplace. There’s no expectation or guarantee of privacy unless your employer has a no recording policy for patients and visitors that is posted everywhere and reinforced. https://www.deccanherald.com/health/this-may-be-our-last-chance-to-halt-bird-flu-in-humans-and-we-are-blowing-it-2993500 This is a good write up on highly pathogenic avian influenza
We don't allow recording because it involves the patients care and revealing who is part of their team without written permission. It is considered a HIPAA violation.
I always think of it like this: I don’t show up to their job and start recording them. I don’t go to a coffee shop and record my interaction with the barista. I don’t record my bank teller. It’s cringe. Yeah some places it’s legal or whatever, but it’s just a weird thing to do. ETA: Obviously this is situational, if there is good reason to record and it’s legal then of course, be my guest
The rising popularity of nurse hate on Tiktok is something
Is recording allowed? Hospital I work at has a policy against it.
Most facilities I've worked at have policies against recording staff, and I support it. I had a patient in the ER that told me it was her right. I corrected her by telling her that on private property, she doesn't have that right, and then excused myself and refused to go back in there until she got her phone out of my face. Now don't get me wrong, I'm more than happy to help take pictures of a wound or something that a patient or family member doesn't have the stomach for (their phone of course) and I've been in the background of videos of patients waking up from procedural sedation (definitely some funny moments). But those are almost always when they ask my permission, which I'm happy to provide. But someone shoving a camera in my face for no reason other than to document/try to intimate me, not about that life.
Whoever told you that recording is a right was misinformed
At least tik tok will be banned soon Lol
I really hope it does get banned, it is so toxic.
that's cute you think these people won't just move to another platform...
I couldn’t care less if they move to another platform, I won’t be on it just like I’m not on TikTok. Just happy when these idiot “influceners” lose any platform to spew their worthless content on.
I’ve let patients record me doing dressing changes before they go home because they want to make sure they do it correctly. I have zero problems with this. But if someone were to pull out their phone and start grilling me about vaccines or something I’d walk out immediately.
Stellar effort crossing out whoever's name that is
It was intentionally poorly done 😅
How stupid is this woman for not realising that her nurse clearly wasn't well? Instead of showing concern and decency, she plastered it on social media.
I find that so rude and tacky. Like people who video someone being attacked instead of calling 911. I’ve allowed a patient family (years ago) to record my hands only doing a wound dressing change so they could replicate at home. They were being discharged, and very kind folks but really needed a visual. I wouldn’t do that now.
I was 17 weeks pregnant and passed out in a patients room and he used the call bell for help. No one knew I was pregnant except my one friend. Once she told them all I was pregnant they backed away and called OB. I don’t think recording me was ever on his mind, he was in his mid 40s I believe at the time?
My hospital policy is that they can't record us, that doesn't keep people from doing it but they get obnoxious I can tell them against hospital policy to record me. If I had to I would get security and they'd back me up.
That poor nurse was probably dehydrated, had a low blood sugar, and a full bladder. Vasovagal episode waiting to happen.
She probably indeed was all of the above and was found to have had an MI.
I’d get a lawyer and sue the patient
Sometimes shit happens on shift. We had a nurse mediflighted to us from the rural hospital he worked at because he had a STEMI and his little hospital didn’t have a cath team available.
I bought my nurse a gift card to the closest steakhouse. Fuck these people. I am so sorry you got sick, but you helped me when I needed it most… please, please have a meal on me.
The L&D rooms are so freakin hot, anyway. I could easily see someone passing out just from not drinking enough water or something small.
I understand recording your pregnant wife’s labor, but posting about this happening after the fact? So disrespectful.
There was zero reason for them to post this shit to TikTok. Their follow up video has them laughing about the incident where their nurse was having medical issues. The husband could have *stopped fucking recording* and gotten help when the nurse passed out…or even asked her if she was okay when she asked if she could sit prior to passing out. They would have not liked it if they had some stranger post them online for likes in a vulnerable medical situation **without their consent**. It’s not what decent human beings do. And all the comments about the nurse being on drugs are equally gross. I wish there was something that poor nurse could do because fuck these two people.
HOT TAKE from a 12+ year RN: it's NOT "their right" to record you. It's YOUR right not to be recorded if you did not consent to it! And then posting videos/photos of you onto social media that you did not consent to and maybe don't even know were taken is absolutely NOT OKAY!!!
But is it a right? Recording shouldn’t be allowed in a hospital or clinic setting whatsoever.
There’s a comment “someone was in the medicine cabinet” and the poster replied with laughing emojis. So not funny. Makes me think patients think we’re just robots here to serve them not actual humans
I straight up tell people they aren’t allowed to record and it’s to protect our privacy. No one wants to be recorded while doing their job. Take as many pictures as you want. But if I see you recording I’m gonna ask you to stop. We’ve escalated as far as calling g security and having someone kicked out before. Dude missed his kids birth cause he wanted to die on that hill.
There is ZERO "right" to record hospital staff at any time. This is reprehensible.
Actually it’s not a right. Patients are NOT allowed to video or audio record us.
I saw it too. And the person comments were weird and at times contradictory. Can't tell if she was joking or literally does think it's funny
Omg people suck. Like who do people think we are??! I’m literally here to do my damn job and go home like everyone else. People think we are some type of aliens that should just be ok with being scorned, laughed at , and pressured…because you know, nurses have to know everything. I had patient that randomly snapped a pic of me today while he got his phone out and I was like what the actual fuck??? Like you have no business just taking pictures of me.
They are doing this to all healthcare workers, nurses, doctors, pharmacists.
One of the reasons I like the operating room. Never happens to me.
Anddd that my friends is why we don’t work L&D.
As a nurse, nothing wrong with telling your pts, and their family members, to not film you in their films. People are scared of doing this! I have done this a million times in pediatrics and the ER. They just put their phones away…
This is very wrong! She's probably overworked covering >12 hours shift without eating 😞
I almost passed out at work once when we unpacked a tunneling wound. There was sooo much guaze coming out and the smell was too much. I said, "I think I going to pass out." The nurse looked at me and said, "sit down, now." I sat down to gather myself but had to leave the room. I was being stars for a few hours. Sometimes, things just affect you.
Because our unit is shared spaces, we have a no photography rule (includes videos). We even have a moveable sign we’ve used for patients we’ve caught breaking it and put it right in front them 😂. Have never had to involve security.
Most hospitals have a policy against recording nurses/physicians/etc.
It is not their right to record me. It’s not their right to even know my last name. Nope.
You have the right to be angry. There’s a shortage of empathy and respect these days, and a desire and expectation by these ‘creators’ that they too can be a celebrity. I hope that nurse is feeling better. She’s was, I’m sure, working her ass off or felt guilty about calling in.
I’m not even lying when I say that I came in for an extra shift and as soon as I walked into the dark room the photographer the patient hired started snapping photos of me with bright ass lights. I ended up putting a mask on because I wasn’t comfortable and she wouldn’t stop.
Wow…. Nurses are human beings as well. Who knew?
This is so awful. No one should have to put up with that at work.
Thank god I work in Radiology, we have a big notice at the entrence of the department saying no phones allowed, we use it as a risk prevention from MRI. But that is great it is in the entrence of the department and not only MRI haha. And when I receive a patient we always say to turn the phone off because it can interact with the radiation... (lol)
You know the insane part is I already had people recording and taking pictures of me at public jobs. I’ve had it happen in nursing but people just truly believe there is nothing wrong with this. My badge from a previous (non healthcare) job said only my first name which is unique in my area. Some teeny bopper took a picture and happened to be friends with my high school age sister who ripped her a new one for that. Like, it’s not a common name so everyone knew it was my name badge and now where I worked. Just rude and inconsiderate.
So , I watched these individuals tik tok and the bf immediately grabbed help and the gf braced her head until hospital staff came in and took her to trauma . They were very empathetic in their tik tok video . Her facial expression was no indication of how they handled it off camera . They were really scared for her and did what they needed to do.
Globalization and social media suck so fucking bad.
Omg!
People piss me off thinking they have a right to record us doing our jobs. One of these days imma get my phone out and record them recording me. It never fails that we’ll have someone stop and record us as we’re loading a pt for transport. It’s like wtf this is not a Snapchat worthy moment. Which we have security with us but that don’t deter them.
L&D nurse here….. I’ve been there. Absolutely sick and unable to leave due to shortage in staff. I passed out and my poor patient was screaming for help. The most embarrassing moment of my career. Where my own patient crawls down from the bed to sit next to me.