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Why Shift Happens: COVID Trauma, Nursing Chaos, & Clinical Confessions
Episode 2 • 26th June 2026 • Shift Happens Podcast • Nurse Millie & Nurse Tara | The Narrative Suite
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In this episode of Shift Happens, Nurse Millie and Nurse Tara dive into the real reason they created the podcast: to bridge the gap between healthcare workers and the public. From sharing wild clinical confessions—like night shift patients trying to fight God—to taking a raw, heavy look back at the trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic, they hold nothing back as they reveal what truly happens behind hospital doors.

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Welcome to Shift Happens, real nurses, real life, and nothing sterile.

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I'm your nurse, Millie.

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And I'm your nurse, Tara.

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And this is where we talk about what really happens on and off the shift.

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Follow us on all socials.

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The name is Shift Happens Podcast.

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It does and you should follow us because I mean, like, comment and subscribe.

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Like that's what that's what the millennials are saying.

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Like, comment, subscribe.

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Like, a lot.

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So why don't we just do that?

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So why shift happens?

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I think it's important to introduce shift happens to an audience because I feel like it

appeals to healthcare providers and people that are not in healthcare.

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You know, like when you have your friends

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Okay, Millie.

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Oh my gosh.

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Why?

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I'm not the interviewer.

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Tell me why shit happens.

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The real nitty gritty way.

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we're talking about, you know, friends and family that are not in healthcare.

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So I feel like this is a way to like explain things in layman's terms about what's going

on and also give us some grace.

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Like, yeah, you want to know, like, hey, you know, I went to the hospital today and it was

horrible.

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I'm going to give them horrible ratings.

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Why?

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I'd away.

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you know, two hours for my Tylenol.

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Well, you know why you had to wait two hours for your Tylenol?

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Because after I said I'll be right back with your Tylenol, somebody coded.

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So then I had to run a code.

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And then grandma choked on a pill.

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So then I had to, you know, burp her back.

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Then somebody fell off the bed.

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So I had to get them off the floor and then order x-rays to make sure they didn't fracture

anything.

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And then somebody decided to wake up in delirium and pull out their IV.

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Like

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And I have somebody calling, ordering labs or a medication or asking me about, you know,

values.

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And it's like

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I thought it because you want a reality TV show.

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Okay, well that's you're messy.

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You're messy.

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Two things can be true.

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Okay.

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However, I just feel like it's important to like educate everyone and I feel like we're

very relatable to nurses or other el healthcare providers.

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What do you think?

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Well since you know it all, what do you think?

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I think that's important and I do know it all.

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But what do you think the purpose of shift happens?

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But I

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think it's good to talk about things that are really going on behind the scenes that

everyone else is afraid to talk about.

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I'm not afraid.

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a little afraid because like I don't wanna be unemployed.

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However, I think it is important to talk about these things.

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But in like a light hearted banter.

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Are you kinda I feel like you're giving me very emo, like very like I wanna be very

serious and tell you like the real real

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Yeah, I wanna get in and say things.

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I wanna deep dive in.

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wanna scrub in, you wanna be sterile and you wanna go all the way.

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want it raw.

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Well, I think that would be like a nighttime shift happens.

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So like let's call that night shift.

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Maybe we can do like night shift where we talk about all the things Tar like Sun.

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Oh, night shift.

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I worked a lot of night shift and it goes down.

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That reminds me of a funny story on night shift.

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So we had a patient, and at night, ICU patients have sundowners.

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When the sun goes down, it seems they go down.

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They start acting really crazy.

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They don't know what time it is.

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So one patient was in the ICU.

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Mm-hmm.

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And he was having sundowners and he was screaming and attacking nurses.

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And we got on the intercom in his room and we said, Hey, Mr.

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So and so, this is God.

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You've got to stop fighting your nurses and be nice and do what he says.

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And he looked around and he says, Face me, God.

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And y he wasn't in restraits or anything.

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No.

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It was the funniest thing.

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He wanted to challenge God and we all

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Then that's out of our hands.

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That's out of our hands.

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You want me to tell you a funny story?

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Erno.

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Okay, well, this was like a day shift thing.

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I was in nurse practitioner school and I was doing my little clinicals.

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I had to see like 40 patients.

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And I was like, my gosh.

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So I got a stack of charts.

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Go through these charts.

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Tell me what your diagnosis would be, what your treatment would be, uh, treatment plan,

discharge instructions, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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So my preceptor's like,

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There is one out of the 40 patients that has been placed in several nursing homes due to

his inappropriate behavior towards nurses and excessive masturbation.

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So I was like, okay.

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So I made note of that.

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Well, as I'm making my rounds seeing all these patients, I'm like fumbling through my

notes and I'm just kind of like winging it like, hey, what are you in for?

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I'm doing my assessment, I'm asking the questions.

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And the one thing she told me was when you go in the room, stay by the door, do not get

close to the patient because he will get aroused.

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And then he becomes like uncontrollable.

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So I was like, okay, got it.

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So of course, me being me, I'm your nurse, Millie.

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I go in there and I'm like, Hi, how are you?

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How are you feeling?

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I sit on the bed next to him.

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I touch his leg and I was like, Tell me how you're feeling.

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What's your day?

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Do you have any pain?

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Do have any complaints?

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Is there anything I I can do for you?

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You know, let can I do a physical exam?

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And he just is going like this.

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And I'm like, does he have a history of seizures?

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Like what?

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And he's going.

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And I'm like, oh, are you okay?

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And I'm like touching his leg and he's going, and I'm like, my God, like, do I need to go?

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I need to get my preceptor.

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So I like back up to like go out of the door and go get her.

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Like something's wrong.

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Like, is vaggling?

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Is he having a seizure?

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He, I see that blanket going like this.

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And I'm like, my God, I did something I wasn't supposed to do.

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my God, like I went in there, he's aroused and now he can't stop.

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So then I went and found my preceptor.

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She's like, Did you see all your patients already?

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I was like, no, I have 10 more, but I did something so, so horrible.

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I'm so, so sorry.

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She's like, What'd you do?

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I said, I forgot that you said that the patient in this room has, you know, behavioral

problems.

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And I went in there, I sat on the bed, I made eye contact, I touched him, and now he's in

there.

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Just going at it.

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I said, I feel so bad.

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I triggered him.

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And she was like, my gosh.

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She said, you know what?

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It's okay.

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He was probably going to do that anyway.

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I was like, I just feel so bad.

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She's like, it's fine.

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I said, so what do I do?

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I didn't finish like my assessment and my question.

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She's like, I'll finish up for you.

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Just going to the just going to the next patient.

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It was a little traumatic for me.

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Um, I'd never heard I don't even know what that diagnosis was, but um I just felt really

bad.

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Like I is that the diag okay, fine.

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Choking your chicken.

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Um treatment.

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Um probably gonna get discharged and have to go somewhere else.

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I'm so Yeah, sorry.

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You know, the good old Hospital Johnson's and Johnson's lotion.

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Okay, did he?

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Yes.

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Did you know baby oil really dries out your skin?

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does.

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Mm-hmm.

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How do you know?

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Night shift viewers.

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Night shift viewers.

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Tune in for Tara's nightlife um expeditions.

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Yeah, we're like, um, okay.

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Um, do we want to talk more about why?

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we talked about why.

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Um so why do you think there is a lack of honesty in conversations regarding healthcare?

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Do you think it's taboo?

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Are people afraid that, you know I feel like people don't have social media, everything's

very private.

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I asked you and I'm cutting you off.

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I'm sorry.

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Yeah.

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That was really rude, but it's cool.

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I feel like nurses and doctors are held in a certain esteem in society, so you don't want

to tell the real truth behind some things because you have um a s a reputation and maybe

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if you're too truthful doesn't come off.

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As being so acceptable.

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Okay.

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So you don't want to show like your your true thoughts on some things.

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Remember when someone was murdered and um one of the doctors says something and he was

fired for giving an opinion because maybe society holds them into uh what is holds them

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into a role that certain standard.

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a professional standard and you know, even though we're people, we still have, you know,

to um have boundaries with what, you know, our feelings and our beliefs and our thoughts

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are.

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We're still people.

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Um, so do you think that um creating shift happens creates a space for transparency and

connection?

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Or is that like your goal?

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Is that like weird?

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Is that like an interview question?

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Yeah.

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okay, let me try again.

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transparency.

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Okay.

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So do you think that shift happens creates a space for transparency and connection?

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Is that better?

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Am I still

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No.

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What do you think what do you think shift happens creates?

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Okay.

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So what do you think um a podcast such as Shift Happens creates for healthcare

environments?

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Well, I think we tell stories.

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We're here telling our funny stories.

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I feel like we're transparent in our own personal lives and our lives at work.

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So it presents a lot of transparency on what it's truly like to be a nurse.

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Work in the hospital, taking care of patients.

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You're a nurse practitioner.

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I'm a nurse anesthetist doing different jobs and how that translates into

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our daily lives and our work lives.

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Yeah, I think that's important.

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And I feel like my inspiration came from COVID, right?

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So I feel like doctors are glorified, you know, they're saving lives and they're doing all

the research to come out with these protocols to help patients that have been diagnosed.

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But I feel like people realize that there are other forms of providers.

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Nurses, nurse practitioners, nurse anesthesists, physical therapists, occupational

therapists.

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respiratory therapists.

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And so people are like, Oh, I didn't know nurses do all that.

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Like you are solely like the frontline workers.

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And so I feel like this is a good opportunity to introduce like what we do and, you know,

kind of create the balance of a professional yet personal perspective to share.

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Sure.

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let me see if I have anything else.

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also talk about like how because one of our top so let's focus on the community real

quick.

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So the top probably the number of people who listen is other people in the healthcare.

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So how will they be able to like relate to you guys?

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Because I'm pretty sure you probably like what you said on the first episode.

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Most of your friends are by their healthcare.

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We're kinda like your your internet besties, like

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Just like, you know, sometimes I need a bit.

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Sometimes good that you know to where we're gonna be that voice for you guys.

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So don't say it to like you're breaking that fourth wall, but just say a benefit of what

you guys are going to be, you know.

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Ignore me.

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Okay.

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Go ahead, Maryland.

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uh

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The benefit of having a podcast like Shift Happens is that yes, we have friends that and

family that we can vent to, but I feel like those long car rides home from work, it's like

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fun to hear somebody else's experience that may not be so personal to you, or maybe

similar to what you experienced that day at work, or maybe maybe you have a family member

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that's a healthcare provider, and this provides an opportunity for you to get their

perspective as well.

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I know when I would come home from work, sometimes I would just sit in my car for like an

hour and just like, okay, I'm gonna listen to music, I'm gonna do something.

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So I feel like it would have been Yeah, to decompress and but also you have something

that's lighthearted and fun and it doesn't have to be so dark and it's healthcare related

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so you can relate or at least learn something in that time.

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Yeah, I think it keeps it real.

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Keeps it one hundred.

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Inauthentic.

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It's almost like your internet besties.

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So it's like, yeah, I don't really feel like talking on the phone to my friend or my

coworker today, but I want to I need to take this long drive home, stay awake, and then I

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might want to sit in the driveway or soak in the tub.

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Like that was one of the things I did a lot.

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Yeah.

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But yeah.

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Let's see this.

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transition to even the people who aren't in healthcare too.

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This this can really give you a behind the scene wall of what we deal with.

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Why healthcare is so much different than any other profession out.

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You can even take it back to COVID.

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Like Jay wanna know like, hey I remember like since I've mentioned COVID, how crazy was

that?

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Yeah.

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Y'all can even just dive back into that.

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Mm-hmm.

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Okay.

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You can start off and I'll piggyback into COVID and how I had kids and my husband was

working and blah blah blah blah.

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Wow, thinking of COVID, I can't believe that was so long ago, twenty twenty.

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said we're talking about um people that aren't in healthcare and how they relate and then

we're gonna talk about

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about covet.

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Can we talk?

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Yeah, I I'm sorry, Tara.

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Yeah, start with that 'cause we just in we just hit on how people in the healthcare field

will relate to

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Now we want to talk about people who aren't in the healthcare field and then we're gonna

dive into COVID.

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then the easy way to say way bad is just like and also people are in healthcare for plan,

you know.

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This can keep you guys behind the scene because it does get chaotic.

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Yeah.

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It gets insanely chaotic.

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And then boom.

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I remember COVID.

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Yes.

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Okay, you wanna do that?

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Go for it.

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I think even for people that aren't in healthcare, they s can see exactly what goes on.

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I think everyone knows.

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Oh, so sorry.

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oh.

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That's a headphone sorry, right there.

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You would you would have known if you had that Yeah.

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yeah, your headphones.

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He wanna know if he can get some hair from me.

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So another stay tuned for another episode.

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thought you said can he get some headphones?

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Some head from you or some headphones.

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Right.

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Oh my god.

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Another night shift episode.

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Night shifts.

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I want to know night shifts with our soon.

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Okay.

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We're gonna do a spinoff.

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Yes, people that are not in healthcare, this is very relatable because it's like, I feel

like when you have those friends and family, they're like, what was work like today?

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What was this?

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What was that?

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Can you explain this?

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I feel like we are giving you that access.

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access granted and they can see exactly what's happening in our world.

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And it's fascinating, I think.

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I feel like I got more questions about what nursing is like when we had COVID.

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Do you feel like that?

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I feel like people became more interested in

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that was so traumatic and so hard.

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I cannot believe that was so long ago.

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This feels like

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Seems like yesterday.

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Yeah.

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I remember it more distinctly because I had two children during that time.

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And then with my husband being a physician, he was initiating the protocols for COVID.

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It was like a new thing.

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People were dying.

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And so he's like, you know, I think I was pregnant too.

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He's like, I don't want to come home and spread something.

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I have no idea about the consequences.

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So there was total quarantine.

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And I'm like, how am I going to do this?

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I have two little babies.

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Like I'm pregnant.

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And

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It just really made me realize like how quickly the world can change, how fast healthcare

had to um catch up to stay on pace and save lives.

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And so it was that was one of the reasons why I didn't go back to work at that time.

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Because I had little kids and my husband was constantly working.

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What was what was your experience like personally?

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I feel

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really that's what gets people interested w about covet because we really uh were headline

nurses and doctors during covet so the outside world was really looking in on the

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healthcare especially during that time so I feel like that's why this podcast is really

great because it gives

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It was like an inspiration to inspire.

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Yeah, COVID was like an inspiration to say, Hey, here's a peek behind the hospital doors

or the hospital curtain about what really goes on.

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The good, the bad, the ugly, and the in between.

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Mm-hmm.

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What was something there on COVID that really just can y'all can y'all reflect on that

beginning part of COVID like

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Should we talk about um okay, I don't want to you might want to say the whites, but a lot

of people Republicans, or it was like a political I remember it was like a political

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thing, right?

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And so it was like But not in the beginning No, but it was when the vaccination started

and people were like, Oh, you know, politicians are saying it's not safe to take this

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vaccine.

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But let's just talk about COVID.

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How about like you know, whenever you guys start like in in I think both of you guys come

from a different, you know, perspective ones?

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You come from your husband's perspective.

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You come from like uh yeah, I remember

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How it was changing, yeah, in that instant.

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Okay.

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So she can pick it, yeah.

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I remember

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It changed.

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Like Yeah.

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And then I'll throw this at you guys so y'all can just use this as content.

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Just recently no, earlier today.

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I was picking up uh one of these mic stands and I was gonna put my uncle actually and he

was telling me about his mom, which is my granny, she's still here.

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But

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She suffers from whatever mental state that makes you feel like every single situation is

like a c a catastrophe.

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So he mentioned COVID.

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He was like, you know, Grainy thought that, you know, COVID was this is the new norm.

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This was gonna be here to stay, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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And I'm pretty sure you guys probably have like a such a unique scope.

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Because y'all it was probably more real to you guys more than it was anyone because you

saw the patient.

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Yeah.

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You know, not to trigger any PTSDs, but I'm wanting to trigger PTSD because I want to

trigger the PTSDs for our listeners as well.

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With this.

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So I want to re-generalize, like re-invigorate that feeling where I want to know what

nursing too again because I remember when I wanted to know when COVID happens.

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Yeah.

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Stuff that people couldn't see.

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So what was it?

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I feel like it just changed overnight.

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I remember working on the floor and they'd say, oh, you shouldn't like put mask on if

there's a smell in the patient room.

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It's like offensive to the patient.

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Only put gloves on if you're dealing with blood or any other bodily fluids.

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Then like within a week, it's like, you're gowned up from head to toe, masks, you know, uh

shoe covers, gowns, just all sorts of PPE.

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And it's like, well, maybe we should have been doing that to begin with, because we are

working in a hospital.

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Yeah, COVID was really crazy.

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I remember working as a nurse anesthetist, we had to intubate every single patient that

had COVID in that hospital because we're the experts on intubation.

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Well w are you saying so so was their airway compromised and so you just was that just

like your new protocol?

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the respiratory status were compromised.

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Okay.

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So they needed intubation because without it they couldn't breathe.

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So we had to intubate every single patient that came in with COVID wearing our papers, you

know, like on that movie Outbreak, how they're totally covered up.

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And to look at someone and know that

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they were gonna die.

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Was very hard and traumatizing.

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One time after I intubated someone, I walked up the stairs and I just cried because every

time being called and knowing that they weren't gonna live because all the people that

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everyone was saying stay inside.

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Yes.

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They have diabetes, hypertension, all the core morbidities, a lot of the patients we were

taking care of, they had all those core morbidities.

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So the chances of survival were very low.

385

:

Mm-hmm.

386

:

So covet was really a difficult

387

:

do you feel like you lost um touch with like a lot of friends?

388

:

Because I know there was like a really high turnover with nurses like quitting because

they were so afraid of catching COVID or you had the nurses that were like being offered

389

:

so much money to travel out of state.

390

:

Yeah.

391

:

It was like so hard to retain nurses.

392

:

I remember uh your head too far.

393

:

Okay.

394

:

yeah.

395

:

What do you say?

396

:

What was it again?

397

:

Uh you're just sending it the the head the headphones.

398

:

head.

399

:

Okay, I need to give head to the headphones.

400

:

Okay, I give it okay.

401

:

Let me give you s let me give y'all some headphones.

402

:

Let me stretch my leg out and give y'all some head.

403

:

Yes, I felt it.

404

:

I felt it.

405

:

Okay.

406

:

If I had my earphones in, I would know.

407

:

This side.

408

:

There we go.

409

:

Okay.

410

:

we need to repeat what we just said?

411

:

ah we were talking about losing friends like during COVID.

412

:

Yeah, yeah.

413

:

I feel like there were two types of nurses.

414

:

There were the nurses that were terrified, afraid, and they just quit the profession

altogether.

415

:

There's also the nurses who were getting offered a lot of money to travel out of state and

take care of COVID patients when all of this initially happened.

416

:

Did you have any experiences or lose touch with close friends that made one choice or the

other?

417

:

I feel like, you know, your friendships, 'cause you couldn't hang out with anyone, you

know, you really weren't social.

418

:

But I do remember a lot of my friends going to New York and work and the weird thing about

that, because it's such a big city, yes.

419

:

They were not taking care of patients like we were.

420

:

Yeah.

421

:

So let's say that someone needed to be intubated and they had a cold blue where their

heart stopped, they would do one round of C PR.

422

:

And normally we do what, thirty minutes of C PR, but because of COVID and they knew that

the peop person was gonna die, one round of C PR and people that don't work in the

423

:

hospital, they would never know that.

424

:

there like a shortage of ventilators or something like that?

425

:

Like don't you remember that?

426

:

Like they were running out.

427

:

I do remember that because everyone was on the ventilator.

428

:

Yes.

429

:

It was just a bad time to

430

:

I also feel like the conversation amongst nurses was

431

:

It was two different conversations as well.

432

:

It was like, Oh, how could you just give out give up on nursing and like abandon your

ship?

433

:

Like you're horrible.

434

:

Like, why are you leaving when things are so trying?

435

:

And then there was other types of nurses, and this was all social media, but they'd be

like, Oh, why do you think I'm about to take care of patients and get sick and jeopardize

436

:

my health and my family's health?

437

:

So then it was like two groups formed against each other.

438

:

And then I was just like, Hmm, that's very interesting.

439

:

Because at the time I had had two small children, my husband was a physician.

440

:

So he was sleeping upstairs, changing in the garage.

441

:

Yeah.

442

:

And it was just like I saw both sides of it because I'm like, I get it.

443

:

But

444

:

You had some nurses being the sacrificial lamb, right?

445

:

Yes where they're like, I'll I'll take it for my patients.

446

:

And somebody has to do it.

447

:

Somebody has to do it.

448

:

And it's like, you know, my husband always says, Are you the type that runs towards the

fire or runs away?

449

:

I run away from the fire.

450

:

I run away from the fire.

451

:

I'll go get help, but I'm definitely not going back.

452

:

Yeah, I can get it.

453

:

Yeah.

454

:

I run away.

455

:

I run away.

456

:

And then I go to Taco Casa.

457

:

Is that inappropriate or It's true.

458

:

I like I stress eat, so I'm about to go to Taco Casa 'cause it was a fire.

459

:

I got help, I did what needed to do.

460

:

Yeah.

461

:

Mm-hmm.

462

:

Uh, let me think.

463

:

Is that it?

464

:

Let me see.

465

:

That was good.

466

:

It was good.

467

:

What's it?

468

:

You guys hit the you guys y yeah, that's that that's gonna be a uh a tear jerker.

469

:

Yeah.

470

:

You guys deal with real stuff that in a sense also becomes normal to you guys that still

like surreal.

471

:

Did you know that?

472

:

Like about the hospital people doing compressions and I didn't and that's sad.

473

:

So you come in with COVID and they're gonna be like, Okay.

474

:

It was I but I remember

475

:

Yes.

476

:

yeah, 'cause it's such a big city.

477

:

Yeah.

478

:

But it felt like they were just like

479

:

Yeah.

480

:

They were doing that a half

481

:

Not in the nurse and and guess what?

482

:

Cause they're so compact.

483

:

Yeah.

484

:

We don't live like that, you know, everyone's on top of each other.

485

:

No, that makes sense.

486

:

Yeah, that was dope.

487

:

That that that that felt really good.

488

:

So let's transition to a break.

489

:

Um and then we'll come back and I got some words that you guys said that if you guys can

just break down those and then you can plug in the follow-up.

490

:

Okay.

491

:

So that we do good.

492

:

We don't know.

493

:

The other ones were terrible.

494

:

No.

495

:

Okay.

496

:

But the I did.

497

:

Okay.

498

:

I didn't mean to do that.

499

:

I never do that.

500

:

I know it wasn't neat.

501

:

I never do that.

502

:

I don't know why.

503

:

That was that's my favorite thing when someone says, Hey, he wants some hair from you.

504

:

I asked for some headphones.

505

:

No, you seen it.

506

:

I've never seen it.

507

:

What?

508

:

Y'all

509

:

what are you watching girl?

510

:

No Okay, I need to I'm gonna next time need like a notepad and pencil because I will like

be thinking of stuff when she's saying stuff and then I won't remember it when I'm

511

:

that had like something, you know, all the little things are like, um, can you get some

head?

512

:

'Ca like Millie's like you tell me saying, Hey, can you get some can you get some

headphones?

513

:

Like you said, can we get some headphones?

514

:

You're selling me.

515

:

Hey, can she can get some head from you?

516

:

Yeah.

517

:

changes.

518

:

What is it on?

519

:

It's just like on Facebook, yeah.

520

:

And then what'd you he says, I said can I get some headphones Oh, I thought he said can he

get some hair from you.

521

:

I'm sorry.

522

:

Like

523

:

Yeah, yeah.

524

:

No, She always be we must have different explorer pages because I don't ever

525

:

my god, that is so funny.

526

:

One of the things I wanted to bring up, which may not be relevant or not, but I feel like

you remember when people started catching COVID and it was like uh a stigma.

527

:

Like you nobody wanted to be like, I caught COVID.

528

:

Oh, you caught COVID, I gotta like everybody was ashamed to talk about people be lying and

stuff.

529

:

Yeah, you like I anyway, I just thought that was funny.

530

:

Yeah, yeah.

531

:

I gotta call out of work or I can't show up.

532

:

Why?

533

:

I'm just not feeling good.

534

:

You got that COVID.

535

:

Don't come over here.

536

:

Yeah, you told me that.

537

:

Yeah.

538

:

Your eyes look funny.

539

:

It was you have a s you have a studio?

540

:

Yeah.

541

:

Don't tell anybody I got COVID.

542

:

Yeah.

543

:

Yeah.

544

:

He's like really going at it.

545

:

That's awesome.

546

:

If you wanted to record up there, but I'm perfectly fine with coming in.

547

:

whatever is Yeah.

548

:

I mean whatever's whatever's we're gonna just do a

549

:

what's best, honey.

550

:

We want all the looks.

551

:

This is it.

552

:

Yeah.

553

:

We see what you're at, but

554

:

I'm pretty sure not.

555

:

No.

556

:

I'm pretty sure.

557

:

We can always we can always elevate.

558

:

Running inside grabbing a plum.

559

:

Wow, the shade tree is up and in full bloom, honey.

560

:

She had

561

:

Nothing wrong with that.

562

:

We're doing a break.

563

:

And then my god.

564

:

I'm ready to see this.

565

:

em

566

:

Okay.

567

:

Should I do that after the break?

568

:

After the break.

569

:

Okay.

570

:

Okay.

571

:

The the

572

:

sense and then after that I just sent it to you words that you guys said a segment that I

can just try to capture and at the end of the show you guys just kind of give more content

573

:

or whatever.

574

:

Uh which I look I know what PP is

575

:

Doesn't it write yes.

576

:

Personal protective equipment.

577

:

I'll let you do that, you know.

578

:

Intubation, yeah.

579

:

Explain that.

580

:

Yeah, this is all Taurus.

581

:

And then I just I suck at our core core ability.

582

:

Okay.

583

:

Okay.

584

:

So those are the four.

585

:

I'll send it to you guys.

586

:

Talents and life.

587

:

Yeah, that's fine.

588

:

Yeah.

589

:

So come back, so go to break, come back, and then we're gonna

590

:

Okay.

591

:

Okay.

592

:

Tara's gonna do that because she's

593

:

Trying to think of like what what's the pepper restorator, okay.

594

:

Can we do the do I need to wait for her or should have a

595

:

Oh you don't feel different on this episode?

596

:

Yeah, I mean I'm just talking.

597

:

Like I can just talk all day.

598

:

Am I tired?

599

:

Sure, but I this is like

600

:

Three episodes back is a lot.

601

:

really?

602

:

Yeah, yeah.

603

:

I feel like doing it this way.

604

:

Yeah.

605

:

I think this is yeah, like just doing batch content.

606

:

And I feel like it's very time consuming 'cause I like, you know, my time.

607

:

I appreciate it.

608

:

I mean I know it's kinda hard but

609

:

Each other, yeah.

610

:

Thank you.

611

:

Okay.

612

:

Oh no.

613

:

Okay.

614

:

I'm oh gonna go over the episodes.

615

:

I feel like I want some stronger, like more distinct topics.

616

:

Yeah, 'cause sometimes they kinda run into each other, so then you have to create a whole

new topic about something you kinda touched on.

617

:

What was our second episode about?

618

:

yeah.

619

:

Maybe I didn't like that.

620

:

Yes, of course, yeah.

621

:

This is a little different.

622

:

Okay, I see what a structure.

623

:

I see why it needs to flow.

624

:

Okay, I like these episodes better because I had a little

625

:

Yes.

626

:

Episodes four through six, you're like

627

:

Right.

628

:

Let's do a little more research.

629

:

Let's do what's perfect.

630

:

That's that's what I'm thinking about.

631

:

Yeah.

632

:

Yeah.

633

:

Yeah.

634

:

More t talking points and that sort of thing.

635

:

Right.

636

:

So it's bad.

637

:

No oh

638

:

second episode was was kinda wash Yeah I think I like that topic.

639

:

You follow your own topic.

640

:

I think it's a topic.

641

:

Yeah, I think there were some cute moments in there.

642

:

Like our little banter was cute.

643

:

Yes.

644

:

No.

645

:

All right guys, so we're gonna

646

:

Okay, are you guys still with us?

647

:

Wake up, wake up.

648

:

You're still on the clock.

649

:

But guess what?

650

:

I'm gonna give you a break.

651

:

So after that break, clock back in and get to work.

652

:

my God.

653

:

Okay.

654

:

Wakey wakey.

655

:

Are you guys still with us?

656

:

I hope so because you're still clocked in.

657

:

But luckily for you, you get a 15-minute break, hydrate, and use the restroom.

658

:

And then guess what?

659

:

You got to clock back in and get back to work.

660

:

Also, while you're on your bathroom break or snacking in the break room, stuffing your

face with donuts from the kind patient, you are more than welcome to follow us on all

661

:

socials at Shift Happens Podcast, TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram.

662

:

Yeah.

663

:

Okay, Billy.

664

:

you know what?

665

:

You do your thing with the bike, let me do mine.

666

:

Okay.

667

:

So now we're gonna talk about cooties.

668

:

And then you're gonna talk about the definition of things.

669

:

All things PPE.

670

:

Okay.

671

:

So I feel like when COVID first occurred, everybody was like, it was like a faux pas or a

stigma.

672

:

What was the word I used earlier?

673

:

Let's cut that one.

674

:

What was the word I used?

675

:

Was it stigma?

676

:

Taboo or Taboo.

677

:

Yeah.

678

:

Yeah.

679

:

Okay.

680

:

Oh, welcome back, guys.

681

:

Are you ready to join us on this next little segment?

682

:

I hope so.

683

:

Even if you don't, you're gonna have to kind of stick in there.

684

:

Listen.

685

:

So I want to talk about the stigma of catching COVID.

686

:

You remember when everybody was starting to get diagnosed?

687

:

Everybody was coughing.

688

:

It's like, okay, I hear a cough.

689

:

We need a backup.

690

:

Are you are you completely 10, 12 feet, 15 feet away from me?

691

:

Then your little friend from work.

692

:

You ain't been seeing her lately.

693

:

Or your little, you know, your friends outside of work.

694

:

Like, where you been?

695

:

Ah, I've been sick.

696

:

You know what I'm saying?

697

:

I think it's the flu.

698

:

You don't want to tell me.

699

:

Right.

700

:

And it's like, well, you've been nasty.

701

:

You ain't been following protocol instructions.

702

:

You've been washing your hands, coughing on people, standing two feet away from people,

breathing down people's neck.

703

:

How you get COVID?

704

:

Are you not social distancing?

705

:

Oh, well, I don't know if it's COVID.

706

:

Yeah.

707

:

And then you get real, real sick and we're like, Yeah, you had that COVID.

708

:

You had that COVID.

709

:

I feel like I was a little embarrassed.

710

:

Like I remember when I first caught COVID, I was like, dang.

711

:

I feel like I was like bitten by like a zombie.

712

:

I'm like,

713

:

my god, I'm about to morph and transform.

714

:

like, ah you know, and then it's like, well, you know what?

715

:

I'll be okay because such and such had it last time.

716

:

Or then you start gossiping with your friend, like, girl, you think she Yeah, I got the

COVID vaccine.

717

:

I did not I got the original, but I had I was vaccinated before I actually got it.

718

:

So you're talking about you talking about raw COVID.

719

:

Yes.

720

:

Raw COVID no protection.

721

:

Yeah.

722

:

Well that was kind of one of your terms.

723

:

Sorry.

724

:

We'll save that for part three of Night Shift with Tara.

725

:

I didn't, did you?

726

:

Okay.

727

:

So we're I did too, and girl, the water down about took me out.

728

:

I I think I first got it when I was pregnant with my third child.

729

:

Like six months in, I thought I was going to die.

730

:

It was bad.

731

:

It was bad.

732

:

What's the

733

:

The vaccine people think that vaccinations didn't help.

734

:

Yeah.

735

:

I'm curious about it.

736

:

Yeah.

737

:

You get it.

738

:

Yeah.

739

:

Yes, it's because people are vaccinated.

740

:

Okay.

741

:

So go ahead and Okay.

742

:

Bring up her that's why you say OG COVID in the

743

:

Okay, so what is F Covet?

744

:

Like is that

745

:

and then it seemed like the virus changed.

746

:

Like it was

747

:

Was it do you think it was for the vaccinations and the

748

:

after people got vaccinated.

749

:

No herd immunity type of stuff.

750

:

I feel like that's not it.

751

:

I don't think there was a herd immunity, right?

752

:

I didn't think after the vaccinations people were not getting as sick.

753

:

They definitely weren't dying 'cause the death toll went way down.

754

:

Well, and I feel like that's where the education part comes in, right?

755

:

Like, I got the COVID.

756

:

It's just like flu.

757

:

I got the flu vaccination and I still have the flu.

758

:

Well, there's different strains of flu or different viruses.

759

:

So my God, that COVID shot, why did I even get it?

760

:

It's political and you know what?

761

:

You didn't die.

762

:

Like you might be sick and yes, you caught COVID, but if you hadn't had that vaccination,

you would have probably died.

763

:

Yeah, there's a lot of people that died from the OG covet.

764

:

Yeah, so I feel like we should give plause to the vaccinations and maybe that's a little

opinionated for me, but I really feel like once people started taking vaccinations

765

:

seriously, we saw the death tolls come down.

766

:

Yes, I believe in science.

767

:

I'm a scientist, so I would have to agree with you.

768

:

Yeah, of course.

769

:

And you should always agree with me actually.

770

:

These are always right.

771

:

So you're gonna talk about um what were you he said you didn't talk about

772

:

My definitions.

773

:

uh

774

:

Herd immunity.

775

:

So people herd immunity is when we

776

:

So

777

:

We didn't set up the other ones, did we?

778

:

were there some definitions we said that the air?

779

:

Yeah.

780

:

Well we can talk about PPE, that'll be our word of the episode.

781

:

Okay.

782

:

Mm-hmm.

783

:

Take us away.

784

:

And then Tara goes down.

785

:

You got the list?

786

:

It's the PPE in the

787

:

Misturbation.

788

:

Okay.

789

:

Okay.

790

:

So normally we do like one word per episode to educate you all, but we kind of dropped a

couple bombs on you guys.

791

:

So we wait, hold on.

792

:

Bombs is probably not appropriate due to what's going on in Iran.

793

:

Okay.

794

:

Okay.

795

:

Sorry.

796

:

Okay.

797

:

Normally we have one word per episode that we like to teach and educate our non healthcare

um listeners.

798

:

But today we dropped a couple bombs on you guys.

799

:

So Tara, who is going to be your nurse, is going to give you a little patient education

about some of the terms that we discussed.

800

:

So I think one of the terms was I said papers.

801

:

Yes.

802

:

And that is I'll look it up myself because I'm so used to saying the acronym.

803

:

Yeah.

804

:

Powered air purifying respirators, a PAPPRA.

805

:

These are batter uh battery powered blower driven systems that

806

:

Pull ambient air through filters, provide clean, breathable air to the user.

807

:

Perfect.

808

:

So every time we had to go in to intubate, we use those peppers.

809

:

Okay.

810

:

And then I also said intubation or intubate.

811

:

Yes.

812

:

What I have to go in and use a blade, uh, laryngoscope to open it.

813

:

Put an endotracheal tube into the patient's trachea to provide oxygen.

814

:

Or anesthetic gas.

815

:

Um, that's the intubation.

816

:

Okay.

817

:

I think you said P P E P too.

818

:

Protective equipment.

819

:

like your gloves, mask, gown, anything to protect you from bodily fluids.

820

:

And then I also said comorbidities, and that's the patient history, like if you have

diabetes, hypertension, morbid obesity, high smoker.

821

:

Asma.

822

:

Yeah, just the comorbidities.

823

:

Things that can kind of bring down the quality of your health.

824

:

Mm-hmm.

825

:

Alright.

826

:

So thank you all what you look at.

827

:

yeah.

828

:

No, it was we need to wrap up.

829

:

So does that mean you want me to do an outro or just kinda want let me segue to the intro.

830

:

All right.

831

:

Well

832

:

This one was recapping why

833

:

Yes.

834

:

Well, thank you guys for listening.

835

:

I hope that you learned a little bit about why we created Shift Happens, our inspiration.

836

:

And I hope that we inspire you and you've enjoyed learning and also we're gonna have a

segment where you can call in and ask us questions and we'll do our best to answer that

837

:

for you.

838

:

Or is that too much?

839

:

Okay, I'm sorry.

840

:

Just say it, Richard.

841

:

It's fine, it's fine, it's fine.

842

:

Okay, we're not doing call ins.

843

:

We can do

844

:

We're not there yet.

845

:

Okay, we're not there yet.

846

:

We're not there yet.

847

:

Okay.

848

:

Okay, so no calling, but we can maybe do fake anonymous voice message.

849

:

Okay.

850

:

Okay.

851

:

All right.

852

:

Thank you guys for tuning in.

853

:

We hope that we were able to um what did I say before?

854

:

I'm sorry.

855

:

Why don't you do a Tara?

856

:

You know I'd be forgetting stuff when I get tired.

857

:

Inspire.

858

:

We hope that we were able to inspire.

859

:

We were inspired by what goes on behind the scenes and we hope that we were able to

inspire you to tune in and learn more about what goes on behind closed scenes in the

860

:

hospital.

861

:

Cause you know what?

862

:

Shift really does happen.

863

:

It does and we're gonna talk about it.

864

:

Even if we don't have a wet wipe or a bedpan.

865

:

We're gonna talk about it.

866

:

Mm-hmm.

867

:

And

868

:

All right, that's your shift for today.

869

:

and I'm your nurse.

870

:

Wait, wait, wait, let's do that.

871

:

Oh god.

872

:

Right there.

873

:

I'm your nurse, Tara.

874

:

Tara was in like she was she was she already saw the house.

875

:

She saw the plum tree, your nurse.

876

:

Okay.

877

:

All right.

878

:

That's your shift for today.

879

:

You can clock out and remember I'm your nurse, Millie.

880

:

And I'm your nurse, Tara.

881

:

Take what you need and leave what you don't.

882

:

And we'll be here to see you the next shift.

883

:

I hope you're not late.

884

:

You gotta be there by seven.

885

:

If you're late, then you get in trouble and then you might lose your job.

886

:

You might get a write up.

887

:

Yeah.

888

:

I'm gonna stop.

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