The Worst Part Of Being A Nurse | Nurse Blake

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00:00 Intro
01:15 Starting Nurse/Nurse Con
10:13 Problems with Nursing
14:00 Going Viral
26:00 Bad Patients
34:06 Changes To Nursing
41:36 Old Nurses / Saving Nurses
46:53 Taking Vacation / Social Media
49:46 Trauma / Therapy
54:24 TikTok Nurses
59:55 Long-Term Goals
1:11:40 Hypocrisy of Healthcare Professionals
1:17:59 Book Deal

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Executive Producer: Doctor Mike
Production Director and Editor: Dan Owens
Managing Editor and Producer: Sam Bowers
Editor and Designer: Caroline Weigum
Editor: Juan Carlos Zuniga

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[ghost.]

The mutual sass between these two seems like the start of a beautiful friendship 😂😭♥️

[sayan]

Dr Mike please please interview a veterinarian or a vet tech. We are very underrepresented and misunderstood. We need your type of audience and platform to raise more awareness. I am a current vet student and I cannot even describe how many misconceptions there are in our field / career

[Battle_Hippos]

The nurse that was with me when my grandfather was dying will be in my mind forever. When his breathing got so low that the oxygen machine would beep she came in and turned it off. She gave me a hug said i didnt need to listen to it. Then she caught me sneeking turing it on just to see how much it had dropped again she removed it from the room and hugged me said she wasnt going to let me torture myself. She sat with me for a solid 20 min, which i know she didnt need to do she had other patients to get to, but she conforted me. She asked me about him and his hobbies and my fav memories with him.

[Coreyj]

“I’m bad with names. I thought I was meeting doctor OZ today” 😂😂
Dr Mike didn’t even acknowledge him saying that. And that was funny.

[shizzlestickx]

I love that half of Blake's jokes are going right over Mike's head lmao, most honest nurse to doctor interaction

[Sweetbobaatea]

30:24 Doctor Mike's ability to keep the conversation on track is unmatched.

[rabbitsedits]

love how blake perfectly explains the main difference between doctors and nurses:

nurses spend way more time with patients. that's why it's so irritating when people imply we chose nursing because we we're not smart enough to be doctors. we're very smart, it's just that the social aspect of the job takes priority for us. we could never spend so much time behind a desk. that's why we're grateful that there are a lot of people who actually enjoy that type of work and i'm sure that doctors feel the same way about our job.

doctors and nurses need each other - we have the same goal, which is helping people, but we prefer different approaches. our differences are CRUCIAL for our health care system, because if you remove one group - doctors or nurses - the whole system collapses.

diagnosis and treatment orders are useless if there's no one to execute them. and nurses can only do so much without a doctor's assessment, because they give us the important information we need in order to properly take care of our patients.

we're like yin and yang. we complement each other. love this video 🎉

[thryssinstitches]

Panic attacks are terrifying! I hate how embarrassed some medical professionals will make you feel. Unless you've had one, you don't understand how much you feel like you're dying.

[lenaraviolin]

Them flirting with each other hade me so happy hahahah

[mistyb]

Huge sign-on bonuses for new hires that most likely will leave once their contract is met, but not giving your experienced/long haul nurses any bonuses for retention….so frustrating!

[NinjaSimms]

Bearded, bald, straight, male nurse here. I work in emergency and yes, my hobbies are all adrenaline based.

[autumn]

“Cracked her skull”
“No, Jesus Mike!”
😂😂😂

[michaelgallagher]

As a male NICU nurse who is still relatively early in my career (4.5 years) this was extremely inspiring and is probably one of my favorite podcast episodes I’ve ever listened to!

[luccazb]

Is it me or were they flirting? Cause I felt sparks, “I’ll give you good chest compressions” ~ Dr. Mike. SIR saying that with those eyes and smile is a crime

[ptrinch]

1:12:40 as the son of a doctor, I can relate. He had two criteria... Are you bleeding? No. Are you breathing? Yes. Go to school.

[Chachabeetch]

The sex**l tension and friendly flirting was real! 😂
Specially while talking about chest compressions! 😅

These two need their own podcast.

[michelemcdermott]

Attention: my husband fought pancreatic cancer- the nurses got us through so many dark moments! One nurse- as I was struggling to learn now to give him a shot for insulin (as he was going home to die) looked at me and said, “he’s already starting his journey” it snapped me back into reality! What the hell was I thinking? Total respect for nurses! 🙏❤️ He passed 16 years ago but her words have stayed with me!

[nolanay]

Doctor Mike…can y’all delve deeper on the role of support staff? Nurse Blake mentioned being a transporter which reminded me of my past life as a unit clerk and current role in scheduling. We don’t always get love because we’re non-clinical but it’s important to recognize we’re all a big team

[bjornullmann]

Nurses and doctors are both under appreciated. Nurses give a lot of themselves to care for patients. Doctors make huge sacrifices in their lives to study and learn to treat complex diseases. Together we both make a kick ass team.

[ireboren]

I met nurse Blake last year in Victoria, BC. He is such a charismatic sweetheart. Hilarious show.