I see a lot of people mentioning the poor working conditions of healthcare professionals. Things like low pay, long hours, mean patients, etc. These are undoubtedly all problems that largely fall on the shoulders of nurses.
The issue with entitled, mean patients strikes me. While I'm sure a fair bit of this is due to the way in which misinformation about COVID and other health issues spreads on social media, I have a hard time believing this is the primary cause of this grumpiness. It seems more likely that the average person is just fed up being taken to town by a completely inhumane system that really ought to be the most humane of systems. Nurses are the front line representatives of a system that exploits people when they are most vulnerable.
Now, I'm not saying nurses deserve this at all. They're not to blame for the state of things. But the observation might go some ways in explaining the psychology of the phenomenon.
The issue with entitled, mean patients strikes me. While I'm sure a fair bit of this is due to the way in which misinformation about COVID and other health issues spreads on social media, I have a hard time believing this is the primary cause of this grumpiness. It seems more likely that the average person is just fed up being taken to town by a completely inhumane system that really ought to be the most humane of systems. Nurses are the front line representatives of a system that exploits people when they are most vulnerable.
Now, I'm not saying nurses deserve this at all. They're not to blame for the state of things. But the observation might go some ways in explaining the psychology of the phenomenon.