Do Nurses Practice What They Preach?
Forget what you see on TV—welcome to the real world of nursing.
Clock in with Nurse Millie and Nurse Tara as they tackle one of the most ironic truths in healthcare: Nurses rarely follow their own medical advice. We spend our 12-hour shifts telling patients to rest, hydrate, and take it easy, while we navigate nonstop call lights and pure hospital chaos running on zero sleep.
Today, we are talking about what really happens on and off the shift, including why healthcare workers make the absolute worst patients and which of our own "golden rules" we break the most.
The charge nurse is already looking for us, so hit play and join the shift!
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Transcript
You know what they say on TV.
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:Push one of epi, stat!
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:Yeah.
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:Nobody actually says that. Exactly.
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:Welcome to the real world of nursing.
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:I'm Millicent Alluaud, better
known as Nurse Millie, and I'm Nurse
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:Tara, and we're surviving
12 hour shifts, nonstop
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:car lights and pure
hospital chaos and each other.
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:This is shift Happens where we talk about
what really happens on and off the ship.
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:All right, that's our time.
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:The charge
nurse is already looking for us.
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:Thanks for working with us.
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:And if you enjoyed the episode,
make sure to hit subscribe
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:on Apple, Spotify, or wherever
you listen and follow us at Shift
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:Happens on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook
so you don't miss the chaos.
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:I'm Nurse Millie and I'm Nurse Tara.
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:Please don't hit the call button.
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:We are clocked out.
