An Atlanta hospital system has fired 4 of its nurses after they made a viral TikTok video complaining about anticipating moms and their households.
“We’re conscious of a TikTok video that included disrespectful and unprofessional feedback about maternity sufferers at Emory College Hospital Midtown,” Emory Healthcare stated in an announcement Friday. “We now have investigated the scenario and brought acceptable actions with the previous staff answerable for the video.”
WSB-TV, the native ABC affiliate in Atlanta, first reported that the nurses had been fired.
Nurses within the Maternity Heart at Emory College Hospital Midtown had been members in a social media development wherein they shared their “icks,” or dislikes, about their jobs.
“My ick is while you ask me how a lot the child weighs and it’s nonetheless in your palms,” one nurse stated within the video.
One other nurse stated “Dad comes exterior [the patient room] and asks for a paternity check proper exterior the room door,” and later added “while you’re going room to room between one child mama and your different child mama.”
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Different complaints from the nurses included sufferers taking a number of journeys to the nurse’s station, refusing treatment and epidurals regardless of saying they had been in nice ache and “while you are available in to your induction, speaking about, ‘Can I take a bathe and eat?’”
4 labor and supply nurses at Emory College Hospital Midtown in Atlanta have come beneath fireplace for mocking their sufferers as a part of a TikTok problem.
The 1 minute – clip, exhibits the nurses sharing their affected person “icks” or gripes.#disrespectful #unprofessional pic.twitter.com/LPsqEsRZ2b
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“This video doesn’t characterize our dedication to patient- and family-centered care and falls far in need of the values and requirements we count on each member of our staff to carry and exhibit,” Emory Healthcare’s assertion stated.
