Ridiculous!!!

I was a circulating nurse for over 6 years. When I was first call my shift could be as long as 18 hours…and you’re right! I would get one 30 minute lunch in that time period.

we need an hour lunch break

Same here☹️

Management will squeeze you all until nothing is left…

Yet we still have all these morons who believe it’s a hoax and won’t get vaccinated. It’s a war zone for these poor health care workers

@@993mike It was a freaking war zone before the big bad covid. I still had 6 patients and no time for patient care. This is not new. Covid simply exacerbated it.

Every single point raised is applicable to UK. Retention issues experience staff being managed junior staff even worse for minorities. They don't don't listen cos they have less experience to fall on and no clue but uses intimidation. Poor working conditions should be mandated as illegal I agree.

@Hopper33 That sounds right.

society seems to be crumbling i swear. no one knows civilization anymore

Spot on comment Bonnie.

Beware the nurse whose license has ink that hasn't fully dried yet. Do your very best to stay out of the hospital right now. Signed, a healthcare provider.

It was a very experienced nurse who stepped in and took on my daughter’s care in the NICU 24 years ago. Invaluable

It was an experienced ICU nurse who saved my brother in law’s life 5 years ago and gave him 4.5 more years.

At long as nurses are still being fired for political reasons, it appears that experience and expertise don't mean s***.

We need you back to do just that... train new grads without your own assigned patients!!!

@@MNP208 it takes 5 years for a new grad to be competent.

I am not a nurse, but I am a cook in a nursing home and have seen many nurses leave during the pandemic. I am also 59 and was thinking about taking an early retirement. I never thought that I would be doing this for a living at this age. One third of the kitchen staff are people that have just been hired anywhere between 2 weeks to 3 months and we are still short staffed. The cooks usually have to work in the dish room, since the younger people always call out. Every employee is fully vaccinated and now they are pushing the booster shot by offering everyone who gets the shot by December 14th, a $200 bonus and if you decline the booster, you will be required to wear a K-95 mask and a face shield on top of that! It is hard to breathe now with just the blue surgical mask.

@@apollovizsla Gosh, I'm between jobs and got my booster. I would take the $200!!

@@MNP208 I am not afraid of shots or needles but 12 days after my second Pfizer vaccine, I ended up in the emergency room with vertigo that was so bad, I missed 5 days of work, and I never call out. Also, my nieces husband had vertigo about a week after his Pfizer vaccine and neither of us had vertigo before. I am worried about that.

CEOs make a quarterly bonus in the thousands by holding down costs at the expense of patient care. This equates to linen shortages,inventory shortages( no chux,EKG paper,IV tubing,pumps,etc), dietary shortages(no spoons,crackers, juice,),NO RAISES, LOSS OF INSURANCE COPAYS, loss of vacation days, and the list goes on.

It’s not about the money. Where I live nurses are getting working short premiums, hazard pay, and unlimited opportunities for overtime. Every nurse I know would rather have a fully staffed unit and just get regular wages. Mind you I’m in Canada

@@lynnmaupin-simpson1215 gut the quarterly bonuses. That’s what has been fucking yo this country not just in the nurse and doctor area but in all companies. You try to drive results to get more personal gain at the expense of the logistics

@@joygernautm6641 different. The Us has a problem with underpaying frontline and overpaying CEOs

You got that right!

I'm an RT with 30 years experience. I retired shortly before covid and toiled with the thought of returning to help. But the reminder that no one in upper management cared about me kept me from making that step. I'm one less healthcare person who won't help because they won't help me.

Nothing but respect for the RT’s. Essential part of the healthcare team

I spent nearly 40 years as a critical care nurse(ICU,CCU,CVICU,ER,PACU, and NICU). The relationship shared with respiratory therapists is paramount to good patient outcomes!! In one 12 hour shift you can see an appreciable change in morbidity and mortality of a patient because of respiratory therapists. If their director is autonomous with his/her staff and administration the patient has so much better outcomes. Sometimes a thank you is all that is necessary. Or say how much you know their diligence paid off makes them feel better about busting their hind end. But our worth is defined by $.

@@lindasulla5302 Ditto. That was my first thought when I left nursing during the pandemic. My family is way more important than my job. The company could care less about me.

I’m and RT in Californian ( 32 years ). We have state laws for nurse to patient ratios and the hospitals are ignoring them . No RT to patient ratios though. Nurses unions doing nothing about it - they only want to collect union dues and give the money to Democrats - they do nothing to help the members even when management breaks state laws . I have about 4.5 years until I hit the minimum retirement age and then I’m out .

Wow. I can’t imagine 3 patients in a single bed room. There are a plethora of mistakes at the best of times, I can’t imagine what mistakes are happening now.

It's not just about money. There's been a worsening shortage of healthcare personnel for a few decades now.

It really is heartbreaking and terrifying. Also infuriating. And thanks to your mama for her work. 💜

Part of the shortage is intentional short staffing for profits. Eliminate profit from health care. It's immoral.

Eliminate insurance companies and corporate profiteers neglecting and killing patients for profit.

It's time for a nationalized healthcare system sans profit like every other advanced nation.

Yes!!!

Reality---> a hospital is a business aka a company. It's about profit, having specialty services, surgeries, etc just to draw people in so they can make money especially people with private insurances vs state insurance. Trust me the 2 nurses are saying is true.

THIS EXACTLY!!! The bean counters don’t give a dam about the patients or the peasant workers who make it all work for them, so they meet all their goals and get their bonuses!

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Very true

The hospitals mistreat doctors and nurses.

@@shadrach6299 really sorry haven’t seen that but guess it could happen.

I worked in a hospital with a Union for nurses. The Unions can be good for the nurses if the union workers are upright with the nurses best interests in mind! It's not always that way! 🤷‍♀️

Why does the teachers union exist?? - and NURSES HAVE NONE???

I have recently arrived at the same conclusion- NURSES NEED TO UNIONIZE, or nothing is going to change.

Well said

Yep me too and our industry also has the short working time before people leave the profession as well. We don't retain young teachers very well. And the abuse is a huge problem for both as well (students/patients, parents/family)

You are correct, I've worked in both health care and education. The NYT ran an article about school nurses being treated like the enemy. I can't imagine holding that job right now.

In 2008 was when these issues began. Obama cut the reimbursement rates to hospitals and practitioners,

You think your politician or your old Hospital CEO is watching this? LOL

Yes, but I wish all nurses would learn about investing and invest so they can retire earlier.

@Patron Saint Yes these nurses made some observations and points to consider, but some of it seemed pretty self serving in many ways. Consider some counter points. - Covid strained the whole medical industry all over the world, not just in the USA. - Both the AMA and Nursing industries are essentially monopolies that get to effectively dictate supply and pricing. If the US doubled or tripled the number of medical and nursing schools, then competition would deal with both supply and pricing. That is how competition works. - The US healthcare system is already the most expensive in the world. Something like over 2x or more than any other developed country in the world. Yet healthcare outcomes in many areas are very very average in comparison to many other developed countries. US healthcare is approaching something like 20% of US GDP now. What can the US realistically support ... is it 100% of US GDP where everything goes to healthcare? - How does the compensation of US doctors and nurses compare to other developed countries? Likely at the very highest end. I seem to recall a report from some years ago showing that US doctors earned something like 3-4x what German doctors earned. Are US doctors 3-4x better than German doctors? That is not to suggest that US doctors and nurses do not deserve to be well compensated, since they do .... it is a matter of degree. - In many ways the US for profit healthcare model is seriously broken. Holland had a similar for profit healthcare system several decades ago. But they realized it was bankrupting the country. As such they studied and successfully revised their whole healthcare system. Reportedly very very successfully. The US needs to figure out how to do something similar... but vested interests fight tooth and nail against any healthcare reform. So what is the solution to the broken and expensive US healthcare system?

@@coreyham3753 I don’t think you can blame the nurses for pointing out that their situation is broken. Maybe the doctors and their political clout, but overall, I think it’s the lobbyists for the overall medical system. I agree that this entire approach is a mess. It’s about money in politics, not about the health of the nation.

@@coreyham3753 The solution is to TAKE the money from the CEOs and administratives at TOP and give it to the NURSES at bottom how hard is this jesus christ

Two years ago I was in ICU (non-covid). My nurses were great. My life was in their hands. I greatly appreciated them!

You are correct-not a single nurse is happy at their job.

@@jamesbinns8528 Glad you recovered and had a good experience! Not all patients are appreciative especially in the current climate. Alot of the disrespect nurses are experiencing comes from the powers that be. I use to have awesome managers back in the day. Unfortunately that hasn't been the case in a long time.

I’m a nurse with over 30 years experience and preparing for early retirement due to all that’s going on in healthcare right now. The work has become so overwhelming and the daily expected workload is unsustainable. I didn’t think my career would end at such a low point in nursing. All healthcare workers are being stretched beyond what is safe for patient care.

Yes, pharmacy is crazy stressful right now too!!

What isn’t “real” for a retail pharmacist? How has the pandemic affected the retail pharmacist?

@@MsRotorwings Many pharmacists are required to now administer Covid vaccines. Due to marketing and competition, they don't have a choice. The pharmacy profession, like nursing, had its issues before the pandemic. They are worked like dogs.

@@MNP208 I can see it! It’s nuts how many things pharmacists are doing that is not normal for a pharmacist. Instead of being focused on our medications, they have to do all these vaccines! I can see why they would leave the field to save their sanity. Plus being exposed to so many people in a small indoor space during a pandemic is so dangerous!

You're SO right. I haven't been hearing your point being acknowledged enough in the media...huh, wonder why. This is my biggest issue. The customer, client, patient culture is so out of hand and abusive.

@Stanky Piece of Bluecheese Are these entitled patients and families the pandemic deniers?

@@pamelafeeney8086 most are.

People being nasty? Just wait until the more severe consequences of climate change hit. Significant food shortages, large scale population displacements, increased homelessness, looting, intense competition for scarce resources in general. Civilized societies are surprisingly fragile. We're never far away from a breakdown in civil behavior. People can come to blows over that last roll of toilet paper on the shelf.

Canadian working at a call center dealing exclusively with American clients: "self-indulgent, entitled, aggressive" - Spot on

People say "so what. You now have 6 patients instead of 4". It takes x amount of time to take vital signs, go to the Pyxis to obtain meds, computer chart, draw labs, start IVs, insert a foley catheter, DO AN ASSESSMENT, and some chores take 2 nurses. So if you have 4 patients that is 15 minutes per hour. If it takes 2 nurses that is 7.5 minutes less per patient. If you add 2 more patients to the mix, divide an hour by 6. Our work is continuous. It is ongoing. Assessments are ongoing. Vital signs are every 15 minutes which includes a visual assessment. Administration know dollars and cents but they cannot do time management math !!

Healthcare should not be for profit. It must be Medicare for all.

how much more do citizens have to take before we stand up against the profiting pigs?

True. Most became lawyers.

Same situation in teaching. What's bad for teachers is bad for students.

We knew our new nurses would leave as soon as they got their DNP, about 5 years. Now the NPs are just as affected.

Hate to say it I think new grads these days are looking for a easier job with more pay.

@@TheMallyjoe No one goes through nursing school with the expectation that the job will be easy. The ones that do don't even survive nursing school.

It's not just curative, it's a system where the patient and their family are encouraged to report how they liked it, like a restaurant. No wonder we're treated like servants/restaurant workers/maids.

@@90shilling Excellent point

@@karenl7786 Yep. And nurses aides have been running in crisis mode for at least 10 years or more. Patient load went from 8 to 10, to 20, and when someone calls in sick over 20 patient's per aide. And it can go to 30 or 40 on the night shift in nursing homes. After 38 years of working 50% in nursing homes, 50% in hospitals (CCU/Tele Floor) I retired in 2020. At the age of 61 my body just could not handle it anymore. Now I stay home and take care of my handicapped husband full time. Yea the health care system beat me up pretty bad. I feel for all the nurses, aides, doctors and other health care workers out there. God bless and good luck to all.

@@justincase3828 Thank God for people like you. We can only pray for more.

Many states including Utah conspired among hospitals and anywhere nurses worked to keep wages down. I believe it started early 1980’-1992. Is govt filled law suit and back wages especially the money that would have paid into social security lost. Despicable was it wasn’t given to all nurses who had worked during that time. Only ones that were in the class action lawsuit. No announcement, no news coverage I found out last year through research.

good luck Ruth, most hospitals are doing the opposite and telling nurses and other staff they cannot have any vacation time because of shortages, which only drives more people to quit!!

Well said. It isn't a nurse is just a nurse. Patient safety goes down when experience walks out the door with all that knowledge in their head.

As a new grad, experienced nurses are missed

It's not just nurses that are being hit. It's nurses, and support staff, and doctors, and patients. I started practicing medicine in the late 1970s. By the time I retired in 2007, I was expected to do five times as much work for an hour's pay. That hours paid was 1/3 of what it was in 1994. Thanks to computerization, the health insurance companies were able to get together and fix prices and one day in 1994 all the doctors in the hospital I worked with had their pay reduced by 2/3. Of course what happened was there was an explosion of medical mistakes as doctors work faster and faster to try to keep their income levels up. I knew when Reagan stole the election in 1980 that the middle class would be squeezed. Since doctors sell their time just like factory workers, I knew doctors would be squeezed. I was admitted to an ivy league medical school but I went to the State medical school because I didn't want a huge debt. My goal was to practice medicine for the underserved. I might as well have gone to the ivy league medical school because I ended up paying an ivy League price for a State medical School degree. The Reagan administration changed the terms of my loan. When I first started my loan terms were the exact same as the guaranteed student loan terms that anybody could get. Since very few people in my class were low income, I was the only people that received a low-income student loan from the package of federal money the medical school received. When I signed the papers on the loan, the guaranteed student loan program, and my loan program both had the terms of 3% interest with up to 7 years deferred as long as you were still in training and not making much money. I hadn't graduated medical school before Reagan took office. That meant that he was able to retroactively change my entire loan despite the Contract I had signed with the federal government before Reagan was in office. When he took office almost immediately the terms of my loan were changed. The guaranteed student loans which anybody could get including very wealthy students, stayed at the very favorable 3% no interest for seven years. the health professions loans, which can only be attained from people from very low income backgrounds, changed dramatically. The interest rate went from 3 to 10 to 14% depending on the market rate at the time. The period of time in which no interest would be charged went from 7 years to 0 years 0 months. When I graduated after two and a half years on Reagan's accelerated assault on porch students, I owed $60,000. The rich kids graduating at the same time old $20,000. For the same degree. Furthermore, by the time I have been out of medical school for 3 years, in residency, my loan had balloon to $60,000 well all the rich kids still only owed $20,000. So I was paying 14% interest on $60,000 going forward well they were paying 3% interest on $20,000. For the same degree. Most doctors are primary care doctors. By the time a primary care doctor retires, that primary care doctor has made slightly less per hour works in an elementary school teacher. Nurses actually come out ahead in the category of pay per actual hour worked. Everybody resents doctors because they hate their health insurance terms. At least twice a month and the women's dressing room at the exercise gym, somebody would find out I was a doctor and attack me for health insurance costs. I would explain to that person that unregulated insurance company profits were what was driving the high cost of healthcare. When the person yelling at me would finally understand that it was the insurance companies, not the doctors, and certainly not the doctor that person was yelling at since I worked for poor people, they'd be momentarily speechless. However, my respite from being yelled at was only momentary. The angry person, having obtained some kind of relief from venting against a person, they did not want to give that up. For some it is an emotional release to yell at someone and transfer your angry feelings onto them. Those are people don't usually yell and get angry at the people that are actually cause their problems. The reason they don't yell at the people causing their problem is that the people that are the cause of their problem have great deal of power. Instead of working on the cause of the problem, many people settle for temporary emotional release by scapegoating someone. The only people that are having any sort of gain from the current healthcare system are the 1% who own the insurance companies in the hospitals. They're making a lot more money. However, as the Reagan neoliberal austerity policies continue to squeeze all the money and resources upward toward the 1%, infectious diseases will become more fatal for everyone including the 1%. So the 1% will pay a price but unfortunately they will pay less of a price than people who are poor. There is no escaping the fact that human beings are a social species and unequal distribution of resources will harm us all.

I watched my insurance premiums go up while services went down in the mid 1990s. The people negotiating with HMOs told me that they had collaborated to set prices prior to openning the bid.

Thank you for your service and saving lives. I'm a professor and burn out is hitting us too. Not the same, obviously we aren't saving lives. What you all do is heroic. I'm just horrified that people don't appreciate your sacrifices. And knowing staff are so underpaid is sickening. Again, I'm grateful for folks like you. Thank you!!

@@Madronaxyz Thank you for your service and I'm so sorry this happened to you. We need doctors like you and it's clear that just keep piling on the misery instead of working with medical nurses, staff, and physicians to make the system better and streamlined. Venting only leads to more hostility is what the research shows so I'm not surprised people get a moment of relief and clarity and think it's okay to yell again. Of course, it most certainly isn't

@@mlight6845 In 2007 --2008, when I started working with a political group to lobby my US Congress people, I Googled the salary of the chief CEO of Blue Cross in OH. His salary was $10M per year. In 2007 he also got a bonus of $11M. I'm not a socialist, but the capitalist system we have that is calling the shots in the medical field is criminal. Btw, I greatly appreciate my doctors. I'm now 66 and I've been seeing more of them!

I recall the days of floating and receiving the hardest patients because the staff needed a break. It happened often. I wasn't too happy about it at the time but it was a challenge and became an experience for me to carry with me. I followed the Florence Nightingale way of nursing, was laughed at and not included in their reindeer games at the desk all night. But I'm able to hold my head high when I remember doing the right thing for patients and not following the short cuts and failure to treat a patient as a person and not a product to pass along to the next shift. I made a difference sometimes, even if it was a small one, in someone's life who just needed to be heard, needed hug, and a prayer! In spite of the understaffed shifts, unbalanced nurse to patient ratio, and final burnout I'm able to know I gave it my all. But it shouldn't be this way! It's good to hear these voices speaking truth. I hope for the future of nursing and all the healthcare professionals that things will get better.

I especially agree with having a psychiatrist or therapist around. My friend who worked in the ICU was coding at least 3 patients a day when COVID was at its peak. Coding a patient became routine…but it took its toll on everyone’s (pharmacist, resp. Therapist, nurse, doctor, all who took part in the codes) mental health. Admin posted a flyer with a number to call for counseling. I work in another department, but for fun, I called the number. They transferred me, and I was transferred again. I wouldn’t have had time to schedule an appointment anyway, but the end result was that it was difficult to even get ahold of someone for counseling.

Yes, CNAs are AMAZING!!

Started as a CNA, became a nurse and am now an NP...I have never forgotten my roots and daily show thanks and gratitude to our CNAs who are seriously a big component of the patient care team!

Exactly, lots of nurses are paid very well. I don't completely agree that you're all underpaid. CNAs however are paid horrible wages.

@@staceystrukel1917 There is always the option to attend nursing school if desired, especially in the current job market. Many hospitals will now pay for tuition.

I was in a program working as a CNA during nursing school. I think it would be good for all nurses to go through. Working with the CNA's gave me an appreciation for all the staff and how working together can make for better shifts. After graduation I kept these lessons with me and always respected the different healthcare roles and how to work together to get things done. It didn't always work out due to different personalities and work ethics, but made most days better!

That is terribly unsafe! If it were me, I’d be so worried about losing my nursing license because of some patient disaster for which you couldn’t intervene because you are so overloaded.

@@jeanniej8296 They don't care as long as the shift is covered.

I'm now 85, retired from nursing after 40 yrs. and without a doubt the toll on body and mind has been astounding. Retirement has been my road to recovery and every day remind myself I don't need to 'hurry' anymore. Take good care of yourself!!! love

I up and quit one day. Stress and Claire’s up my RA. I

Even when they are “supposedly” non-profit, they are plagued by the same problems.

Wow I have heard over the years so many nurses joke and say they were going to quit and work at Walmart but I never knew any that actually did that. I can understand how it would be so much less stressful than nursing.

EIGHT? Wow, that is horrible. I remember many times, having a ridiculous amount of patients, too. So scary, stressful, and I'd just cry on the commute home. I knew I did the best I COULD, but it definitely wasn't the care I WANTED to give them!

Wow, I had to check who wrote this b/c it sounded like it was something I could have written. Every single sentence except the 1st; I worked for 4 years.

Got that right all the way around and money is the ultimate factor.

YESSSSSS!!!!!

Nurse here as well and I know exactly what you speak of when you mention the obese patients. It seems there are more and more obese patients (even the very elderly are so often very large and heavy these days), it really takes a toll on our backs. I try to do a T-Tapp stretch video before I go into work (I get up extra early so I can be able to do it at about 4:15 am, to help strengthen my back and abdominal muscles) but after pulling up dead weight, greater than 230 lb and up patients, just a few times, my back is hurting (I suppose it would be worst if I hadn’t exercised). I joke and tell my husband that the only thing I’m going to have to show for my nursing career is a Big back ache, sore hips and knees. It certainly won’t be that great retirement package!

I understand, been in nursing 40+ years. My heaviest pt was 732 pounds. Thankfully, he could walk. Had several 400 and 500 pound pots and yeah, getting help to turn et clean them is hard especially when you have 12-30 pts depending on if it's a hospital or nursing home. I have worked both! It is INEXCUSABLE for administration to saddle nurses yes I'm including Aides because they ARE nurses too, with that many patients!! It is unsafe for the pts AND the nurses! The administration doesn't care!! They only care about lining their pockets with money from OUR labor! The patients AND nurses suffer!!!!

My husband is an ER nurse and over the 15yrs in nursing the patients have become so much more violent and entitled. It has gotten so bad the admin is now defending the patients that are hitting the staff!! He left a job in the city for a rural hospital as the city hospital had violent patients every shift.

as an RN, you should be much better informed about the vaccine which is not all it’s reported to be. Statistics show that 1% or less of folks with natural immunity are “reinfected”, whereas breakthrough infections in the vaccinated are approaching 40%

When did you start working at 15.

@@TheMallyjoe Good question. I’m not the person you are directing this to, but I graduated nursing school at the age of 19 so that’s possible, I’m thinking that she’s still working.

You still have a long way to go with that mindset and thinking. You probably went to school in one of these online devry nursing that does not teach critical and logical thinking.

Kk doc is probably antivaxxer who is misinformed and unfortunately misinforming others. Clear lack insight here and clueless.

As a nurse, this hurts my heart. I'm doing my best.

Nurses have always been viewed as a debit expense. Patients come to hospitals for nursing care not medical care. Nurses are the quarterback and the coach of the patient team. Everything they do generates income for the hospital. Every piece of inventory should have a charge attached to it both a monetary charge and a time charge. Instead of hospitals charging a room rate and ICU rate it should be based on a slew of items and time charges. It takes 4 Nurses, 1 or 2 respiratory therapists, a unit secretary, an anesthesiologist to admit a post open heart patient to the ICU. They will be working at a run to connect equipment, check orders,draw labs, do continuous assessments, check IV drips, assess IV rates and concentrations, weigh the patient, and the list goes on and on. After the first hour it will be one nurse and respiratory at the bedside. The unit secretary is doing necessary things for your new patient and all the other patients in the unit. Orders have to go into the computer. Pharmacy is notified. Orders are faxed. Labs scheduled. Family has questions, Drs have questions. It goes on like this for hours. This patient,in most hospitals , is charged a flat rate. If the patient is unstable a flat rate just does not apply. When you turn this patient every 2 hours it will take 2 Nurses and 1 respiratory therapist. There is no added charge. Same flat rate. There is no lunch break or even a bathroom break scheduled for the nurse. The nurse will probably have 2 more patients in addition to this new patient. Now change the new patient to a Covid patient. Now the 2 other patients are Covid patients. They, all 3, are as busy as the open heart patient. The nurse will probably have 4 Covid patients. In and out of isolation tacks on minutes and lessens the time for patient care. How long has it been since they get a chance to sit and chart? Collect their thoughts? This is for 4 patients. New nurses have no skills. They have no assessment skills. They are overwhelmed. They are probably being paid what it took you 35 years to attain. They didn't know how taxing nursing is physically,mentally, and emotionally. Then factor in that administration has no clue and doesn't really care. Would you stay in nursing?

Definitely upshot of capitalism.

Women get abused in the workplace all the time. This is because men think we are not as important as they believe they they are!

@@angelbogart539 Agreed - Capitalism

It’s a specifically American capitalist problem.

No it’s capitalism because other countries full of humans can get it right.

Tacos.....how nice (kidding!) I'll never forget (back in the late 90's), working in an under-staffed NICU. We had premie TRIPLETS about to come to us, and as usual----not enough staff. It was nurse's week, and the "suits" came in at NIGHT to serve us ice cream (wow--such a "sacrifice" for them....ha ha!) They kept calling our NICU to get us to come to the cafeteria to get our "thank you" ice cream. We had to keep explaining that we had premie triplets on their way, not enough staff, and NO, WE CAN'T ENJOY YOUR STUPID ICE CREAM !!! Arrrghhh!

The high-heels nurses stay.

The question is: Bonuses for what? For adding to shareholder value. That's it. Never mind the patients. More of those will walk in through the door tomorrow.

lol! you are funny and i relate to how you feel.

Hospitals across the country still utilize CNA's they actually do the hands on care & have 10-15 patients! The nurses at my hospital only pass meds do assessments then sit down & chart for 5 hours out of their 8 hour shift!

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Agreed. It's not even close.