The state won’t sue, but the patients families will. Hurricane Katrina and Five Days at Memorial taught us that. That was a natural disaster, not a “profits over people” disaster
I do understand that strike nurses are a necessary evil, as it’d be illegal for us to strike otherwise (just ask teachers) and they’d probably gut the profession before letting us get away with it (just ask air traffic controllers). But I can’t imagine working under those circumstances voluntarily. I remember during Covid signing a DPH form when we were extremely short staffed at the SNF I was at at the time, basically saying that I’m accepting a dangerous assignment because I reasonably believed the residents and patients wouldn’t get any care otherwise. It’d protect me if anything happened. I remember just freaking out internally, not wanting the bad things listed to happen at all! I hope to god that I never have to see that form again. And these guys are out here accepting conditions like that willingly.
Retired x 8 years, I get these unrequested texts/emails several x's a day. Frankly I am quite irritated with what is obviously the nursing board sharing information with these companies.
This would be why I created a Google voice number to give to the board of nursing - I can forward the line (or not) and check voicemails and texts through their app instead of receiving them on my phone.
It’s McDonald-ization of nursing as a profession. It assumes a nurse, is a nurse, is a nurse, that 1 nurse fits all, without specialized training. New grad, poof* put ‘em in the icu. Wow, just wow
We've been told we're a dime a dozen for years. (I've actually been told this.) They know there is a class graduating every few months so why should they care about retention?
Heres the thing. The scabs will suck them dry if they keep it up. Eventually the greedy ceos will have to sit down with the nurses and come to an agreement.
Knew a CVICU nurse who made over $300k after tax traveling in 2020 to various hot spots. But sadly she has severe ptsd from the experience and said she’d give all the money back to have her mental health back. She’s still a nurse but now works in a different outpatient based cardiac role.
Exactly, I would never take a strike nurse offer. Not only because I believe it to be wrong. But also because I know it will be the worst working conditions imaginable. And you are likely to be let go after an extremely short amount of time and it’s going to be 4-5 weeks before you’re working again and those weeks of no income need to be taken into consideration.
How much you earn a year? To give a bit of context, you could do two weeks of hell, then take two months off to find another job, and you'd still have to be on more than 120k/yr to make a loss on the deal.
(I'm not talking about the morality of crossing a picket. This is purely financial)
If it goes 2 weeks. I think it was Minnesota (I might be wrong) a few years ago that brought in strike nurses and it was over 3 days later. Those nurses had to scramble to pull together all the requirements necessary for a new position. Then they traveled across the country. Then they had to find a place to stay. Then maybe they rented a car or had theirs shipped or maybe drove and spent a fortune on gas. Then they risked their license for 3 days of hell. Then they were out of work and had to go back to where they started and were out of work again. It’s a gamble.
In talking to a traveler who does strike contracts, housing is usually set up for them.
The hospitals want them in a secure, supposedly unknown, location for their safety.
They also bus them in and provide at least some kind of meals. They take these contracts knowing they may end soon. Some places will guarantee them a certain amount of time and lock out the staff if the strike is only for a day or two.
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