posted on Aug, 25 2022 @ 07:55 AM
a reply to:
interupt42
I was a critical care nurse for 22 years, a floor Staff RN for 6, and still have my RN license in 13 states but semi retired at age 60. I think
you are spot on. The real dedicated RN's go to the the union mainly because of the staffing ratio alone. There were never enough nurses, never enough
ancillary help, the entire staff and I was charge for years on floors where everyone was exhausted all the time. They would over load you to the point
that you were sure to make a mistake someday, and they would throw you under the bus the first chance they had if you messed up. And yes I went
independent contractor in Texas most of those Critical Care years. If those bastards were going to try to make me lose my license or wear me out
physically, they were going to pay. There was sure as hell no one else that would do it. I'm overseas after a medical mission, and when COVID hit I
was bombarded by former managers asking me to come home for more pay than I could have ever dreamed of when I was full time. My little Filipina RN's
that worked with me for years and joined our nursing agency early on in the pandemic told me, "Po, don't come back, you are too old , you will catch
it, we all will,and things are bad the way they are handling it."
And by the way we were on the Texas Border most of those year. Yearly losses by the tiny hospitals I worked at in Mission, McAllen, and Brownsville
caring for illegal immigrants cost them $3-$5 million per year. Each . That was 1997 -2013. Every year. Imagine how much the locals and your tax
dollars are going there now to keep medical facilities on the border up and running.
edit on 25-8-2022 by Bikolcano because: (no reason given)
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