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My wife is a nurse. The job sucked before the pandemic. Patients would grope her (geriatric care), family members would berate her. Management never stood up fo
by listless 5y ago
My wife is a nurse. The job sucked before the pandemic. Patients would grope her (geriatric care), family members would berate her. Management never stood up for her. She was overworked because the center wanted to save money by giving less nurses more patients to the point where she couldn’t provide adequate patients care. She worked straight through COVID and caught it and was crazy sick. Then decided not to get the vaccine because she has natural immunity. She will lose her job December 6th, and she’s not sorry.
You can disagree with her on the vaccine. I do. But the fact is that nursing always has been an incredibly difficult job. It’s a wonder we have any at all.
- V__ 5y agoInteresting. Which country is this? In Germany vaccinated or immunized (natural immunity after a Covid infection) are both treated equally.
- listless 5y agoUSA. We don’t recognize prior infection. And we assign 21 beds to a single nurse.
- n8henrie 5y ago21 beds?! What kinds of patients? I'd be thrilled if we could assign more than 4 beds to our nurses (SW US); instead we end up flying our (usually destitute) patients >500 mi away to find nurses that will take 5 or more.
- listless 5y agoRehab Center. Which is fancy speak for “nursing home”. Which makes it all the more tragic. These patients aren’t getting proper care because the staff is stretched far too thin.
- 908B64B197 5y ago> My wife is a nurse. The job sucked before the pandemic. Patients would grope her (geriatric care), family members would berate her. Management never stood up for her. She was overworked because the center wanted to save money by giving less nurses more patients to the point where she couldn’t provide adequate patients care. That's the beauty of an industry where there's no result-based compensation. Quality can slip and overwork creep in and there's no mechanism to stop it.