marcsmart t1_j34n502 wrote
I’ve been on my soapbox in this subreddit regarding this issue so I’ll keep it brief. If it comes down to the strike it will be a brutal time for everyone. I’m in a hospital that isn’t striking so this diversion stuff is going to send everyone to the remaining hospitals and we are going to be drowning in patients. I hope the negotiations go through and they give the nurses what they deserve.
That aside nurses are striking so they can have more means to provide better care for YOU. We can’t do ratios of 1 nurse to 10-15-20 patients any more. We can’t have 1:3 in the ICU. NYC has incredible hardworking nurses that are used to working at 200% capacity every shift for 12 hours straight. But it’s unsustainable and inhumane. You don’t want to be one patient among a dozen per one nurse. Management won’t give the staffing and won’t honor agreed upon ratios. That’s one of the biggest fights in the negotiations right now.
Bankzzz t1_j35ke8e wrote
As someone who is not a healthcare worker, I am extremely concerned about healthcare workers ability to provide healthcare when they’re being stretched so thin. I know how hard it is in my role to be short staffed so I can’t even imagine how hard it must be for the people in ERs and hospitals. I would really prefer that people are able to get adequate rest and benefits for themselves but also so fatal mistakes don’t happen to patients as well. I hope they give the employees what they need because this is ridiculous. At what point is enough enough? People, in general, can’t keep “sprinting” throughout their entire employment - we don’t even know if we’ll ever be able to retire - so people really need to be given the opportunity to also rest. I don’t get it.
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