pauldingbabe
The Great Cat
It's collapsing before my vary eyes.
20 years at the same outpt facility.
Shit is bad everywhere in the medical field.
Aww Bee...I'll have a prayer for you.
Hang in there
It's collapsing before my vary eyes.
20 years at the same outpt facility.
Shit is bad everywhere in the medical field.
We are so understaffed it’s not even funny. Nursing/CNAs/name it. Then they burn all their good people out by overworking them. I understand they have a business to run, but staff also has a right to have a life. It’s getting ridiculous. We’re all so tired of it.
Really, when I had simple hernia surgery, I looked at the people working there and I literally said,” How do I get a job here, you folks look so happy.” They all laughed and carried on and I went back to my miserable job, -albeit not always miserable… I don’t think people changed that much, and if they did, I think I have a good shot at heaven…Too many hours. To many difficult, demanding and unruly patients
Well, not if your name is Pfizer, Moderna et al……lol no, those are high risk services where if anything goes wrong you lose millions.
Well, not if your name is Pfizer, Moderna et al……
You should see how much RNs can make with just a bachelor's degree. (Travel nurses are pulling in 5K a week now many places.) Now you know why they're happy (at least til the inevitable post-40 "why don't I have a good husband and family, and OS I bet I never will" epiphany hits them like a ton of bricks).Really, when I had simple hernia surgery, I looked at the people working there and I literally said,” How do I get a job here, you folks look so happy.” They all laughed and carried on and I went back to my miserable job...
You should see how much RNs can make with just a bachelor's degree. (Travel nurses are pulling in 5K a week now many places.) Now you know why they're happy (at least til the inevitable post-40 "why don't I have a good husband and family, and OS I bet I never will" epiphany hits them like a ton of bricks).
Yep, and the care is NOT going to be there...I'm a baby boomer. The next 20+ years there will be a big demand for medical services as we 'age out'.
That's why I work out and exercise religiously. I call it preventive maintenance, because we boomers will not have the care we need.Yep, and the care is NOT going to be there...
Summerthyme
We are trained to do that, plus a lot of us really do care, and love taking care of sick people. That does not mean we don’t go back to the break room or the Pyxis and have an exhausted melt down cry like once a week (or more).Really, when I had simple hernia surgery, I looked at the people working there and I literally said,” How do I get a job here, you folks look so happy.” They all laughed and carried on and I went back to my miserable job, -albeit not always miserable… I don’t think people changed that much, and if they did, I think I have a good shot at heaven…
Well, not if your name is Pfizer, Moderna et al……
We are trained to do that, plus a lot of us really do care, and love taking care of sick people. That does not mean we don’t go back to the break room or the Pyxis and have an exhausted melt down cry like once a week (or more).
Wish I had a dollar for every employee that came in my office and shut the door and burst into tears. It happened a lot.
They do make the bucks traveling. I have a few as clients.My oldest son works as an R.T. in the hospital and says a lot of nurses left to become travel nurses because more $$$$.
Can't say I blame them. Just my 2 cents....
We are so understaffed it’s not even funny. Nursing/CNAs/name it. Then they burn all their good people out by overworking them. I understand they have a business to run, but staff also has a right to have a life. It’s getting ridiculous. We’re all so tired of it.
Kaiser (not so) Permanent-e?Kaiser Permanente lost 1 Billion in 3 months
I noticed this at Flagler Hospital a few months back, you could feel and literally see the difference from a few years prior. What is going really going on?
Birth rates on the decline, staffing shortages literally everywhere, businesses closing...it's like the whole planet is just coming to a close, isn't it?
Birth rates in the US are on the decline for white, working families. They can't afford children. The rest, they get rewarded for having children they can't afford, funded by the white working families who can't. Rinse repeat. The very children the taxpayers are having to support go one to do the same cycle. Between paying people to have children they can't raise to importing several third world countries, we are causing our own downfall, all thanks to progressive idealism.
I was having to do the job of the CNA's (which I am trained to do ),
take better care of yourself and you will not need to use the medical system. being fat, smoker, drinker, no exercise, lousy diet and taking 6 meds daily is going to get you sick and into the system. this is all by design. get the vax and your chances of being sick go up by probably a factor of 10X.
On that note…..from Cary’s perspective…..
Where is the downside ?
In my own humble way I have been in an organization like that. Some times when I get that check in the mail and feel a twinge of guilt, I reflect on those oh so special moments...During covid her hospital gave out a "forget me not" plant for a raise. Yes, a plant for a raise. Her last year there (2021) they gave a quarter.
She left when they gave out a quarter. I would have left when I got the plant.
Lots of issues affecting healthcare:
Closing down OBGYN birthing centers isn’t shocking. Marriage rates dropping, young people putting off having kids due to cost of everything.
The mandated vaccine push likely didn’t help matters, but I never heard of all that many workers being fired.
Lots of nurses traveling and making huge money. Here today, gone tomorrow. As noted above, lots of younger folks postponing early courtship. As such, younger nurses have the ability to make money doing the travel thing for years.
The entire industry is now maximum profit driven, mostly for the benefit of the upper admin. A major health service provider in my state, Indiana, is sitting on $6 billion last I heard. They are a not-for-profit org so no shareholders to care about. It is just about making huge profit so the CEO can justify the seven figure wage.
The whole insurance issue is crazy. Can’t get a straight answer if certain procedures are covered. The facility, the doctors, if just one is out of network, could see huge bills.