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Up to 10 hospital patients in Oregon died from tap water injections instead of fentanyl: report
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This is why we need to provide both careful vhetting and a positive work environment for folks like nurses, teachers, etc. These people literally hold our lives in their hands, the future of our kids, etc. It should be a high bar to get in, then we should treat them with the respect/compensation that their role deserves because you get what you pay for.
Nursing supervisor here. Let me tell you a story just in case you might have been able to sleep tonight. I work in a long-term care facility, and most of our staff of nurses is from a staffing agency, which has the same effect as a union. Normally I'm all for unions, except many of these nurses feel incredibly entitled to work how and whenever they want. If I ask them to go fill a vacancy on a different unit that they don't want to work on, they will just cry oppression, and threaten to leave that very minute, which they are able to do because they come from a staffing agency and not our facility. There is literally no scenario where we can just not have nurses, so we are forced to bend around backwards to let them have whatever they want, come on to shift as late as they want, etc, or we have no staff to run a facility and care for patients. At least in my area, shitty nurses are better than no nurses, and many of them choose to weaponize this fact. I'll just reiterate that I am myself a working registered nurse, and these are the facts that I deal with everyday.
Edit: in case it wasn't clear, I'll fight through the gates of hell and back for my nurses, and I frequently end up on a med cart to fill those vacancies I mentioned. The nursing shortage is really bad you guys.
Yeah, honestly, imagine if a surgeon did something like that. "I don't care if the transplant has a shelf life, I'm doing pilates and you can't just spring a shift on me out of nowhere." Medical Professionals need to be willing to come in at odd times and in necessary departments.
Your hypothetical does not accurately reflect anything about how the healthcare system works.
No transplant surgeon is getting a surprise shift. This is exactly why on-call shifts exist. There is already someone available who knows they need to be ready to go at a moment's notice.
And nurses don't function the same as doctors. We are regular wage employees, just like anyone working retail. We absolutely do not have to be available whenever and wherever. They can (and do, constantly) ask us to pick up shifts. But we're not obligated to come in on our scheduled days off.
Healthcare corporations need to get their fucking staffing models together.
It is purely because doctors are held to a higher standard and have higher ethical responsibility the hypothetical doesn't exist. If it weren't that case, say if all the doctors came from a staffing agency that acts as a sort of union, then it's totally plausible a Surgeon could pull this stunt.
You literally have no idea what you're talking about. Doctors don't work for wages. Their labor model is completely different from nurses.
LMFAO. Bro, it might be charitable work but it isn't charity. Everybody goes to work with the expectation of getting paid, and if doctors stopped getting paid it wouldn't be long before they stopped coming to work.
Doctors don't work FOR WAGES meaning they are not hourly wage employees. Their pay structure is completely different, which means their LABOR MODEL is completely different. Of course they work for money.
This person is off their rocker.