re: UAB Hospital ER night-shift nurses refusing to work tonight as a protest.

I do. Your boy Biden has made my job exponentially more difficult. Nonetheless, I roll with it for the most part. That being said... frick the usurper and frick you for “electing” him.

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Why are so many of you hating on the nurses for negotiating a pay raise? Kind of how capitalism works…

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I said it yesterday and got downvoted, but half of these people who think they are conservative are not as conservative as they think they are. They are conservative up to the point where it impacts them (same goes for the other side). But its obvious on this board since the majority of the active posters are "conservative" (they are probably just Trumpers which is funny considering the only reason Trump is "conservative" is because it was hit best route to get to the WH. He was a Democrat most of his life. If being a Democrat would have been his best route he would be having rallies in Portland yelling about how stupid Republicans and that there are big issues that need to be taken care of.. like climate change and he would be the guy to do something about it).

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My personal experience watching night shift nurses is about 20% on patient care and about 80% surfing/playing games on the internet.

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Night shift nurses in the ER? I guess it depends on where they are.. Because some ER nurses don't stop.

Or the nurses in ICU? They are pretty much monitoring patience non stop on top of whatever they have to do or unexpected things happen.

Why does this board hate nurses so much? I bet if yall asses were in a hospital and something suddenly goes down south.. You would be extremely happy if a nurse was close enough to do whatever otherwise you would have died.

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If a single death is even remotely tied to their actions, they should all face charges.

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Same should apply to the anti mask and anti vaccination propagators.

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Did you ever do a Summer as a CandyStriper(sp)?

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They should be arrested

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Unless they're striking to not take the vaccine, right?

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Interesting.

I wonder if the UAB medical system is using travel nurses to make up for extra demand, and the normal nurses don’t like the travel nurse pay?

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In part, probably so.
But the bigger picture is this is yet another example of incompetent medical administration. We've seen it throughout the pandemic.

E.g., We've seen OLOL administrators shutting down beds and laying off staff, then panicking when there is a universally predicted COVID surge and they are caught short-handed with too few beds.

But do they take blame? Nope! Not a chance. Instead they blame the public for "not getting vaccinated." The percent vaxxed was well known for months. The oncoming surge was a well known probability for months. But somehow hospital administrators being caught woefully unprepared is the public's fault.

The result is ER and ICU staffs are left in the lurch to work their butts off. Other areas such as ORs are seeing relatively light duty. That disparity could be addressed, but it isn't. In addition to pressures of the heavy workload itself, understaffing in the face of infectious disease puts impacted staff (and their families at home) at increased exposure risk. It is an added stress. Again, the impact is highly disproportionate among facility staff.

Instead of organizing and reassigning personnel, or hiring extra staff for the ED and ICUs, administrators sit in their C-suite and direct affected personnel to "Deal With It" via zoom calls. "Suck it up" as a message from someone making 10-fold to 100-fold a nurses pay, yet not willing to come within two floors of a COVID patient, is not exactly the stuff of workplace inspiration.

ER and ICU crews "Deal With It" as underworked groups elsewhere in the facility draw the same hourly checks to make tik-tok videos. Meanwhile, administrators pat themselves on the back for a job well done, looking forward to their end of year bonus.

Sucks for morale. Doesn't excuse the walkout. Just giving lay-of-the-land.