Name: Hospital Greed Is Destroying Our Nurses. Here’s Why. | NYT Opinion
Uploaded: 2022-02-05T09:02:46.000Z
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“You know, they call you an asshole.”

“Been called a bitch a thousand times.”

“Get the eff out of his effing room, you effing N-word.”

“I had a guy try to kick me in my stomach while I was

“That poor nurse at your bedside has probably been

through hell with the last 10 or 15 hours,

“And it's like, 'Well, yeah, I got punched in the head

Two years into the pandemic, Covid is surging.

America's frontline nurses are overworked, burned out

The H is for 'hospital,' not 'hotel.' Treat me with

As Omicron pushes hospitals to the brink,

America is facing a national nursing shortage.

But it's not patient abuse that is ultimately driving the crisis.

“I literally don't even want to be a nurse anymore.

“I hate my job, and I don't want to go back.”

The biggest force that's driving nurses away:

“I could no longer work in critical care under

the conditions I was being forced to work under with

poor staffing, and that's when I left.”

nurses for decades, long before the pandemic.

What the hospital industry doesn't want you to know is

that there's never been more licensed nurses in America.

There's just a shortage of nurses willing to work under

“If you don't have enough nurses, patients will die.

They will become sicker, and they will die.”

If you're in the hospital, your chances of dying go up

by 7 percent for every additional patient your nurse has

“If you push me past my limit, past my capacity of being

able to multitask, something's going to get missed.

And when I say something, I'm talking about your mother.

I'm talking about your husband and your wife.”

“There have been many instances where patients did

they feel like you've done the best job that you can.

“I could not get into her room for over two hours.

When I did get into the room, she had tears in her eyes.

And when I looked in her bed, she was soiled in urine.

I felt less than the nurse that I know I am.

Can I do this again tomorrow and get in my car and drive

“In one 12-hour shift, we had six patients die under

And as quickly as they got those beds cleaned,

“A patient grabbed my hand, and he begged me to not let

And I told him that we would do everything

And I felt like I was ready to fall apart,

but I couldn't because the patient in the next room

so desperate, you have to remember that hospitals are

So a smaller work force means bigger profits.

“Hospitals use this type of what they call flex staffing.

And then three hours goes by, there's many more patients,

and then it's, well, you have this many nurses.

“The most annoying thing that was ever said to me

'We know you guys need nurses, but it's not in the budget.'”

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