08/24/2024
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If you have never zipped up body bags on a shift, you shouldnât be deciding how much nurses make.
If you have never watched a person suffocate to death from their own blood or sputum, you shouldnât be deciding how much nurses make.
If you have never been punched and kicked for trying to assess your patient, you shouldnât be deciding how much nurses make.
If you have never had someone beg you to not let them die, or to let them die, you shouldnât be deciding how much nurses make.
If you've never had to look into a loved ones eyes or hold them while they crumble when you tell them of the death of their child, mother, father, sister, aunt, gran, papa... you shouldn't be deciding how much nurses make.
If you have never told your family your shift was âfineâ to spare them from what you saw that day, you shouldnât be deciding how much nurses make.
If youâve never felt ribs breaking from doing CPR on someoneâs family member, you shouldnât be deciding how much nurses make.
If youâve never had 1200 students plus staff to care for all on your own, then you shouldnât be deciding how much nurses make.
For years nurses have been underpaid and undervalued and no one seemed to care.
Now that healthcare is on the brink of a collapse, everyone is concerned.
Nurses are leaving the profession at rapid rates.
Perhaps itâs from the years of getting 0-1% raises and barely being able to pay bills. Maybe itâs because nurses are asked to do more and more with less. Maybe itâs from the terrible staffing ratios. The reasons are honestly endless.
Letâs start caring about nurse retention, nurse training, fair wages, safe staffing, etc.
Letâs not get to the point where you need a nurse and there isnât one to spare.đđđ
Copied because I am a nurse.đ Definitely the toughest but most rewarding job ever.