08/19/2024
If you have never zipped up body bags on a shift, you shouldn’t be deciding how much nurses make.
If you have never watched a person suffocate to death from their own blood or sputum, you shouldn’t be deciding how much nurses make.
If you have never been punched and kicked for trying to assess your patient, you shouldn’t 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 shouldn’t 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 “fine” to spare them from what you saw that day, you shouldn’t be deciding how much nurses make.
If you’ve never felt ribs breaking from doing CPR on someone’s family member, you shouldn’t 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 it’s from the years of getting 1% raises and barely being able to pay bills. Maybe it’s because nurses are asked to do more and more with less. Maybe it’s from the terrible staffing ratios. The reasons are honestly endless.
Let’s start caring about nurse retention, nurse training, fair wages, safe staffing, etc.
Let’s not get to the point where you need a nurse and there isn’t one to spare.
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