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[deleted] t1_j3mk7rv wrote

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workaccountrabbit t1_j3mn7ph wrote

It's not lack of pay, it's lack of nurses. NYSNA said as such, the time of empty promises is over. The ratio of nurses to patients is unsafe at nearly 20 to 1 at times. My job has almost 500 opening for nurses, it's a systematic choice they are making by refusing to staff accordingly. Unfortunately for them Nurses are much more irreplaceable than other positions so now the hospital is suffering due to their lack of care.

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anonyuser415 t1_j3monkn wrote

> It's not lack of pay, it's lack of nurses

From even this linked article, it appears to be both.

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workaccountrabbit t1_j3mr8gn wrote

The Hospitals agreed to their money demands, they do not agree to the staffing demands. If they only cared about the money, the strike would not be happening.

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vuelies_queen t1_j3moean wrote

Not about pay. Pay comes secondary to Enforcement of Safe Staffing ratios. You ask these nurses on the picket lines what they’re fighting for:

Safe staffing. I don’t know what state your BIL works in but these hospitals in New York City are severely understaffed. Only California in the whole nation has an actual LAW on set nurse to patient ratios.

Regular floor mount Sinai nurses have been taking care of 6-8 pts, a lot of ICU nurses had 1:3/1:4 these past couple of years which is incredibly unsafe.

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coolwithstuff t1_j3n68sx wrote

The way to hire more nurses is to increase the pay.

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lkroa t1_j3njw30 wrote

but also to have better working conditions. no nurse wants a person to die on their watch because they were too busy with a too high patient load

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mowotlarx t1_j3nkqwi wrote

>Not discrediting his hard work and determination it took to get there but what exactly are they striking for?

You literally discredited him in the second half of your sentence. What a bad faith argument. Hospital nurses break their fucking backs with limited staff and resources to care for people, and you trot out some lazy personal anecdote?

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[deleted] t1_j3nw1gc wrote

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mowotlarx t1_j3o4c2d wrote

Why are you transferring your jealousy and other issues with your BIL into a NY Nurses Strike? That's a lot of projection.

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JanaT2 t1_j3mp7kj wrote

Safe patient care ratios. Plus the money isn’t all that great when you consider the enormous responsibilities

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ScarcitySenior3791 t1_j3ole91 wrote

You said your BIL is on call. Cath lab? OR? PACU?

You need to understand that working conditions vary greatly from unit to unit. If you are a med surg nurse with 8 high acuity patients, you cannot provide good care. If you are an ER nurse with 2 dozen patients (or whatever bullshit ratio Mt. Sinai prides itself on because it purports to be so "hardcore"), you cannot provide good care. If you are an ICU nurse with 3 patients on vents, you cannot provide good care. Moreso if you have no ancillary support staff like CNAs.

Most of us will be hospitalized at some point in our lives. What's going on right now impacts all of us. Do you want to be in the hospital under the care of nurses who can't possibly keep up with their workload, who are burnt out from dealing with admin who don't give a shit?

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