We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: There is no shortage of nurses. The so-called “#NursingShortage” is a crisis of the health care industry’s own making.
Here’s how we got here. 👇🧵
Here’s how we got here. 👇🧵
You might be asking, “Why would the health care industry intentionally short staff hospitals?” To make money!
To cut labor costs, and increase profits, the hospital industry deliberately refuses to staff our nation’s hospitals with enough nurses to care for patients.
To cut labor costs, and increase profits, the hospital industry deliberately refuses to staff our nation’s hospitals with enough nurses to care for patients.
This isn’t new either. For decades, the hospital industry has driven nurses away by intentionally understaffing and closing units across the hospital.
Hospitals also fail to protect nurses from infectious diseases, workplace violence, and #MoralInjury.
Hospitals also fail to protect nurses from infectious diseases, workplace violence, and #MoralInjury.
Not only do these conditions make our work harder — they put our patients at risk! 😫
In worst case scenarios, a heavy patient load leads to the suffering and needless death of patients who might have been saved by appropriate nursing care or medical intervention.
In worst case scenarios, a heavy patient load leads to the suffering and needless death of patients who might have been saved by appropriate nursing care or medical intervention.
By pushing nurses to do more and more with less and less, the profit-driven hospital industry has caused nurses to experience severe moral distress and injury, mental health issues, and physical exhaustion.
Unsurprisingly, many nurses are leaving the bedside.
Unsurprisingly, many nurses are leaving the bedside.
What can we do? Nurses know hospitals won’t implement #SafeStaffing out of the kindness of their hearts. They must be held accountable.
Tell your Congress member: We need federal mandates regulating the number of patients an RN can care for at one time. act.nnu.org/letter/tell-yo…
Tell your Congress member: We need federal mandates regulating the number of patients an RN can care for at one time. act.nnu.org/letter/tell-yo…
And if we want to retain the nurses who have persevered through these awful three years of the pandemic, we also need to #KeepWorkersSafe.
Nurses need a permanent @OSHA_DOL protection against Covid and other infections diseases ASAP.
Nurses need a permanent @OSHA_DOL protection against Covid and other infections diseases ASAP.
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