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ThundercatsHoooah t1_j6nl93i wrote

The last time I was admitted to the ER in nyc, the nurses were not doing their jobs. They left me alone behind a curtain with a rapist in custody unattended uncuffed and they forgot to feed me for 7 hours. I asked for food and was told there was none, I asked to leave to get food or order delivery and they said if I left I would be recharged again coming back. My mother is a 3 decade long hospital worker, (in the south, so my views on nurses are multi regional) the nurses unions and nurses sociological environment is very toxic. I shadowed my mother a few times growing up and I always assumed the doctors are the biggest AH in the hospitals, but the hierarchy system nurses establish amongst themselves is one of the most unhealthy work dynamics I’ve seen in my life. Like any other occupations you have good ones and bad ones, but our overall health system breeds and festers problems in EVERY corner of it.

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mowotlarx t1_j6o0y1w wrote

>the nurses were not doing their jobs.

How many nurses were there taking care of how many patients? You've a very warped perspective of what was happening here. It's not one-on-one nurse to patient. And in many of these hospitals it's one nurse for 20 patients. And especially in an ER, with some of the worst ratios, you will be left alone if you aren't a high priority for your ailment. Blame that on the hospital.

My mom was a nurse too and I can't imagine being as entitled as you are knowing what goes on behind the scenes. They are doing what they can with limited resources and staff-power available to them. We shouldn't be taking that out on nurses, we should be angry with the hospital admin who make millions annually in salary and allow ERs to be this way.

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Spittinglama t1_j6o6kf5 wrote

Nurses went on strike because they did not have the capacity to care for the amount of patients they are responsible for. It sounds like you saw exactly that issue. It's not the nurses' fault, it's the hospital.

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