marcsmart

marcsmart t1_j34n502 wrote

I’ve been on my soapbox in this subreddit regarding this issue so I’ll keep it brief. If it comes down to the strike it will be a brutal time for everyone. I’m in a hospital that isn’t striking so this diversion stuff is going to send everyone to the remaining hospitals and we are going to be drowning in patients. I hope the negotiations go through and they give the nurses what they deserve.

That aside nurses are striking so they can have more means to provide better care for YOU. We can’t do ratios of 1 nurse to 10-15-20 patients any more. We can’t have 1:3 in the ICU. NYC has incredible hardworking nurses that are used to working at 200% capacity every shift for 12 hours straight. But it’s unsustainable and inhumane. You don’t want to be one patient among a dozen per one nurse. Management won’t give the staffing and won’t honor agreed upon ratios. That’s one of the biggest fights in the negotiations right now.

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marcsmart t1_ivtz19c wrote

Republicans are tougher on crime and there’s a completely useless asian hate crime part of the nypd who don’t give half a shit about what happens to asian people. You can get picked out in a crowd of other non asian people, swung on without provocation, stand there bruised and bleeding and the nypd officer will ask “what makes you think this is an asian hate crime?” over and over and do whatever they can to downplay the situation so they don’t have to file a report.

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