Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ...
by linsomniac on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @05:50PM
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In cases I'm familiar with, they aren't hiring JUST ENOUGH nurses, they are hiring AS FEW NURSES as they can get away with. More like half as many as they should. IIRC, nurse-to-patient ratio should be around 1:5, but it can often be more like 1:10 or worse.
On top of that, they also hire as few orderlies and nursing assistants as possible, so the nurse doesn't even have anyone to offload things to, and ends up having to do more work on more patients.
This has been a problem well before the pandemic.
It's a trope among nurses that they are so busy they don't have time to use the bathroom, let alone eat lunch.
Source: My wife is a nurse, most of her friends are nurses, and she left the profession ~a year before the pandemic because of exactly these issues.
On top of that, they also hire as few orderlies and nursing assistants as possible, so the nurse doesn't even have anyone to offload things to, and ends up having to do more work on more patients.
This has been a problem well before the pandemic.
It's a trope among nurses that they are so busy they don't have time to use the bathroom, let alone eat lunch.
Source: My wife is a nurse, most of her friends are nurses, and she left the profession ~a year before the pandemic because of exactly these issues.