On-demand nursing is endangering workers and patients alike, a new report finds.
  • shoulderoforion@fedia.io
    54·
    2 days ago

    “What many have misidentified as a lack of qualified nurses is actually a shortage of good, quality nursing jobs” sure, it’s a lack of well qualified nurses who are willing to work for slave wages under slave conditions

      • DrFistington@lemmy.world
        18·
        2 days ago

        Yeah, I’ve worked for a Catholic hospital it would literally tell staff nurses that have been there for 20 years they didn’t have the money for bonuses or raises other than market and then I would go into the staff break room for the emergency department and they were able to give doctors $500 bonuses just for signing up for a shift on top of what they would already make. The ED was staffed by an outside company. They got paid by the hospital if they have that money just to get people to pick up a shift then I think the hospital has enough money to pay nurses but they deserve.

          • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
            2·
            1 day ago

            Socialist governments have laws that dictate both the maximum patients need to pay and stronger minimum protections nurses deserve.

            But just like any nation that has a known GDP rating its still capitalist by nature. And just like all of them the problem is not a lack of resources or funding its the unwillingness of people in power to not partake in personal corruption.

            Every major city on our planet has people in top apartments with more luxery then they can appreciate while homeless people sleep in the street.

            There is no war but class war.

          • metaStatic@kbin.earth
            13·
            2 days ago

            they all cost

            what are you even talking about?

            Nurses are overworked and underpaid no matter who foots the bill.

  • fitgse@sh.itjust.works
    28·
    2 days ago

    This is disgusting. Fortunately my spouse saw the writing on the wall during covid and has left the profession.

    It shocks me that we have let huge businesses monopolize all of our hospitals and health care industries.

    We are fortunate where I live that the major university runs the bigger hospital, as all the private ones are running like an airline service, over charging, hiring unqualified people, and only looking at the next quarters profits.

  • Anahkiasen@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    19·
    2 days ago

    I like how the title embraces the inevitable yet catastrophic nature of Uberisation (which is just privatization really). Like it comes for you, whether you want it or not. It leaves behind a trail of industries full of exploiteds and void of regulation, great phenomenon. You hear this nursing? It’s coming for you. Firefighters? You betcha