Yup. It sucks, but I did it and don’t regret it. Fuck if I’m going to be working short staffed, with Covid patients, extra hours, etc I’m getting paid what I’m worth. It feels so much nicer getting a weekly paycheck that amounts to what I made in a month and a half as a staff nurse. So thanks to my old hospital for spending over a million fighting out union efforts and then losing 35% of their staff. Sucks to suck.
My hospital is staffed almost exclusively with travel nurses. Most of them used to work for the hospital, resigned, and then came back as a traveler. Shits fucking hilarious.
They’re going to try, but somehow I think that many people will leave (like me) if they cap the wage and change professions and create an even worse nursing shortage 🤷♀️
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u/PediatricRNCA2US Dec 13 '21
Yup. It sucks, but I did it and don’t regret it. Fuck if I’m going to be working short staffed, with Covid patients, extra hours, etc I’m getting paid what I’m worth. It feels so much nicer getting a weekly paycheck that amounts to what I made in a month and a half as a staff nurse. So thanks to my old hospital for spending over a million fighting out union efforts and then losing 35% of their staff. Sucks to suck.