American Healthcare In Crisis

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

Our youngest daughter recently left a large university hospital system in SC to do home health care. She was tired of being overworked and treated like shit, forced to obey ridiculous protocols that took away from actual patient care. She is much happier now and is making more money, a win/win situation for her!

Hospital nursing is going to go through a serious change and it is going to cost us dearly.

I used to work as a travel nurse, in the same State where I lived. I was making three times the money the hospital nurses were making, in the same hospital where I was contracted. The beauty, for me, of travel nursing, is that you don't get caught up in the drama and the politics of the facility, and you know that you are out of there in just three months or less.

You can extend your contract if they wish, and you want to stay, or you can say sayonara, and make sure the door doesn't hit you where the good Lord split ya, as you ride off into the sunset, and on to your next gig.

There is no way I would ever work in a hospital again. I worked over twenty years in home healthcare as an infusion nurse. It was great pay, the hours could get a little crazy in season, but in that job, it was always feast or famine, so you learned to be a master at budgeting.

There are a ton of nursing venues that do not involve hospitals, and many do not require direct patient care. Nurses are not the only ones leaving the hospitals. If they cut that poor nurse off at the knees, what do we think will happen to doctors. They are going to go for everything below the neck.

I guess the hospitals will have government absolve them of all responsibilities of harm, like they did for big pharma. I guess there will be signs posted everywhere saying, "Enter At Your Own Risk", and they will make you sign away your birthrights and your first born to be eligible for care in government controlled Kingdom Hospitals.