Doctors don't work FOR WAGES meaning they are not hourly wage employees. Their pay structure is completely different, which means their LABOR MODEL is completely different. Of course they work for money.
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Oh, I've been told by native Spanish speakers that I do this in reverse. Direct translating American English idioms and phrasing into my spoken Spanish.
You literally have no idea what you're talking about. Doctors don't work for wages. Their labor model is completely different from nurses.
Your hypothetical does not accurately reflect anything about how the healthcare system works.
No transplant surgeon is getting a surprise shift. This is exactly why on-call shifts exist. There is already someone available who knows they need to be ready to go at a moment's notice.
And nurses don't function the same as doctors. We are regular wage employees, just like anyone working retail. We absolutely do not have to be available whenever and wherever. They can (and do, constantly) ask us to pick up shifts. But we're not obligated to come in on our scheduled days off.
Healthcare corporations need to get their fucking staffing models together.
"I'll fight through the gates of hell and back for my nurses"*
*Except to advocate that our cheap ass private equity owned facility hire actual full time staff with benefits instead of outsourcing to a temp agency.
Those agency nurses aren't your enemy. They aren't the reason you end up taking an assignment. That's the fault of the corporation that owns you. And in all sincerity, good for those agency nurses demanding the working conditions that they want and refusing to accept whatever the facility wants to push on them.
Sincerely, a hospital nurse having our union election on Jan 10
(And I have stories too, you know. Like my supervisor who tonight simply lied to the overnight sup about our staffing situation and tried to leave two nurses alone to care for NINE patients on our critical care stepdown unit overnight.)
The nursing shortage is at least partially artificial. There is a shortage of nurses who are willing to work in abusive conditions that exploit our legal, moral, and professional obligations to our patients to make their profit. Fight these corporations for safe working conditions and watch how many nurses return to the bedside.
Yes. The nursing profession doesn't fuck around with this kind of shit.
It's meant to acknowledge intersectionality. The ways that minority identities can overlap, creating more complex lived experiences for some individuals.
The real answer is that this attitude is exactly why we don't treat alcohol use disorder like the treatable medical condition that it is.
Happy New Year to you and everyone in the community!
Honestly, I had NO idea there were so many different kinds of owls before I started seeing your information posts. It's been a joy reading them. Thank you and can't wait to see what shenanigans we get up to this year.
Yeah, they provide a ton of transport services that are not emergency-related. If a person is completely bedbound, then any and all trips to the doctor need to be handled by an ambulance service that can provide a transport stretcher (a heavy duty collapsible stretcher with straps on it like a seatbelt) and personnel to transfer the person between their bed and the stretcher.
And we call the ambulance service when we discharge any patient from our hospital to a short term rehab facility, even if the person can move themselves from the bed to the stretcher. Just because it's transfer between medical facilities.
And if we transfer someone to another hospital with a higher level of care, we have to specifically request an emergency ambulance instead of a transport ambulance.
So those services are a lot more complicated than people realize. But in any of these situations, the patient shouldn't get an exorbitant bill because of some insurance company shenanigans, which is all in- vs. out-network stuff is.
Iirc, it was like $0.10/message? So yeah, the brats were costing me money lol. And I was definitely on a T9 flip phone, none of this internet nonsense.
Lmao, I'm your age and literally inhaled a bag of Werther's while I had Covid because Paxlovid tastes so bad. And I'm about to buy a cane for those days when it would be very helpful to make my invisible disability more visible to all those people trying to rush around me in the grocery store. I old.