Reply #1: 50% of trained RNs in this country have left the profession [View All]

[Warpy]

due to brutal working conditions. Throwing money at the rest won't stop the process.

Floating is being cited because it endangers patients. The extra 12 hour shifts at management's convenience, the lack of assistive equipment to move heavy patients, the lack of managerial support when doctors go on a tear, the lack of legal support when nurses are assaulted on the job, all are factors in driving nurses out of the profession where they are more needed every single day.

All this is made worse by hospital management that tries to save a few bucks on staffing, both nursing and other departments, putting all the extra work on the backs of already stressed nurses.

I know all this because I was a nurse for 25 years. If the only way for me to survive is to go back, I will start swallowing an overdose.