The conditions in hospitals and clinics are working against both nurses’ mental well-being and the ability of doctors, nurses and other healthcare staff to provide patients with high-quality, attentive patient care. The for-profit healthcare system in America is driven by the principle of squeezing out the most profit possible from its operations. The lives and health of both healthcare workers and patients are subordinated to these profits.
This 30 May 2019 video from the USA says about itself:
Nurse Suicides: Getting Help Before It’s Too Late
UC San Diego researchers are finding higher suicide rates among nurses. MedPage Reporter, Shannon Firth, is covering how the industry is addressing the issue. She talked with KPBS Midday Edition co-host Jade Hindmon.
By Kate Randall in the USA:
The epidemic of nurse suicides and the US healthcare crisis
7 September 2019
“I’m a victim of burnout and PTSD … I’ve been crying all morning coming from a pain so deeply pressed and locked inside me. I watched my last patient die three days ago and leave in his wake a broken family truly taken to the depths of misery and suffering” —“My Burnout Story”, allnurses.com
These words were written by a cardiovascular intensive care unit nurse (CVICU RN) who had six years’ experience at the time and had…
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Such a shame that we have such great medical technology today but it seems so difficult for everyone get access to it.
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Indeed, Corporate Dog. With the corporatization of medicine, poor people cease to have access.
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American nurses have to get the expensive schooling. They are the primary care providers, in the american system.
The administrator of the hospital or health org or insurance company makes millions. Huge bonuses for screwing nurses and other health workers.
The nurses are treated less than human. Nurses are worked to death. A middle aged RN nurse I knew, was at the same hospital for 10 years. She was nervous because, they were pushing older nurses out, by working them to death and replacing them with foreign nurses.
The nurse I know got little time off. Forced to do double shifts.
The nurses son committed suicide. She was barely given enough time, for the funeral. No time off for mourning. One night after a double shift, she took some stock insulin from a cabinet. Not patient insulin. She injected it. She was in a coma for a week. She was in a hospital for a year. They took her Nursing license away. She is now broke and homeless
The chickenshit hospital administrator with its 6 figure salary and bonuses, was bringing in cheaper philipino RN nurses, to screw the tenured American nurses working there. Subpar Nurses brought in from all over the world . Subpar nurses with subpar degrees, and poor english skills to push out people who sweated blood to and accumulated massive student loans to get RN degrees and State Nursing Licenses.
There are hospitals completely staffed, by fresh off the boat philipino, east indian and indonesian nurses that do not speak english worth a darn, in this area.
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Wow, thanks for the detailed comment, Tarrant. It sounds even worse than I imagined.
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Thanks for sharing the news about this issue, Dr. Bramhall. Whenever I see my neighbor, who works in the nursing field, on her return home, she always complain about being drained and exhausted.
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It was much the same for me, Rosaliene, right before I gave up my practice. I still delivered the same services but insurance companies refused to reimburse me enough to cover my overhead. With medicine being commodified and corporatized, the profit comes from squeezing the workers, as with any other industry.
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