Remember when they called us “heroes” & asked us to wear the same N95 for 3 weeks?
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Remember when they called us “heroes” & asked us to put on the disposable gowns the nurses wore & sweat in for 12 hours the night before because they “ran out.”
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Remember when they called us “heroes” & shamed us for asking to take PTO we’d asked for a year in advance because “they don’t have enough projected staff for those days” Oh wait…that’s still happening…
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Remember when they called us “heroes” & told us it would be “impossible to pay you more as it would bankrupt the system, what about the patients?” While spending hundreds of thousands on temporary staff…
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Remember when they called us “heroes” & asked why nurses don’t want to work at the bedside anymore?
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Remember when they pushed LPNs away from the hospital setting, eliminated their positions & made them feel less than…Now they’re begging them to come back to the inpatient workforce…
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Remember when they called us “heroes” & then asked, why are you “burned out?”
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And your PTO and your retirement employer contributions
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Specific to the hero rhetoric, at the outset of the pandemic I was concerned that this hero image would be harmful to nursing in the long run.
@j_stokesparish@brissydeb@kaye_rolls@Rozmelliott published an opinion piece that sums up the harms of this hero rhetoric nicely -
Thanks for the mention
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