Posted on 09/12/2022 9:39:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
One of the more genius moves made by the Biden administration was forcing every worker that had a government dollar connected to it to get vaccinated. Many people in the medical community refused to do it, resulting in the firing of nurses and doctors across the nation.
In Minnesota, employees from several different health systems refused to vaccinate, resulting in their termination. While most employees from these systems did get vaccinated, systems saw double-digit percentages among the staff, and the bloodletting began. The Mayo Clinic, in particular, fired 700 staffers.
The decision to fire nurses in an already unstable hospital environment caused a massive backfire, so much so that FEMA had to get involved to assist in the transportation of patients.
Now, thanks to the horrendous working conditions brought on by short-staffed hospitals, nurses in Minnesota are going on strike by the thousands.
According to The Hill, some 15,000 nurses are forming what is becoming the largest private-sector nurses’ strike in U.S. history:
Nurses at 16 hospitals in Minnesota’s Twin Cities and elsewhere in the state rallied Sunday night and began the three-day strike Monday morning after months of contract negotiations with hospital executives, the union said.
The Minnesota nurses are demanding safer working conditions, better nurse retention and safer staffing systems, according to National Nurses United.
“Corporate healthcare policies in our hospitals have left nurses understaffed and overworked, while patients are overcharged, local hospitals and services are closed, and executives take home million-dollar paychecks,” said MNA’s First Vice President Chris Rubesch in a statement from the union.
The warning signs hadn’t just been there, they’d been blaring for some time. Two years into the COVID pandemic, staffing issues, and workplace violence were already being voiced as two of the main concerns for nurses. The Hill reported that 70 percent of nurses said that the shortage of healthcare workers had only gotten worse since the pandemic. The shortage was so horrible that the nurses that remained were being given tasks for which they had no skill set or training.
If the Minnesota healthcare system was already struggling, this is going to send it into an all-out crisis. The quality of healthcare in the state will fall drastically, likely in certain areas with higher populations.
According to NBC News, the nurses are seeking a 30 percent wage increase. The hospitals have countered by offering 10 – 12 percent. Leaders are calling the wage demands unaffordable and warning that any wage hikes will mean passing the costs on to patients. Regardless, strikers are holding strong, or at least for now:
“The union rejected all requests for mediation and held fast to wage demands that were unrealistic, unreasonable and unaffordable,” several of the Twin Cities hospitals under strike said in a joint statement.
Second-year nurse Madi Gay, who was picketing Monday morning after completing her overnight shift, told the Star Tribune that she had already reduced her hours at M Health Fairview Southdale Hospital because of the stress and frustration of caring for so many severely ill patients.
“How long can you keep this up?” Gay asked. “My license is on the line.”
Union spokesman Sam Fettig said the nurses settled on a three-day rather than open-ended strike because of concerns about the impact of drawn-out labor action on patient care.
While nurses are indeed suffering from increased regulations and unreasonable demands, the patients are going to be the most affected. This staffing issue shouldn’t have happened in the first place, but despite warnings that the already over-burdened healthcare community would take an even further hit, officials commenced pushing bad policies in order to signal their virtue.
This crap is why they are bringing in foreign nurses and their families plus extended family from korea, vietnam and a bunch of other places. In 2 years they offer them all citizenship.
They have their excuse to fire health conscious, non-pushover American nurses.
They then declare an emergency - not enough US citizens to fill these jobs, so...
We will import tens of thousands of foreign nurses, their families and after 2 years, all citizens.
This is one of the many agendas behind the covax shots. Firing off people that won’t go along with everything. Plus importing foreigners under the false guise of “not enough american workers to fill the jobs”.
Note fedgov doesn’t require foreign replacement immigrants and illegals coming here to have the covax death shots. Unless you are white and want to play tennis.
One day the nurses are “heroes.” The next day, hundreds of heroes are fired.
Lunacy. And the executives that go along with the lunacy - criminal.
House calls
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Insurance
If you are short-staffed, the only logical position to take next...is to lessen the number of rooms, and patients. Once you do that...the financial survival of the hospital comes into play, and HR gets dragged into meeting the finance people.
Whether we agree or not...the whole system is 3rd-world rigged at this point. You can’t run a medical system without consequences going on constantly now.
I much prefer Filipina nurses over American ones, given a random sample of each. Of course, there are some excellent American nurses.
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Screw them. They didn’t stand with science or morality, they didn’t stand with the unvaxed.
(Filipina nurses)
Sounds good .... I did have an excellent Filipino doctor in the 1980s - he’s still around and still practicing
Have had excellent Americans in the medical field as well.
The Mayo surgical team is most of them did not get vaccinated and we’re not fired
When I worked for the state, we had nurses from all over. A few, were even from America. 🤪 Most were from the Philippines, but we had some from Mexico, one Vietnamese, one was British, one was from China, one was from Mongolia, one from Taiwan, several from Africa, one from India. One from Czechoslovakia, though her English was so good, I thought she was native Born American. Several doctors from India, one from Romania, 3 from the Philippines, one Russian female Doctor, from St Petersburg, one from Taiwan, one Vietnamese, one from China, two dentists from Taiwan, both retired Air Force dentists. As far as I know, none from Japan or Korea. It was quite a group.
Democrats always mess everything up in all categories.
Actually, they do. All non citizens entering the USA have to be vaxed.
The nurse shortage is real. The hospital I work for recently had a patient die in the ER bathroom because she’d been waiting two hours for treatment of her chest pain and impending heart attack. Sad
HERE'S PROOF regarding the cure that's been out there from day one!!
https://rumble.com/v1huyrn-ivermectin-the-truth.html
“Actually, they do. All non citizens entering the USA have to be vaxed.”
4 million non citizens came over the southern border in the last 2 years and none if them had to be vaxxed.
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