Bridges was one of more than 150 hospital workers fired by Houston Methodist hospital.
“All last year, through the COVID pandemic, we came to work and did our jobs,” said Kara Shepherd, a labor and delivery nurse who joined Bridges and other workers in an unsuccessful lawsuit. “We did what we were asked. This year, we’re basically told we’re disposable.”
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Well, Delivery Room nurses should be easy to come by. No wait. Micromanaging short-sighted hospital administrators are easy to come by. Skilled nurses, no. Not easy to come by.
“Well, Delivery Room nurses should be easy to come by. No wait. Micromanaging short-sighted hospital administrators are easy to come by. Skilled nurses, no. Not easy to come by.”
Good luck staffing NICU or PICU.
Re: foreign trained nurses- worst I ever worked with. It had nothing to do with intellligence or nursing educating, and everything to do with cultural background. They don’t do well in our medical culture. They would have fit better in the 1950’s. We made an Indian nurse sit in a chair all night when staffing was short because we didn’t have time to deal with her, a trained NICU nurse. We just needed her to stay out of the way. The Philippinos were better.
I’m thankful I’m retired. I was prepared to quit in the 80s when they demanded everyone get the Hep. B vax. Thankfully, it wasn’t mandatory and my Head Nurse had no issues. She didn’t force me to sign up for United Way either when they wanted 100%. I had no idea back then that people got beaten up or lost jobs over that kind of thing. It was a prestigeous university hospital, too. Psm. 91