Posted on 02/28/2010 7:50:10 PM PST by kcvl
My wife graduated in Alabama with a BSN, just before we moved to southern California. She hasn't found work...going on 6 months now.
“The money for the cab comes from the hospital.
You know,just like the the employers who pay for benefits, continuing medical education at a resort hotel ,free meals and coffee on occasion,use of the company car, etc.
The cab issue is like the benefits that all good employers give to retain good employees. If they do not offer good benefits, highly trained employees find work with another company.
It is the other side of Capitalism 101.
I have no problem with this.
Nurses are highly trained. If they bailed out of a hospital becuase of stingy benefits- they would be hard to replace.
I live in an area that has limited snowplows, and even with my 4 wheel drive, I could not leave my house for a couple of days during a snowstorm last year. The work issue did not occur, as I was not scheduled to work those days.
I am sure you have a lot of problems with the snow- living in Florida. “
At the risk of boring you, I’ll repeat my question (which you didn’t answer): Where does the hospital get its money?
Possible answers:
a. It’s self-supporting since it pays for its own expenses. It pays for the cab - unlikely.
or
b. It gets City/County/State/Federal support - i.e., Kaila and I pay for the cab.
You can take the question further- how does the hospital pay for it’s nurses?
Your question makes no sense- because somehow you are inferring that if a organization receives government money, it's employees should not receive any benefits (for example- like getting to work safely)
I do not work for the government- if I did- we would have had a snow day off like every other government worker.
Hospitals are 24/7 organizations.
You would scream bloody murder if your neighborhood hospital was closed due to a storm.
At Maryland General Hospital in Baltimore we were only paid for the two days the city shut and we had to use our personal time for this. For the other 3 days of the storm we were told we could not use our personal days to cover our time. So what happen we did not get paid. Even after calling work to get transpotaion and one even called me back, I still was not paid. Now how greatful is that.
Very sad. I’m retired so I stay up till all hours and usually don’t awaken [other than to walk the dogs] until it’s early afternoon. Snow or not.
If you have a Union, you might want to talk to them. If you don’t . . . I’m sure there’s some way to include “paid snow days” [cumulative] each year.
Unfortunately people don’t always do the ethical thing when it comes to costing them money.
In Europe, they use the trains or live within walking distance to their businesses. Europe has crowded cities that Americans would not want to live in. That “acre with a house and a two car garage” thing, probably from our English forebears’ gene.
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