Things I want for nurses week:
1. safe staffing
2. a hospital policy that pays nurses the hourly of the unstaffed position. Need 4 nurses at $30/hr and you only have 3 nurses on? Cool, those nurses are now making $40/hr, since you're expecting them to do the work of the missing.
On my way home yesterday, after 13 hours at the hospital, I drove past a car accident scene with 3 cops and 2 other men. Not a single mask in sight. Disrespectful to all of the exhaustion that healthcare workers endure to see such ignorance - so yes, I yelled out my window.
Despite what we’re still going through after 9 months, Trump continues to diminish the pain felt by so many who have lost loved ones and the first responders, nurses, doctors and hospital staff who have put everything on the line to fight this virus. 1/