How Do Facilities Get Away With Not Hiring Nurses?

They pull stunts like this:

http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf...island_nu.html

Nearly the entire staff of RNs were given the push. Those that remain are staffing the areas where their presence is required either by law or custom. It remains to be seen if this place will pull "part two" of this act; hire a number of inexperienced new nurses at a lower wage to replace ones given the sack.

Many of you newbies wonder why seasoned nurses get so bitter? Well here it tis. Nurses who have that place their best efforts over the course of decades simply chucked to the curb. No pension, bennies, gold watch, nada.