Strike nursing

TrvlRN14 · Aug 19, 2014

LMAO...I find it hilarious that the profession with the most back stabbing women is calling someone a scab. Nursing eat their own...period.

OCNRN63, RN · Aug 19, 2014

LMAO...I find it hilarious that the profession with the most back stabbing women is calling someone a scab. Nursing eat their own...period.

We tend to feel protective of our fellow nurses who are striking for better working conditions and safer staffing. People who are opportunistic in the face of the misfortune of others...not so much.

morningland · Mar 1, 2015

No, but you can have enough humility to realize where you could

Ruby Vee, BSN · Mar 2, 2015

No, but you can have enough humility to realize where you could

Sorry -- I have no idea what this is about. Could you quote the post to which you're responding, please?

Tufnel1 · Mar 15, 2015

I have been part of a union for the 6 yrs I have been an RN. We are currently running on a contract that is from 2010 because negotiations failed. Our healthcare costs have increased, there were no raises not even COLA. If a hospitals has to pay RN's at a higher rate because their nurses are on strike, then don't you think the hospital will agree with their wants a lot faster?

US Nursing and Healthcare Global Strike will posting jobs for RN's during strikes.

lindarn · Mar 16, 2015

Hospitals have insurance against strikes. That pays for the scabs to come and staff the hospital if nurses go on strike.

Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN (ret)

Somewhere in the PACNW

morningland · Mar 17, 2015

Well, nurses are so cruel and backstabbing that we have a saying "nurses eat their young". Now we expect loyalty among each other? Life doesn't work like that.

Some me of the worst people I know are nurses. Why should I be loyal to them?

Everyone is is all butt hurt that some nurses choose strike nursing, I say it's just karma. This field is brutal and cruel and the main cause is how nurses treat each other.

You can't have your cake and eat it to

BrandonLPN, LPN · Mar 17, 2015

Well, nurses are so cruel and backstabbing that we have a saying "nurses eat their young". Now we expect loyalty among each other? Life doesn't work like that.
Some me of the worst people I know are nurses. Why should I be loyal to them?
Everyone is is all butt hurt that some nurses choose strike nursing, I say it's just karma. This field is brutal and cruel and the main cause is how nurses treat each other.
You can't have your cake and eat it to

Actually, most nurses hate that saying. It's really just a cliche.

Thinking that the main cause of nursing's problems is how we treat each other is exactly what the upper management wants.

And who is it Karma for? The nurses crossing the picket line? Or the nurses striking?

Kooky Korky, BSN, RN · Mar 17, 2015

Ok, what is the alternative to strike nurses? If the nurses that are hired to take care of the patients are on strike, who do you suggest take care of the patients ? Shouldn't patient care be the top priority? Or do you think patients should be left to care for themselves during the strike? Confused here.

wish you could see the truth

read the history of unions and their tactics in forming

Ruby Vee, BSN · Mar 17, 2015

Well, nurses are so cruel and backstabbing that we have a saying "nurses eat their young". Now we expect loyalty among each other? Life doesn't work like that.
Some me of the worst people I know are nurses. Why should I be loyal to them?
Everyone is is all butt hurt that some nurses choose strike nursing, I say it's just karma. This field is brutal and cruel and the main cause is how nurses treat each other.
You can't have your cake and eat it to

Nurses are not all cruel and backstabbing, and while the saying that "nurses eat their young" undoubtedly made someone a lot of money in book sales and speaking engagements, it isn't remotely true. Nurses, despite what seems to be popular opinion, especially on the student forums, are just people like everyone else.

I don't know the same people you know, but I do know that one attracts people who are approximately on their own level of attractiveness, intelligence, integrity and mental health. If you're having difficulty getting along with fellow nurses, that perhaps says a lot about YOU. "The field" is not "brutal and cold." If you have experienced it as such, that probably says a lot about you as well. And if "nurses treat each other badly," what are you doing about it?

if you are a nurse, you should be loyal to the betterment of your profession, job security and benefits -- and thus to nurses.

Ruby Vee, BSN · Mar 17, 2015

wish you could see the truth
read the history of unions and their tactics in forming

What "truth" are you talking about?

Long ago, I was married to a member of the UAW. Some of their tactics were reprehensible. On the other hand, when I was a member of a large nursing union, some of the tactics used against us by the hospital were also reprehensible. I think there is fault on both sides. I still believe that unionization is perhaps the best chance nursing as a profession will have to secure good staffing ratios, protection against floating to areas we have no expertise and a decent contract with our employers. How could ANY of that be bad for patient care or patient safety?

morningland · Mar 17, 2015

Nurses are not all cruel and backstabbing, and while the saying that "nurses eat their young" undoubtedly made someone a lot of money in book sales and speaking engagements, it isn't remotely true. Nurses, despite what seems to be popular opinion, especially on the student forums, are just people like everyone else.
I don't know the same people you know, but I do know that one attracts people who are approximately on their own level of attractiveness, intelligence, integrity and mental health. If you're having difficulty getting along with fellow nurses, that perhaps says a lot about YOU. "The field" is not "brutal and cold." If you have experienced it as such, that probably says a lot about you as well. And if "nurses treat each other badly," what are you doing about it?
if you are a nurse, you should be loyal to the betterment of your profession, job security and benefits -- and thus to nurses.

But you are highlighting the point I am making. I am expressing my experiences with the field, which are mine alone and your response is that I am too stupid to interpret what happens around me, I deserve this kind of treatment and that I am mentally unstable.

You are expressing the point that I am making, and if we were to look objectively at the matter anyone would see you are not correct. Pretty much, you have insulted me to argue the fact that nurses are not cruel. Not to be rude, but this is the attitude among nurses that I am talking about. These are the types of people that I have no loyalty to and I never will.

Again, my experience is that many nurses ARE backstabbing, catty and cruel. I've seen nurses run others off the floor (destroying their livelihoods) just because they didn't like them. Say what you will, but a person who seeks to destroy someones ability to support themselves is pretty much an evil person.

I do agree with you completely that we should all work together for the betterment of nurses future. The problem is that you have not made a convincing argument that is based in humility and understanding, this would have helped to get people to understand about what you are trying to say.

Nursing IS filled with cruel, backstabbing, unethical people who are willing to destroy the live hoods of others for their own personal reasons. You can say all you want that this doesn't exist (again, a statement that completely lacks humility and understanding) but I have seen it time and time and time again with my own eyes.

I had to leave the last floor because a pack of wolves were getting rid of all people they didn't like. I ended up finding a better facility where we all care about each other and work together. You better believe I would do anything for my team because I care about them. Who I don't care about are the negative nurses that have infested our field and are ruining the chances of many to succeed in this field.

Have a great day.