The Economy and cutbacks.........

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Got to love the economy! I work in ER and we recently had to cut back. We have an Acute and Critical side to our ER and our Acute care side used to be open 16 hours of the day, but now is only open 13. No one has been laid off yet, but shifts got switched up. After this happened there was a big meeting to discuss "big changes" that needed to happen. Apparently it was a brainstorming event on what to cut back on so that no one gets laid off.

I was just curious how many others were facing layoffs and cutbacks and if anyone had any good ideas for cutbacks that would save jobs?

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Specializes in Med Surg, Specialty.

We've had support staff layoffs. They also cut the budget for education here. No more funds for things like ACLS.

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Specializes in Critical care, tele, Medical-Surgical.

Here is another discussion on this topic.

It must be common this week:

https://allnurses.com/nursing-activism-healthcare/any-other-hospitals-371446.html#post3452035

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Specializes in cardiac/critical care/ informatics.

We are having do 10% labor cuts across the board, I don't know exactly how it is affecting nursing, but casemanagement and social workers have been laid off or moved from FT-pt.

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Specializes in EMS, ER, GI, PCU/Telemetry.

they cut our education funds too.

i have to scrounge up $200 for my ACLS recert now!

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Specializes in ED, ICU, PSYCH, PP, CEN.

hospitals around me laying off staff, nursing hours cut by about 20% across the board.

they said if we will agree to work fewer hours they won't lay anyone off for at least a while

agency hours down by more than half

travel nurse jobs down by probably 60%

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Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.

Two MAJOR hospitals in my area closed last week. Yes, it was rumored and even anticipated for some time, but this economy finally knocked them off of their kesters. We are the only city hospital around, so, suddenly, we are bombarded with more patients with no insurance (because we take them whether they can pay or not) less supplies and more staff from the inpatient units calling in due to burn out. They actually got $2 million from the state to hire a few additional nurses to take on the slack. We were warned, however, that, this is clearly not alot of money. My administrator told me that more than 20 nurses per day are coming and filling out applications for work. So, they have more choices...and are reminding us of this every day.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, OB, ER, Geriatric.

:heartbeatI work in a small (16 bed hospital). First they cut us on day shift to only 2 nurses on the floor instead of three and suggested only 1 nurse on the floor at night! We don't have nursing assistants, we are assigned patients and do all the cares and meds for them. The 2 nurses during day time didn't last as they saw that we were being run ragged and we had to call the Administrator or CFO out of their offices a lot to help us answer phones or just sit with patients who were pulling out catheters or IVs while we handled ERs. The 1 nurse at night never happened, thank Goodness. We have no ward clerk and we wipe down our rooms ourselves, but the CFO makes comments like, "We can't be paying our nurses to answer phones and make beds!" I should have told him that next time I will let the phone ring and that he can start making the beds.:redbeathe

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