Why hasn’t pay increased? Hazard pay, etc.?

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Why hasn’t pay increased? Hazard pay, etc.? Especially considering that multiple hospitals lack supplies for PPE and we are frontline workers.

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1 minute ago, cubby777 said:

The economy isn't crashing! Stock market up over 2000 points yesterday, 500 points today!

Regaining some of the loss and the recession has not hit yet...

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry, ICU.

Interesting you should mention this. I was job searching today and came across several COVID19-specific jobs. They were usually contracted and paying anywhere from $60-72 an hour with benefits. They weren't asking for that much experience either, only about 1-3 years in critical care.

Obviously many people have taken huge financial hits at this time. Nurses will likely be the ones picking up the financial slack to support their families. As a result, I wonder if they'll take these job opportunities or begin switching to higher paying hospitals. If they do, this alone would begin driving up pay. Only time will tell.

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13 hours ago, nznurse93 said:

I think this is very selfish. Thousands of people have lost their jobs. People are in financial crisis. The economy is crashing. Asking for more money for doing your job, which you chose, you know the risk we are at every single day, Is just rude!

Your answer is very rude! Nursing is a business & workers have every right to negotiate for more $, just like any other business! Her question was very valid. Try acting more civil!

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Thousands upon thousands of people are without a stable income now (think of those who work in businesses that have declared non-essential and small business owners). Nurses at least have a source of income to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. Also, if nurses will not step up to provide service in a time of global crisis, how can we claim to be professionals? It seems to me that those who are demanding "hazard pay" are the usual chronic shirkers and malingers who do not deserve what they are getting now.

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It's amazing how many nurses here have such a defeatist attitude that we shouldn't ask for extra pay for putting our lives on the line. How dare we?? That's why conditions for nurses never get better. All nurses do is tear each other apart. Very few know how to show respect for each other, especially among younger ones.

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8 minutes ago, cubby777 said:

It's amazing how many nurses here have such a defeatist attitude that we shouldn't ask for extra pay for putting our lives on the line. How dare we?? That's why conditions for nurses never get better. All nurses do is tear each other apart. Very few know how to show respect for each other, especially among younger ones.

We signed up for this. We signed up to take care of sick, infectious patients. If you feel that is I is "defeatist" to do what you were (presumably) trained and hired to do, maybe you and your "younger ones" would be better off in some other, less demanding "profession"..

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Specializes in ICU/ER/trauma.

Because generally hospitals don’t care about their employees. They don’t care about the nurses. They care about their bottom lines.

we are in a world wide pandemic to which the federal govt has stated they will provide relief in grants/loans and tax abatements. YET HOSPTIALS ARE STILL STAFFING TO GRIDS. And without enough PPE.

how many of you out there are having hours CUT? The media stating huge bonuses for nurses etc....but what I’m seeing is the opposite.
Ffor the first time in my 10 year career I’m seeing runny nosers not use the ER like a PCP office. And the hospital census is way down. And what’s the hosptial doing ? Cutting hours. Staffing to grids ??? In a crisis? Worrying about the bottom line, not worrying about the welfare of their employees. It speaks volumes about what’s truly going on here. Asking nurses to take voluntary furlough so they can’t collect unemployment when they slash OR hours ? What kind of madness is this ? We do dedicate ourselves overtime, extra hours, coming in early. Punching out and staying late....working through lunch for free for years and years...but then during a crisis we continue to get abused because the census is low ?

Do hospital systems and their administrations care about nurses or is it all “talk” ? It’s looking like all talk in my area. Hopefully you all are experiencing different, but I guarantee there are a lot of reading eyes on this post that are seeing exactly what I’m seeing.

Ladies and gentlemen when is enough, enough ?

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Specializes in ICU/ER/trauma.

And we can all start by standing together. Instead of tearing eachother apart.

You know why physicians run hospitals ? Because they stand together!

nurses kill eachother. And when we can get past that and stand together, and allow administrators Of hospitals to understand that it’s the nurse at every level that keeps the hosptial doors open.....then and only then will you start to see better treatment/hazard pay and AT THE LEAST a supply of PROPER PPE.

leadership fails. Instead of taking accountability and fixing their failure they cut from the bedside nurse and continue on. AND WE NURSES ALLOW IT.

we can thank ourselves. Every negative punitive post in here, you’re part of the problem. Stand together and demand to fix these problems and nursing will evolve like you’ve never imagined.

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What number makes it worth it? If I think about the risk vs money, you can't pay me enough. If I think about my heart's desire to get my community and nursing and medical colleagues through this, I can face the risk.

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4 hours ago, cubby777 said:

The economy isn't crashing! Stock market up over 2000 points yesterday, 500 points today!

Can't tell if you are being serious, or if this is meant sarcastically.
Economically speaking, it is very bad to have millions out of work and businesses closed.
You probably knew that and were being ironic when you pointed to this blip in the stock market as evidence hat the economy isn't crashing

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18 hours ago, Tegridy said:

Be glad you are in healthcare with a stable job and quit expecting a pat on the back.

Also, don’t be one of those nurses on fb who remind everyone else q12 hours that they still have to go to work. Just do your job

Costco is paying its employees An extra $2 an hour. Stop being a martyr and get respect. The hospitals are going to be reimbursed by the federal government. The management will make big bucks even when they have been negligent in protecting their employees. It probably could be an OSHA issue except that the federal govt has been totally unprepared as well .

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Specializes in ICU.
19 hours ago, Tegridy said:

If PPE isn’t adequate then speak out against that. Asking for or expecting hazard pay is silly.

Doesn’t sound like you’re directly working with this pandemic. No one has the appropriate amount of PPE to fight this. No one.

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