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.

Specializes in Former NP now Internal medicine PGY-3.
10 hours ago, dinah77 said:

None of us signed up for a job that would not provide us adequate protection. I bet you're one of those people who vote GOP because you are sure that one day you will most definitely get your own riches and be part of the 1%, right?

And when that day comes, you don't want to have to pay more taxes

I hate to break it to you, but you are just one of the working class just like all of us.

You are at any given time 3-6 months away from one disaster that renders you homeless.

You will NEVER be 3-6 months away from being a billionaire. Your life is disposable to the higher-ups and 1%. Full stop

You are one of the nameless, faceless automatons they will never have to know or care about

You do not live near them- your children go to different schools than their childen.

They will never have an awkward moment with you at social events because THEY do not mingle with US

They will never have to look you in the eye and explain why they weren't willing to pay you more right now or fight for adequate protection.

So as long as I am on the front lines of this, as long as I am risking bringing home covid-19 to my husband and my two children, as long as I am risking my own life and maybe leaing my two kiddos without a mom *** STRAIGHT I'M GONNA ASK FOR MORE MONEY

We need to milk the *** for every last dime

Where did this political nonsense come from? Quit feeling sorry for yourself. Ask for more PPE if you feel it isn’t enough. If you don’t like your job then walk. If you think you are worth hazard pay then ask for it and the market will decide.

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It's because nursing is dominated by women. The administration takes advantage of the fact that we are a profession of bleeding hearts and martyrs. If we ask for more pay, we are ridiculed. If a man were to ask for more pay in this situation it would be expected. I'll bet a million dollars the hospital CEOs in this country are not lowering their own annual salaries or sacrificing their bonuses! Shame on you all criticizing gcupid for asking this question!

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Just because I disagree doesn’t mean I hate other health workers. If you want hazard pay then band together and see if the market will give it. I just have a realistic expectation of what nursing is worth. And it’s almost never 100/hr.

And LOL to most nurses being bleeding hearts and martyrs give me a break. Most people do it for a stable income just like any other profession. quit trying to take the moral high ground.

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Specializes in Former NP now Internal medicine PGY-3.

If we are playing opinions without economical logic here.....if nurses get hazard pay or 100/hr then residents and physicians should get 500 an hour. Pay should commiserate with skill right? Change my mind

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9 hours ago, Tegridy said:

But if we are playing opinions without economical logic here.....if nurses get hazard pay or 100/hr then residents and physicians should get 500 an hour. Pay should commiserate with skill right? Change my mind

Residents, yes. Physicians are already making >300k, financially if you can't make it on that salary more money is not the issue. Your arguments are so poor and still you will continue fighting just because. I know a lot of residents have been pulled as well though.

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9 hours ago, murseman24 said:

Residents, yes. Physicians are already making >300k, financially if you can't make it on that salary more money is not the issue. Your arguments are so poor and still you will continue fighting just because. I know a lot of residents have been pulled as well though.

I think the poster calling people *** is the angry one. Not spiteful. Nurses have some of the most unrealistic expectations. 100/hr ?. I agree PPE should be adequate and said many times before to ask for more or walk if you don’t have enough. My arguments are sound... as I’m not seriously asking for 100/hr. And just since someone is financially sound doesn’t mean they should not make more. The market decides that. Whether or not someone ethically is worth that much is a different story. We have different opinions which it appears some people cannot handle and turn to name calling and such.

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Many are "telehealthing" from the break room, giving orders via cell phone never stepping into the room! Intubation teams organized during this crisis are composed of CRNAs, NOT physician anesthesiologists because CRNAs are the ones ACTUALLY intubating, not the guy looking in through the window or checking stocks in the lounge.

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8 hours ago, murseman24 said:

and many are "telehealthing" from the break room, giving orders via cell phone never stepping into the room! Intubation teams organized during this crisis are composed of CRNAs, NOT physician anesthesiologists because CRNAs are the ones ACTUALLY intubating, not the guy looking in through the window or checking stocks in the lounge.

this is not a universal truth and you know It. Depends On the facility. We don’t need any heart of a nurse brains of a doctor nonsense here. Physicians on inpatient teams are still seeing patients and putting in lines and such. The nurses are doing their part too. None of this pity party stuff. Not sure why I am the bittter fruit when you are sitting here saying anesthesiologists don’t work LOL.

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21 hours ago, Tegridy said:

this is not a universal truth and you know It. Depends On the facility. We don’t need any heart of a nurse brains of a doctor nonsense here. Physicians on inpatient teams are still seeing patients and putting in lines and such. The nurses are doing their part too. None of this pity party stuff.

You don't know what you don't know. Bye Felicia

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Just now, murseman24 said:

You don't know what you don't know. Bye Felicia

Sound counter argument. Since I’ve never been there or done that.

1 minute ago, murseman24 said:

You don't know what you don't know. Bye Felicia

Such a sound counter argument. With logic such as this you might get your 100 hr

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Just now, Tegridy said:

Sound counter argument. Since I’ve never been there or done that.

apparently you don't know how this whole airway management thing works with CRNAs and MDAs. It shows

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3 minutes ago, murseman24 said:

apparently you don't know how this whole airway management thing works with CRNAs and MDAs. It shows

I do. It varies greatly by shop. Hence why sweeping statements are almost never true. Maybe in your shop it’s like this but most it is not. But if it is like this where you are now you do have a right to be somewhat Bitter.

and most of these patients are in the ICU managed not by anesthesia but pulm cc and other intensivist staff / midlevels. They don’t bring them to the OR for intubations lmao.

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