Yes. As a retired nurse with 30yrs experience, I've been saying that these problems are not new. It had just been exposed by the Covid crisis. I agree you can't run a healthcare facility like a business. If you cut back on staff,you lose patients. This is all facilities,not just hospitals. We need to start treating staff and patients like human beings.
This is just emotional nonsense. How else do you run a hospital that costs *_MILLIONS_* to operate? Like a Hippy commune? What a stupid comment. Hospitals should be run like a business -- an *_ETHICAL_* business.
As a nurse. I no longer work at a hospital. The pay is poor. The hospitals are understaffed for the purpose of keeping cost down. It is all about money. Cutting cost on a job that you can't cut personal from. I have had 90 patients on an 8 hour shift and I have had offers of jobs with 150 patients. What I told my potential employees was this. You don't need a nurse you need a super hero. Let's do the math 90 patients in 8 hours. Maybe 5 minutes to do treatment give medicine and chart. That is stupid and dangerous. Let's do the math on 150. 3 minutes to do complex time consuming tasks that can lead to life or death. Don't live in America until the Healthcare is fixed. End of story. This career is garbage. It is basically what teachers felt. Total exploitation.
I'm a nurse of 8-plus years. Hospital Administration: You're all heroes!!! Also Hospital Administration: We can't afford to pay you (while collecting their 6 to 7 figure bonuses for sitting at home during Covid)
They really trained a huge portion of the american population to priorities the opinions of the healthcare business owners over the facts of the people who actually work for them
I started working in medical devices towards the middle/end of the corporate takeover of hospitals (around 2014) and watched everything completely change in a matter of 2-3 years. Nurses went from being overworked, to being overworked and underpaid. The physicians are no long in charge of anything and ALL policies are determined by a hospital board, that are usually comprised of people with ZERO healthcare experience, and ONLY care about profits. They're effectively FORCING healthcare workers to make unethical decisions -even if they're unaware of it being made.
*Leftists:* Thanks nurses! *Also Leftists:* Take the COVID vaccines (that don't stop infection or transmission) or get fired. *Also Leftists:* _fire hundreds of thousands of nurses_ *Also Leftists:* There's a nursing shortage! *Also Leftists:* The system is broken.
Your welcome. Thank you for appreciating us. We really do work hard and try our best to take care of and help people that depend on us. We really do care.
It's not just nurses in the Healthcare industry with a lack of support and proper staffing. Diagnostic Radiographers and respiratory therapists are also having the same problems. My current hospital just cut costs for agency techs and several are leaving after their contracts end over the next few months. Plus we're already short staffed at night and evenings in a trauma and stroke hospital. On busy days It's horrible.
Totally. I do molecular testing at a specialist pathology lab now and me and the other molecular tech have traded many a horror story of the previous reference labs we worked during 2020 and 2021. It was a nightmare and that's why we both got out once the test volume went back to normal crazy levels. She was at a bigger lab so the volume was more insane and it was running 24 hours: she did the night shift. I was at an independent lab that also did sample collection so I had smaller test volume but I running around doing all of the sample collection. I was literally the only person that was cleared to run all of the tests and collect all of the different sample types.
Healthcare is a human right not an opportunity for the wealthy to profit. We pay a multitude of taxes for services and infrastructure as part of a civilized society. This should include health, education, services and basic human rights or the contract between a government and its people is null and void. In the UK our NHS is slowly being drowned by for-profit organisations taking a larger piece of the budget. Most Europeans are horrified by the amount of profiteering in the American system...
It's so embarrassing & sad, the extreme right GOP party has targeted & brainwashed the more simple minded & religious Americans with fear mongering garbage about socialism & democrats wanting to "destroy america" all while ignoring the real issues. Almost all the "conservative" voters I know grew up on foxnews, have little or no health insurance, usually just high school diploma & working a job they hate that barely pays their bills.. but foxnews keeps them angry at democrats for whatever reason they can. I fear our healthcare system is beyond repair.
Thank you for all you do! The system has been broken for years and I hope we see a difference soon. Every person's body is different and it can't be a cookie cutter system. While the hospitals make more money they have the nurses taking care of twice or more than is possible. God bless 🙏💙😎 and thank you again
@@skankhunt3624 the NHS has been chipped away at for years. Their equivalent of our GOP would love nothing more than to see there health care system privatized too.
I work in the environment dept of a nursing home. We are constantly short staffed bc there are not enough residents to justify more aides, but their care is acute, and there is not enough help
The one place that I experienced that does it well is South Korea. I was always amazed by the sheer volume of technicians, doctors, and nurses available to help and assist me. How quickly I found my needs met under a national healthcare plan. South Korea had one of the lowest mortality rates associated with covid. I know this might be anecdotal and this is a complicated issue with more than one solution. I agree with the basic premise of the video: move away from a pure business model. Invest more resources and support for the medical community and good things will happen!
Molecular lab scientist here. It's the same for us in the lab. We were already understaffed and operating with the minimum amount of necessary equipment and supplies. I spent all of 2020 and 2021 doing hundreds of PCR tests for 14-16 hours a day because that's what we had to do to handle the test volume. Which was never fast enough. And the amount of testing that was denied because of insurance and out-of-pocket costs was even more depressing. So even though we were overworked and burnt out, we also were frustrated and angry that we couldn't do more. That the volume should have been even higher and the labs should be staffed and supplied and lab workers should be adequately paid.
Yep, also as an MD, I don’t know how to actually run any of the tests. All I know is if you want appropriate care we need the results, and that means everything being handled and processed properly. So many different people in the system are overworked, underpaid, and asked to sacrifice without limit. Meanwhile, business degree at same level of education, you’re in a comfy office on 6 figures and allowed to ask for more.
Typical business, not people caring about what’s important! I’m an LPN of 38 years. I’m ready to walk-off the line and find a way to make this real to those in charge of this mess.
it continues top terrify me that a crisis like this has to happen before people realise "oh wait, maybe running a hospital like a business, is not the way to go, who'd have thought"
The worst part is people acknowledge the issue, say "hey that's bad we should fix it" then promptly move on to the next viral Tik Tok because it takes effort to fight for something good.
How nurses were able to persevere and survive during the height of the pandemic is *mind-boggling!* This country's corporations whether in the medical, financial or big business field is steeped in corruption. How these people sleep at nite is unbelievable! And we're the one's tht are suffering... we are trapped between a 'rock and hard space'.
I don't know how the nurses, doctors, cleaning people, and others who had to actually deal with the COVID situation on a daily basis have survived. I have enormous respect for all of them. It's too bad that the administrators don't share my feelings. Hospitals are about making money and expanding far more than they are about taking care of people.
Well, my cousin was one of them-an excellent, well-respected Canadian nurse who was in the U.S. for the whole pandemic, in Covid wards in multiple hot spots-and she both burned out and developed PTSD. It’s not cool, at all!
I do molecular testing. All of those PCR tests? That was us. It was a nightmare. The same thing kept us all going: the tests need to be done and if we stop there's no one else. Seriously, ask a doctor how to do a qRT-PCR. They have no clue. Lab testing requires a very specific set of skills along with training and education. Not a lot of people lining up for the job. And it's not being incentivized with great pay or anything.
My Mother is a bedside nurse and I wanted to say that I love all the nurses that are in the Healthcare industry and thanku for giving us this insight.❤😢
After the Delta variant went rampant in the summer of 2021, I developed PTSD from what I saw as a healthcare worker. I still struggle with some of those symptoms today. Some rooms I simply cannot walk into without a flashback. Certain types of PPE (we used yellow gowns for COVID rooms), or the specific “COVID-carts” we used to store the PPE in will send me back to that time when I never had time for breaks or lunch. People died that quickly. If you take a lunch break and no one can stare at the O2 sats of these critical patients, someone will die. And even if you did your best, they’d still die. It was a nightmare.
If patients start making a demand for safe staffing I bet the hospitals would make a change. When you go to the hospital make sure you are asking about staffing. Putting it on your surveys. They will eventually make a change. These hospitals pinch Penny when it comes to staffing because they have to pay their CEO millions so he/she can buy a yacht or something.
Sorry not sorry but why does the brunt of this type of work fall on the nurses? If there aren't enough CNAs they need to get the doctors to assist as well. You never hear about doctors suffering from burn out, doing excessive job duties etc. They are capable of doing what the nurses are doing as well. I love nurses. They're the true ones who run the hospital.
Yet... physicians have the highest suicide rates among numerous professions. 300 - 400 physicians every year committ suicide. So... it would appear tht they are also under extreme levels of pressure! After all... when u visit a doctor u expect him/her to cure you.
Actually, not all doctors are equipped to do what nurses do and I witnessed this in a pediatric unit. I saw a doctor stand by watching a newborn struggle to breathe while 2 nurses took care of the monitors drawing blood hooking the baby up to a respirator, etc. And my first thought about this doctor was how are you a doctor? You're useless in a crisis.
Its all about greed They say the ceo or director or presidenrt of a hosp should not be a doctor, others says it should be a doctor. Doctor or not it boils down how they see the health care system. Is it solely for profit or health care or both. Its disgusting to see when it is all abt profit
Thank you to all the nurses and healthcare workers who were away from their families during a pandemic, we will never be able to repay you, but we can say thank you!❤❤
Healthcare is NOT a commodity! It is a human right. No one should be getting rich off of running a hospital. Hospitals should be zero sum. Pay your workers well, have enough staff so that no department is stretched thin. Administrators have no reason to be paid a million-dollar annual salary. Patients, ALL patients, deserve to be treated with common decency. Whatever your opinion of them personally, keep it to yourself and behave like the professional you're supposed to be.
I complete prior authorizations for specialty medications and help patients with copay assistance. One of my coworkers was a bedside nurse and took a huge pay cut to come do what I do. She says she’s so much happier now!
Honestly I don't see how anyone ever believed that hospitals and healthcare could work as a business period. You don't have to be a genius to know that.
In any society, there are certain rights to services, for which government - not private interests - should be responsible. Healthcare is certainly one of these. There should not be a profit motive attached to one's health. The US repeatedly comes in last, or near the bottom, of healthcare systems throughout the world. When the primary cause of personal bankruptcies is medical bills; there's a deep, systemic problem existing. Covid exposed this as nothing in recent history has - money was made in huge amounts by top management and shareholders, but over a million people died in the US. What effect did that have on healthcare workers? Or, families - or, just people? And, what does it say about our country?
I'm going through this at my hospital now. Our ceo made 2.079mil this year, not to mention all the other higher ups and their millions or hundreds of thousands. And yet, they supposedly have no money in the budget for higher pay, which is pushing all of us out. It took nurses going to the newspaper for my hospital to dispurse their covid funds 2 years ago to staff as a bonus that equated to 80 cents an hour, even less than that for those of us (most of us) who worked OT. The ICU manager was talking about making the ratios 4:1, the ED 5:1, our PCU is now 6:1 and medsurg, the cno talked about making it 7:1. We can't provide any care to patients with these unsafe staffing ratios. Pay the staff, retain the nurses. It's simple. But greed from the top, from those who have no healthcare experience but just a business management degree, from those who have no healthcare experience bur make all of the decisions, has forced us, the people who actually keep these hospitals running, to seek employment elsewhere.
Excellent video. You explained the issue perfectly. Greed is at the root of it all. Patients aren't safe and nurses aren't safe. I'm glad so many are standing up and speaking out. I pray something changes soon.
The government needs to mandate minimum staffing requirements at all for profit and nonprofit hospitals. Or they’ll continue the lean and mean profit machine.
There has to be something like "worker owned". With any field of endeavor, employees know what needs doing, what can be eliminated. Not for profit doesn’t work..corporate monster doesn’t work. Devise and innovate. Nurses know. Make them part of the health care industry. There'll be no immoral monstrosity bonanza like with COVID. Nurses will come back for decent profit sharing and the respect that goes with it.
Congress needs to BAN venture capital from owning shares of hospitals! There shouldn't be FOR-profit private hospitals with CEO's making millions while they slash staff, force nurses to do jobs that aren't theirs, and cut supplies. All of our health is on the line when these hospitals can't properly care for us due to THEIR (corporate hospitals) behavior. Nurses, I support you!!! ❤❤❤
As a therapist managed care is a joke. Insurance companies don't ask therapy if they are ready to go home after 2 weeks they issue non coverage notice no matter the patient situation. It should be called limit care.
Currently a nurse where are ratios were 5:1 on a neuro/med floor. Since covid it's been 7:1. It's impossible to sustain that many patients. I'm doing the CNA work, feeding, cleaning, transporting, discharging and admitting. It's been 3 years of this and ppl are still leaving in droves. They continue to lay off staff or cut back on travel nurses to help. It send you into a deep depression, anxiety and your apathy is drained. We've yelled, pleaded for help and the hospital simply has not changed their model or helped to improve. I will be leaving soon out of the hospital for a less stressful environment. I gave them 3 years to improve and they've only gotten worse. I should have become a veterinarian
The drug companies wine and dine them on far fancier things in doctors offices to get them to promote their often unnecessary and overpriced medications with more warnings and side effects than cure.
I am so glad I left before the pandemic. I could not handle it anymore. The hospital expected you to do the job of at least 4 people at once. It broke me mentally for sure.
Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, and Cuba had some of the best responses to the Pandemic because Healthcare is nationalized. THIS should be the norm in the wealthiest country on Earth, but it isn't.
And still we have fools like one whose comment came to my alerts saying we need to get Government out of healthcare as privatization will create more efficiency. UNBELIEVABLE..
We need a federal skills act for competent non nurses to be able to do the job, because competent people can learn quickly. At least Massachusetts is working to have free community College. But I still think so much can be taught at work. And if the folks have good work history and sound good in the interview they should have a chance to at least get some kind of job, maybe doesn't pay as much at start.
How about we pay the nurse we have a fair wage and quit overworking them. How about that. Did you listen to the video the pro lem is NOT a lack of nurses.
What??? Would you be ok with your doctor or surgeon being “just competent”. Would you want a “just competent” nurse caring for you or your family member in the ICU?? Nurse isn’t like working at Walmart or target.
I want to come home to Massachusetts 😢 I’m a disabled veteran I miss the health care. I haven’t had a doc in 3 years 👌😭 literally our country is falling apart it’s so bad. Mass is a But better atleast u can actually see a doc 🤷♀️
There is NOT a lack of competent nurses. Your “solution” missed the point entirely and only makes the situation worse. You are encouraging cutting costs by cutting corners. We need mandated higher wages for TRAINED & EDUCATED nurses and cna’s and safe working conditions and ratios across the entire country.
Profiting off of human basic needs and misery ia wrong and it is abusive to Healthcare workers. It is disgraceful. Business people think the profit motive is somehow sacred, that making business profitable absolved them of being humane, as if turning a profit takes precedence over doing what we all know is the right thing!
Aren’t we ALL sick of these problems? It is ridiculous that healthcare has been ‘incorporated’! It is NOT an INDUSTRY! It is HEALTHCARE for human beings! The real question is-how do we ALL force change that is a necessity not a luxury!
I agree with most of what she’s saying but there IS a nursing shortage. 4 million nurses for over 300 million people? What about rural areas with no nurses? What about all the nurses that are retiring? So there is a shortage that is further compounding all the other problems.
After witnessing actual doctors completely censored during covid while unqualified people spoke everyday on the subject??? I lost nearly all trust in the medical system. Why didn't more doctors and nurses speak out against that? Why did so many comply?
No problem for the healthcare industry, you know why? No matter how many of American nurses complains you are easily replaced by cheaper and less complaining immigrant nurses from the Philippines, India and etc... just like any businesses you are replaceable. Nurses from third world or developing countries I stated above would happily take over your jobs without 1 word of complain, they are so happy with the pay the US hospitals give them to the point whenever a job opening comes up they'll immediately grab that opportunity you left for them without any 2nd thoughts. American hospitals love Filipino nurses to the point they come to the Philippines to build partnerships with local manpower agencies.
Why not make the nurses and doctors 60%+ owners of the hospital they work at? They must vote among themselves and elect a rep to attend board meetings. That rep would be compensated by the group for their time. Since they own 60% of shares, they have the deciding vote on policies but they must have reasonable solutions. They also get a 60% portion of profits.
A business model does not work for anything related to human rights like healthcare and education. Profiteering should always be seperated from policies tied to human rights as private healthcare companies are not in it to help people but to maximize profits.
Guess what. While it isn't immediately life and death like health care, education doesn't work with a business model either. Any human services jobs that are so incredibly poorly paid from day cares to prisons, to nursing homes are floundering. And the non-profit hospitals with marble floors, are run by millionaires. All of these can not be not profit driven, especially when calling themselves not-for-profit.
I've been a nurse for 8 years, yet every contract I work I have more experience than everyone. If you go to the hospital the nurse you get probably has less than a year of experience and was trained by the same. Nursing now is so much worse than when I started, It's always short staffed and patients/families are rude and demanding, and take out everything on the nurse. I'll never go staff again in the hospital. I hope I die before I end up in a hospital.
If you're taking on more patients than you should them don't. What could be the consequences? If the employer tries to retaliate them you have witnesses to prove them wrong. Right?
Wait wait wait, you guys want to make healthcare departments more like fire departments? Why not make fire departments more like healthcare businesses?? That way, if your neighbors house catches fire, they will wait until your house also catches fire because they don’t want their fire insurance costs to go up... which is better, according to sadists, I guess..
OK that lady at almost 4 minister know what she’s talking about people walking to the emergency room all the time with absolutely no insurance and they’re always care for. People that don’t work get healthcare that may not be what they want but they get healthcare the problem with people like here in Louisville Kentucky at the Baptist Cesar Nortons is people want private rooms they want a cherry furniture concierge service it’s not a hotel it’s a hospital. Nurses are their own worst enemies.
I am a little confused. Nurses got a huge bump in pay during covid. 1200 per extra shift. Then, vaccine mandates forced the hospitals to fire nurses. And, Medicare cuts payments so more responsibilities on staff. Get government out of all health care and the free market would figure it out.
Nobody cares former Union or you're going to keep getting screwed. And it needs to be a national Union and everybody belongs to with solidarity across the entire industry. Because otherwise you're going to get picked apart
Blaming you for protesting and for walking out you all are burnt out and it is not over they should be paying you more wages for what you all do nurses and healthcare workers if it wasn't for you nurses and healthcare workers and doctors America will have been almost wipe out all these hospitals across this nation have profit billions to zillions of dollars and they can even pay you way more this pandemic that we went through was a horrifying catastrophe under the Trump Administration
They are also trying to switch up the using of 'patient' for 'customer'. This is HEALTHcare but they try to use retail phrases like all these 'customers' are just here to spend money, it makes me sick
Nurses need to strike & demand a pay of not less than $70/Hr! It’s ridiculous how much the people on top are pocketing while nurses are getting burned out & still can afford to raise their families !!
Nurses need to strike & demand a pay of not less than $70/Hr! It’s ridiculous how much the people on top are pocketing while nurses are getting burned out & still can afford to raise their families!! Healthcare has become business-sadly at an expense of sick people.The greed going on is ridiculous. Look at this example: Kenneth Samet, President, CEO and Director of Medstar Health, earned the second-highest salary with $2,647,227 in total compensation…..
nursing homes also had the problems increase and covid really just showed everything the way it really is just unseen most of the time by joe public. a few here had to close their doors because they had no resources and help began to quit fearing they would be held accountable for not having the necessary items to care for the patients properly. eventually all patients were transferred to other facilities.
My Mom and most of the Residents in her nursing home as well as some of the staff died in the first three months of Covid. It didn't even have an official name or understanding of what it was then. Although having pre-paid Funeral arrangements to be laid out for days, a mass and burial she was buried alone while a few witnessed from cars. Due to a problematic family member I was notified by a friend/neighbor instead and without transportation couldn't even attend.
@@petemavus2948 thats terrible i am so sorry you lost your mom. because alot of people refuse to get the vaccine not only will covid never go away it will continue to advance mutating as it does and seems to be programmed to do until it is unbeatable unstoppable and the human race will almost be wiped out before it is gone. angels are among us now on earth i have alot of video proof of their ships so maybe revelations is here. i know you will see your mom in heaven someday because i was there as a small boy i drown in a pool and was there for a short time 9 minutes. you will know here by the love you felt from her. like when she held you and kissed a ouchy as a child you could feel her love. keep faith in God in the end you wont be disappointed i promise you that.
@@ufochannel01 Yours is one of the most beautiful gifts I've ever received on YT. I don't doubt most everything you said and as a child who almost died with my Mom in childbirth I know how much we were meant to be together. There were other times when experiencing near death experiences too when the veil was momentarily lifted and I experienced and witnessed things that could not begin to be explained with minds as limited as our time now allows. Thank you for the sincerity and best wishes much like I now have for you and all you hold dear. There truly is amazing grace, eternal joy and fulfillment in unconditional acceptance of all that is. Sincerity vibrates intent throughout all existence, now and forever. Until we meet again... 💜 Be well friend.
Why is it such a big issue to tax the rich in the USA? Create laws that will stop medicine manufacturers from asking ridiculous prices for their products. Simple medicine that in Canada you can get for a 10th of the price, such as insulin. Provide healthcare to your people. And hospitals should not be run like a money-printing factory. Quality is more important than quantity when you are caring for anyone's life. Im getting headaches when people say that the US is the greatest country on planet Earth.
Resting on old laurels mostly and we commoners and most of the globe see it. Will the richest here be as vulnerable as the Country and "We The People" should those wanting our demise strike?
Yes. As a retired nurse with 30yrs experience, I've been saying that these problems are not new. It had just been exposed by the Covid crisis. I agree you can't run a healthcare facility like a business. If you cut back on staff,you lose patients. This is all facilities,not just hospitals. We need to start treating staff and patients like human beings.
This is just emotional nonsense.
How else do you run a hospital that costs *_MILLIONS_* to operate? Like a Hippy commune?
What a stupid comment.
Hospitals should be run like a business -- an *_ETHICAL_* business.
@@Hertz2laugh she means it needs to be run as a non for profit business and what's sad is you know it you are being disingenuous aren't you.
@@mickilicyes5399 I'm going by what she wrote.
You're attempting to read her mind and put words in her mouth.
Something, something, disingenuous...
@@Hertz2laugh wouldn’t last 5 minutes
You haven't work as a nurse in 2020+ it is a total exploitation of staff, patients and all for the profit of very few.
As a nurse. I no longer work at a hospital. The pay is poor. The hospitals are understaffed for the purpose of keeping cost down. It is all about money. Cutting cost on a job that you can't cut personal from. I have had 90 patients on an 8 hour shift and I have had offers of jobs with 150 patients.
What I told my potential employees was this. You don't need a nurse you need a super hero.
Let's do the math 90 patients in 8 hours. Maybe 5 minutes to do treatment give medicine and chart. That is stupid and dangerous.
Let's do the math on 150. 3 minutes to do complex time consuming tasks that can lead to life or death. Don't live in America until the Healthcare is fixed. End of story.
This career is garbage. It is basically what teachers felt. Total exploitation.
I'm a nurse of 8-plus years.
Hospital Administration: You're all heroes!!!
Also Hospital Administration: We can't afford to pay you (while collecting their 6 to 7 figure bonuses for sitting at home during Covid)
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They really trained a huge portion of the american population to priorities the opinions of the healthcare business owners over the facts of the people who actually work for them
Yeah... might be a bit of a mistake..
I started working in medical devices towards the middle/end of the corporate takeover of hospitals (around 2014) and watched everything completely change in a matter of 2-3 years. Nurses went from being overworked, to being overworked and underpaid. The physicians are no long in charge of anything and ALL policies are determined by a hospital board, that are usually comprised of people with ZERO healthcare experience, and ONLY care about profits. They're effectively FORCING healthcare workers to make unethical decisions -even if they're unaware of it being made.
🥇Thank You Nurses For All The Hard Work You Put Into Taking Care Of The Patients 🥇 🏥♥️🏥
*Leftists:* Thanks nurses!
*Also Leftists:* Take the COVID vaccines (that don't stop infection or transmission) or get fired.
*Also Leftists:* _fire hundreds of thousands of nurses_
*Also Leftists:* There's a nursing shortage!
*Also Leftists:* The system is broken.
Your welcome. Thank you for appreciating us. We really do work hard and try our best to take care of and help people that depend on us. We really do care.
@@barbann9708
It's not just nurses in the Healthcare industry with a lack of support and proper staffing. Diagnostic Radiographers and respiratory therapists are also having the same problems. My current hospital just cut costs for agency techs and several are leaving after their contracts end over the next few months. Plus we're already short staffed at night and evenings in a trauma and stroke hospital. On busy days It's horrible.
Totally. I do molecular testing at a specialist pathology lab now and me and the other molecular tech have traded many a horror story of the previous reference labs we worked during 2020 and 2021. It was a nightmare and that's why we both got out once the test volume went back to normal crazy levels. She was at a bigger lab so the volume was more insane and it was running 24 hours: she did the night shift. I was at an independent lab that also did sample collection so I had smaller test volume but I running around doing all of the sample collection. I was literally the only person that was cleared to run all of the tests and collect all of the different sample types.
Healthcare is a human right not an opportunity for the wealthy to profit. We pay a multitude of taxes for services and infrastructure as part of a civilized society. This should include health, education, services and basic human rights or the contract between a government and its people is null and void. In the UK our NHS is slowly being drowned by for-profit organisations taking a larger piece of the budget. Most Europeans are horrified by the amount of profiteering in the American system...
It's so embarrassing & sad, the extreme right GOP party has targeted & brainwashed the more simple minded & religious Americans with fear mongering garbage about socialism & democrats wanting to "destroy america" all while ignoring the real issues.
Almost all the "conservative" voters I know grew up on foxnews, have little or no health insurance, usually just high school diploma & working a job they hate that barely pays their bills.. but foxnews keeps them angry at democrats for whatever reason they can.
I fear our healthcare system is beyond repair.
Yup greed has definitely ruined this field
All fields.*
Thank you for all you do! The system has been broken for years and I hope we see a difference soon. Every person's body is different and it can't be a cookie cutter system. While the hospitals make more money they have the nurses taking care of twice or more than is possible. God bless 🙏💙😎 and thank you again
yea since thatcher got to number 10 and it ain't been the same since. every year it's got worse an worse. from 🇬🇧👍 an old cockney gal
@@mariafletcher6603 isn't the NHS beloved?
@@skankhunt3624 the NHS has been chipped away at for years. Their equivalent of our GOP would love nothing more than to see there health care system privatized too.
@@skankhunt3624 NHS beloved ha not by me it ain't. from 🇬🇧👍 an old cockney gal
@@mariafletcher6603 why don't you like it?
I work in the environment dept of a nursing home. We are constantly short staffed bc there are not enough residents to justify more aides, but their care is acute, and there is not enough help
The one place that I experienced that does it well is South Korea. I was always amazed by the sheer volume of technicians, doctors, and nurses available to help and assist me. How quickly I found my needs met under a national healthcare plan. South Korea had one of the lowest mortality rates associated with covid. I know this might be anecdotal and this is a complicated issue with more than one solution. I agree with the basic premise of the video: move away from a pure business model. Invest more resources and support for the medical community and good things will happen!
Molecular lab scientist here. It's the same for us in the lab. We were already understaffed and operating with the minimum amount of necessary equipment and supplies. I spent all of 2020 and 2021 doing hundreds of PCR tests for 14-16 hours a day because that's what we had to do to handle the test volume. Which was never fast enough.
And the amount of testing that was denied because of insurance and out-of-pocket costs was even more depressing. So even though we were overworked and burnt out, we also were frustrated and angry that we couldn't do more. That the volume should have been even higher and the labs should be staffed and supplied and lab workers should be adequately paid.
Yep, also as an MD, I don’t know how to actually run any of the tests. All I know is if you want appropriate care we need the results, and that means everything being handled and processed properly. So many different people in the system are overworked, underpaid, and asked to sacrifice without limit. Meanwhile, business degree at same level of education, you’re in a comfy office on 6 figures and allowed to ask for more.
Typical business, not people caring about what’s important! I’m an LPN of 38 years. I’m ready to walk-off the line and find a way to make this real to those in charge of this mess.
It’s the exact thing going on with the education system. America’s caregivers are being burned by corporate greed.
it continues top terrify me that a crisis like this has to happen before people realise "oh wait, maybe running a hospital like a business, is not the way to go, who'd have thought"
The worst part is people acknowledge the issue, say "hey that's bad we should fix it" then promptly move on to the next viral Tik Tok because it takes effort to fight for something good.
People realized before as stated but for many Covid was "the straw that broke the camel's back".
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@@petemavus2948 how you figure that out
@@eddiedavis7749 It's not rocket science.
How nurses were able to persevere and survive during the height of the pandemic is *mind-boggling!*
This country's corporations whether in the medical, financial or big business field is steeped in corruption. How these people sleep at nite is unbelievable! And we're the one's tht are suffering... we are trapped between a 'rock and hard space'.
I don't know how the nurses, doctors, cleaning people, and others who had to actually deal with the COVID situation on a daily basis have survived. I have enormous respect for all of them. It's too bad that the administrators don't share my feelings. Hospitals are about making money and expanding far more than they are about taking care of people.
Well, my cousin was one of them-an excellent, well-respected Canadian nurse who was in the U.S. for the whole pandemic, in Covid wards in multiple hot spots-and she both burned out and developed PTSD. It’s not cool, at all!
I do molecular testing. All of those PCR tests? That was us. It was a nightmare.
The same thing kept us all going: the tests need to be done and if we stop there's no one else. Seriously, ask a doctor how to do a qRT-PCR. They have no clue.
Lab testing requires a very specific set of skills along with training and education. Not a lot of people lining up for the job. And it's not being incentivized with great pay or anything.
Some of us simply died. Fodder for the machine to keep burning through.
@@austinluther5825 as an MD can 100% confirm I have no idea how to run a PCR machine. Or like any other machine.
My Mother is a bedside nurse and I wanted to say that I love all the nurses that are in the Healthcare industry and thanku for giving us this insight.❤😢
After the Delta variant went rampant in the summer of 2021, I developed PTSD from what I saw as a healthcare worker.
I still struggle with some of those symptoms today. Some rooms I simply cannot walk into without a flashback. Certain types of PPE (we used yellow gowns for COVID rooms), or the specific “COVID-carts” we used to store the PPE in will send me back to that time when I never had time for breaks or lunch. People died that quickly. If you take a lunch break and no one can stare at the O2 sats of these critical patients, someone will die.
And even if you did your best, they’d still die. It was a nightmare.
If patients start making a demand for safe staffing I bet the hospitals would make a change. When you go to the hospital make sure you are asking about staffing. Putting it on your surveys. They will eventually make a change. These hospitals pinch Penny when it comes to staffing because they have to pay their CEO millions so he/she can buy a yacht or something.
Sorry not sorry but why does the brunt of this type of work fall on the nurses? If there aren't enough CNAs they need to get the doctors to assist as well. You never hear about doctors suffering from burn out, doing excessive job duties etc. They are capable of doing what the nurses are doing as well. I love nurses. They're the true ones who run the hospital.
The doctors make all the money while the nurses do all the work.
Yet... physicians have the highest suicide rates among numerous professions. 300 - 400 physicians every year committ suicide. So... it would appear tht they are also under extreme levels of pressure! After all... when u visit a doctor u expect him/her to cure you.
Actually, not all doctors are equipped to do what nurses do and I witnessed this in a pediatric unit. I saw a doctor stand by watching a newborn struggle to breathe while 2 nurses took care of the monitors drawing blood hooking the baby up to a respirator, etc. And my first thought about this doctor was how are you a doctor? You're useless in a crisis.
Thank you for speaking out & making North Carolina proud!!
Our healthcare workers deserve WAY better
Its all about greed
They say the ceo or director or presidenrt of a hosp should not be a doctor, others says it should be a doctor.
Doctor or not it boils down how they see the health care system.
Is it solely for profit or health care or both.
Its disgusting to see when it is all abt profit
Agreed
Inflation has nothing to do with it.
It amazes me that the industry doesn't priortize the health of those who are responsible for literally caring for the health of the whole nation.
Thank you to all the nurses and healthcare workers who were away from their families during a pandemic, we will never be able to repay you, but we can say thank you!❤❤
I stand with the Nurses. 💯
Healthcare is NOT a commodity! It is a human right. No one should be getting rich off of running a hospital. Hospitals should be zero sum. Pay your workers well, have enough staff so that no department is stretched thin. Administrators have no reason to be paid a million-dollar annual salary.
Patients, ALL patients, deserve to be treated with common decency. Whatever your opinion of them personally, keep it to yourself and behave like the professional you're supposed to be.
I complete prior authorizations for specialty medications and help patients with copay assistance. One of my coworkers was a bedside nurse and took a huge pay cut to come do what I do. She says she’s so much happier now!
Honestly I don't see how anyone ever believed that hospitals and healthcare could work as a business period. You don't have to be a genius to know that.
In any society, there are certain rights to services, for which government - not private interests - should be responsible. Healthcare is certainly one of these. There should not be a profit motive attached to one's health. The US repeatedly comes in last, or near the bottom, of healthcare systems throughout the world. When the primary cause of personal bankruptcies is medical bills; there's a deep, systemic problem existing. Covid exposed this as nothing in recent history has - money was made in huge amounts by top management and shareholders, but over a million people died in the US. What effect did that have on healthcare workers? Or, families - or, just people? And, what does it say about our country?
I'm going through this at my hospital now. Our ceo made 2.079mil this year, not to mention all the other higher ups and their millions or hundreds of thousands. And yet, they supposedly have no money in the budget for higher pay, which is pushing all of us out. It took nurses going to the newspaper for my hospital to dispurse their covid funds 2 years ago to staff as a bonus that equated to 80 cents an hour, even less than that for those of us (most of us) who worked OT. The ICU manager was talking about making the ratios 4:1, the ED 5:1, our PCU is now 6:1 and medsurg, the cno talked about making it 7:1. We can't provide any care to patients with these unsafe staffing ratios. Pay the staff, retain the nurses. It's simple. But greed from the top, from those who have no healthcare experience but just a business management degree, from those who have no healthcare experience bur make all of the decisions, has forced us, the people who actually keep these hospitals running, to seek employment elsewhere.
Imagine if that CEO salary plus bonuses was directly tied to employee satisfaction rates meeting a high level, patient care and satisfaction.
Excellent video. You explained the issue perfectly. Greed is at the root of it all. Patients aren't safe and nurses aren't safe. I'm glad so many are standing up and speaking out. I pray something changes soon.
As long as billions can be made in health care as a business, "it will endure," I mean exploit patients and staff.
How can we help fight this?? This is ridiculous and I really wanna help these healthcare workers!!
Support and Fund Unions you can help these healthcare workers
Excellent ! Play this for Congress and the Senate
The government needs to mandate minimum staffing requirements at all for profit and nonprofit hospitals. Or they’ll continue the lean and mean profit machine.
As long as the people at the top are paying themselves millions, that's all that matters, right?
There has to be something like "worker owned". With any field of endeavor, employees know what needs doing, what can be eliminated.
Not for profit doesn’t work..corporate monster doesn’t work.
Devise and innovate.
Nurses know. Make them part of the health care industry. There'll be no immoral monstrosity bonanza like with COVID.
Nurses will come back for decent profit sharing and the respect that goes with it.
Congress needs to BAN venture capital from owning shares of hospitals! There shouldn't be FOR-profit private hospitals with CEO's making millions while they slash staff, force nurses to do jobs that aren't theirs, and cut supplies. All of our health is on the line when these hospitals can't properly care for us due to THEIR (corporate hospitals) behavior. Nurses, I support you!!! ❤❤❤
We should never have Privatized Hospital's!
As a therapist managed care is a joke. Insurance companies don't ask therapy if they are ready to go home after 2 weeks they issue non coverage notice no matter the patient situation. It should be called limit care.
Currently a nurse where are ratios were 5:1 on a neuro/med floor. Since covid it's been 7:1. It's impossible to sustain that many patients. I'm doing the CNA work, feeding, cleaning, transporting, discharging and admitting. It's been 3 years of this and ppl are still leaving in droves.
They continue to lay off staff or cut back on travel nurses to help. It send you into a deep depression, anxiety and your apathy is drained.
We've yelled, pleaded for help and the hospital simply has not changed their model or helped to improve.
I will be leaving soon out of the hospital for a less stressful environment. I gave them 3 years to improve and they've only gotten worse.
I should have become a veterinarian
And don’t get me started on palliative care and at home care.
That’s America for you! Money/profit over people… same in education
Just buy them a pizza, that makes sub-standard staffing levels acceptable. Doesn't it?
The drug companies wine and dine them on far fancier things in doctors offices to get them to promote their often unnecessary and overpriced medications with more warnings and side effects than cure.
I am so glad I left before the pandemic. I could not handle it anymore. The hospital expected you to do the job of at least 4 people at once. It broke me mentally for sure.
There's also a lack of training as you work programs available.
Kenneth Samet, President, CEO and Director of Medstar Health, earned the second-highest salary with $2,647,227 in total compensation.
Nationalize Heath care.
Great. Now the health care industry can look more like the DMV
Nurses throughout the country need all come together & shut down this BS! CEOs are making millions of money Annually while paying nurses peanuts!
It's almost like the people who experienced the worst on the front lines have a different perspective than administrators.
Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, and Cuba had some of the best responses to the Pandemic because Healthcare is nationalized. THIS should be the norm in the wealthiest country on Earth, but it isn't.
And still we have fools like one whose comment came to my alerts saying we need to get Government out of healthcare as privatization will create more efficiency.
UNBELIEVABLE..
We need a federal skills act for competent non nurses to be able to do the job, because competent people can learn quickly. At least Massachusetts is working to have free community College. But I still think so much can be taught at work. And if the folks have good work history and sound good in the interview they should have a chance to at least get some kind of job, maybe doesn't pay as much at start.
I like this idea because there are many people who have some level of care they can provide, myself included..
How about we pay the nurse we have a fair wage and quit overworking them. How about that. Did you listen to the video the pro lem is NOT a lack of nurses.
What??? Would you be ok with your doctor or surgeon being “just competent”. Would you want a “just competent” nurse caring for you or your family member in the ICU?? Nurse isn’t like working at Walmart or target.
I want to come home to Massachusetts 😢 I’m a disabled veteran I miss the health care. I haven’t had a doc in 3 years 👌😭 literally our country is falling apart it’s so bad. Mass is a But better atleast u can actually see a doc 🤷♀️
There is NOT a lack of competent nurses. Your “solution” missed the point entirely and only makes the situation worse. You are encouraging cutting costs by cutting corners. We need mandated higher wages for TRAINED & EDUCATED nurses and cna’s and safe working conditions and ratios across the entire country.
This is happening to doctors as well.
Exactly!! 💯
Profiting off of human basic needs and misery ia wrong and it is abusive to Healthcare workers. It is disgraceful. Business people think the profit motive is somehow sacred, that making business profitable absolved them of being humane, as if turning a profit takes precedence over doing what we all know is the right thing!
CEO and shareholder greed is to blame
It's Their inability to prioritize safety for real 😳😳😳
Aren’t we ALL sick of these problems? It is ridiculous that healthcare has been ‘incorporated’! It is NOT an INDUSTRY! It is HEALTHCARE for human beings! The real question is-how do we ALL force change that is a necessity not a luxury!
I agree with most of what she’s saying but there IS a nursing shortage. 4 million nurses for over 300 million people? What about rural areas with no nurses? What about all the nurses that are retiring? So there is a shortage that is further compounding all the other problems.
After witnessing actual doctors completely censored during covid while unqualified people spoke everyday on the subject??? I lost nearly all trust in the medical system. Why didn't more doctors and nurses speak out against that? Why did so many comply?
No problem for the healthcare industry, you know why? No matter how many of American nurses complains you are easily replaced by cheaper and less complaining immigrant nurses from the Philippines, India and etc... just like any businesses you are replaceable. Nurses from third world or developing countries I stated above would happily take over your jobs without 1 word of complain, they are so happy with the pay the US hospitals give them to the point whenever a job opening comes up they'll immediately grab that opportunity you left for them without any 2nd thoughts. American hospitals love Filipino nurses to the point they come to the Philippines to build partnerships with local manpower agencies.
Why not make the nurses and doctors 60%+ owners of the hospital they work at? They must vote among themselves and elect a rep to attend board meetings. That rep would be compensated by the group for their time. Since they own 60% of shares, they have the deciding vote on policies but they must have reasonable solutions. They also get a 60% portion of profits.
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A business model does not work for anything related to human rights like healthcare and education. Profiteering should always be seperated from policies tied to human rights as private healthcare companies are not in it to help people but to maximize profits.
Guess what. While it isn't immediately life and death like health care, education doesn't work with a business model either. Any human services jobs that are so incredibly poorly paid from day cares to prisons, to nursing homes are floundering. And the non-profit hospitals with marble floors, are run by millionaires. All of these can not be not profit driven, especially when calling themselves not-for-profit.
I've been a nurse for 8 years, yet every contract I work I have more experience than everyone. If you go to the hospital the nurse you get probably has less than a year of experience and was trained by the same. Nursing now is so much worse than when I started, It's always short staffed and patients/families are rude and demanding, and take out everything on the nurse. I'll never go staff again in the hospital. I hope I die before I end up in a hospital.
Game of coins🙄
If you're taking on more patients than you should them don't. What could be the consequences? If the employer tries to retaliate them you have witnesses to prove them wrong. Right?
Wait wait wait, you guys want to make healthcare departments more like fire departments? Why not make fire departments more like healthcare businesses?? That way, if your neighbors house catches fire, they will wait until your house also catches fire because they don’t want their fire insurance costs to go up... which is better, according to sadists, I guess..
Did also prove that an authoritarian approach doesn't work either. It needs for a society to continue on afterwards.
OK that lady at almost 4 minister know what she’s talking about people walking to the emergency room all the time with absolutely no insurance and they’re always care for. People that don’t work get healthcare that may not be what they want but they get healthcare the problem with people like here in Louisville Kentucky at the Baptist Cesar Nortons is people want private rooms they want a cherry furniture concierge service it’s not a hotel it’s a hospital. Nurses are their own worst enemies.
I am a little confused. Nurses got a huge bump in pay during covid. 1200 per extra shift. Then, vaccine mandates forced the hospitals to fire nurses. And, Medicare cuts payments so more responsibilities on staff. Get government out of all health care and the free market would figure it out.
Yeah right ROFLMAOOOOOO 🤮
@@petemavus2948 my daughter is a nurse so at least she got paid.
Nobody cares former Union or you're going to keep getting screwed. And it needs to be a national Union and everybody belongs to with solidarity across the entire industry. Because otherwise you're going to get picked apart
Blaming you for protesting and for walking out you all are burnt out and it is not over they should be paying you more wages for what you all do nurses and healthcare workers if it wasn't for you nurses and healthcare workers and doctors America will have been almost wipe out all these hospitals across this nation have profit billions to zillions of dollars and they can even pay you way more this pandemic that we went through was a horrifying catastrophe under the Trump Administration
They are also trying to switch up the using of 'patient' for 'customer'. This is HEALTHcare but they try to use retail phrases like all these 'customers' are just here to spend money, it makes me sick
Nurses need to strike & demand a pay of not less than $70/Hr! It’s ridiculous how much the people on top are pocketing while nurses are getting burned out & still can afford to raise their families !!
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Nurses need to strike & demand a pay of not less than $70/Hr! It’s ridiculous how much the people on top are pocketing while nurses are getting burned out & still can afford to raise their families!! Healthcare has become business-sadly at an expense of sick people.The greed going on is ridiculous. Look at this example: Kenneth Samet, President, CEO and Director of Medstar Health, earned the second-highest salary with $2,647,227 in total compensation…..
'Body in a slot' this started years ago in LTC. The pandemic exposed it in hospitals.
NURSES ARE GETTING HIGH REIMBURSEMENT MAKING OVER 125K++ YEARLY DURING THIS CRISIS
Please cite proof if that is a majority.
nursing homes also had the problems increase and covid really just showed everything the way it really is just unseen most of the time by joe public. a few here had to close their doors because they had no resources and help began to quit fearing they would be held accountable for not having the necessary items to care for the patients properly. eventually all patients were transferred to other facilities.
My Mom and most of the Residents in her nursing home as well as some of the staff died in the first three months of Covid. It didn't even have an official name or understanding of what it was then. Although having pre-paid Funeral arrangements to be laid out for days, a mass and burial she was buried alone while a few witnessed from cars. Due to a problematic family member I was notified by a friend/neighbor instead and without transportation couldn't even attend.
@@petemavus2948 thats terrible i am so sorry you lost your mom. because alot of people refuse to get the vaccine not only will covid never go away it will continue to advance mutating as it does and seems to be programmed to do until it is unbeatable unstoppable and the human race will almost be wiped out before it is gone. angels are among us now on earth i have alot of video proof of their ships so maybe revelations is here. i know you will see your mom in heaven someday because i was there as a small boy i drown in a pool and was there for a short time 9 minutes. you will know here by the love you felt from her. like when she held you and kissed a ouchy as a child you could feel her love. keep faith in God in the end you wont be disappointed i promise you that.
@@ufochannel01 Yours is one of the most beautiful gifts I've ever received on YT. I don't doubt most everything you said and as a child who almost died with my Mom in childbirth I know how much we were meant to be together. There were other times when experiencing near death experiences too when the veil was momentarily lifted and I experienced and witnessed things that could not begin to be explained with minds as limited as our time now allows. Thank you for the sincerity and best wishes much like I now have for you and all you hold dear. There truly is amazing grace, eternal joy and fulfillment in unconditional acceptance of all that is. Sincerity vibrates intent throughout all existence, now and forever. Until we meet again... 💜 Be well friend.
Wait, didn't tRump's new health plan take care of things?! 😂 😂 🤣
Well health care is a business in America… only the rich will survive
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Why is it such a big issue to tax the rich in the USA? Create laws that will stop medicine manufacturers from asking ridiculous prices for their products. Simple medicine that in Canada you can get for a 10th of the price, such as insulin. Provide healthcare to your people. And hospitals should not be run like a money-printing factory. Quality is more important than quantity when you are caring for anyone's life.
Im getting headaches when people say that the US is the greatest country on planet Earth.
Resting on old laurels mostly and we commoners and most of the globe see it. Will the richest here be as vulnerable as the Country and "We The People" should those wanting our demise strike?
Price controls do not work. They lead to shortages
How many nurses quit because vaccinations mandatory??
In the larger picture..
NOT many. They probably were leaving anyways to join the magat cult. 🤣
Fauci you gotta lot explaining to do
What's makes you think he is responsible for hospital staff?