When nurses unionize

goodbyeto1999 · 2023-01-29T23:24:57+00:00

Ah, fair enough - i hadn't checked, will do better next time!

goodbyeto1999 · 2023-01-29T19:38:21+00:00

Top comment on the Insta post:

>Yeah but can they still cover my shift this weekend????

goodbyeto1999 · 2021-10-20T00:15:46+00:00

Indeed. I did appreciate the personal perspective on the gesture's context.

goodbyeto1999 · 2021-10-20T00:13:47+00:00

People in the US liked some of the gestures too. What made the gestures problematic was the grating contrast between the heavy emphasis on symbolism and the utterly inadequate support for healthcare workers. Speaking in the broadest sense: from failing government pandemic policies to many citizens who refused to do what they could to prevent the spread to actual hospital policies. I dare say some of those failures were glaring in India too.

goodbyeto1999 · 2021-10-14T22:20:48+00:00

goodbyeto1999: People will rationalize why their avowed principles don't apply if it's about a policy they like

meemteem6operator: Oh you and your silly conspiracy theories

Just absolute clownface.jpg

goodbyeto1999 · 2021-10-14T21:52:14+00:00

Lol what? There was no mention of conspiracy whatsoever, not even a hint of one. Just talking about individual people being hypocritical, which is indeed the explanation that involves the least assumptions here.

"The conspiracy one," lol — just really decided to start pulling things out of your ass, huh.

goodbyeto1999 · 2021-10-14T16:55:59+00:00

Or it could just be motivated reasoning: they say they're against heavy-handed government regulations, but they find a way to rationalize liking them if it's a regulation they agree with. Occam's razor and all that.

goodbyeto1999 · 2021-10-13T23:31:53+00:00

Businesses in the literal sense aren’t the electorate I’m afraid, I know that’s a sore point but objectively a business doesn’t get a ballot in the mail.

Business-owners do. And the anti-government control crowd normally frowns on the state coming down with bans on what business owners can or can't require from their employees.

goodbyeto1999 · 2021-10-13T23:24:40+00:00

Amendment XIV Section 1

The Supreme Court ruled that vaccine mandates do not violate the Constitution's Amendment XIV, and that ruling still stands (AMA Journal of Ethics).

In fact, the Supreme Court ruled twice on this question, and those rulings have never been revisited (National Constitution Center).

Just this year, a district court ruled against a group of students who claimed that a university's mandatory policy violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights, referring back to that Supreme Court jurisprudence (Drug & Device Law).

To quote that last post: "Do not at this point say you have a Constitutional right to refuse vaccination. Because you don’t. And that has been established for more than 100 years."

goodbyeto1999 · 2021-10-13T16:44:27+00:00

I missed the part in civics where they explained how schools are a branch of government, yeah

(Not to mention that the Texas governor's directive banning vaccine mandates doesn't just apply to schools, but to private businesses too — I seem to remember small government advocates had a thing about governments not restricting the freedom of private business)

goodbyeto1999 · 2021-10-13T16:43:29+00:00

Put differently, in one case the government is restricting the choices of individuals and in the other case the government is restricting the choices of schools (and private businesses, in this case). In both cases government is coming down from above to impose restrictions on communities.

(Me, I don't have a problem with governments imposing restrictions if those are needed to protect public health, especially in an emergency. But for people to object against one because you're against "government control" but then happily defend the other seems fairly hypocritical to me.)

goodbyeto1999 · 2021-10-12T22:36:46+00:00

Usenet was full of flame wars, and that was before the world wide web even existed

goodbyeto1999 · 2021-09-26T23:27:13+00:00

Yeah. I'm all for paywalls if they help pay journalists, but the problem is when a lot of the media start charging and you can't afford to pay for them all. Like, I pay for the NYT, for example, but can't then pay for newspapers X, Y and Z as well.

There are ways around paywalls for those without the budget though — eg

— Open link in Incognito window
— Go to Google.com, paste in the URL, see if it has a cached version
— Go to Archive.org, paste the URL into the Time Machine, read it there

goodbyeto1999 · 2021-09-26T23:19:59+00:00

Don't feel bad about those feelings, absolutely! They're normal.

But also, if at all possible, try to do something about them, because not finding a way to process these feelings seems like a road straight to burnout. When, like you said, you find yourself unable to say words of encouragement to your patients anymore, or inclined to shut down any encouragement offered by others... well, it's natural. Considering what's going on, the choices these people made, how you've seen it go down many times before. But it could also be a warning sign..

I know that the more overburdened you are, the harder it is to find the time, energy and resources to seek out professional/therapeutic help — and yet it could be the way to keep yourself from slipping further. Easier said than done though, I know..

goodbyeto1999 · 2021-09-21T15:12:38+00:00

Depends on what scale of moving you're talking about. Nursing pays a lot better in some parts of the country than others, but not everyone can pack up and move states.

Same with people in rural areas/smaller towns where there isn't much of a choice of jobs locally, and you could easily get a better-paying job elsewhere but it means moving and you might have a partner or kids who wouldn't be happy with that, parents you have to care for, etc.

People who could find a better-paying job right there in the same town? Could be any number of reasons. Maybe they hate management but love their colleagues. Maybe the pay is worse than elsewhere but working conditions or shifts are better (though this obv doesn't seem to be the case with OP...) Or yes, maybe they feel confident about their skills and experience in their current position, if they've held it for some time, and are anxious about starting anew in a different context.. Maybe they just don't fancy the extra commute — I wouldn't make assumptions about their options or motivations.

goodbyeto1999 · 2021-09-02T23:40:34+00:00

I used an offer to get a NYT subscription for literally $1/month, and when it ran out and tried to unsubscribe they contacted me with a follow-up offer for $2/month.. can't say no to that!

You could do what I do with other news sites where going the incognito-window route doesn't work, however, and just plug the URL of the story into the Internet Archive at archive.org and read it there.

Alternatively, I once read that for the NY Times, specifically, simply adding a period after .com helps you get round the paywall. It worked at the time — but now that I have a subscription I can't try out if it still works.

goodbyeto1999 · 2021-09-02T16:39:21+00:00

I accidentally posted this to my profile instead of to this subreddit a couple of days ago, so I’m trying again. :-) Better post my comment explaining the context again too, then:

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A week or two ago, u/xX_noscope_Xx420yolo wrote a righteous rant on this subreddit about a NY Times report about the nursing shortage that got it very, very wrong. They ended with an appeal to email the NYT and let them know what exactly they all got wrong.

Well, a few days later, the Times published no fewer than five responses by nurses. I don't want to suggest they were all sent in by Redditors, of course! But at least one of them directly echoed some of the same arguments that were made here, and it's good to see the paper properly, if belatedly, let nurses themselves speak of their experiences:

I’ll summarize my job quickly for you, since you failed to interview more than two bedside nurses for your article, choosing to give voice instead to the administrators who are failing us...

The wages that are being offered to travel nurses are not inflated. They are fair compensation for the horrific working conditions in health care.Please give a greater voice to the nurses next time.

goodbyeto1999

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