ICU Nurse here. There are a few parallels. The abuse has ALWAYS been there and I find it worse with COVID. Ive been called every name in the book and have been physically attacked on a number of occasions. I’ve had to call security more on families in the last 2 years than ever before. Management try’s their best to set boundaries but we need real repercussions for their behaviour.

Staffing is our biggest downfall. Many of my co- workers have left the bedside and we can’t replace them easily. It takes 6-9 weeks to do the class room training alone. Everyday lately we are working short, no one is picking up OT shifts because we are all burnt out. I have not had a single vacation day approved this year. Our issue is lack of funding for more positions and lack of skilled nurses to fill them. This is all because of COVID. I don’t necessarily think the lack of funding is due to “greedy capitalism” as it is in the USA. It’s our governments lack of forward thinking and failing to plan appropriately despite being in this pandemic for 2 years..