- Nurses, the primary caregivers in Hospitals, have been treated pretty poorly for a long time. Some of it is pay, some of it is expectations, some of it is just the way the people around them treat them (e.g., the way surgeons often talk to them).
- Some management has gotten down right mean. I know one hospital that has dictated that refusing to work a mandated shift (that's where they keep you longer than your shift to keep working) will cause you to be fired. They've gone through on that already.
- ICU nurses have seen the worst. In places that have had peak COVID it's not unusual for 9/10 people with COVID in the ICU to die. That takes a tole on people.
- Some hospitals are giving huge bonuses to new hires. And better pay. There's nothing like being a senior nurse in an ICU who has more responsibility and higher expectations while having the new person next to them having just gotten a bonus and making more money. You might as well quit and go work at a different nearby hospital to get a bonus and raise.
I wonder what would happen if hospitals starting doing peakon surveys of their people and started working to improve on things.