A new survey shows a dire strain on the health care system as nearly 1 in 5 health care workers have quit since the beginning of the pandemic. NBC News’ Priscilla Thompson spoke to some of those workers who have been on the front lines even before the onset of Covid-19.
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Fun fact: if we’re out with covid, our hours have to made up with hours from our personal PTO bank
As someone who has been sick during the pandemic, I have absolutely no pity for these healthcare workers. They have made mistake after mistake, are verbally abusive and neglectful in their responsibilities. As a former EMT I find it atrocious. I know some people are trying hard to be professional but an alarming number have now come to believe their utterly detestable behavior is acceptable. The bad apples spoil the bunch, and rest assured when the dust settles you will find they killed a lot of people who didn’t have to die.
What exactly do you want people to do? “Being here for us” is so vague you might as well say nothing.
To bad it’s their jobs
As a Registered Nurse I just want to vacation in my bed for a week.
I’m in Retail and I don’t have it NEARLY as bad as you guys in the front lines. You deserve 2 months off with pay!
You fire unvaccinated, the vaccinated will be burdened with more patients, then vaccinated will quit. Good job on vaccine mandate.
This is what happens when you want Biden and Harris in the White House. Can’t blame these healthcare workers, they are overworked and underpaid and at HIGH RISK of getting and dying from COVID aka the China Virus 🦠
Praying for all you doctors and nurses 🙏🥺🙏🥺🙏🥺 may God give you strength to make it through
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It will be a very sad time in America when hospitals start shutting down because of lack of staff.
Health care workers must be taken care of at all cost.
STOP ✋ just stop. They’re “strained ” because the unvaccinated were laid off or quit due to mandates 🤷♀️👀 and They’re letting the vaccinated covid positive work 😑 the cost of living is up 56%.👀🥴
I wouldn’t blame my sister for quitting the medical field.
Seriously if it’s your choice to choose not to be vaccinated, you should bear the consequences too, why should insurance cover for your hospital bill, the healthcare workers work so much for you, and the rest of society suffer due to your selfishness. Pay for your choice!!
Doesn’t help that a bunch are about to quit now 😕
If you are not vaccinated and you get CoVid how dare you go to the the ED and take resources from everyone else and completely drain these people! Shame on you!
Organized labor now
I’m sorry but I don’t blame them I would leave too I’m sorry but I get it both ways but also you put your life on the line for somebody else not to mention when you leave the hospital whoever you’re around is also endangered as well or not even getting paid enough at that but I get it cuz when they got the job that’s what they signed up for is to help us when we’re sick but this is a very deadly disease so you have to understand what these people are coming from you can’t be mad because they quit their job
Here is a idea
Anybody that has covid and are unvaccinated should be sent to the two two hospital ships off the coast of Texas and florida
And if the ships are filled they should be place in dingy boats until available beds
STOP 🛑 ✋ making it so hard for people to actually become nurses and doctors!!! Anyone can end up targeted , take a plea, & wind up with a felony in this country. Think 🤔 it could never happen to you….you’re wrong 😑! Good people aren’t able to get licensed by the board because of this. More exceptions need to be made for competent students with a past they’ve paid there debt for. Nursing School Teachers…stop being nasty to your students by finding underhanded ways to fail majority of them because you don’t want to have too many students to look after at clinicals!!!
I’m quitting as soon as possible. I am underpaid and we’re understaffed.
That’s your hospital admin
Expect a bigger shortage due to the mandate now!
Why spend time and energy to save anti-Vaccine?…let them die.
BLAME YOUR GOVERNMENT AND FAUCII
My wife is a director of nursing in a skilled living nursing home. She managed to get her co workers $5-$6 raises. That’s WAY better than the normal dollar raise. Normally, they get like a 3-5% pay raise, she got them way above that! Now, she can’t get people to come in to work! Her stna’s, LPN’s, even the janitor!! They’re all doing everything they can to get out of work! I know this because my wife doesn’t want agency nurses involved, so she picks up as many shifts as she can. She says agency nurses don’t know the residents, tend to be argumentive with the residents and even staff! Some people just take pride in what they do while others just try to abuse the little bits of power they have..
How about refusing to treat antivaxxers service so they don’t clog up the system when they eventually get sick.
So maybe not the best time for the woke to fire those not taking the jab? Wild.
So they arn’t happy with the overtime they can use to payoff their students loans?
Whoa! People who go into healthcare do it to because they want to help others, not for the money.
Blame crazy joe and wacky kamala for the shortage. Praised these workers as heroes months ago, then vilanized them when they didn’t want a forced vaccine that doesn’t work like they said it did.
Probably shouldn’t have fired a bunch of them.
Why complain if you love what you’re doing? I’ve worked throughout this mess without complaining.
Ever heard of frustration?
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In California you are able to file workers comp claim if you get Covid from work do your research everybody!
And they cannot retaliate!
They ain’t want the Fauci Ouchie
Ironic all of a sudden the nurses are burnt out when the rest of healthcare was already burnt out welcome what happens when you promote nurses to administration by doctors who are never told no see the cycle of failure.
You know I never wanted to be shot at so I never joined the military if you don’t want to take care of sick people and work a lot don’t become a nurse or physician, try to pay attention at what you choose to do to get paid
It’s not just nurses and doctors!!!! RT is right at the bedside along with CNA and cleaning staff are important too. The constant dismissal of everyone else is disgusting.
Agreed. Our poor RTs, CNAs and patient care technicians/PCT are some of the MOST over-worked health team members. The CNAs & PCTs are often the LEAST compensated but, do the MOST physically demanding jobs. It can be very dangerous trying to clean multiple patients who weigh over 300 pounds. And SOME of the patient’s family members visit and treat our hard-working CNA/PCT s like 💩; even yelling and cursing at them!🤬
Everything they say is true… wish I can leave nursing myself but I’m the “bread winner” in the family unfortunately. It pays the bills even though the thought of going to work just makes me feel miserable and depressed.
I’m so proud of you and your staff, along with the others throughout the country.
Maybe they shouldn’t have fired all those healthcare workers who refused to get the vaxx
Something needs to be done to help these healthcare workers we all need them desperately and we need them to be healthy they have lives and families too no one seems to care about them😕 my heart goes out to them I’m praying for them everyday🙏
What do you mean by: “Something needs to be done…?
What do you suggest?
@UrbanSipfly To start when these healthcare workers are sick with Covid they should not be rushed back to work they should be able to recover ….fully recover and then come back to work… how can they take care of others when they need care themselves… not to mention they could still be infectious
But but but freedoms, my favorite restaurant, and don’t wanna wear no mrask.
Let people go to school for free and covid goes bye bye. 🤣Morons
What about all of the other disciplines in healthcare? PT(physical therapist), Dietary, CNA, House Keeping…etc
It’s NOT only nurses that are tired!
So disrespectful and dismissive!
Get a grip…pls!
Thank God you are able to work!
The doctors and nurses can afford to quit. No one EVER mentions the CNA’s. They literally do the messy work. They are woefully underpaid. Often single Moms who live paycheck to paycheck. Especially those who work with the elderly. I can’t even imagine their “burnout” levels.
Not all nurses and doctors could afford to quit. You don’t know everybody’s financial status. Yes nurses the doctors do make more but don’t assume that they’re in a better situation than you because they do. Nurses do messy work too unless you just work with some lazy nurses that don’t help with anything.
@Jennifer Salinas I’ve never met a nurse living below poverty level. I’ve never known a nurse that got food stamps despite working full-time. CNA’S are the working poor. I’ve been one. For 4 years. Not once did one assist me when they told me to shower an elderly patient who was covered in feces. I was 16 years old! I weighed 100 pounds.
Oh I’m burnout 🙁 and then they get staff from agencies and pay them almost double your salary and yet we’ve been working short this whole time and getting sick as well and they took away sick covid pay .
@ Luna2259 I agree I was loyal to a building that wouldn’t give me a $2 raise I worked short all the time while agency came in making not double but triple the amount I made so I left my job and became a travel nurse the burnout comes in goes but at least it’s worth it now
Walk out walk out walk out walk out walk out walk out walk out walk out walk out walk out walk out walk out walk out walk out walk out walk out
Covid mandates did help I bet
Now imagine all the people they fired that WANTED their JOB. Smh
Good, corporate entities and bosses need to remember workers and nurses are people too! Its really draining working for entities that can care less for their well-being.
Tell people stay home stop traveling stop going out to eat and movies and games come on man stop before the people are here to help quit
Remember when NBC,let Trump explain on their news,it was a hoax,for a yr. ? That masks,were useless? I believe, now,they act like it’s Biden’s fault. Truly, sore losers, who embraced calling John McCain a loser, for political party dogma. Pitiful, your company is like a great communism machine, in my 🇺🇸opinion.
I can’t say I wasn’t expecting this. Anyway, healthcare workers will eventually throw in the towel and let God take over and heal His people. When that time comes, no vaccine or medicines will be required. The Lord will end the covid in His own time. Stay in prayer folks.
Of course
I’m a pharmacist and I wanna quit. Too many vaccinations on top of our regular work. I’m exhausted every day whe I get home.
For real! The pharmacy staff at the grocery store I work at are about to have nervous breakdowns.
SAME FOR US GROCERY WORKERS… JUST BE NICE
Overworked and underpaid… MEANWHILE HMO”S AMASSING FORTUNES obviously resigning !!
Its risk-benefit factors. The risk of getting Covid and dieing is high. There is no benefit to this, no salary increase. All risk no reward.
Did healthcare workers ever get a raise? They trulyyyyyyy deserve it.
I’m burned out from hearing people complaining about their jobs.
Yes we are tired 😪
So quit and become teachers since both occupations have a lot in common. Neither want to work anymore
If only you now had all the staff that you forced out for not taking a supposed vaccine that’s now been proven for a 3rd time not to work. No sympathy here
Nothing but cover up and lies from the DEMOCRATS……. THE CDC DOES NOT ENFORCE ANYTHING…… THE CDC ACTS LIKE THE ARE JUST THE LIBRARY OF DISEASE…… EVENTUALLY WE ALL WILL BE INFECTED….. FIRST THE UNHEALTHY PEOPLE THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE WEAKENED IMMUNE….. THERE IS BABIES GETTING COVID IN MY STATE……….
There’s more than Doctors and Nurses in the hospitals and Healthcare expands beyond hospitals and nursing homes. Let’s be more considerate of that and show some respect, acknowledgement, and support to everyone who’s out here sacrificing their lives.
Exactly 💯
Healthcare workers are our heroes during this crisis yet they are sabotaged and discriminated against by our President.
I work as a nurse and this is 100% accurate of what is going on. Everyone I work with, in every department in the hospital is burned out, including CNA’s, RRT’s, Pharmacy, EVS, America needs to wake up….these are the people who will care for you when you are at your worst!
Good. Let the system burn 🔥
Let’s not forget radiology . Everybody gets a X-ray and multiple CT Scans.
I work in skilled nursing and we have over 45 fully vaccinated staff members who also had their booster shots and They all have tested POSITIVE for Covid!!!!! Clearly they can still catch and spread the virus. We’re so desperate for staffing that we’re actually working POSITIVE Covid nurses with face shields on the floor just to cover the shifts!!!Vaccine mandates are unlawful and defy all common sense!!!!!!
Too bad they fired available and skilled workers……for no reason, at all, seeing how being vaccinated doesn’t keep you from spreading it. Classic.
ANTI VAXXERS, THIS IS FOR YOU.
I’m a California Registered Nurse but not working as one. I just maintain my license.
I hope it doesn’t affect the TikTok dancing videos
The American Wealthcare System.
Antivaxxers take our health care workers for granted.
You have all had it!
Walkout, leave selfish human beings in the dark! Tell them that medical staff has a right to refuse any services!
Enjoy being unemployed , vaccine mandates are no joke,no health workers but mandated healthcare how is that going to work for us !? We forced to pay , but can’t get an appointment ! No taxation without representation !
Sounds like they are changing jobs not careers. Seems a little misleading.
Is there any way a person can volunteer? My husband died of covid and I’m more than happy to clean or cook or whatever
I’m with you ! I have put my arm as I was call to. I take care of my self.
Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. LUKE 21:26 KJV
GOD, not little god but BIG God!
God is the only one who can save you through the belief in Jesus Christ and the power of The Holy Spirit!
These are the judgments of God! Come out of her my people and be ye separate!
Make education free for all. Medical free for all. Their are many people who would love to work in the health care field but can’t afford school. Shame on American. Greed over life that’s America for you
WE ARE STILL IN A PANDEMIC. WHO SAID IT WAS OVER NO ONE. BURN OUT IS WHAT ANY OTHER OCCUPATION FACED EVEN BEFORE PANDEMIC. ITS MIME OVER MATTER. AND IF YOUR MINE IS NOT STRONG ENOUGH FOR THE CIRCUMSTANCES THEN THESE TIMES ARE NOT FOR YOU. BUCKLE UP
In the meantime, the hospitals and their administrators are making billions of dollars.
I was offered a $14 an Hour Job as a Health Care Worker. I am now WFH for $21.76 an hour something I did not study for. Still over 40k in debt.
Mandates cased this problem
Nurses and the support staff.
Absolutely don’t use your vacation time.
You’re gonna need that!
It’s not a we can’t afford to pay you for sick time issue.
People still think it’s a hoax till the very end. Imagine helping these deniers knowing they indirectly got others killed.
Like with Jim Jones, history repeats itself again.
I was in the hospital for a minor surgery a few months ago and the Nurses were amazing, but most of them were Travel Nurses because others quit. Then there was one Nurse who was soo traumatized with her work load she began venting and then talking out of her head. I began to pray with her until she calmed down. The burnout is real. Praying for all.
Problem: Strained healthcare system causing staff burnout
Causes: (Relatively) short-term spikes in Omicron variant
Solution: Cancelling student debt…. Really?
They need pay raises. Give some of the COVID bonus money that hospitals received to staff. Provide them with PPe’s and N95 masks. Hospitals bean counters and administrators continue to receive fat bonuses and pay increases. This should end now.
Maybe ridiculous mandates are why you’ve lost seasoned workers. No jab…no job but let sick, jabbed workers treat patients? Sounds like an administrative issue that’s living with their short sighted decisions.
We in Retail send all our love to our brothers and sisters on the front lines in healthcare. You are not alone in your fatigue and frustration. Hang in there. WE WILL BE VICTORIOUS!
These Covid-19 deniers that flap their jaws should be forced to see these exhausted doctors and nurses and people dying in the Covid-19 units gasping their last breaths.
They’ll call it fake news.
What isn’t talked about here is the attitudes of patients and patient families toward healthcare workers who are treating their illness and, sometimes, saving their lives. People are flat out rude, entitled and direct whatever anger or lunacy they may be suffering towards healthcare workers. If you don’t trust the hospital/science/facts and believe they are the enemy, then don’t seek care from places that do. Common sense is not common anymore.
Agreed. Republicans are to blame for this whole fiasco imo.
Only one way to fix this at this point.
1.Anyone who is unvaccinated and gets covid has no right to medical care. That includes any and all anti vaxxers, conspiracy nuts and/or religious excuses ie. “Jesus is my vaccine”. If that’s the case why are you seeking medical help? Just “pray” instead right.
2. See number 1.