When my wife was in the hospital (back surgery) I never saw nurses playing cards. They were watching YouTube and I had to interrupt them to deliver meds to my wife.

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Originally posted by Chris Orndorff:
When my wife was in the hospital (back surgery) I never saw nurses playing cards. They were watching YouTube and I had to interrupt them to deliver meds to my wife.

Same here. When my dad was in the hospital, we had to constantly call them in to give him his meds. Day and night. That’s why we had family there 24/7.

Whatever might be going on, keep the government out of it! NO more laws. Customers, the institution should demand a safe work environment, however that works for the particular situation. Every hospital is different.

The senator has now tried a new excuse.

"I had been on a 12-hour shift that day when I made that comment and I was tired and exhausted and, in retrospect, I wish I would've used a little bit better analogy,” she said.

That “12 hour shift” no doubt included regular bathroom breaks and a lunch. (One comment reported it was 3 hours.)

She wants to exempt hospitals with 25 beds or less. The idea is that, by allowing a nurse to have lunch and bathroom breaks the hospital will have to close. this makes things worse:
“That’s why, ultimately, there is zero logic behind an amendment to the rest breaks bill that would cover nurses and patients in some hospitals, while leaving others without any protections. There’s a reason it’s so hard to recruit nurses to rural facilities – exempting them from laws requiring uninterrupted breaks and subjecting them to mandatory overtime would just make it worse.”

Put yourself in their place. Would you willing work in a place that didn’t have to abide by the laws that others had to follow? Where you were told you had to constantly work overtime? The underlying mentality is that nurses “should be” satisfied just to work in the profession. A profession where people claim they play cards and watch Utube.