Travel nurse who left job in rural Newfoundland says government can’t have its cake and eat it too
You don’t want travel nurses. You think they’re evil, but you don’t want to pay your home nurses. You don’t want to give them a raise. You don’t want to, like, provide them with any of the things that they’re asking for. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t, you know, say we don’t want agency nurses, that they’re the worst and then also be like, well, we’re also not going to give our home nurses what anything that they’re asking for. So they’re also the worst. Like, you know, they’re blaming the nursing crisis on nurses and it’s, it’s ridiculous. I could go to work and and be in a code and watch somebody pass away before my eyes. And yet you’re telling me that like, I can’t have a day off or like, you know I can’t work where I want. Like that’s nursing. Is is so hard and it’s the things you see and the things you do. You carry that with you and to knock your flexibility. On top of that. You can’t have it both. You can’t expect people to do this crazy hard job and then also try to rein them in and like, squeeze them as tight as you can. Like it’s things are changing and you know, like I said, like this is this is a nurses world now. Like you need me more than I need you and people know that.