If there was ever a time for traditionally overworked medical staff to be pushed to a breaking point, that time is now. Pandemic-driven conditions have led to frustrations as hospitals battle the delta variant, and certainly, much of the current dispute lies between nurses and doctors and the vaccine hesitancy that’s causing ICU units to overflow. Medical workers are leaving the profession in droves, which has led to issues of understaffing and deteriorating workplace conditions that have caused nurses to declare, “”We went from heroes to zeroes.””
How the healthcare industry copes with these difficulties will be a sticking point for the future, following nationwide strikes throughout countless hospital systems. Beyond the strictly virus-connected working conditions, nurses at a Tenet Healthcare facility in California went on strike for what they say are unfair working conditions as Tenet has achieved record growth.
