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Originally Posted by automaton 3
I personally know a few nurses that do exactly this. From talking to them, this practice it is rampant.
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Welcome to the folly that is a hiring freeze and layoffs. It sounds like it will save money but it will cost a lot more in the long (as well as the short) run. The fact is that minimum standards need to be in place in order to ensure quality of care from both an ethical and from a legal standpoint. This requires a lot of nurses to pick up overtime in that the scheduling office is calling and often times begging for nurses to come in and work... because what is the other option?
That being said if you want to save money in the health care system, primary care networks need to be implimented which are capable of assisting people before they require the use of acute care facilities, combine that with greater funding for long term care facilities and make it favourable for people to have their elderly relatives live with them and you could save massive amounts of money.
Being conservative isn't always about cutting costs, it is about looking for ways to effectively spend money. Any idiot can randomly slash jobs, cut pay and the like but it takes foresight in order to spend money in a manner which benefits the citizens now and in the future.