T-Dog, Did you even read the article? Yes, the system is broken, not because a person earned this much money though. They cannot staff enough nurses, so people have to work ridiculous quantities of OT, thus driving up the payroll.
From the article the person must have been putting in close to 70-80 hours a week on nights. 6x 12s with a little extra on the margins and a day off. Can't imagine anyone would like working that, and because nursing is typically some what of a passion career, my initial guess would be that someone felt obligated to continue that level of work.
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