Are these really the people that should be required to work so much? Isn’t their job about handling life and death daily? Wouldn’t we want exactly these people to come fully rested to work every single day and be fully staffed?
I don’t know if there are jobs with similar stakes that are so carelessly staffed and disgustingly paid.
I’m disabled, have lived an entire year in the hospital such that they unofficially named a room after me on floor 5 and: this is the triple that I am okay with them working. Sitting in a chair, sleeping and making sure the psych/trauma surg patient doesn’t escape. That’s it. And honestly, it should be a hammock. I have this idea for a business hammock. Maybe I could sell hospital hammocks.
Doubles, I’m only good with them in emergencies. And having been the cause of a few emergency shift doubles in my day, I appreciate those of you willing to pull them. Those of you pulling triples, go to sleep. If your third shift isn’t one of the above sleeping shifts you’re intentionally taking unnecessary risks that are going to kill someone.