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 mean, in my experience a lot of those “mistakes” are kind nurses saying “fuck this idiotic Emergency Department Physicians Assistant. Someone go get the MD. This patient is in a shitton of pain why did they only prescribe a half a milligram of relief? I cannot find the patient’s face or butt or really tell the difference to tell how much pain they are in exactly though so I will just write down a 7. Whoopsie poopsie they just got the dose twice oh no look at them they are not screaming anymore we will call treatment a success” type mistakes.
But I have also had some very excellent nurses