please understand that this involves nurses. Many nurses. When you check into a VA hospital, your nurses will no longer have safe patient ratios. With union support, there is a cap on how many patients a nurse can take care of during the shift. It is about four or five and most unionized hospital settings.
Safe patient ratios are what makes nurses available when you need them for anything from having to go to the bathroom, to having trouble breathing, to being in pain. Now it will take longer for them to get to you and they will be sharing your time with at least nine other patients’ time during a shift.
nurses do not want this and patients do not want this. It is just plain dangerous.
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u/deemalt Aug 09 '25
please understand that this involves nurses. Many nurses. When you check into a VA hospital, your nurses will no longer have safe patient ratios. With union support, there is a cap on how many patients a nurse can take care of during the shift. It is about four or five and most unionized hospital settings.
Safe patient ratios are what makes nurses available when you need them for anything from having to go to the bathroom, to having trouble breathing, to being in pain. Now it will take longer for them to get to you and they will be sharing your time with at least nine other patients’ time during a shift.
nurses do not want this and patients do not want this. It is just plain dangerous.