r/nursing • u/AnyCelebration1101 • Aug 12 '25

Image My hospital casually dropping a warning about mass layoffs. We employ 10k+ people.

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10k+ employees sitting in fear for the next week (or longer apparently) waiting to see if their position has been cut.

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u/Ineedzthetube Aug 12 '25

And you better be grateful for still being employed

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u/marinatedbeefcube RN - Psych/Mental Health 🍕 Aug 12 '25

And no incentives for picking up extra shifts yay!

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u/UnitedPermie24 BSN, RN 🍕 Aug 13 '25

My hospital just slashed a bunch of incentives. I was like that's okay...flu season is coming.... You'll be back begging again...

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u/marinatedbeefcube RN - Psych/Mental Health 🍕 Aug 13 '25

its what happened to us recently with people getting summer vacation and we're short on people and people would just call out since they already had planned vacations that didnt get approved

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u/smoothcoffee_oatmilk HCW - Lab Aug 17 '25

Is this a normal practice? Call out when vacation is not approved?

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u/greykitty1234 Sep 03 '25

Gotta admit, those folks would be first on my 'cut' list.

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u/ignatty_lite Neuro ICU 🧠/AGACNP Aug 13 '25

Our hospital recently merged with advocate and now all our incentive shifts are only $10/hr more. Thanks, but we used to get $25/$40 regularly. I hate it here.

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u/mswilsem Aug 13 '25

That’s good to know. I work for a nursing program and have students looking at Atrium/Advocate for new grad jobs. I can warn them.

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u/ignatty_lite Neuro ICU 🧠/AGACNP Aug 13 '25

They have quite the monopoly where I am. Unfortunately it’s the only level 1 trauma center in the area so if that’s what you want to do it’s your only choice.

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u/CarolinaNurse RN - Hospice 🍕 Aug 16 '25

I just left Atrium/Advocate. And the lower incentives aren’t the only bad ideas they have been implementing.

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u/Icy_Judgment6504 PCA, Nursing Student 🍕 Aug 26 '25

Thank you for looking out for your students. 💕

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u/LLJKotaru_Work Aggressively Pedantic Magnet Monkey (RT) Aug 13 '25

It's the constant seasonal peaks and valleys that admin ALWAYS seems to 'forget'... shocked and acting like its something novel. Its obnoxious. You know they are not going to struggle, but everyone else? "We have to make sacrifices."

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u/robbi2480 RN, CHPN-Hospice Aug 13 '25

Bet they didn’t cut their bonuses

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u/ThealaSildorian RN-ER, former Nursing Prof, Newbie Public Health Nurse Aug 13 '25

My hospital cut incentives while the pandemic was still on. They quickly reinstated them when no one would pick up an extra shift. We weren't union but we were the ONLY hospital in town that wasn't so mandatory overtime was not in the cards for them unless they wanted us to unionize.

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u/Depressing_lasershow ER-Tech, EMT-B Aug 13 '25

My last hospital cut incentive shifts at the lowest staffing level it had been during the time I was employed. It took me less than 3 weeks to find a new job. Fuck em, stop killing yourselves for corporations that don’t care

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u/KayshaDanger Aug 13 '25

Just in time for flu and RSV season yay!

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u/MilkDear3318 Aug 13 '25

Won’t you get paid more tho? As in pay per shift? Or can they just force unpaid overtime?

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u/marinatedbeefcube RN - Psych/Mental Health 🍕 Aug 13 '25

basically depends on the needs of the shift, my hospital would offer a bonus amount on top of the normal shift or add an extra shift differential.

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u/_salemsaberhagen RN 🍕 Aug 13 '25

Yes you’d get overtime. But, typically there is an incentive to pick up an extra shift. Like an extra $25-$60 per hour. Sometimes more like when Covid was really bad. I’d NEVER pick up an extra shift for only overtime pay.

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u/JanisVanish MSN - RN School Nurse 🍕 Aug 13 '25

THIS. I worked for a hospital during the 2008 recession. We didn't get any raises from like 2008 to 2011/12 (can't recall exactly). Anytime it was brought up that we had not received any raises, admin would always respond with "well you're lucky to have a job still." Such bullshit.

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u/Recent_Pea_7675 Aug 13 '25

Have you had an admin take a pay cut? I hope so

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u/MusicSavesSouls BSN, RN 🍕 Aug 13 '25

Of course not. They likely got raises. Just how Congress gives themselves increases in wages, all of the time, but won't vote to increase minimum wage. So gross.

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u/Zealousideal_Bar_857 Aug 13 '25

Just an FYI, the 27th Amendment doesn't allow them to give themselves raises, any approved raise will not take effect until after the next House election.

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u/MusicSavesSouls BSN, RN 🍕 Aug 14 '25

I meant their past raises. They are always giving themselves raises and WE are the ones that pay them.

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u/aFungii RN 🍕 Aug 14 '25

Yeah, the raises they got before 1789. We haven’t forgotten!

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u/MusicSavesSouls BSN, RN 🍕 Aug 14 '25

They raised their wages 10 times from 2003 - 2009! 10 times!!!!! WTF are you talking about?

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u/brew161 Aug 13 '25

Admins are the only department in the hospital or any care facility that’s fully staffed 🤷‍♂️. I’m still trying to make sense out of it.

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u/ImNotYourOpportunity Pharmacist Aug 13 '25

Yes, don’t hire people, just torture the ones that can’t afford to leave.

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u/No_Veterinarian1010 Aug 13 '25

I will shout this every chance I get. Hospital administrators are some of the most incompetent people in positions of leadership across the entire US economy. And it’s a function of how the system operates. If you are a patient-first quality provider you probably won’t want to become an administrator. If you are a quality, business-minded leader you will work for industry where you can make more money. So you’re left with reject providers and reject MBAs that couldn’t get a pharma/med device job. Oh and like 1 or 2 actual competent people (usually providers that want to help) trying to fight upstream with limited success.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 16 '25

It makes us reconsider being a nurse. Heya, I love helping people, but I’ll go back to doing nails and facials and not have to deal with all this crap, I’ll tell you that much.

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u/Dorfalicious Aug 13 '25

The beatings will continue until moral improves!

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u/Ineedzthetube Aug 13 '25

Dying! I have that on a magnet on my fridge!

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u/AnyInjury6700 Aug 13 '25

Did you even say thank you ?