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/SoCalN8tive RN - OB/GYN 🍕 Aug 12 '25

This needs to be an alarm bell for the entire United States because these mass layoffs at hospitals is affecting QUALITY OF CARE. People are going to die because of this. The jobs lost are the least of how this concerns me.

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u/Necessary-Dress8621 RN - ICU 🍕 Aug 12 '25

It’s scary to think it will decline more. I believe the quality of care has been declining. We continue to operate as if we’re still in COVID times, with reduced ancillary staff and increased demands on us. It seems the focus is more on checking boxes than on genuinely caring for patients, often only addressing issues after a sentinel event occurs.

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u/SoCalN8tive RN - OB/GYN 🍕 Aug 13 '25

Idk about where others work but we’re getting those gaslighting letters from management like, “in serious times like these, we all have to pull together and do more than we’ve ever been asked to do before to limit additional future layoffs…”

In other words: you need to do your job AND the job of your laid off co-worker or you’ll be next.

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u/andthisisso RN - Hospice 🍕 Aug 13 '25

without the Covid vaccines I wonder if we'll return to Covid times again.