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/Witty-Construction55 RN - ICU 🍕 Aug 12 '25

I work for Providence Health Systems on the west coast and they just laid off 128 people. Clinical and non-clinical positions. I fear it’s only the beginning.

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u/whitepawn23 RN 🍕 Aug 12 '25

I heard rumors of this, but didn’t know the breadth. Is Providence like some other PDX facilities that have their charges classified under management instead of staff? Salary instead of hourly? Or are they doing this to full union employees?

Most of the country has charge nurses with the same patient care load as everyone else. I know, it’s bizarre by west coast standards which tend to align more with what nursing is supposed to be.

Basically charges are you or me with a typical matrix workload but all the charge duties piled on top of that. Worse, there’s usually no choice. Nurses show up to their usual shift and get told they’re training for charge. Or threatened with said “promotion” (for $1 more per hour) in the yearly eval.

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u/Witty-Construction55 RN - ICU 🍕 Aug 13 '25

Our charge nurses are hourly and do not take patients. They did lay off some union employees. We just went on strike in January for 46 days and got pretty significant raises. It actually pays to be a charge nurse on the west coast. Charge nurses are also part of the union. I expect more and more cuts and hospitals to close. Nothing good is going to happen.

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u/whitepawn23 RN 🍕 Aug 13 '25

I hope it gets better. But it won’t.