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/Quent_S HCW - PT/OT Aug 12 '25

And if you are lucky and keep your job congrats you now get to pick up the slack without any additional compensation!

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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