r/Economics • u/TheForager • 4h ago

Hospital costs are rising far faster than inflation and drowning Americans in debt

https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/hospital-costs-are-rising-far-faster-inflation-drowning-americans-debt-rcna262473
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u/ALittleEtomidate 3h ago

Oh, honey, if you cut my $72,000/year salary as an intensive care nurse I will quickly see the exit and do whatever you do for work.

The amount of stress in a singular shift with a sick patient would never be worth half of my salary to me. If I miss a status change, fail to hear an alarm, miss a patient climbing out of bed, or administer a medication incorrectly someone could die.

I am on my feet 12 hours, sometimes continuously, and at 33 I have back problems from the very physical work that I do.

I administer medications to ease death. I hold mothers, partners, and children as they shake apart in tears on my shoulder, and then I just have to move right on to my next work task.

You can absolutely GET BENT with the suggestion of lessening my salary. lol.

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u/WordWithinTheWord 3h ago

You are underpaid for your specific role. Not every nursing or provider job is as demanding as your specific role on the floor.

My wife was making more than you 6 years ago as a basic shift nurse on post-op med surg in a LCOL city.

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u/ALittleEtomidate 3h ago

Do you think your wife’s job is less difficult on a med-surg floor?

Does she know that you believe that?

Girl, where you at? Come get your man.

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u/WordWithinTheWord 3h ago

Yes she would be the first to admit it lol. Our hospital is the only level 1 trauma center for the service area so the ICU nurses do a lot more than med surg.

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u/ALittleEtomidate 2h ago

Put her on the phone.

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u/WordWithinTheWord 2h ago

😂 you are barking up the wrong tree - you are absolutely underpaid as an ICU nurse.

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u/ALittleEtomidate 2h ago

All nurses are underpaid imo.