The Universe Is Generous
Crisis is a terrible thing to waste.
It pulls back the cover so we can see all the fault lines that were already there. “Because the work we cherish has no monetary ‘value’ in the current business system, our self-esteem decreases, in-group arguing prevails, and we start measuring ourselves using the language of the dominant group: turn-around time, length of stay, and hours of care per patient day,” she wrote. “This is why staffing ratios are the wrong fight. It’s still about control.” -Kathleen Bartholomew on nurse.org.