Nurses willing to travel to Covid hotspots could once earn $5,000 a week. Their pay was cut substantially at renewal in March and April of 2022, as demand for traveling nurses declined. Now many nurses who relocated to take on nursing assignments far from home are crying foul. A law firm has even gotten involved claiming nursing travel agencies pulled a “bait and switch” to lure nurses into jobs they would not have taken at lower pay.
Learn DIY Dental Care on TikTok (Just Say No)
Maybe it’s just me but TikTok is probably the last place I would seek any kind of medical advice. For those who’ve never heard of TikTok it caters to teens and the younger crowd. Videos are recorded mostly on smart phones and meant to be viewed on smart phones. The videos are short, usually only a few seconds long and amount to little more than a stream of consciousness rather than a well thought out and edited video
Wednesday Links
- What made the snow storm so deadly for Buffalo?
- How NEPA is strangling the economy.
- Stanford, which has more employees than students, is telling its faculty and students what words to use.
- Can health care be reformed the way Steve Jobs ran Apple?
- Colorado is the fourth state seeking to import drugs from Canada.
- North London man waits 7 hours for an ambulance after breaking his hip. (NYT)
- British woman with agonizing back pain and numbness in both of her legs gets to the hospital 12 hours after calling an ambulance. It was another 2 hours wait before she could enter. (NYT)