#GigWork#GigNursing#Nursing#Healthcare: "Gig nursing apps have become hugely popular with both nurses and investors, as an estimated 100,000 nurses have left the profession since 2020 and demand for their labor remains high. Clipboard and ShiftKey—a similar nursing app—say tens of thousands of facilities now use their services. Clipboard has been valued at more than $1.3 billion by investors, and more recently, ShiftKey was valued at more than $2 billion.
But Howell eventually started to sour on Clipboard. The attendance policy runs on a points system. If a nurse fails to show for a shift, it deducts 85 of 100 points until workers earn them back through consistent attendance—over weeks or even months of shifts, depending on how often a person works. Once, when Howell was driving from Salinas, California, to a shift an hour away in San Jose, she missed a request from the app to confirm her attendance on the commute. By the time she showed up, another nurse had been assigned to the shift, and Howell was on the verge of temporary suspension from the app—she only had 15 points to spare. Eventually, she was restricted for a week after being late for a different shift.
She never knew what would happen until she showed up for a shift at a new facility, either. During a Clipboard shift at a long-term care facility, Howell said she was the only nurse working with about 40 patients, far more than usual. Mandated hours change based on the state and type of long-term care facility, but some experts have suggested patients receive around four hours of care per day."
Demand for nurses and nurse aides is rising as workers leave the profession due to burnout, and many in the field are turning to gig work through Uber-like apps for the flexibility and quick pay they offer. But some users say gigs can be unreasonably demanding, the attendance policies are too strict, and customer service is opaque. They say care — and patients — suffer as a result. The 19th has more.
"At each stage, Bohannon makes clear just how unlikely #human survival has been, with our narrow pelvises, huge heads, needy babies and hungry brains. And so, she argues, the innovations that have allowed our species to survive and flourish were not the spear, the wheel or the internet, but #midwifery and #gynaecology, wet #nursing and #prenatal care. Without our super-social #cooperation, we’d have disappeared back in prehistoric Africa, leaving barely a fossil."
First shift back at work today, and in at the deep end we went with an emergency situation within hours. I handled it quickly and calmly, despite having been away for over six months, so I’m very proud of myself.
Currently sat eating my lunch / expressing milk for my own baby and trying not to think about how much I miss her. I will cuddle her extra tight tonight.
Hey y'all! i go by olive (she/her), from the US. currently in my #demonslayer and #saikikusuonosainan phase, but definitely gonna be posting about #anime more broadly, #movies.
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I'm also a college student interested in learning more about #tech, #ux, #healthcare, #nursing, #journalism. i'm new to how mastodon works, but feel free to message(?) me (edit: or @ me ig, however that works) and i'm looking forward to getting to know the community!
Many victims of violence warned me that the social support, therapy and medical systems were used as eugenics to abuse people of color and to also abuse any powerless victim. I didn't fully understand how right they were. #abuse#medicine#hospital#nursing#therapist#socialwork#racism
"A nurse whose first job was at a Fort Worth hospital owned by HCA Healthcare, one of the biggest for-profit health care systems in the US, told me a supervisor suggested she learn procedures on YouTube." #Nurse#Nursing#NursesOfMastodon