Let me be honest with you.
When I see another headline about nurses going on strike, I don't feel shocked.
I feel tired. The kind of tired that doesn't go away after one day off — and if you're a nurse, you know exactly what I mean.
Right now, nearly 4,000 nurses at Brigham and Women's Hospital voted to authorize a one-day strike — 99.6% of participating nurses said yes.
That's not a protest. That's a profession speaking in near-perfect unison. Nurse.org
The issues are always the same list. Staffing.
Wages. Safety. The feeling that nobody upstairs actually sees what's happening at the bedside.
And here's the thing nobody says out loud enough: nurses are not dramatic people.
We are, by training and by personality, the people who stay calm when everything is on fire. We work through breaks. We cover for colleagues.
We hold it together in rooms where families are falling apart.
So, when nurses — those people — reach the point of walking out, something has gone very wrong. And it didn't start last week.
We wear our identity everywhere. On our shoes, on our badges, on the shirts we pull on at 5am before a shift that will probably run long.
There's a reason nurses take their scrubs home and still reach for anything that says nurse on their days off. Because this isn't just a job. It's who we are.
And right now? We deserve to feel seen. Not just by hospital administrators in board rooms — but by each other.
(That's why we started Onshift.co. Because if the system won't recognize what nurses carry, at least our clothes can.)
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