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exboyfil

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3. Daughter worked mental health for four years in an Iowa hospital

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 11:44 AM

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She was assaulted several times including a serious punch to the chest (fortunately not the face).

She did industrial nursing for three years but left that after the hospital lost the contract. Shop workers were frisky sometimes and verbally abusive but never physical.

She is now in the ER at the same hospital as before. I worry every day. At least in mental health the patients have been screened for weapons (not that they can't use items in the area).

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Nurses in Iowa Are Fighting an Unprecedented Anti-Union Campaign [View all] Celerity Monday OP

I don't know what their compensation is, but they deserve way more...more of everything. CrispyQ Monday #1

The schedule is brutal for my daughter exboyfil Monday #4

I don't know how people work schedules like that. CrispyQ Monday #8

DURec leftstreet Monday #2

Daughter worked mental health for four years in an Iowa hospital exboyfil Monday #3

During Covid, while my county had a mask mandate which lasted about 10 weeks, CrispyQ Monday #9

Thanks - passing on to Iowa friends rurallib Monday #5

cross-posted in the Iowa group Celerity Monday #6

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