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Welcome to season two of the Bad Decisions podcast.

I am your host, Katie Duke.

This is the podcast where we talk about all the real, raw, unfiltered shit that is going on in your heads or the heads of everybody else that they wish other people talked about.

You know, that taboo stuff, that real life stuff.

You're only going to get it here.

Let's talk about some bad decisions.

Greetings, friends. Happy Tuesday this week. I was kind of determining, like, what it was I was going to talk about this week

because there are some bad decisions of mine that I definitely have not spoke about,

but something has been sitting very heavy on me this week. And I'm sure you guys can guess what

it is.

It's the Nurses Week debacle.

And here's the thing that's fucking killing me is that there are hospitals and facilities that have made millions and millions off of the care that health care providers, health care workers, and, you know,

obviously specifically nurses have provided over the last, you know, year plus that we've been in

this, you know, COVID pandemic. And they have CEOs who make millions and millions of dollars a

year, who are not involved in patient

care, who are not there on the front lines, who are not there at the bedside, who are not rounding

on patients. And we have providers who have been killed, providers who have been sick, who have

been out of work, people who have just went through mental anguish because of the trauma

that has happened this last year. And I think for a moment in time, I think a lot of us were like,

this Nurses Week is going to be different. Our hospitals and our facilities, they're going to go

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