RN treatment during first surge of COVID was horrific - Registered Nurse, BSN Massachusetts General Hospital Employee Review

MGH made themselves the designated COVID hospital in the first surge, meaning that many of us were thrown into the lions’ den for no reason other than money. Instead of offloading some of the onslaught to other area hospitals, we accepted everyone regardless of how drowned we were as staff. Physicians and other hospital staff would refuse to enter rooms and make nursing do so, and nothing was done about it until there were serious threats of unionization after the first surge had subsided. We were refused hazard pay but given a free tshirt and a cookie as a ‘thank you’ for putting ourselves at risk.