Many hospitals have strike insurance so maybe your anger should be directed at the insurance industry. Also, where would the patients go for care. Would they go to a competing hospital and would the nurses working there be "hurting" the striking nurses by taking care of those patients. Please don't offer for admins to take care of patients. At one point when we were short they asked case managers to work the floor .. It was awful ..Worst than being short staffed. They didn't know how to use pyxis, didn't know how to use the pumps etc. We spent more time teaching them than it would have taken us to take care of the patients.. And if they were called in on a strike .. Who would teach them.. That would be a night mare.

Just my two cents..

WR,,,