She describes being 'scared to death' of bringing the virus back to her family. Vincent from 2019 to 2021, including the COVID Intensive Care Unit, which took a toll on her mental health. Shackelford works as a nurse at a different institution now. it has been so hard to keep the spark alive and our love for our jobs because we're getting no support from the people who make all the decisions for us.'Ĭhanging course: Indianapolis area hospitals postpone some elective procedures amid COVID surge “You have all of these nurses with such heart and soul into health care and into helping make a difference in people's lives when at the end of the day we are destroying our own souls doing it. “We never have the support from the administrators that never show up on the unit but dictate every single thing that happens,” Shackelford told IndyStar. Shackelford says the clip was sent to her by “several” people, sharing it to her platform a few days after the incident. “Wonder why they can’t keep employees?” she wrote in a caption. The nurse who posted the video, Ashley Shackelford, is a former employee of Ascension St. The viral clip has been viewed more than 2.2 million times on TikTok. If you don’t like working here, then go somewhere else.” And so, I’m sorry, but I think the comments are overboard. Quite honestly, I could sit here and ask why I work 12-14 hours a day to try to keep this hospital up and running. “And I’m highly disappointed in how this meeting’s going. “I’m gonna tell you right now in my seven years of working here, this is the most picked to death and unkind I’ve ever felt from this group,” Wehrmeister says in the portion of the Zoom clip. Her response - shared only partially on social media - was highly criticized after she told staffers to “go somewhere else” if they were unhappy with their jobs. One week after an apparent tirade against employees at a hospitalwide meeting, an Ascension Health executive has not addressed the situation publicly.Įrica Wehrmeister, Ascension Indiana’s president of the Central Region, was allegedly asked about increasing staff pay at a virtual town hall last Wednesday.

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