A meeting was held on the second floor,
On how to cut the costs just a little bit more,
Jack from accounting spoke about waste,
The R.N.s, he said, should be fired with haste,

No one will miss them, he said with a smile,
I have here the best of the personnel file,
Joe from laundry can give all the baths,
And Ed from pluming can change all the caths,

Sue from billing can give all the meds,
And Mack from maintenance can make all the beds,
Yes, they agreed, we’ll save enough cash,
To throw an extravagant holiday bash,

A few months later while counting the money,
Jack laughed to himself as if it were funny,
We did it, he said, we’re now in the black,
The nurses are gone and they’ll never be back,

But wait, cried the voice of an overworked aid,
Somewhere in the plan a mistake has been made,
I’ve searched every wheelchair and hospital bed,
And every last patient, it seems is now dead.