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staffing is becoming an issue in texas...and rooms

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Moxley2:45p, 7/1/20AG What a difference a few months makes. In late March, many of us were being forced to use PTO for one shift a week due to low census. Now I'm getting begged to come to work every night with huge shift bonuses. Our census is running very high, very unusually high for the month of July. Our Covid volume hasn't spiked in terms of inpatient hospital stays, but we have many nurses and ancillary staff popping up as positive and who are on quarantine. Nurse staffing is becoming a huge problem. This is the side effect of the virus I've been worried about more than the actual virus itself. We were at the point last night where we didn't have enough staff for the acuity of patients we were trying to take care of. I had a patient start bleeding from an arterial surgery site and was holding pressure while at the same time the bed alarm of a confused patient went off and no one was able to get into their room before she fell. All of us were taking patient loads beyond our usual staff grid.

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Albert Canales @McHiPride For those of you that think this is a hoax, I was told my dad has to wait in the ambulance until their is room in the second hospital he has tried to enter. Was turned down by McAllen Medical due to room! So our first responders, can’t respond to other emergencies! Sad! Prayers!

dont have covid before you go into the hospital??? you might get it while there

“Exposure to non-isolated patient and/or failure to properly don PPE. We aren’t testing all patients. We’ve had many strokes and altered mental status patients turn up positive after a few days of being admitted to regular floor. Not using N95 on all patients although we probably should be. Still in mindset that Covid is cough, temp, groundglass opacities. I had to convince a doc to test a confused old lady the other night who had no other symptoms and she turned out to be positive. Our stroke unit has a lot of staff down. Makes sense when you think about endovascular complications. I’m begging them to make it a policy to test all admits but so far it’s a no go. It is putting our staff at risk.”

I’m 75 yo, live in NC and got fever, aches and bad headache two nights ago. Went to ER for test. They were rude! “Stay back, stay back STAY BACK. You are NOT wearing your mask right!! Cover your nose, stay back do not come closer. Sit in that chair and keep your nose and mouth covered!!” I’ve never seen people so hysterical in my life. It must be terrible to work in the medical profession during this virus.