[Larry - Moe and Curly]

“A nurse told me today the healthcare system is overwhelmed not because of Covid but because of staffing shortages.”

I’m hearing this also. My son is in Radiology and he’s being asked to pull multiple shifts because the hospital system he works for won’t hire sufficient personnel. Another agency he works for now and then is always calling him to take shifts. He says morale is already at the bottom of the barrel with no end in sight.

Daughter-in-law works in Elder Care in the same hospital system, with the same situation, plus all the new regulations coming down from on high that are nothing more than busy-work and paperwork.

Both are now looking for other opportunities outside healthcare.

[Ymani Cricket]

Yeah. I was also told the Nursing Supervisors are working as staff RNs indefinitely

[Ymani Cricket]

Oh. And an entire floor is now almost completely travel nurses. They work by contract for companies that pay generous stipends

[WildHighlander57]

Here in Texas we’re hearing of ICU being full; how does that correlate with the staffing shortages?

Did they decrease the number of ICU beds due to people not coming in for non covid reasons?

[cherry]

re the hospitals.....as long as everybody and their brother are subjected to the false testing protocols, with huge false positives, all the people admitted to the hospital will probably be named as covid patients( think of pollen in the air)

..you can't avoid it..

.its there. (Contamination does not mean infection however.) whether they've been stabbed, had a heart attack, or even a baby....

covid means isolation which is extremely time consuming for the staff....

at my former hospital the biggest problem are mental patients, particularly dementia patients that families abandon and no facility is eager to take on that expense.