As a nurse, (and now an NP) I’m here to tell ya — violence against nurses is nothing new. At all.
However, the frightened public, including patients who are admitted into the wards, then masked and prohibited from being able to have visitors and never knowing if they’ll ever leave are likely causing some of the behaviors. I’m sure a lot of them are likely elderly, confused, and ultimately abusive and agitated.
Add to that a shortage of RN’s imposed by the Fauci Vax Nazis and you’ve got a recipe for disaster in our hospitals.
I remember working a ratio of 4:1 with a charge nurse who would float from room to room helping out, as well as a unit fully staffed with med techs.
Contrast that with what we have now — ratios of 7:1, no charge nurse, no techs — that is beyond undoable for any human being to cope with, much less a young, often inexperienced nurse fresh out of school (they long ago let go of all the older experienced nurses — too costly and got in the way of the head hauncho admins receiving their annual bonuses).
Nursing, and our hospitals, are an utter mess in some areas.
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As a former ICU Rn, that is a recipe for disaster, medication accidents, neglect, very unsafe.
But guess who doesn't care? The media, politicians who created the hyped fear. It is all part of the plan. Food shortage and civil unrest to follow. The Great Reset!
We are the largest ER in the state and there are always two charge nurses on duty as well as PCTs and techs from all other departments(x-ray, respiratory, etc.