Posted on 08/13/2021 11:05:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin
As hospitals across the country, including in Arkansas, Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida and Mississippi, scramble to meet the rising need, Jean Ross, co-president of National Nurses United, the nation's largest nursing union, pointed to a systemic health care issue that predates COVID-19. Similar to public health funding, hospitals follow a pattern of panic and neglect. They pour money into acute problems, like a COVID surge, then disband those efforts when the situation becomes anything less than a crisis. Preparation and prevention are afterthoughts.
"There was a failure to plan before the pandemic," Ross said. "There was a failure to listen to us during it. And now that we're experiencing another surge, once again, there is a failure to plan."
In Ross' estimation, hospitals were too frugal about staffing even before the pandemic, in order to maximize profits. COVID exacerbated that. Earlier in the year, when it looked like the virus was receding in the United States, and as hospitals were struggling financially after a year of canceled elective procedures and low patient volume, some hospitals cut costs by furloughing or laying of health workers, or reducing their pay, according to Becker's Hospital Review.
During the first wave of the pandemic, traveling nurses descended on New York City and other hotspots, then moved on as the virus did. This time around, much of the country is a hotspot. And adding traveling nurses can be costly.
"Travelers are expensive," Ross said. "We have our nurses begging for them to get extra help. Some states I'm told that are hardest hit right now are finally looking to other states and asking for help, and asking for travelers."
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Opting not to staff up my behind...
They opted to mandate the C19 shots and made it nearly impossible to obtain a religious or medical exemption.
This is Cloward-Pivin compliments of our shadow government and Great Reset villains.
It is!!
This is what happened. Nurses can travel and get paid more and they now have shortages. No surprise. Happens all the time. Never learn.
Socialist media quoting corrupt union thugs.
I have five employees I would rather not lose. I can not pay them what other big box businesses offer but I can make for a pleasant work environment.
You do not have to wear a mask, you do not have to get a vaccine and so forth.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you stupid, Big Whatevers.
It won't last but for now it is great
Who remembers when this scam first started? Same thing was being reported about the hospitals, including having portable morgues for all the bodies. People were going to Major Hospitals and taking videos and placing them on YouTube showing the truth. I did the same for two hospitals in my area and reality was nothing like what the news reported.
Ya shouldda gone to Italy like one of the TV networks did.
I have a friend who lives in Italy. When this first started, the news was showing towns there that looked like the end of the world. They even showed empty grocery stores. The girl I know would go out everyday (near Vienna) and sent me photos showing the exact opposite. Most people are only exposed to the crap they see and hear on TV and believe it. They have no idea how much they are being lied to. This is also one of the reason for so much censorship. This all needs to stop and I can’t wait for the fun to start.
United Healthcare?
Owned by SEIU
Why? So they can kill them FASTER?
Treat AT HOME. You know what works.
STAY AWAY from hospitals! They are full of “SICK” people.
The patients and the useless, clueless “doctors”.
You know, the doctors and health experts who REFUSED to allow the Hydroxychloroquine (+ zinc) CURE! Most still won’t.
Xlear nasal spray KILLS the corona virus where it lives, IN YOUR NOSE!
Who woulda thunk it?
Over the counter since 2000. (over TWENTY YEARS)
“Can you overuse Xlear?
Cannot be over used, so use as often as needed to cleanse the nasal passages and sinuses. Best results obtained with consistent usage.”
Medical testing showed patients improve in a couple days. COVID free in a few more. Took NOTHING else, just Xlear.
The government is out to KILL you.
Big Pharma are out to KILL you.
Big medicine is out to KILL you.
Too many of you darn humans anyway.
How come the MSM are not inside these Hospitals documenting this ?
Or maybe it is because they are barring unvaccinated staff from working?
Must be “really bad” if they’re threatening to fire those who don’t get the experimental vaccine.
Could certainly be part of why they may be short staffed from REGULAR staffing numbers.
Don’t you know that MSM only gets inside of these hospitals to interview very sick un-jabbed patients, who’re warning others to take the jabs???
They show them on ‘life support’ with their hair neatly cut and combed, looking healthy enough to do the ‘interview’. It’s simply amazing.
One of our largest systems just closed to visitors, again...like last year when (we now know) these hospitals were caught faking numbers.
Ask any new RN graduate, who has passed the required test. and been fingerprinted if they are employed as an RN or some lower paying job?
If Erin Schumaker wants a real story and not a press release from commies - he should investigate where Homeland and Catholic Charities dumps hundreds of thousands of disease illegals. I’m guessing Florida will be on top of that list...
Tucker will get it first anyhow which is why we’ve never heard of Erin Schumaker ...
Here’s the great news: liberals are extremely well educated.
Their masters degrees in 17th-century transgender poetry easily translate into the hard sciences.
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