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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So when there is a respiratory virus outbreak the hospital may need to expand ICU capacity by converting ward rooms into ICU beds. That requires a bunch of efforts.
So yeah, no kidding they have to scramble with delta - that's to be expected.
So, do they still have the choreographers for their tik-tok dance videos on staff, or will they just come in as needed?
Or did someone realize that the highly choreographed, often rehearsed and completely staged dance videos sent the opposite message fwhich the fear propagandists were trying to disseminate, and put a stop to them?
How many of these people are getting the option of getting HCQ, Ivermectin, etc and sent home?
Thus the labeling, and pushing for!, everything to be WuFlu pneumonia, etc.
Criminal.
How many of these people are getting the option of getting HCQ, Ivermectin, etc and sent home?
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It is not easy-—In IL, a family had member was in ICU failing-—in a comma!
To have Ivermectin administered, they had to bring in attorneys. They prevailed and then had to find a physician—which they did. The physician drove 1.5 hours to administer Ivermectin to family member in ICU.
My 23 year old daughter graduated May 2021 with a BSN (Nursing) and passed NCLEX for her RN license a few weeks later. She applied to most of the RN internship/residency programs in Dallas County and Collin County and had at least 20 interviews. She had no job offers though. This week, she was hired at a rehab hospital.
I always love how these guys that don’t pay the bills say “X should have more staff in case of emergency”. It’s easy to say, but when those non-emergency times are happening you still gotta pay these people.
Are you talking about the one in Buffalo?
The company that owned the hospital challenged that only they could determine the proper course of treatment. Family had to sue, twice. First time to authorize the treatment. Second time, the judge forced the hospital to allow a doctor the family found to practice in the hospital. Woman rebounded and was out of the hospital in a few days.
If you think about it, it’s all about the money for the hospitals. Tens of thousands of dollars to put you on a ventilator, that does nothing. Or about $5 worth of drugs and you’re out of the hospital in a day or two, if you even need to be there in the first place.
Doctors in India developed a treatment protocol that comes in a package. I think it’s about $5. Has everything you need and it, more or less, crushed the surge in cases in India at the same time the world media was saying that folks were dying in the streets.
There are more and more frontline doctors that are willing to proscribe the medicines. But, at the slightest cough, folks will run to the ER because so many have been conditioned to think it’s a death sentence. And for some, it is. I’m not naive to that. I had a distant family member pass away after coming down with it.
But, it would appear that the hospitals are not willing to do anything but the standard Fauci protocol and are allowing folks to suffer. I thought their oath was something about doing no harm.
Are you talking about the one in Buffalo?
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No not Buffalo (though I have read about that case).
I was talking about a hospital in Elmhurst, Illinois. I put a link to a local story.
By and large, they are not open-minded...
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