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US public health workers leaving ‘in droves’ amid pandemic burnout
The Guardian ^ | 23 September 2021 | Abdullah Shihipar

Posted on 09/23/2021 11:53:14 PM PDT by blueplum

Alexandra was working in the public health emergencies unit in a major north-eastern American city when the first wave of the pandemic hit. Although her job was in public health policy research, and not treating Coovid-19 patients on the frontlines of the healthcare system, she recalls the spring of 2020 as a blur of 24-hour shifts.

Beginning last March, Alexandra estimates that she and her colleagues worked the equivalent of three full-time years in 12 months. (Her name has been changed to protect anonymity.)

“There was no overtime, there was no hazard pay,” Alexandra recalls....

...Some public health workers, including Alexandra, cite a lack of cooperation from elected officials as a driving source of widespread overwork and discontent. Others even say they have faced pressure from elected officials to alter their findings to fit a political agenda.

“When they didn’t like how our [data on] vaccination coverage by race/ethnicity was looking, they actually asked me – the least senior member of the health department – to edit the data to artificially inflate BIPOC categories,” alleges Kristine, an epidemiologist at....

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: burnout; pandemic; publichealth; searchworks
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1 posted on 09/23/2021 11:53:14 PM PDT by blueplum
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Interesting that a UK newspaper would waste space on its site reporting about American hospitals when the NHS is in such a mess.


2 posted on 09/24/2021 12:04:25 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: blueplum

Oh, to be a nurse right now. You can shop around and name your price. Or so I’ve heard.


3 posted on 09/24/2021 12:07:31 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (Proudly posting comments without reading the articles since 2002.)
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To: blueplum

She is with the English version of CDC. As soon as I see the initials CDC, I figure their data is suspect.
They appear to take direct guidance from the Democrat/Socialist Party. In other words, they have become little more than a political tool with which to control the population through fear, lies, purposeful concealment of other possible measures, contradictory rules and ever shifting goal posts.


4 posted on 09/24/2021 12:08:51 AM PDT by lee martell
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Burnout or the vaccine mandate?

After all, it is the Guardian, and there is never a lie too big for them if it furthers their left- wing agenda!


5 posted on 09/24/2021 12:09:02 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Veggie Todd
Oh, to be a nurse right now. You can shop around and name your price. Or so I’ve heard.

We live in Spain and I was shocked to hear how badly they treat their nurses here. Many on them are on week to week contracts plus they stagger the days so they don't have to pay anyone extra to come in on weekends or holidays. If there was anywhere better to go they would be gone by now and as it is there is a shortage or all types of medical personnel. I don't think the NHS is much better.

6 posted on 09/24/2021 12:35:30 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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the one gal is talking about people ageing out - retiring. Those of retirement age are most apt to be vaccinated (80% or better), so probably not because of mandate. After 2 years almost of grinding in a salaried position, I’d early out, too if I had the vacation and sick time accrued to do it.

I don’t know how I’d act if political folks told me to inflate vaccination rates for BIPOC so southern white folks were made to look more hesitant than they really are. That would tend to make me a little prickly.


7 posted on 09/24/2021 12:38:40 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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I was a database administrator and programmer analyst who was in charge of the only numbers-reporting program that everyone looked at.

I haven't bothered to look at a single data report about Covid since last March - once I understood the numbers were money driven.

It means they're all garbage - dictated by powerful people who have an interest in what is "reported"...

8 posted on 09/24/2021 12:57:20 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: blueplum

The healthcare sector is full of expensive, inefficient, bloated, unproductive fat. This sector has been nurtured and babied since the late 1960’s.

The people filling their purses and wallets are squeezing the productive sector(nurses who actually deal with customers) instead of cutting their overpaid bureaucratic salaries.

I hope every underappreciated nurse in the United States, finds new and better income over the next couple of years.


9 posted on 09/24/2021 1:10:01 AM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM TO ADD FILIPINO NURSES TO FILL SHORTAGES, CEO SAYS

https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/nursing/henry-ford-health-system-add-filipino-nurses-fill-shortages-ceo-says


10 posted on 09/24/2021 1:22:30 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Game over, man! Game over! ; : rem ad triarios redisse is)
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To: lee martell

Lets be honest here....probably a quarter of all nurses even before Covid came along...would attest to being in a burn-out stage. Covid in some cases, just became the last straw.


11 posted on 09/24/2021 1:31:17 AM PDT by pepsionice
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BIPOC = Black, Indigenous, People of Color


12 posted on 09/24/2021 1:37:44 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (I am a horse, of course, of course.)
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To: SoConPubbie; All

Yup, The Guardian is like Yahoo over here.


13 posted on 09/24/2021 2:25:49 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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“When they didn’t like how our [data on] vaccination coverage by race/ethnicity was looking, they actually asked me – the least senior member of the health department – to edit the data to artificially inflate BIPOC categories,” alleges Kristine, an epidemiologist at....

I would have cheerfully replied, "No problem! I was an official vote tally checker for my district during the 2020 presidential election, so I'm quite comfortable 'fudging' numbers! What numbers would you like? Or should I just double them across the board?"

Regards,

14 posted on 09/24/2021 2:52:16 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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Beshear sends additional National Guard assistance to hospitals as COVID cases continue to rise
Northern Kentucky Tribune
By Tom Latek
Kentucky Today
Sep 24th, 2021
https://www.nkytribune.com/2021/09/beshear-sends-additional-national-guard-assistance-to-hospitals-as-covid-cases-continue-to-rise/


15 posted on 09/24/2021 2:52:16 AM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: Veggie Todd

As long as you are vaxed as many times as they tell you to be.

Otherwise, no.


16 posted on 09/24/2021 3:45:31 AM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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I thought they were being fired by the drove for not taking the jab.

More BS.

17 posted on 09/24/2021 4:45:31 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: blueplum

Yeah - blame it on “burnout” as they start firing tons of them for not consenting to become Guinea Pigs...


18 posted on 09/24/2021 5:23:17 AM PDT by trebb (Fight like your life and future depends on it - because they do.)
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To: familyop

KY’s Delta wave cases actually rose above those of the big Dec. ‘20 - Feb. ‘21 wave. The case peak seems to have passed, but I’m not so sure about ICU usage and availability, because:

A) A lot of COVID cases drag out, causing a cumulative effect.

B) “Beds available” does not necessarily mean properly equipped and staffed beds for a particular need. Shift enough resources over to COVID and you may not be able to properly treat, say, a severe GI issue - which is exactly what happened to my Mom back in Jan. She got shipped off an additional hour away, when normally that would not have been necessary. I had to make the call between an additional hour(+) delay in proper treatment (risky in it’s own right) and substandard care where she was.


19 posted on 09/24/2021 7:05:10 AM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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I thought they were being fired by the drove for not taking the jab.

Some are, but I've not seen big % numbers anywhere. Most are already vacc'd. Take, what was it, the large care system in Indiana with over 15,000 employees and, what, 120-some were apparently at risk of being fired. That's under 1%. "None" would be better, but <1% is not "droves".

OTOH, talk to nurses in high caseload areas: The burnout problem is real, esp. among older staff, who just don't recharge their batteries (so to speak) as well as younger people. Worse, losing your most experienced people can be a double whammy.

Caregiving can be very sapping. I found that out doing some of the care for my Mom...

20 posted on 09/24/2021 7:21:30 AM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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