Posted on 10/12/2021 3:52:30 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Nurses are calling the nursing shortage in the U.S. and Oregon "historic and catastrophic."
Officials leading the Oregon Nurses Association held a virtual press conference on Thursday and said the staffing issue has been many years in the making, starting before the pandemic. They want hospitals and state lawmakers to step in to fix the situation.
“Oregon’s health care system has been broken for a long time. Our pleas for changes to make the system patient-centered have been ignored by hospital executives for decades,” said Matt Calzia, a registered nurse and nurse practice consultant with the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA).
He and his colleagues say nurses are burned out and longstanding staffing issues have been exacerbated by the pandemic.
“85% of the nurses at OHSU have indicated that they are unable to use vacation time or take a mental health day because there are not enough nurses to cover for those requests. 92% of nurses at OHSU report experiencing mental exhaustion,” said Calzia.
Perhaps the most concerning statistic, Calzia said, was that 60% of OHSU’s nurses are considering leaving the profession. He said that percentage is reflected at the national and state levels too.
“Losing even a single nurse from the bedside will result in greater strain on our health care system,” said ONA board president Lynda Pond.
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Maybe Dan Bongino was right about Americans feeling a surge of yearning to get their freedom back like the Poles in their strikes against Communism.
So used to “Yes, Lord Supreme Fauci I repent for not wearing my mask on the way to the jab. Please kick me in the face.”
“They want hospitals and state lawmakers to step in to fix the situation.”
Big mistake to get those handtools involved in anything.
Nurses put up with so much and give so much.
This is a real shame all over the country.
Bring the beast to its knees.
the nurses know
It is not just nurses that are impacted...Lots of support staff, docs, etc.
I have family member who is a microbiologist in a lab...Will be let go in January in all likelihood :( No picnic at work right now...They have to test—until Jan 1. That is the deadline...Sadly their department is short staffed already!
a government that opens its border and spreads around a million disease carrying invaders across its country during a “global pandemic” proves it doesn’t care about science and our health and safety...
I left my old lab for Tennessee. Took a significant paycut, but I am not being forced into medical treatment. As a leader I am not asking anyone else to do so… or else.
Wish I could say the same for nurses in CA. They all lined up like useful idiots to get their poison shot.
If Algodones MX was smart, they’d start building a hell of a big hospital there and there would be even MORE tourists going there beside the dental care.
This hospital is basically downtown Portland. This is going to be massive.
Prayers up for your family member and all who are impacted by this terrible trend.
They keep chasing after American citizen in their efforts to eradicate the disease when for months it’s actually been sitting in the Oval Office.
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