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Originally Posted by lewdog
It's not that simple.
Staffing shortages are real and so is the burnout from treating COVID patients. Weeks/months with no days off. Spending entire shifts in full PPE is exhausting for everyone. ICU nurses are being asked to do things rarely done before as instead of treating 1-2 patients they are being asked to treat up to 4 patients at a time. I have a friend who worked a 12 hour night shift as an RN at the largest hospital in AZ on the ortho trauma floor. She had no CNA her entire shift. She was the sole caregiver for 7 patients. That's NOT normal for an RN in a hospital. It's stretching the quality of care by every means possible. One hospital network has brought in 200 out-of-state contract nurses to help but it's very hard to juggle daily changes in staffing/equipment needs when you are running hospitals near capacity, which is not normal either. Respiratory therapy is the other big shortage as ventilator patients increase. Training nurses or other disciplines to run them is scary and again just increases staff workload, thus providing lower quality of care.
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Just curious if layoffs added to this? I know there were layoffs and such in AZ at hospitals like there have been pretty much everywhere else. Banner Health comes to mind but I don't know how big they are.
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