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Nurse shortages in California reaching crisis point
Bakersfield.com ^ | August 29, 2021 | KRISTEN HWANG

Posted on 08/30/2021 12:01:27 PM PDT by Vendome

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To: fruser1

My impression is that ICU nurses have the lowest workload but the most frequent crises. You can’t deal with three crashing patients at once. Sort of like fighter jock vs infantryman.


21 posted on 08/30/2021 12:14:47 PM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate other.)
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To: metmom

Yep.


22 posted on 08/30/2021 12:18:11 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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To: metmom

And that’s why they are pushing back.

Anyone that worked all last year during the pandemic in critical jobs (firefighter, police, medical, infrastructure, defense, military) have every right to be mad as h3ll.


23 posted on 08/30/2021 12:22:12 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000) )
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To: Vendome

Vaccine mandates are magic.

They make nurses disappear!


24 posted on 08/30/2021 12:22:53 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: lurk

A manufactured crisis. Get the vax or get sacked. Oh dear, we have a nurse shortage.

We are at the intersection of dumb and evil.

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So well said !

intersection of dumb and evil.

Pitch perfect.


25 posted on 08/30/2021 12:24:47 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: heartwood
My impression is that ICU nurses have the lowest workload but the most frequent crises. You can’t deal with three crashing patients at once. Sort of like fighter jock vs infantryman.

And there aren't many who can handle the intense stress.

26 posted on 08/30/2021 12:24:59 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: cuz1961

New cases here are dropping off a cliff. I wonder if this is exactly what the Brits experienced, larges increases and then over in a month: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailycases


27 posted on 08/30/2021 12:27:27 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Vendome

CA had a serious nursing shortage before COVID. In fact, my daughter was an RN and changed careers before COVID to gain some life-work balance. Many of her peers did the same. Then COVID caused many more to quit.

Travelling nurses are making some huge money right now. Sometimes more than the MDs they work with. Some Nurses are quitting their jobs to cash in on some short term money.


28 posted on 08/30/2021 12:28:24 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Important them from the Philippines. English speaking, pretty, and they defer to men.

Only if you can send them back after 15 years. After that they become Americanized and are not as pretty or deferential.

Believe me, I know from personal experience.

29 posted on 08/30/2021 12:29:57 PM PDT by rllngrk33 (It seems the soap box and ballot box have failed, it might be time for the bullet box.)
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If there are no nurses, how will illegal aliens get free emergency room when their kids get the sniffles?


30 posted on 08/30/2021 12:32:33 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: metmom

Exactly. Now, if the jab actually stopped the spread, it MIGHT be worth considering. But you can still get it, spread it and get sick.


31 posted on 08/30/2021 12:34:20 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: 1Old Pro

Probably.


32 posted on 08/30/2021 12:35:11 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: Vendome

Safe and Effective is literally Killing People!!


33 posted on 08/30/2021 12:40:07 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Vendome

We all know how to solve this.

Secession.

I be dam if anyone with any sense would want to be dragged down the hole by a bunch of useless whores and assholes that inhabit the nor loch-Washington DC.

Would you let a person who cant control themselves drag you down into financial and moral ruin?


34 posted on 08/30/2021 12:41:59 PM PDT by crz
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To: Vendome

My wife, a supervising RN here in California, has some insight on the shortage. Nursing schools from public colleges and universities have so few openings, applicants that have 4.0 GPAs often have to wait 2-3 years and hope for an opening. The schools have never responded to the demand. My wife has never had her nursing positions completely filled since becoming supervisor. Also, there is a major backlog in RN licensing applications that the Board of Registered Nursing has not processed. A family member got her nursing degree in May and it still waiting for her RN license application to be processed.


35 posted on 08/30/2021 12:44:01 PM PDT by San Joaquin
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To: San Joaquin

Nursing schools from public colleges and universities have so few openings, applicants that have 4.0 GPAs often have to wait 2-3 years and hope for an opening. The schools have never responded to the demand.


Because the government guarantees payment and it doesn’t matter to them whether graduates have skills to earn money.


36 posted on 08/30/2021 12:46:29 PM PDT by TTFX ( )
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To: San Joaquin

Also, there is a major backlog in RN licensing applications that the Board of Registered Nursing has not processed. A family member got her nursing degree in May and it still waiting for her RN license application to be processed.


That sounds like something that would happen in the Soviet Union.


37 posted on 08/30/2021 12:48:07 PM PDT by TTFX ( )
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To: mewzilla
"CDC employees don’t have to get a vaxx. Neither do FDA, WH, USPS, or even employees of some of the vaxx manufacturers"

I wonder why?

🤔

38 posted on 08/30/2021 12:50:42 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: matt04

And apparently having a higher viral load before showing symptoms than if they were unvaxxed.

Just what we need. Super spreader healthcare providers taking care of already compromised individuals in the hospital.


39 posted on 08/30/2021 12:53:25 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: San Joaquin

Wow


40 posted on 08/30/2021 12:54:11 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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