Posted on 08/30/2021 12:01:27 PM PDT by Vendome
In the past month, four emergency room nurses ... have quit at the Eureka hospital where Matt Miele works.
Around California — and the nation — nurses are trading in high-pressure jobs for a career change, early retirement or less demanding assignments, leading to staffing shortages in many hospitals.
But burnout isn’t the only thing compounding California’s nursing shortage: The state’s new vaccine mandate for health care workers is already causing headaches for understaffed hospitals before it is even implemented. Some traveling nurses — who are in high demand nationwide — are turning down California assignments because they don’t want to get vaccinated.
Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order reinstating emergency provisions aimed at ensuring adequate staffing. In part, the order allows health care workers from out of state to work in California.
Before the pandemic, nursing shortages were common in most areas of the state, according to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.
The staffing shortage is so severe that Scripps Health is considering temporarily consolidating some of its outpatient centers. Scripps...told CalMatters that it is serving nearly 20 percent more patients on average than before the pandemic.
“Out of ratio” means that a nurse is assigned too many patients. California is the only state that caps the number of patients that can be assigned to a single nurse. Under state requirements, for instance, an ICU nurse can have no more than two patients and an emergency room nurse, no more than four.
“One hospital told us they had 474 unvaccinated employees. They did a big education and incentive push. Only 12 people signed up,” said Richardson, the hospital association’s attorney.
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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.
Yep.
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.
Vaccine mandates are magic.
They make nurses disappear!
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.
And there aren't many who can handle the intense stress.
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
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.
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.
If there are no nurses, how will illegal aliens get free emergency room when their kids get the sniffles?
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.
Probably.
Safe and Effective is literally Killing People!!
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?
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.
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.
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.
I wonder why?
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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.
Wow
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