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Moxley2:45p, 7/1/20AG What a difference a few months makes. In late March, many of us were being forced to use PTO for one shift a week due to low census. Now I'm getting begged to come to work every night with huge shift bonuses.

Our census is running very high, very unusually high for the month of July. Our Covid volume hasn't spiked in terms of inpatient hospital stays, but we have many nurses and ancillary staff popping up as positive and who are on quarantine. Nurse staffing is becoming a huge problem.

This is the side effect of the virus I've been worried about more than the actual virus itself. We were at the point last night where we didn't have enough staff for the acuity of patients we were trying to take care of. I had a patient start bleeding from an arterial surgery site and was holding pressure while at the same time the bed alarm of a confused patient went off and no one was able to get into their room before she fell. All of us were taking patient loads beyond our usual staff grid. -----------------

Albert Canales @McHiPride For those of you that think this is a hoax, I was told my dad has to wait in the ambulance until their is room in the second hospital he has tried to enter. Was turned down by McAllen Medical due to room! So our first responders, can’t respond to other emergencies! Sad! Prayers!

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'Exposure to non-isolated patient and/or failure to properly don PPE. We aren't testing all patients. We've had many strokes and altered mental status patients turn up positive after a few days of being admitted to regular floor. Not using N95 on all patients although we probably should be. Still in mindset that Covid is cough, temp, groundglass opacities. I had to convince a doc to test a confused old lady the other night who had no other symptoms and she turned out to be positive. Our stroke unit has a lot of staff down. Makes sense when you think about endovascular complications. I'm begging them to make it a policy to test all admits but so far it's a no go. It is putting our staff at risk.":

covid admissions are not up per your source.

So nice to see you pandering and fear mongering. Again. Do you ever get tired of posting half truths so you can continue to be afraid.? Asking for a friend

From McAllen, on the Mexico border. No doubt cases coming over from Mexico.

even before covid, we’ve had days where we did not have enough staff....the patients these days are older, many are obese,many are drug users,sicker and non compliant let alone demented....