I’m in healthcare administration and we cut a ton of hours, repurposed CCU, PCU, etc. units into COVID-ready units to brace for volumes that never appeared.
Whoever reads this and is frontline/nurses or family who are, please don’t take what I say next as bashing frontline workers when I say this, because anyone in their position would feel this way just from the psychology of it, but I think many of our nurses are doing things like posting selfies with their n95 masks and enjoying the gratification of the praise/adornment people are giving them on social media in the immediate term, but when leadership begins cutting staff because we’ll be two months in with no elective services, while all the while, our daily census is <80% but only like 4 COVID admissions yesterday, our folks are going to start wondering how sacrificing electives, patient volumes and staff was possibly worth it in the end. All these units repurposed for a “surge” that never came.
Are you my wife? Because what you just posted is damn near word for word what she says to me almost daily. She is the lab director at her hospital and has had to lay off people, cut people's hours, etc because her hospital has been a ghost town.
Same here in my hospital across from Disney in Florida. Running about 50-60% capacity. I keep hearing all this crap about a spike coming but anyone with common sense can see thats not going to happen. Even if there is a spike it wouldnt come close to overwhelming 99% of hospitals.
he's trying to pit front liners against anyone that backs trump.
Trump supporter front liner here. Never gonna happen. The mistake these liberal idiots are constantly making is forgetting about the silent majority.
back atcha. my wife is an icu nurse, and beto's not going to dissuade her either.
I’m in healthcare administration and we cut a ton of hours, repurposed CCU, PCU, etc. units into COVID-ready units to brace for volumes that never appeared.
Whoever reads this and is frontline/nurses or family who are, please don’t take what I say next as bashing frontline workers when I say this, because anyone in their position would feel this way just from the psychology of it, but I think many of our nurses are doing things like posting selfies with their n95 masks and enjoying the gratification of the praise/adornment people are giving them on social media in the immediate term, but when leadership begins cutting staff because we’ll be two months in with no elective services, while all the while, our daily census is <80% but only like 4 COVID admissions yesterday, our folks are going to start wondering how sacrificing electives, patient volumes and staff was possibly worth it in the end. All these units repurposed for a “surge” that never came.
Are you my wife? Because what you just posted is damn near word for word what she says to me almost daily. She is the lab director at her hospital and has had to lay off people, cut people's hours, etc because her hospital has been a ghost town.
Same here in my hospital across from Disney in Florida. Running about 50-60% capacity. I keep hearing all this crap about a spike coming but anyone with common sense can see thats not going to happen. Even if there is a spike it wouldnt come close to overwhelming 99% of hospitals.