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.
Is your wife my wife’s boss? My wife works as the only night shifter in the local hospital lab. They just had to shuffle the schedule around on her and have her start coming in a hour early everyday because they cut 50% of day shift.
Yes, the extreme measures are insane and based on partial data. The wife of the gentleman who collapsed at home told our ER doctor that he had been complaining of indigestion/chest pain all week, but he abided by the stay at home order, there was also police check points on the road making sure only essential workers were travelling. He told his wife he didn’t want to drive thru the check points and be told to turn around. He was dead a week later.
I also work with many front line leftist hystericals who love posting self gloryfing pictures and rants on their Instagram and it just makes me want to barf. Yes wearing an N95 for a 12hr shift sucks, but so does losing your husband to a faux pandemic
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.
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.
Is your wife my wife’s boss? My wife works as the only night shifter in the local hospital lab. They just had to shuffle the schedule around on her and have her start coming in a hour early everyday because they cut 50% of day shift.
Yes, the extreme measures are insane and based on partial data. The wife of the gentleman who collapsed at home told our ER doctor that he had been complaining of indigestion/chest pain all week, but he abided by the stay at home order, there was also police check points on the road making sure only essential workers were travelling. He told his wife he didn’t want to drive thru the check points and be told to turn around. He was dead a week later.
I also work with many front line leftist hystericals who love posting self gloryfing pictures and rants on their Instagram and it just makes me want to barf. Yes wearing an N95 for a 12hr shift sucks, but so does losing your husband to a faux pandemic
That's horrible. Gotta love red tape being put in place by people with no real world experience.
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.
I live in Connecticut, it seems like every week the governor is out there saying The spike will be next week, Has been saying that since late March.