Carl D wrote on Feb 7
th, 2023 at 6:04pm:
aquascoot wrote on Feb 7
th, 2023 at 5:50pm:
my wifes ward has been running understaffed for most of the past 2 years.
it has a devestating effect on morale.
one of the number one complaints during the mask mandates was the feeling of suffocation wearing an N95 all day at work
sickies among nurses dropped off when wards stopped the mask mandates.
you have a choice of being treated by staff who are doing a brutally taxing job and give up on the masks and let them have a little bit of comfort
or you can have a hospital with no nurses as people have sickies because they are over it.
your call .
So, don't they have breaks occasionally in a place where they can safely remove the masks for a while?
Like outside somewhere?
Oh, that's right - they probably don't have time for any breaks these days due to years (decades?) of government cost cutting in the hospital and healthcare systems which has now been made
worse with the large number of staff who are constantly off sick with Covid.
And all of this is happening while many elderly patients are going into hospital, catching Covid and becoming seriously ill or dying.
an outsider would think that is the case.
but its not.
so much funding was spent on covid that cutbacks are now happening
if someone is sick, they arent replaced.
no agency nurses at all.
a lot of my wifes colleagues do RAT tests , hoping desperately they are positive (these women are assymptomatic) so they can have 7 days to redt from the brutal workload , nothing to do with covid .
again, not replaced. the rest are short staffed by their absence and this makes it worse
as to having breaks, its a lot worse then that.
patients arent showered ,
they arent supervised
they have falls.
my impression is the hospital system in qld is on the verge of collapse.
palachook is borrowing heavily to have a large part of admissions done in private hosptials (for public patients) with the state health picking up the bill.
and not just for cataracts and gallbladders (which has been going on for years) but for acute stuff like appendixes and pneumonias,
driven from a public hospital casualty to a private hospital.
things are very bad.
i would be talking to nurses and seeing what can be done to entice them back.
certainly, sticking them in sticky gows and N95 and face shields and gloves and having them lift 150 kg patients out of bed and into a steamy shower is probably not a good idea if you want any staff to turn up.
if people would just remain mobile and a manageable weight, it would make my wifes job so much easier.
if they would give up the junk food and hit the gym so they have the strength to go to the toilet and not crap the bed 3 x a day, they might attract more staff.
this would require personal responsibility.
so, i'm afraid the bad news is, that fairly shortly you can call an ambulance and they may well say
"sorry we have nowhere to take you"
its getting that bad
Hence the extra heart attacks, Aquascoot.
Oh, the anti-vaxxers will try to convince you otherwise, but Mrs Scoot knows where its at.
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