The soldier can't be sued but the hospital probably could still get sued. They aren't going to let National Guardsmen commit medical malpractice.
99.9% of the National Guard requested will end up doing odds and ends around the hospitals. The more overly qualified ones might be let into patient rooms to administer shots and IV's and other general primary care tasks and thats a strong maybe.
At best this will reduce the menial tasks from actual qualified nurses so they can access more patients.
Hospitals have a cafeteria staff that does food and meal prep. And a janitorial staff that does cleaning.
The odds and ends I'm referring to are things that aid in the daily tasks nurses have to do. Reports, paperwork, data entry, preparing beds, sanitizing beds, getting patients to and from their beds, taking vitals, meal delivery, patient checks, and much more. All of these menial tasks will free up the remaining nurses to focus on qualified nurse related things.
I don't know exactly how many NG members have been activated or will be called on. Her wording makes it sound like a 1:1 ratio of fired nurse to guardsmen. In the same EO it allows for and calls on retired health care workers and out of state health care workers to replace nurses as well.
I know she said she was going to do it and even signed an executive order to do it but as of yet I don't think she has activated them. So either it was a bluff or enough of the nurses got the shot or the hospitals weren't really impacted with whatever staff shortages were purported. Downstate (Queens) have called for her to send some National Guard to help out at Rikers prison and she has not sent any National Guard there either.
The soldier can't be sued but the hospital probably could still get sued. They aren't going to let National Guardsmen commit medical malpractice.
99.9% of the National Guard requested will end up doing odds and ends around the hospitals. The more overly qualified ones might be let into patient rooms to administer shots and IV's and other general primary care tasks and thats a strong maybe.
At best this will reduce the menial tasks from actual qualified nurses so they can access more patients.
Hospitals have a cafeteria staff that does food and meal prep. And a janitorial staff that does cleaning.
The odds and ends I'm referring to are things that aid in the daily tasks nurses have to do. Reports, paperwork, data entry, preparing beds, sanitizing beds, getting patients to and from their beds, taking vitals, meal delivery, patient checks, and much more. All of these menial tasks will free up the remaining nurses to focus on qualified nurse related things.
I don't know exactly how many NG members have been activated or will be called on. Her wording makes it sound like a 1:1 ratio of fired nurse to guardsmen. In the same EO it allows for and calls on retired health care workers and out of state health care workers to replace nurses as well.
I know she said she was going to do it and even signed an executive order to do it but as of yet I don't think she has activated them. So either it was a bluff or enough of the nurses got the shot or the hospitals weren't really impacted with whatever staff shortages were purported. Downstate (Queens) have called for her to send some National Guard to help out at Rikers prison and she has not sent any National Guard there either.
Roofie, no one is going to let a lumber jack do anesthesiology.