This has been an issue for years. No way leave a child. Never. Two nurses for maybe 30 patients? When those intravenous machines start playing Beehthoven"s Fifth Sympathy, you'd better be there because those two nurses are overworked.
And you don't intubate pneumonia patients. How do you get increased oxygen through passages clogged with mucus? An oxygen tent and suck the crap out was the treatment before covid.
Tell them why you won't fly and give them the statistics/facts. It's cheaper to drive and spend a night on the road than flying. Add in the cost of renting a car in Chicago. Take the train. I took the train from Provo to Chicago over 60 years ago and it was marvelous. The Carl Sandbag poem come to life, and going through the Rockies into the Denver plateau was memorable.
I used to smoke. Company wanted me to go to a conference in Long Beach at a no smoking hotel. Long Beach is high crime and I made the case that expecting me to go outside at the Marriott was dangerous. I found a room (the royal suite) on the Queen Mary. With taxi cost, it was roughly the same price. So I stayed in the same suite as royalty and generals/admirals in a perfectly preserved room with delivered breakfasts with linen and sterling. Went on ghost tour and at least 20 people from the conference came to visit. A typical, mind-numbing conference ended up being a great experience. Make your case and take your road trip.
Overloads staff is an understatement
I worked at one place that fired 90% of their nurses who refused the clot shot…. They the administration complains they are short staffed.
The pay isn’t going up although they want us to work multiple units…. It’s terrible out here.
This has been an issue for years. No way leave a child. Never. Two nurses for maybe 30 patients? When those intravenous machines start playing Beehthoven"s Fifth Sympathy, you'd better be there because those two nurses are overworked.
About 10 years ago when my father was in the hospital, I got real good at knowing what the various IV alarms were and how to silence or correct them.
So much so that one RNA asked me what medical facility I worked at.
Then you know that the fifth symphony means the drip is empty and the machine starts sucking blood.
When they said to send COVD patients to nursing homes and put them on vents. It was a death sentence. Nursing homes don’t do Vent care.
And you don't intubate pneumonia patients. How do you get increased oxygen through passages clogged with mucus? An oxygen tent and suck the crap out was the treatment before covid.
Cents and Corona viruses don’t go well together. That’s been known fromthe 60s. Shhhhhhh (fauci needed more dead people )
Sounds terrible! I don't work in a hospital any more and I'm pretty glad about that. I hope I never have to do that again.
Don't fly. Between the shots and the diversity it's Russian roulette.
Tell them why you won't fly and give them the statistics/facts. It's cheaper to drive and spend a night on the road than flying. Add in the cost of renting a car in Chicago. Take the train. I took the train from Provo to Chicago over 60 years ago and it was marvelous. The Carl Sandbag poem come to life, and going through the Rockies into the Denver plateau was memorable.
I used to smoke. Company wanted me to go to a conference in Long Beach at a no smoking hotel. Long Beach is high crime and I made the case that expecting me to go outside at the Marriott was dangerous. I found a room (the royal suite) on the Queen Mary. With taxi cost, it was roughly the same price. So I stayed in the same suite as royalty and generals/admirals in a perfectly preserved room with delivered breakfasts with linen and sterling. Went on ghost tour and at least 20 people from the conference came to visit. A typical, mind-numbing conference ended up being a great experience. Make your case and take your road trip.