Second ER visit in 2 weeks, this time with my ill husband who had fallen and suffered bad cut to head. I was astounded by the incompetence in the ER. No doctors, just a nurse practitioner there this time.
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The traveling nurses don’t have to be vaxed. Also they make a shit ton of money.
exactly this... a friend of mine quit her job and is now a travel nurse floating between several clinics. the stories she shares are down right scary, from nurses not checking patients wrist bands to make sure they match their charts where she caught it in the OR after multiple staff had interacted with this patient. this patient would have had the wrong surgery. inexperienced nurses making mistakes that had not been caught could have jeopardize patients life. tissue samples mishandled to where lab techs don't know which patient they came from, so if tested positive for cancer, no way to know which patient it came from. she's the most experienced nurse between all 3 clinics she works at with 16yrs. most have less than 5 yrs and don't care about patients, it's a paycheck for them. they tested a guy for mad cow disease recently until she looked at his chart and it said due for booster 11, she knew exactly what his problems were from...
Around here, all of the health services had "lifers" on the staff, good nurses who knew your history and what you looked like healthy and when you looked sick, it was comforting.They retired or passed and not enough young people go into the field to replace them. I guess it's cheaper to hire travelling nurses than to provide one with good insurance and a pension and accrued vacation and sick time. Plus so much nursing is high tech, so compassion, which used to draw women to the profession, is not neccesary. Amazing how much healing can happen when the patient can be put at ease and know you are praying for them.