Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

[CrunchRN]

Just curious. Here in DFW I see hospitalizations are rising to 14%. How are things in the hospitals? Are things relatively normal? No more furloughs?

Please share. I am not in acute care, but I am of course very interested in the effects on acute care staff.

[SmilingBluEyes]

1 minute ago, toomuchbaloney said:

And the response of the American public has been disastrous.  

Yes it has. Until it affects some people personally, they don't give one crap either. So telling of our times.

[Charlcie, BSN, RN]

I’m from Texas but on contract up north. I touched base with some old ER buds and they flew a pt from our ER in central tx to Colorado last week bc it was the closest ICU bed . 

[CrunchRN, ADN, RN]

Interesting Charlcie. Thanks for the update. I hope we are heading for the down side of the curve soon.

[SmilingBluEyes]

One of the hospitals here has set up a temporary unit in the lobby. Yep, the lobby. They are filled up with COVID patients and so they have to make room for others.

The ED is swimming with them as is the ICU.

[CrunchRN, ADN, RN]

Florida?

 

[SmilingBluEyes]

2 hours ago, CrunchRN said:

Florida?

 

Nope not even close. Pacific Northwest.

[gere7404, BSN, RN]

2 hours ago, SmilingBluEyes said:

Nope not even close. Pacific Northwest.

Yeah, we’re getting it good right now in southern Oregon. Opening CVR and PACU as critical care beds because our IMCU and ICU are full hot zones. Two of our med surg units are full covid now, with a third getting slowly converted. 
 

ER was surprisingly chill last week, people are scared to come in but the ones that do are either really sick or just our usual squirrel turd nutcase frequent flyers. 

[SmilingBluEyes]

Just now, gere7404 said:

Yeah, we’re getting it good right now in southern Oregon. Opening CVR and PACU as critical care beds because our IMCU and ICU are full hot zones. Two of our med surg units are full covid now, with a third getting slowly converted. 
 

ER was surprisingly chill last week, people are scared to come in but the ones that do are either really sick or just our usual squirrel turd nutcase frequent flyers. 

If there ever were an "upside" to this it's the ERs are not seeing as many frivolous complaints. At least not according to the nurses I know. Too many are afraid to go in for that hang nail or that routine complaint that has gone on for 2 years, now.

[gere7404, BSN, RN]

18 minutes ago, SmilingBluEyes said:

If there ever were an "upside" to this it's the ERs are not seeing as many frivolous complaints. At least not according to the nurses I know. Too many are afraid to go in for that hang nail or that routine complaint that has gone on for 2 years, now.

Eh, pretty sure we’ll get hammered this week when the people who should have came in but were too scared to all decide to drop in at the same time LOL 

[Kitiger, RN]

4 hours ago, SmilingBluEyes said:

If there ever were an "upside" to this it's the ERs are not seeing as many frivolous complaints. At least not according to the nurses I know. Too many are afraid to go in for that hang nail or that routine complaint that has gone on for 2 years, now.

Did someone just say the "Q-word"?

[SmilingBluEyes]

Nope NOT ME.

[CrunchRN, ADN, RN]

Ah, the PNW, my old stomping grounds.

Here in DFW the childrens hospital is begging people to mask and vaccinate and not bring their kids for testing because of exposure and mild symptoms.  Their 24 hour ER visits jumped from 300 to 600 the day previous and they just do not have the staff and cannot get any more. Between Covid and RSV they are just in total crisis staffing wise.