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At my current job I am a Med Surg nurse (TX). Just some information we get Med Surg and telemetry patients (two sister floors and one is only M/S, M/S tele and the other is the M/S, M/S tele, Ortho, PCCU now). When Covid happened they had to adjust the floors some and over flow onto one of our floor PCCU (no drips but still PCCU patients). On the only PCCU floor they get 4/5 patients. On our floor with the PCCU patients we get 6/7(relevant for later). Which yes I have brought this up to Director directly but her response to me was we get the less critical PCCU patients, which necessarily isn't true mixed with our M/S patients. I am telling you all this so you understand my reason for the next question. Here is why I'm writing. We have woman's center, to which I personally have never floated to. They are closing down the woman's center (I don't know why). It is being said that once they close it down this month any woman's center patients will now be coming to Med/Surg. So now they are going to start putting the woman's center patients onto our floor also. It isn't clear as to which M/S floor yet or both but either way both floors do 6/7. My question is am I in the wrong for being upset about this? For having concerns about this? Am I in the wrong for feeling like any type of woman's center patients is a specialty and now they are trying to throw it onto the M/S floor? Then on top of that it's already frustrating because of the patient load 6/7 consistently and throwing this population in there too. How do I go about approaching this professionally? Should I say anything?

Thank you all for the advice. The announcement they posted said: MEDICAL SPANISH VALIDATION CLASS REQUIREMENT: (hospital name) Employees must be fluent in Spanish. Then the 4 dates you have to pick to attend the class. I was able to speak with management today about this and my obvious concerns since I only know the basics like numbers and things like that not enough to have a conversation. Since I have to use the translation devices or someone that can speak fluent Spanish. They are changing and letting the employees know they are Strongly recommend and are pushing as many people that can take the class to be able to say they can interpret so we don't have to use the translation pads anymore but obviously if we can't (people like me that's not fluent) then I don't have to go to the class. They just didn't take into account that some of their employees don't speak Spanish (when they put Requirement for employees) even though the majority of the employees speak Spanish.