San Francisco general RNs testifying about appalling staffing in their level 1 trauma

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Specializes in Critical care, tele, Medical-Surgical.
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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

People just don't care and they just don't get it.

.....until they are the one waiting.

I have worked in Trauma centers that the staffing isn't 4:1 on nights...more like 6:1

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, Transport, L&D, Hospice.

That took a great deal of courage.

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It would not surprise me if anyone on the panel that has the capability to make change are completely ignorant of the scenario that the charge nurse just described. They will not get it until they or one of their close family members is placed in the predicament described above.

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Specializes in LTC, Psych, M/S.

Yet new graduate nurses in the Bay Area can't find jobs.....

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, Transport, L&D, Hospice.
Yet new graduate nurses in the Bay Area can't find jobs.....

Because health care in the USA is largely about money,rather than about care and outcomes.

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Sure, the doctors and nurses and other professionals care about the outcomes and the delivery of care, but they are not the business managers of the institutions and businesses that are providing the acute, long term, or outpatient care; generally speaking.

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Specializes in LTC, Psych, M/S.

And that nurse was working in a trauma unit. I have heard hospitals are closing them b/c they lose $$$.

I hope that RN doesn't lose her job for speaking out.

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.
And that nurse was working in a trauma unit. I have heard hospitals are closing them b/c they lose $$$.

I hope that RN doesn't lose her job for speaking out.

She probably already has. This is the reality of nursing.

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Is SF General Hospital unionized?

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Specializes in Critical care, tele, Medical-Surgical.
Is SF General Hospital unionized?
Yes.

SEIU charges San Francisco General with unsafe staffing - San Francisco Business Times

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Specializes in ICU, CM, Geriatrics, Management.
She probably already has...

It's certainly happened before.

TPTB don't appreciate the public airing of ideas that may interfere with their agendas.

The system is broken.

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Specializes in ICU, CM, Geriatrics, Management.
That took a great deal of courage.

And preparation... and restraint... and passion.

Well done!

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