So, It's Come To This...

TranquilSpirit · Sep 10, 2021

11 minutes ago, SmilingBluEyes said:

YOU can't guarantee squat! My local hospital is setting up beds in the freaking conference room for overflow. There are NO beds, no room for anyone! People are being shipped hours away for availability.

I am not whining; I am speaking facts.

You're right. Guarantee is a definitive word. Not necessarily wrong from the sound of your situation, though. This sounds like a population to beds problem way more than anything else. So if this hasn't happened in the past it will in the future. But what you describe is not anywhere near a norm in any sense. Transferring hours away? So you live in a very rural area with a low bed count. Expand on this. You have had a surge and all the outpatient surgical beds are full? PACU? Rehab? ER? All to the point that the conference room is starting to stack patients?

How long have you worked at this hospital?

SmilingBluEyes · Sep 10, 2021

Each place is different. My friends in Florida and the South are in crisis mode and have been for months. They do whine; I don't blame them.

SmilingBluEyes · Sep 11, 2021

I don't work at the hospital. But a big news article and some friends who do verified what I am saying. It's been closed to new admissions for a while now.

love2banurse89, BSN, RN · Sep 11, 2021

15 hours ago, TranquilSpirit said:

I live and work in the suburbs of a major city. For my job I travel to three additional large cities. I have been in over a dozen hospitals in the last two months. A dozen different ICUs. Most in a state that is supposedly hard pressed by Covid. You know what I see? Nothing spectacular. That's what. Nurses catching a break at the station eating a snack. Smiling. Talking. Bed availability. Nurses helping each other out. Answering lights. Doctors in and out. Guests.

...Sorry. I just don't see the disaster.

There's such a remarkable difference between nurses - even on the same unit. A quarter to a third don't see a disaster, an equal amount are freaking out, and half are just trying to get through it. I came on AN to check on a curiosity I had. I got stuck because I see a level of hysterics here I cannot relate to in the real world. It's remarkable. In the real world.. in these dozens of hospitals from downtown to the exurbs.. everything is fine. Here. Gosh. You'd think it was a disaster.. just as the politicians say it is.

Maybe that polarization between fiction and reality is one of the reasons so many are foregoing the vaccine? A lot of those not getting the vaccine just don't understand where the "disaster" is any longer? Many of them had Covid already and have natural immunity. It's over. Despite our politicians and certain other hysterical personalities saying otherwise. There is no ICU bed shortage. No ventilator issues. RTs are staffed. Nurses are staffed. People are being admitted and discharged the same as always. I can guarantee in your hospital this is how it is too. I guarantee YOU are back to normal. Let everyone else be back to normal too.

...And seriously, stop whining. Everyone.

Thank you! If people would look beyond the hysteria to actual numbers of beds & ventilators available they’d see “real life”. ICU beds at 90% capacity? Face it-a hospital is a business & it is their GOAL to have most beds full (I’m NOT suggesting they want sick people but having most but not all of the beds full shows they have an appropriate number of beds). If they are unable to take admissions it’s more likely to be due to short staffing which is a very real problem, & also due to the requirements for treating Covid residents in long term care.

I work in long term care. Last Monday a staff member, whose last day of work had been 3 days ago, came to work symptomatic, tested positive, (NO RESIDENT CONTACT) & immediately went home. Due to her being positive we had all-staff & all-resident testing the next day. One staff member was positive—she hadn’t been in the building for over a week & was on the floor about two hrs with minimal resident contact, masked the whole time. neither staff member had been vaccinated.

Resident testing—4 positives, THREE fully vaccinated. One had mild symptoms. All staff testing Thursday, ZERO positives. All resident testing yesterday? Six positive, EVERY ONE FULLY VACCINATED; very mild symptoms. So 90% of our positive residents were fully vaccinated. We have outbreak testing twice next week & will be interesting.

chevyv, BSN, RN · Sep 11, 2021

We have 4 covid pts as of yesterday. I've heard other hospitals in the area are filling up, but I don't work there so I can't be sure.

nursetim, NP · Sep 18, 2021

On 8/25/2021 at 8:47 AM, toomuchbaloney said:

I guess the patients in state run facilities in Nebraska have no right to expect that their staff won't spread vaccine preventable diseases to them when they go for care.

But the “vaccine” doesn’t prevent the disease, just reduces the possibility of death.

nursetim, NP · Sep 18, 2021

Have any of these overwhelmed hospitals use ivermectin or HCQ? Have their communities seen an explosion of funeral homes to deal with the wholesale death?

toomuchbaloney · Sep 18, 2021

2 hours ago, nursetim said:

But the “vaccine” doesn’t prevent the disease, just reduces the possibility of death.

How is it that a nurse practitioner maintains such a simplistic view of vaccines?

toomuchbaloney · Sep 18, 2021

2 hours ago, nursetim said:

Have any of these overwhelmed hospitals use ivermectin or HCQ? Have their communities seen an explosion of funeral homes to deal with the wholesale death?

What sort of questions are these? Are you unable to access this information through credible pathways? Don't your social media viewing preferences source tell you about morgue capacity extenders in cities struggling with excessive death during this pandemic?

Do you prescribe Ivermectin for treatment of covid? How about HCQ? Do you prescribe that for covid?