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This week we have had 80-95 patients in a 43 bed ED with ALL care in the waiting room and some patients on nasal cannula oxygen (tanks) in the waiting…
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We are surging again but this time we have critical nursing shortages. The ICU has spilled into PACU. ORs have been severely reduced to emergent cases only. Just received word…
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I hit a wall this week. It’s exhausting to have to deal with the sick and dying Covid patients, the terrible staffing issues/boarding (admitted patients waiting for a hospital room),…
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Here in small conservative town . Not only do we see it all at work but we also have to endure it at home from family and friends. I also…
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Unfortunately we are in the same boat here in Florida. Had a mother cuss me out that we diagnosed her child wrong since she was told her son had bronchiolitis…
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I grew up in Oklahoma, lived in Missouri for the past 10 years, have spent most of my life in the Midwest and South. I very much felt what you…
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The answer is not more ECMO (a machine to oxygenate the blood and bypass the lungs). We don’t have staff to care for basic nursing needs at this point. Cost…
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110 bed hospital170 admitted patients Two days ago admitted three unvaccinated, sick but not intubated patients under 40. Today all three dead. COVID-19, we are not winning.
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We have 10 COVID deaths daily. The morgue is full and we need to rent a mobile freezer for storage of bodies. We have a full hospital, and there is…
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No one comes off the ventilator this wave. NO ONE. We are at 35 ventilated patients for COVID since Aug 1, ZERO successful extubations (removal from ventilator). 100% death rate.
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