Association of Critical-Care Nurses surveyed over 6K critical care nurses. What it found is Alarming

[ISO]

Nikkas get real creative with the trolling lol

 

[Yinny]

Nurses Are at the Breaking Point
The pandemic has brought the nursing profession into crisis; the solution is in the public’s hands.


The critical care nurses of America have been beside seriously ill COVID patients, holding their hands so that your loved ones wouldn’t die alone. We’ve cared for thousands more who will suffer with the effects of COVID for months, perhaps a lifetime. COVID kills, and the death is a difficult, tragic and lonely one. Trust us. We have seen it, hundreds of thousands of times.

We are asking for your help. Because America’s nurses are now the ones in crisis.

American Association of Critical-Care Nurses recently surveyed over 6,000 acute and critical care nurses. What we found is alarming, especially when there is already a dire shortage of nurses. Findings include:

• 67 percent say, “I fear taking care of patients with COVID puts my family’s health at risk.”
• 66 percent say, “My experiences during the pandemic have caused me to consider leaving nursing.”
• 76 percent say, “People who hold out on getting vaccinated undermine nurses’ physical and mental well-being.”
• 92 percent say, “I believe the pandemic has depleted nurses at my hospital. Their careers will be shorter than they intended.”

And no wonder nurses are walking away from a profession they loved. As we show up time and again to fight against all odds to save lives, we are frustrated by those who have rejected clear data-driven guidance in this preventable fourth wave of the pandemic. Day after day, we lose patients who didn’t have to die. More than 90 percent of people hospitalized for COVID are not vaccinated. Those unnecessary losses take an indescribable emotional toll on nurses. And our grief is compounded by abuse. Once, we were honored as heroes. Now, we are mistrusted, insulted and even attacked. We have been pushed beyond the brink. This cannot continue.

America, understand this: Hospitals can add all the rooms, beds and equipment they want, but without nurses and their teams there to take care of patients, none of it matters. If COVID patients continue to overwhelm hospitals, more nurses will surrender. There may not be a nurse to care for you. In fact, there may not even be a bed for you. Seriously ill COVID patients occupy beds in our ICUs and on hospital floors for weeks and months, far longer than most patients. Fewer nurses and scarce beds mean cancer patients can’t get treatment. Patients must be flown hundreds of miles to find an available bed. When your health emergency—stroke, heart attack or car accident—strikes, you may wait many hours for care or be treated far from home.

If this continues, health care may not be there for you when you most need it.

Trust Us: Nurses Are at the Breaking Point

 

[FaTaL]

There’s always younger nurses graduating from school

 

[Yinny]

A lot of this would be solved by not admitting Covid patients who haven’t been vaccinated.

That’s 90% of the current Covid patients in need/overwhelming the healthcare system-I agree to just let them fester but this will never happen, people are entitled to care even for preventable scenarios

 

[Lakerman0834]

That’s 90% of the current Covid patients in need/overwhelming the healthcare system-I agree to just let them fester but this will never happen, people are entitled to care even for preventable scenarios

Icu nurses at a brooklyn hospital I did training at refused getting vaccine and would be hesitant to go into covid patients room.

 

[Yinny]

Icu nurses at a brooklyn hospital I did training at refused getting vaccine and would be hesitant to go into covid patients room.

I do find it alarming when public workers/healthcare workers who deal with patients refuse to immunize themselves against a health emergency, have zero issue with them being terminated or recused from ICU/their title's formal duties/overtime (but we have an issue replacing them)-they shouldn't be dealing with COVID-ill populations when they are also at risk. The article posted in the OP, makes a case for getting vaccinated and not bashing the people (and just one gender at that when the article doesn't even tout figures) responsible for dealing with it as "mentally weak" or "lazy". Unprecedented in our lifetime (for Americans especially), and not something that just needs "new, younger" energy-they burnout and experience stress too, and at faster rates.

Resources on the (non) prevalence of deadly pandemics, hence the unclear, seemingly frenetic, and duress-inducing approaches to addressing it (peep the time gaps between occurrences, it dates to BC era).

Pandemics That Changed History

20 of the worst epidemics and pandemics in history

 

[kovi]

There’s always younger nurses graduating from school

Who do you think is training them? Those nurses that graduated a year before them lmao. Quality of care is getting worse for different reasons. I work with these people breh.

 

[FaTaL]

Who do you think is training them? Those nurses that graduated a year before them lmao. Quality of care is getting worse for different reasons. I work with these people breh.

I’m trying to spin a positive on this situation, I know nurses have a hard job

 

[skokiaan]

This seems to be an issue in many fields with shortages. Folks overlooking what could be great workers just to bring on folks they know regardless of credentials and quality, then come to find out theyre stuck with a team who cant hack it. Folks need to realize its work, not a social club, you do that socializing shyt off the clock, yall got a job to do.

seen this during the pandemic..military cacs bringing family only for they family to act like it was jus a regular job..taking infection control lightly coz they didnt overstand the nature of the job..sent couple back home not to return