Why is there no one to run it?
@Splinty is this true?
Aren't you an RN?
There aren't enough people to run the hospitals that we already have.
How long was your nursing program?
You mean, run or staff?
You have to have staff to run it, don't you?
You can get an associates degree in 2 years.
Overall, yes. But when you're talking about "running a business" you're generally talking about management, and not staff. Ultimately in either case, if you give me 2 years and an infinite amount of money, I can staff anything.
Can you give these hospitals a call and tell them your secret?
A desire to remedy the problem. It's not a well guarded secret.
We're in month 20 of the pandemic and officials are still using mask mandates and lockdowns as their only tools. As I pointed out earlier, we're now entering a length of time where nurses will have been in the field less time than the pandemic has existed. Remember "2 weeks to flatten the curve."? That was sold as flattening the curve to give hospitals time to prepare for the inevitable rush of covid patients. How much have they done to expand their capacities? Virtually nothing.
The people training nurses now (in school) have probably never laid eyes on a covid patient.
The already licensed nurses are on the floor learning as we go. That is why I said even some experienced ICU nurses are struggling.
If you took a 10 year nurse off the med surg floor, she would not be able to take care of a covid patient going bad if she didn't have ER or ICU experience.
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I thought it was a four year program.
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You making that big bank now?!
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@Willthiswork money!
Oh really?
Our hospital here built a covid unit. They can't hire enough nurses to run it.
As I said before, when covid first hit nurses started dropping out like flies. They aren't chomping at the bit to take care of these patients.
The most experienced people in the medical field have 20 months of dealing with covid at most.
In 8 years they put a man on the moon. Or they faked it. In either case, very hard things to do. We can figure this out.
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A bachelors degree is 4 years.
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What if I offered a nurses a million dollars a year? Think they'd want to do it then? What if I insured there'd be no shortage of equipment to safely deal with these patients?
What if we went to everyone who was doing a science degree at university and said "Listen, go do this nursing program and when the pandemic is done we'll pay for the rest of your school and buy you a house."?
Yes, are you going to join us?
4 year bachelor, 2 years nursing. We are not in any sort of shortage for people with bachelor's degrees.
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