California is the only state that has mandatory minimum staffing. However, when the pandemic hit and ICUs were filled to capacity, the state’s Department of Public Health allowed hospitals to apply for a temporary expedited waiver which would allow each nurse to care for more patients. The law had allowed nurses to take only 1 or 2 patients in ICU during the pandemic but now with the introduction of the waiver, nurses must take even more extremely ill patients into their care. This further … [Read more...]
Top Ten Blog Posts of 2020
As I always provide at the start of each year, here are the TOP TEN BLOGS of the previous year. For 2020, we start with number 10 and go up the scale to the top blog of the year. In at number 10, Can You Train a Nurse in 2 Days to Work in ICU? The Governor of California said he could train a nurse in 2 days to work in an ICU. This is completely unrealistic. I challenge all of you to invite your state representation to work with you. They have no clue how difficult your job is. Coming … [Read more...]
Can You Train A Nurse In 2 Days To Work In ICU?
California Governor Gavin Newsom proposes that nurses be trained in ICU care in just 48 hours. Maybe they can be trained in 2 days but certainly not sufficiently enough to do things safely or within the standard of care. A nurse with only 48 hours of ICU training may end up being more of a danger to a COVID 19 patient than the virus itself. But what difference does that make when hospitals cannot be sued for malpractice involving COVID related cases? I would like to be standing … [Read more...]
Nurse Between a Rock and a Hard Place
A Minnesota emergency room nurse was concerned about having to wear his own scrubs to work during COVID and returning home to his wife and children wearing those potentially contaminated scrubs. He worried about bringing the virus home and passing it on to his family. Scrubs were available in the emergency department and healthcare workers at other hospitals in the same system were allowed to wear the scrubs provided by the hospital. However, at this particular hospital, he was told he … [Read more...]
Tik Tok Nurse Implodes Her Job
An Oregon oncology nurse posted a video on Tik Tok saying that she does not wear masks in public, continues to travel and allows her children to have playdates. Someone who viewed the video reported her to her employer. She was placed on administrative leave. In the video, this nurse apparently is in the break room at work and wearing scrubs with a stethoscope around her neck. The hospital felt the nurse displayed “cavalier disregard for the seriousness of this pandemic and her indifference … [Read more...]
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