I understand that better. But volunteers are obviously not afraid to work in critical situations. So, clear the ones out who are scared and let them have a go. Anyone who has ever been to a hospital knows there are shit employees and good ones and that many are desensitized to things. There are far too may Doctors playing God these days. Anyhow, something seems off in New York and many think the numbers are inflated there from how things are being handled.In general, a lot of nurses are scared of this whole thing too. It is just a reality that some people are better under pressure than others. It is a shame but some of them do become nurses because you can make good money. There is ordered chaos in this environment usually. It isn't really like joining the military where there is always the potential of combat, so many nurses are not doing so well with the experience even when the numbers are low and they are being rotated with other nurses. They still don't want to go to the unit that has covid patients. Few people are volunteering for this.
Nurses in hospitals are often new too. The dream of many nurses is to get experience and go to an ambulatory department or something. Like I said before, it won't be such a bad thing if this whole experience changing the reality of healthcare in this country in some way. There are some serious things that need to change right now and things don't change when people are comfortable.
You do know it is okay to on occasion not have an answer, right? You can imagine, as you put it all you want but that is mere speculation.Yes, because these people don't do the scheduling. Everyone does it differently, but I would imagine there is another hospital nearby that has too many people and the people getting shorted at this hospital don't realize what is creating the imbalance. It has nothing to do with her level of education. Nurses and nurse practitioners don't do the scheduling. I would imagine they have a department that does this that a director or a manager is working with that is far removed from the realities of each unit.
If scheduling is an issue, then I cannot imagine how more dire issues are being handled. I am well versed on who does what with scheduling and such, but I am also smart enough to realize if that is an issue, it is easily fixable and should happen during a crisis. Surely there is leadership in all hospitals. It sometimes feels like you want to make excuses for many things within the medical profession, but that is just my occasional opinion. But who is the auditor of rational thinking? That is why some are into the discussion of these important sidebars. There is no doubt in my mind that some hospitals have been set up to fail while on the surface seem as if they did it all by the book. Right now, the PTB's need dire numbers.