Oso planning to go pro
Just like teachers, what we've been doing to healthcare and healthcare workers over the last 20+ years is leading to ruin.Turning healthcare (and housing and etc) into a commodity has torn down a once great system. We've lowered health outcomes. We look terrible in nearly every metric when compared to peer nations. Not only are we paying low wages to nearly all healthcare employees, but we also cut costs by reducing # of support staff. It's abhorrent.Source: I am a PA
BTW I post this not to call out the health care workforce. My point is that we can't expect people, no matter how "essential" we deem their jobs, to work in a perpetual state of chaos over a two year period. Nurses, doctors, teachers, etc. all deserve some grace because this isn't what they signed up for. Not to mention they have to deal with issues outside of work as well.
Health care workers (and many, many other workers) have shown up throughout. Maybe some idiots aren’t grateful for that but I am. And I’m forever grateful for the Catholic school teachers who showed up pretty much throughout. Same for the Public school teachers here (Florida) and many other places. Chicago? Not so much.
https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/ratiosA lot of work being done around standardizing and regulating appropriate nurse to patient ratios. Support this movement whole heartedly. Better care, happier/healthier nurses, and a distant third create more well paying jobs. Surprised to hear you say we’ve lowered health care outcomes. In my opinion, working in the field for awhile now we’ve come along way in the last 10 years in attaching reimbursement/fines to how well a hospital is performing in reducing HAIs. It wasn’t that long ago that quality scorecards in the acute care setting were not even a thing or at best only shared internally. A lot of that data is now public, reported to CMS, and directly tied to reimbursement for a hospital/health system. Are you a PA in the acute care setting? Edit: not just an emphasis on reducing HAIs but also tracking readmissions, LOS, etc has all come so far in the last 10 years.
https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/Value-Based-Programs/HRRP/Hospital-Readmission-Reduction-Program
Point sails over your head per usual.
Same for the Public school teachers here (Florida)
I got your “point” but it was irrelevant to my post that you quoted.
Going out on a limb to state that caregivers/workers for adults with special needs have near the same level of exposure as nurses and yet, over the past 2 years, not a single thanks was ever given to them.
Nor their day program workers nor their drivers. We don't even get officially notified for potential exposures... getting a thank you is much further down the list.
Don't you enjoy only finding out about exposure from word of mouth on why someone isn't in that day?
Exactly. We find out when multiple people from one day center cancel out for the rest of the week. Often we have to put two and two together.So much for contact tracing.
$11 an hour and no sick time? That’s terrible.