Looking for a table on marketplace and wondering if I am the only one that finds it extremely annoying when people post ads as “free” or “$1” but then in the description says something like “tables start at $690.”
Nurse redeployment & ICU capacity - LONG thread.
Nurses aren't interchangeable. We're highly skilled, educated, evidence-informed professionals.
The @canadanurses certifies 22 specialties from premature babies to burns to hospice, though there are almost 100 specialties.
Dr. Verna Yiu says there are 310 Albertans in ICU, 226 of them with COVID-19.
Says that's an ICU record for Alberta.
The average admissions is 23+ per day over the past five days.
Says they can only keep up in ICU because people are dying.
When we see the hospital numbers today and think "Well ICU is holding steady, that's good news."
This is normalization of trauma... Because in reality, things are not okay. Surgeries are cancelled. We are into more surge space than we have ever been, ICU and non-ICU.
Reminder: When we say we are at 86% capacity, that is INCLUDING the surge beds.
Normal ICU capacity? 130%
Normal ICU Staffing? not even at baseline.
Now do you see the problem???
#CovidAB#ABNurses#AbLeg
My conversations with young patients who are severely SOB with COVID riddled lungs and are requiring maximal oxygen support/ICU care.
Me: Did you get vaccinated?
Patient: No
Me: Why not?
Patient: I was scared of the vaccine.
😔
Why aren’t people scared of COVID-19???