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Covid Overload: US Hospitals are

Running Out of Beds For Patients

REED ABELSON

In excruciating pain with lesions on her face and scalp, Tracey Fine lay for 13 hours on a gurney in an emergency room hallway.

All around her, Covid-19 patients filled the beds of the hospital in Madison, Wis. Her nurse was so harried that she could not remember Ms. Fine’s condition, and the staff was slow to bring her pain medicine or food.

In a small rural hospital in Missouri, Shain Zundel’s severe headache turned out to be a brain abscess. His condition would typically have required an operation within a few hours, but he was forced to wait a day while doctors struggled to find a neurosurgeon and a bed — finally at a hospital 375 miles away in Iowa.

Staff members at smaller hospitals have had to beg larger medical centers repeatedly to take one............

Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses

Providing Hope in Midst of Chaos

SATTARIA "TARI" DILKS

In times of global pandemic, uncertainties become the norm. Essential services may be eroded, resources become scarce, individuals’ socioeconomic situations shift, and countless other circumstances are in flux. Effective nursing practice during a time like this requires a utilitarian approach (ICN, 2019a): “What will do the greatest amount of good for the most amount of people?” Congruent with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (Maslow & Lewis, 1987), the essentials for physical survival and safety will take precedence. Some things do not change: “No emergency changes the basic standards of practice, code of ethics, competence, or values of the professional” (ANA, 2008, p. 6).

How does this approach affect those of us in psychiatric-mental health?......

Health care workers express overwhelming fatigue as COVID-19 cases surge across the country

Front line nurses in COVID-19 pandemic find solace in ‘Hope Huddles’

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WHAT NURSES WISH THE PUBLIC KNEW!

What has become abundantly apparent in 2020 is just how little the lay public know about hospitals & how they function, nurses & what they do, and why there are no hospital beds anywhere in the country right now. What is amazing also is hearing healthcare professionals making comments not supported by science at all, like COVID 19 cannot be spread by people without symptoms. My guest Mary Turner, RN, President of the MN Nurses Association, was asked to speak to President Biden-elect with 3 other healthcare workers about COVID and what it has done to them and their peers. She has been on several news stations and now will talk with me about what the public does NOT understand about healthcare and what nurses do exactly.

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Women and COVID:

What You NEED to KNOW!!

December 14th, 2020, @10 AM Pacific Time

on VoiceAmerica Health & Wellness Channel

My guests collaborated on studying the impact of COVID-19 on Women. Beth Battaglino, RN, CEO of HealthyWomen.org is well known for her work for 25+ years in clinical nursing & with HealthyWomen.com. Alejandra Y. Castillo is the CEO of YWCA USA, which serves 2.3 million women & girls in the USA with a network of 200+ associations. The history of our country & our world has been permanently changed. The COVID-19 pandemic is upending every corner of American society--causing hundreds of thousands of deaths & lingering illnesses, throwing millions out of work & interrupting education for an entire generation of children. It has demonstrated, in a way no studies ever have, the shortcomings in the US health care system, while also highlighting areas of promising resilience. HealthyWomen sought to understand just how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the physical & emotional health of adult women in the United States, particularly socioeconomic, geographic & racial/ethnic demographics.

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