COVID- A STEP BACK FOR WOMEN & NURSES

Covid-19 and its Economic Toll on Women: The Story Behind the Numbers

UN WOMEN

The impacts of crises are never gender-neutral, and COVID-19 is no exception. Globally, 70% of health workers and first responders are women, and yet, they are not at par with their male counterparts. At 28%, the gender pay gap in the health sector is higher than the overall gender pay gap (16%).

At a glance, economic crises hit women harder. Here’s why:

Women tend to earn less.
Women have fewer savings.
Women are disproportionately more in the informal economy.
Women have less access to social protections.
Women are more likely to be burdened with unpaid care and domestic work, and therefore have to drop out of the labor force..............

Will Covid-19 Get Nurses the Recognition They

DESERVE?

BRIELLE BENYON

For years, nurses have been stigmatized as being “doctors’ helpers.” But if anything is breaking down that misconception, it’s the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic – which happens to fall during the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife.

“I would really like to get rid of that [stigma] and have people understand that doctors and nurses work together. Health care happens because we work together; doctors are our colleagues and we are their colleagues,” said Theresa Brown, RN. But Brown also knows of the importance of having nurses’ voices heard on a smaller level, too, such as in every individual clinic. She said that at many institutions, nurses are excluded from morning rounds, where treatment decisions..........

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Isolated Patients with their Families

How the Impact of Covid-19 Has Been Worse for Women

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I Can NEVER UNSEE What I Have SEEN!

My guest, Darlene Nelson, RN, founder of Expert Nurse Consultants, joined me on this show on April 13th along with Dr. Juan Nieto, an ED physician. The description I gave then, STILL fits. “In the COVID-19 Pandemic in the USA, there are two fights going on. One against a virulent & dangerous new coronavirus & the other on behalf of the safety & protection of ‘essential’ workers across the country. ”The disease is doing an exceptional job at its mission: to infect & kill as many hosts as possible. The people, hospital administrations, and political leaders are, to a large extent, failing miserably at their mission: To protect each & every healthcare worker and all essential employees.” We currently have passed 300,000 deaths (as of 12/15/20) and 17 million with the illness. We are nearing 3000 deaths of nurses (which is certainly an undercount.) Today huge numbers of Americans continue to ignore the admonitions to “Wear a Mask, Distance from Others, and Wash your Hands.” How will this end?

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Braver Angels:

Reaching Across the Divide

December 28th, 2020, @10 AM Pacific Time

on VoiceAmerica Health & Wellness Channel

My guests are doing the work that I wanted to do since November 8, 2016. Bill Doherty is a family therapist & Professor in the Department of Family Social Science at the U of MN. He is ALSO the Co-founder of Braver Angels (BA), a group dedicated to citizen initiative, bringing conservatives and liberals together to counteract political polarization and restore the fraying social fabric in American society! BA representatives travel the country working to help people experience respectful & productive communication of differences. His colleague, David Ball, RN, BSN, MA in Health Information Administration, was on this show January 7, 2018, to talk about Conflict Communication, shortly after he joined “Braver Angels” and currently is the State Coordinator of MA. David’s nursing career included 26 years as an Air Force flight nurse with positions in teaching hospitals in critical care, Interventional Radiology, and the ED. Each environment has its own culture and methods of effective communication. David will share how the pandemic creates stressors on nurses that multiply exponentially the routine stress of healthcare.

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