ET trolls including, GWB have huge surprises in store for him and his fellow trolls when he finds out the consequences of the vaccine mandate of Joe Biden. It will all come down crashing and these extreme liberals, who in their arrogance thought, they can bully everyone into submission to take the vaccine experimental drugs, have a thing coming. ET trolls try flying a plane to get to your destination, getting medical care when you get a heart attack or Corona Virus, require police assistance from a threat to your lives, guess what fools? You are not getting it because those vaccinated are much fewer in numbers to fill all the immediate needs.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nightmare-scenarios-emergency-medical-responders-223100857.html
Yet -- despite all the fear mongering we are not seeing droves of first responders quitting due to vaccine mandates across the U.S. Tiny rural first-responder departments in Maine like the ones outlined in the article already had significant problems retaining staff before pandemic even began -- as noted in the article most of the staffers left for bigger departments -- not due to mandates. This is coupled with the reality that any EMS or healthcare worker which refuses to get vaccinated should not be in the profession.
What we are actually seeing are first responders, nurses, and doctors leaving the profession due to the stress of dealing with an endless stream of unvaccinated Covid patients which are flooding the services and facilities -- leading to high stress in the healthcare profession. Most of the professionals are shocked that people won't take the obvious step of getting vaccinated to protect their own health and the health of others. Many medical professionals simply don't want to put up with unvaccinated idiots anymore (a good number who are violent Covid-deniers).
We are also seeing an unprecedented level of violence against healthcare workers from Covid-deniers. Which has tuned hospitals into the most dangerous place to work in the U.S.
Flight attendants aren't the only workers facing unprecedented violence on the job: Nurses say they've seen a rise in physical and verbal abuse from agitated patients
https://www.businessinsider.com/fro...see-rise-in-physical-and-verbal-abuse-2021-10
- 31% of hospital nurses have reported an increase in violence, up from 22% in March 2021.
- Nurses told Insider the tense politics around vaccines and masks may be leading to patient aggression.
- 1 in 4 nurses faces physical violence on the job, and the hospital is one of the most dangerous workplaces in the country, according to OSHA.
Kevin Romanchik, an emergency room nurse in Michigan, said he's been punched, hit, kicked, spat on, and called "every name in the book" during his 13 years on the job.
Recently, Romanchik said he thinks abuse towards nurses has gone up recently because patients are easily agitated. Asking simple questions like if a patient has received a COVID-19 vaccine could become political and give rise to anger and aggression, he told Insider.
Once dubbed "heroes" of the pandemic, frontline workers in America are reckoning with increased violence and aggression on the job. Flight attendants are seeing a historic rise in unruly passengers. Shoppers have even
killed retail workers for enforcing local mask mandates.
Nurses are not excluded from the worrisome trend. On top of dealing with
short-staffing and
burnout, 31% of hospital nurses across the country have reported a small or significant increase in workplace violence, up from 22% in March 2021, according to a recent survey from the
National Nurses United union.
"These nurses are there to help. That's a trauma in itself to feel that now they are unsafe at work and there's that risk of violence against them,"
Kerry Peterson, an associate professor at the University of Colorado College of Nursing, told Insider. "That can have detrimental consequences."
Why violence has increased towards nurses during the pandemic
Despite being places of healing, hospitals are one of the most dangerous places to work.
Hospitals recorded more than 221,000 work-related injuries in 2019 according to the US
Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and had a workplace injury rate almost double the average for all private employers.
Nurses, who spend the most time at a patient's bedside, can bear the brunt of the violence. One in four nurses is physically assaulted on the job, according to a 2019
survey by the American Nurses Association. Assaults range from getting cursed at to
grabbing and kicking, a 2014 survey of more than 5,000 nurses found.
Erica, a hospital nurse in Nevada, said she suspects the rate of injury towards nurses is even higher, but many nurses do not end up reporting incidents due to fear of retaliation. (Insider agreed to identify Erica only by her first name for her personal safety.)
Last year during the pandemic, Erica co-founded
The Last Pizza Party, a nurse advocacy group with 14,000 Facebook followers, to support professionals dealing with the onslaught of COVID-19 cases.
A 2020
NBC investigation found 77% of hospitals in California reported making no safety improvements after receiving an assault report. The assaults against healthcare workers ranged from bruising to fractures to cuts, and happened primarily in in-patient rooms and ERs.
Erica said instead of preventing assaults from happening, some hospitals have resorted to stop gap measures, like giving nurses rape whistles and
panic buttons.
Better solutions to decrease workplace violence come from system-wide changes, Erica said. Nurse unions and advocates have drafted
legislation to states and the federal government which would criminalize nurse abuse. Erica added hospitals need to provide nurses with enough resources and mental health support to carry out their roles.
Erica encouraged other nurses to get involved with anti-abuse groups, such as The Last Pizza Party, the
Silent No More Foundation, and
Nurses Take DC. The momentum Erica has seen on social media — including
TikTok, where she has 200,000 followers and over 3.5 million likes — during the pandemic gives her hope.
"What COVID did is it highlighted all of the issues in nursing that have been around forever, but it's made them impossible to ignore," Erica said.
Without addressing the growing crisis, however, Romanchik expects more nurses to leave the job, which will lead to the quality of care worsening overall.
"Nursing has been one of the most trusted professions for years now," he said. "So when nurses are telling you that there are problems or things are difficult, the best thing that the public hospital administration can do and local leaders can do is listen."
