re: Went from calm to chaos with this new delta strain!

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So what do we do with other people that come into the ER that need a room???? People that don’t do what we do will never understand this. Even if the virus has a high survival rate which it does. It’s still gonna cause havoc one way or another. Good luck if you have a family member that needs to be admitted for something other than covid.

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Man it’s so frustrating. The latest surge in covid has made our bed situation even worse than it was before, again mainly compounded by a floor nurse shortage. At any given time I’m working with like 1-3 open beds in a nearly 30 bed ER. I’m admitting patients from the waiting room and then those people go to the next available ER bed. People are staying days, literally their whole hospital stay, in the ER. It’s sucks for patients and sucks for the people providing care.

ETA: I ran my last code in the hall until we could pull a non critical patient out of our resus room.