Sunday, September 5, 2021

American Nurses Association is Just as Much in Denial as the Government and Media

 

American Nurses Association is Just as Much in Denial as the Government and Media

Al Ritter


The American Nurses Association wants the HHS to declare the nursing shortage as a national emergency but yet doesn’t declare why.

These are the demands they want from the HHS:

  • Convene stakeholders to identify short- and long-term solutions to staffing challenges to face the demand of the COVID-19 pandemic response, ensure the nation’s health care delivery system is best equipped to provide quality care for patients, and prepared for the future challenges.
  • Work with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on methodologies and approaches to promote payment equity for nursing services and remove unnecessary regulatory barriers to APRN practice.
  • Educate the nation on the importance of the COVID-19 vaccine to provide resources for widespread administration of the COVID-19 vaccine and any subsequent boosters.
  • Sustain a nursing workforce that meets current and future staffing demands to ensure access to care for patients and prioritize the mental health of nurses and other health professionals.
  • Provide additional resources including recruitment and retention incentives that will attract students to the nursing profession and retain skilled nurses to the demands of patient care.

It seems funny to me how they don’t address the true problem, they claim that nurses are retiring disgusted with the lack of people getting the vaccine and they are just tired of the constant stress and pressure.

Sadly they don’t recognize the fact that almost every nurse is now faced with the decision of whether they want to continue the profession that they so dearly paid through the nose to receive through student loans. Most every nurse is forced with a decision whether they want to continue the profession they were trained for and get the vaccine or chose to vacate the profession they once loved but were forced out because of political reasons due to Covid.

Some traveling nurses are afforded the luxury of not having to divulge their vaccination status but most are which explains way most are choosing to go on the road. Either that or they just take the vax and hit the road for more money. Either way hospitals are creating their own “emergency” of a nursing shortage.

Logically why would any hospital demand a vaccination as a term of employment when faced with a nursing shortage? Isn’t that counterproductive?

Sadly I always revert to logic and I apologize but, if you have had your vax and you are a nurse in a hospital setting, why wouldn’t you still be tested on a weekly basis? Nursing home employees still are and just because you have had your vaccination doesn’t mean you can’t give Covid to anyone else on either side of the employment scale. So why aren’t all hospital employees tested weekly? Why are there double standards?

Just seems counterproductive to let nurses go just because they won’t submit to the Covid vax and create their own nursing shortage through denial or “retirement”.

Pay attention when you read this article to the header “This is a paid Press Release by the American Nurses Association”:

https://apnews.com/press-release/pr-newswire/business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-6632959d91c6c44e51918049c0981ef7

 

 

2 comments:

JWoods said...

It’s funny how they worked during the height of the ‘pandemic’ and didn’t get sick, but now are being forced into taking the vaccine or get fired. They are arguably some of the most educated professionals in all of the effects of the virus and their the most qualified to make the decision to take the vaccine or not. Yet they aren’t allowed to choose for themselves.

Bud S said...

Why can’t everyone follow the same rules