Oh and about the #nursing professionals? We should make #Doctors do all that work now because to be a #nurse is considered "not professional" in the US suddenly. Let the Doctors deal with the next #pandemic since they are such professionals. #NoKings !
#Nursing at #COP30 ? of course yes. #UBC instructor teaches a #UBC credit course exploring Planet Health, and how that relates to people's health. And she is an observer-delegate at COP30.
The Education Department no longer considers nursing as a professional degree program, which can weaken funding for students wanting to enter the healthcare field.
Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, president of the American Nurses Association, lamented the affect this bill will have on the healthcare institution.
The most disgusting thing about healthcare execs trying to get on the "violence against nurses and other Healthcare workers is bad!" train is that THEY'RE THE ONES GETTING US HIT. When their system screws people and they're hurting, scared, not in their right minds, and fearing for their life they strike out at whoever is closest and 9/10 times that's a #nurse or nursing assistant. We're not crying for them now that someone finally went after the real culprit.
(migrating choice posts from my mastodon, and it doesn't make as much sense outside of the context of the time I wrote it, but it's still relevant and you can probably guess when it was) #healthcare#HealthCareWorkers#nursing#nurses
Make sure to watch the short video at the beginning. Two therapist desks stuck in the windowless copy room with the office copying machine. Even if you are inclined not to read the article, scroll to the bottom to see the photos of actual workspaces.
I'm posting this for the obvious reasons -- to decry the conditions for both staff and veterans, and in a hope that our professional associations take yet another task on to fight this.
"In a Boston V.A. hospital, six social workers are conducting phone and telehealth visits with veterans from a single, crowded room, clinicians say. In Kansas City, providers are planning patient care while facing each other across narrow, cafeteria-style tables in a large, open space, according to staff members."
"And in South Florida, psychiatric nurses have been treating veterans with mental health conditions in a hallway near a bathroom, sitting down with them in a makeshift medical bay jury-rigged out of filing cabinets and a translucent screen."
"'People walking by can hear everything that’s going on,' said Bill Frogameni, an acute care psychiatric nurse at the Miami V.A."
...
"The cramped conditions are the result of President Trump’s decision to rescind remote work arrangements for federal employees, reversing a policy that at the V.A. long predated the pandemic. Since Mr. Trump’s order, the Department of Veterans Affairs has been scrambling to find adequate office space for tens of thousands of health care employees, even those who see most or all of their patients virtually, while maintaining the legal requirement of confidentiality."
...
"...clinicians say they are being asked to administer mental health treatment or discuss sensitive information in open settings where conversations can be overheard."
"Veterans have noticed the lack of privacy, clinicians say. They described patients newly hesitant to discuss issues like legal problems, substance abuse and intimate partner violence, limiting the effectiveness of their treatment. Some clinicians said they had trouble hearing patients over the phone or during video calls in their new, telemarketing-style work spaces."
But really, just read the whole article. I could quote the whole thing.
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Make sure to watch the short video at the beginning. Two therapist desks stuck in the windowless copy room with the office copying machine. Even if you are inclined not to read the article, scroll to the bottom to see the photos of actual workspaces.
I'm posting this for the obvious reasons -- to decry the conditions for both staff and veterans, and in a hope that our professional associations take yet another task on to fight this.
"In a Boston V.A. hospital, six social workers are conducting phone and telehealth visits with veterans from a single, crowded room, clinicians say. In Kansas City, providers are planning patient care while facing each other across narrow, cafeteria-style tables in a large, open space, according to staff members."
"And in South Florida, psychiatric nurses have been treating veterans with mental health conditions in a hallway near a bathroom, sitting down with them in a makeshift medical bay jury-rigged out of filing cabinets and a translucent screen."
"'People walking by can hear everything that’s going on,' said Bill Frogameni, an acute care psychiatric nurse at the Miami V.A."
...
"The cramped conditions are the result of President Trump’s decision to rescind remote work arrangements for federal employees, reversing a policy that at the V.A. long predated the pandemic. Since Mr. Trump’s order, the Department of Veterans Affairs has been scrambling to find adequate office space for tens of thousands of health care employees, even those who see most or all of their patients virtually, while maintaining the legal requirement of confidentiality."
...
"...clinicians say they are being asked to administer mental health treatment or discuss sensitive information in open settings where conversations can be overheard."
"Veterans have noticed the lack of privacy, clinicians say. They described patients newly hesitant to discuss issues like legal problems, substance abuse and intimate partner violence, limiting the effectiveness of their treatment. Some clinicians said they had trouble hearing patients over the phone or during video calls in their new, telemarketing-style work spaces."
But really, just read the whole article. I could quote the whole thing.
Make sure to watch the short video at the beginning. Two therapist desks stuck in the windowless copy room with the office copying machine. Even if you are inclined not to read the article, scroll to the bottom to see the photos of actual workspaces.
I'm posting this for the obvious reasons -- to decry the conditions for both staff and veterans, and in a hope that our professional associations take yet another task on to fight this.
"In a Boston V.A. hospital, six social workers are conducting phone and telehealth visits with veterans from a single, crowded room, clinicians say. In Kansas City, providers are planning patient care while facing each other across narrow, cafeteria-style tables in a large, open space, according to staff members."
"And in South Florida, psychiatric nurses have been treating veterans with mental health conditions in a hallway near a bathroom, sitting down with them in a makeshift medical bay jury-rigged out of filing cabinets and a translucent screen."
"'People walking by can hear everything that’s going on,' said Bill Frogameni, an acute care psychiatric nurse at the Miami V.A."
...
"The cramped conditions are the result of President Trump’s decision to rescind remote work arrangements for federal employees, reversing a policy that at the V.A. long predated the pandemic. Since Mr. Trump’s order, the Department of Veterans Affairs has been scrambling to find adequate office space for tens of thousands of health care employees, even those who see most or all of their patients virtually, while maintaining the legal requirement of confidentiality."
...
"...clinicians say they are being asked to administer mental health treatment or discuss sensitive information in open settings where conversations can be overheard."
"Veterans have noticed the lack of privacy, clinicians say. They described patients newly hesitant to discuss issues like legal problems, substance abuse and intimate partner violence, limiting the effectiveness of their treatment. Some clinicians said they had trouble hearing patients over the phone or during video calls in their new, telemarketing-style work spaces."
But really, just read the whole article. I could quote the whole thing.
Bill Griffith's 'Three Rocks' ( pluralistic.net )
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Surveillance is inequality's stabilizer ( pluralistic.net )
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