Texas hospitals face staffing shortages as nurses say they’re burned out

45 thoughts on “Texas hospitals face staffing shortages as nurses say they’re burned out”

1. I'm a nurse but I work with 1 patient in her home. I thought no one could convince me to get the vaccine because of stories about side effects and not trusting the government. My brother almost died from the virus last week in ICU. He was also not vaccinated and believed as I did. He now believes in the vaccine. He saw ICU nurses crying because of so many dying who were unvaccinated. One of the deceased was 40 and very healthy. I'm getting the vaccine this week.

2. I have worked in more than 10 States. Those Texas cowboy hospitals are the worst of the worst.

3. Keep Firing your Experienced Staffs Hospitals, Reap and Sow

4. It's not burn out. Its forced vax on nurses. Nyt reported, search fired nurse vax on yt. This is fake news.

5. No mention of the vaccine mandate, huh?

6. What about all the tik tok videos in 2020? Seems like they had gobs of time to choreograph them record their dance routines. Now they're slammed? Something is wrong with this picture.

7. Maybe the medical insurance advisors created this shortage over 10 years ago. Remember when they started outpatient procedures. That eventually turned many hospitals into ghost towns. Procedures that should have allowed 2 to 3 days to recover were suddenly lowered to one day. So what happened next? Nurses had to start going to states that needed them. Gradually men and c women didn't want to be nurses…the medical field didn't need them anymore. Fast forward to today
   90 percent of each hospital sits vacant, hospitals went out of business. Then to staff nurses were going to companies paying them over $100 an hour to agree to work in other states. Now what do we have? A shortage across US and other countries. It comes down to $money. Administrator's have been filling their pockets. I believe scheduling shifts differently would ease the burden; turning empty hospital halls into covid wards. Or have covid patients treated in only one area hospital for every so many miles.
   They would never do that because again the hospitals are filling their pockets. They all want a slice of the pie. Smaller hospitals were closing all over. When covid came here in AZ there was talk of opening back up closed hospitals for Covid. How many hospitals are closing because they can't afford supplies and staff. The members of the board and admin staff, managers make decisions on how many covid patients they will take on. It's all about the money. Hospitals need to be managed in a different way. One area hospital to treat Covid other area hospitals to treat mon covid. NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO RIDE ALL OVER LOOKING FOR A HOSPITAL TO TAKE NON COVID PATIENTS. AS TIME GOES ON, THINGS C WILL ONLY GET WORSE. REMEMBER, HOSPITALS ARENT CLOSING SAYING WE CAN NO LONGER AFFORD SUPPLIES ETC. YOU NEVER HEAR THAT.

8. And this is why anti vaxxers should not be given priority treatment when
   they go to the ER – they're willfully ignorant, selfish, and don't care
   that they are overloading the healthcare system making it difficult for
   people who have emergency issues other than covid to get treatment.

9. You better open up immigration for skilled ppl

10. So they fire nurses in Houston for not getting the vaccine, but they are short nurses. SMH….

11. I only make about $70k a year as an RN. No amount is worth what I go through. I hate the job so much. I hate how patients and their families are allowed to abuse me, I am forced to work overtime, I was once left in the facility without relief and my DON told me to find an empty room to sleep in, I am being told I need to make the time to go to meetings, my feet are calloused and my toes go numb, my back is killing me, I tore my MCL and wasn't allowed a day off, I was even forced to work while sick with covid. And people say to just quit, but management threatens to report us for abandonment if we do.

    Get the vaccine and stay inside.

12. Most hospitals will be understaffed from how many nurses will be fired for not taking the jab

13. Pushing an agenda.

14. Remember staff was cut last year when they stopped doing surgeries. Those people haven't been hired back. Some have but not what they were before covid. Nurses and doctors are overworked.If they had the same amount of staff they had before layoffs it wouldn't be overrun

15. As well planned by ilocano cebuano Marcos crony Filipino in CALIFORNICATION San Francisco and the gay scientist china that took VIRUS FR DEAD BODY OF FERDINAND MARCOS IN HAWAII AND OBAMA IN HAWAII.. along with religious cult of Mexican Filipino cebuano ilocano witch to push the Filipino nurses demand across the globe

16. Serious nursing shortage! Why don’t we hire experienced international nurses meet the license and immigration requirements?
    The processing to bring them here is too complicated someone should look in to it!

17. Our local hospital is full and the staff is burnt-out. Unfortunately they aren't the only ones and it surprises me no one talks about the retail workers that are also short staffed and burnt-out. Some of us are working 50 to 60 hours a week and sometimes 6 or 7 days. This entire thing is affecting both medical and retail .

18. Don’t forget that they are forcing vaccine mandates on these healthcare providers as well, but you won’t hear that. Good luck to the patients.

19. NOT BURNED OUT….REFUSE TO TAKE LETHAL INJECTION……you wait and see…..

20. It's kind of difficult for me to imagine Marcus hopscotching.

21. I know 2 nurses that refuse the vaccine. Why are we being guinea pigs? Who is going to pay for them when they get bells palsy and paralysis from the vaccine. We will know more in 6 months to 2 years. This is an outrage. These vaccines are not fda approved. Doctors need to give out HQ and Ivermectim. God Bless the nurses, but one doctor said just because your vaccinated doesn't mean your not going to get it. We are not German experiments. Stay safe everyone and respect everyones choice.

22. I walked out as soon as that mandate is rolled out

23. hmmm when you enforce an experimental vaccine what do you expect?

24. They should not be firing because of vaccine I was a nurse for 40 years and I know about nursing shortage. Keep up the protest against vaccine. The nurses work hard and deserve praise not firing

25. Clue- stop mandating the vax. Thats the issue. Most high pay travel jobs require the vax. Many nurses just aren't gonna take it. Thats why congress is trying to change the law so unskilled workers can take over without license or training.

26. I feel sorry for the hospital staff! Every single one of them!

27. Social distance at all times if you
    want to stay away from getting Covid 19.

28. God bless our nurses.

29. Well, firing us for refusing an experimental vaccine won’t help.

30. Eventually the left will be forced to research all this… as their vaccinated loved ones start to die within 3 years. Please research 'Spike Proteins'.. and 'Graphene Oxide' inside all the C vaccines.

31. They was made feel unwanted in Houston they didn't jab. Now my home health has great nurses . Thank you Vaccers for stupid ways. Hospital lose other gain.

32. Another BIG reason is nurses left because they don't want to be vaccinated.

33. Again with this crap news…

34. Why do they continue to push the poison shots on people!! No!!

35. Maybe because some nurses were fired for not taking the vaccine?

36. Unfortunately it is time for nurses in TX, FL, and other red states to become as callous as their governors and turn their backs on anti-vaccs and anti-mask politicos to serve other patients in needs that they did not create for themselves.

37. I dropped out of college becaise my nursing degree was expensive af, too bad ..

38. There are shortages everywhere. Since the beginning of time.

39. I work at Guh in DC and we're very understaffed. The nurses are being offered 650 bonuses. All nursing staff including techs should get bonuses. The new graduates only do their mandatory 2 years before returning to school for management positions or other states for more pay. Our ortho/limb unit is begging for nurses. The scheduling is also burning nursing staff out. Rotating shifts is a grueling. Imagine working 4 12hr shifts to only get one day in a week off. It's madness. The patients are violent and very ungrateful to overworked nursing staff. Everyone is feeling the burn. Even dietary and housekeeping are short. Our hospital has a terrible union.

40. The governor in Texas doesn't give a damn doesn't care one bit. That lazy good for nothing so called governor needs to step down and let someone who does care step up and get Texas headed in the right direction

41. Why don't you mention your workers quitting because of mandating the vaccine?

42. Hospitals pull in billions. This shouldn’t be a problem at all.

    Just more proof of how horrible the people who run and profit from these are.

43. You would think with a pandemic people would start eating right and exercising…

    You know…

    Do your part to not overwhelm the hospital.

    Vaccine isa small blimp on the radar of issues this country has

44. We have lot of beds in Albany NY

45. Lucky kid, far but Temple is a great hospital!

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