Thread by @MisfitPod

🚨My sis & I r nurses. I am ICU trained. She has only worked clinics & is now in nursing IT. Her hospital is asking the IT RNs cover bedside. She has NEVER done bedside care. And her hospital is ONLY low acuity but they will soon not be able to transfer patients & need to take pt

Patients from overflow from high acuity.

ICU RNs have specific training. Even Med/ Surg hospital nurses are not equipped to do ICU type patients.

This is important because “beds” available and “staff” available means any bed & body. So this metric for @GovRicketts to use

Has always been BullSh:t in every way. It is not safe to have untrained ill prepared inexperienced staff caring for patients.

I don’t expect the avg. person to know that every MD or RN is not equipped— BUT I am quite sure the Governor has been briefed & understands this

YET continued on with the propaganda that no one needed to worry based on “available beds”... It was always a BS metric.

Small town hospitals r excellent examples of this. When a pt becomes intermediate or true ICU they transfer those out FAST. Except there is soon going to be

nowhere in Omaha to transfer them to that is equipped & safe.

But no worries guys— IT nurses to the rescue and being put on the front lines with NO experience AT ALL 😳😭😳 This is us #nebraska #COVID19 #GOPCorruptionOverCountry