Harborview Medical Center Doctors And Staff Continue Dealing With Influx Of Covid Patients Amid Current Omicron Wave
One piece of legislation that has stirred up disagreement is House Bill 1868, which would establish minimum staffing ratios for hospitals, as well as shore up meal, rest break and overtime provisions for healthcare employees. “This isn’t their fault. Hospital executives and administrators have ignored staffing recruitment and retention issues for years,” Riccelli said. “Healthcare workers have moved mountains over the last two years but they’re burning out.”
She said part of the problem is that the ratios proposed for minimum care standards are too rigid, and the pandemic has caused a “significant staffing shortage.” Jane Hopkins, executive vice president of SEIU 1199NW and a registered nurse, disagrees with Zborowski and told McClatchy in an interview Friday that the union are in full support of the legislation. She said there has never been a time in her 20 years as a nurse when hospitals haven’t been understaffed, and says staffing has always been a “crisis.”
She said protecting the healthcare workforce would require a more holistic approach where multiple issues are tackled.
Thx non-vaccinated, un-masked people overwhelming our healthcare workers.
GovInslee when you attack one of us you attack all of us but I'm sure you have a plan...to win back their vote😏 healthcare rabbit ⚖
People's priorities have been reshuffled from the pandemic. The daily grind to reach the proverbial carrot is no longer going to work. The workers are waking up to the bullshit that is capitalism. They have taken too much, and given too little. Greed will be the downfall
How many times are you and the rest of the local media going to post this same “ burnt out” story?