Hospitals are designed to run “at capacity.” If they’re not full, the staff is adjusted accordingly. This is why they are always “understaffed.” Hospital management are some of the most shekel-grubbing penny pinchers you will ever see.
The first part of (((your))) post is true. The next is false. The last is true but in no way related to anything in your post. Hospitals do not run "understaffed". They run VERY SLIGHTLY over staff depending on time of day and current occupancy. Covid is fake.
Hospital capacity is not determined by rooms or beds. It's determined by nursing teams' ability to care for X population of patients.
That’s why I put understaffed in quotes. They have what is deemed to be just enough staff to care for the patient census. But in real life, the nurses are always perceiving themselves as “understaffed” because what looks like just enough nurses on paper to administration does not translate to the actual needs in the real world. People going to lunch, calling in sick, etc. Thanks for hospitalsplaining to a hospital employee.
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That skeeves me right the fuck out.
Yep. That's something most people don't understand.
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