Hospitals are struggling to find enough doctors, nurses and other health care workers to care for mounting numbers of critically ill coronavirus patients
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“They will not only preserve equipment, but it also allows doctors and nurses to help those that are on the front lines,” said CMS Administrator Seema Verma at a White House press briefing Wednesday.But the numbers of physicians is finite — and older ones, as well as those with their own health conditions, are at risk from Covid-19. The problem is compounded by the infectious nature of the disease, which iswho need to self quarantine if they have the virus. Some have already fallen ill.
Hospitals are taking a sweeping look at how they can boost their staff — and already retired doctors have offered step up if they can easily renew their licenses and admitting privileges. “As they start closing schools down … it creates downward pressure on the availability of staff,” said Alan Levine, CEO of Ballad Health, which has more than 20 hospitals serving rural Tennessee and Virginia. “We lose some of our nurses and health care manpower.”to bar students from their clinical work with patients for two weeks — and some students are instead performing telehealth screenings or babysitting the children of doctors and nurses, so they can go to work.Meanwhile, New York Gov.
The American Nurses Association suggested that nurses with inactive licenses, school nurses and senior nursing students can take on roles like helping out at drive-thru testing sites or a, long-term care facilities.
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