Purpose-Driven Nurse & Curriculum Creator | EdTech | Empowering Healthcare Education | Advocate for Nursing Excellence, Nurse Reimbursement, and Healthcare Policy Change
#Healthcare is in a scary spot right now. #Patients are sicker. #Staffing is poor. Capacity in post-acute facilities is limited. But why?? We must always be thinking about the #rootcause of the problem. And, in healthcare, you will often have to follow the #money to find the root cause. Yes, patients are sicker, and staffing and capacity are poor. But, if we followed the money, we would likely find things like: - #Insurance companies denying needed care - Hospitals not staffing to patient #acuity - #Nursing care being wrapped into the room rate - And the list goes on and on We have to fix the #brokensystem if we want to see better patient outcomes. One way is to get involved with the Commission for Nurse Reimbursement. DM me if you want to learn more! #nursesonlinkedin #sadstateofaffairs #burnoutisreal #healthcareworkers #healthcareonlinkedin
Vice Chair & Professor of Medicine, UNC | Balanced healthcare perspectives
Inpatient care is in a state of emergency. I recently caught up with a doctor friend of mine who runs a hospitalist program at a large West Coast AMC. He’s even-keeled and certainly not one to catastrophize. But when discussing inpatient care, he pulled no punches, explaining, “It’s absolute chaos. At least during COVID, we had a mission.” Why? The work is harder than ever. Patients are sicker and have more complex needs than ever before. Yet there aren’t enough healthcare workers – especially bedside nurses and care coordinators – to care for them. And unless patients can be discharged home, there’s often nowhere to send them. Under-staffed skilled nursing facilities are also full. Consequently, care is happening in slow motion. Patients without close advocates (family/friends) literally get lost in the shuffle. Even those with advocates can spend days in the emergency department awaiting a bed. Unfortunately, this is becoming the national norm. We can't ignore it. When I asked my hospitalist friend how he’d try to fix these problems, he said he’d invest all available capital in staffing. And zero dollars into more tech. #healthcareworkers #healthcareheroes #healthcareonlinkedin
