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With North Dakota hospitals at 100% capacity, Burgum announces COVID-positive nurses can stay at work
In an attempt to alleviate some of the staffing concerns, Burgum announced that the state health officer has amended an order that will allow health care workers with asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 to continue working in hospitals' COVID-19 units. The Republican governor said hospital administrators asked the state to take the extraordinary step.
BISMARCK North Dakota's hospitals have reached their limit, and the coming weeks could push them past their capabilities, Gov. Doug Burgum said at a news conference on Monday, Nov. 9.
Due to a major shortage of health care staffing, the state's hospitals have a severe lack of available beds. Rising COVID-19 hospitalizations and high noncoronavirus admissions, some resulting from residents who deferred health care earlier in the pandemic, have caused the crunch on medical centers.
Burgum said hospitals are implementing their "surge" plans, and some will be voluntarily stopping elective surgeries to free up staff. He added that the state will coordinate with hospitals to move nurses to medical centers in most dire need of staff.
In an attempt to alleviate some of the staffing concerns, Burgum announced that interim State Health Officer Dirk Wilke has amended an order that will allow health care workers with asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 to continue working in hospitals' COVID-19 units. The Republican governor said hospital administrators asked the state to take the extraordinary step.
https://www.grandforksherald.com/newsmd/coronavirus/6753876-With-North-Dakota-hospitals-at-100-capacity-Burgum-announces-COVID-positive-nurses-can-stay-at-work
lame54
(35,287 posts)marybourg
(12,631 posts)lame54
(35,287 posts)OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)Let's infect EVERYONE IN THE HOSPITAL! That way, we don't have to sanitize everything! We can just breathe on one another all we want!
brush
(53,776 posts)Thanks, trump.
hell is their risk management staff thinking. Someone who is in for non-covid and then gets covid may end up owning them in court. My wife (critical care RN) had her temperature measured at 99.2 and they sent her home with pay pending her test results.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)...and if you do...die.