Ep. 133 "Accept the Charges?" Wasabi, Walnut, What’s Hurting My Tummy? Thursday LTKHLTH

On tonight's late night tub-talk, Brad tells you that this WWWHMTT has me crying over colons. No, not the poopy kind- the happy kind.

When you go to the hospital, which almost all of us will at some point for some reason (healthcare is a product we all must buy even though we never truly plan on it), the nurses who take care of you are split between other assignments in almost all cases.

Although the great ones make you feel like you're the only one in the world, they have at least one other patient, even in the most critical of settings. Their attention is split.

After many years of studies and mistakes, there is an obvious limit at which you, the patient, are no longer a person, but a planned obsolescent. To new grads that do not know that a 3 patient assignment in the ICU or a 6-8 patient assignment in medsurg is unsafe, it's prioritizing.

NO!

It is shorting care. Do you want to be on the short end? Look at this link (https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/ratios) and familiarize yourself with the question: when it's YOU or YOUR family, do you accept the fact that your care will suffer, or worse, you will die because numbers and colons don't matter right now? This HAS happened and is happening right now. Do you believe this is right?