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The problem isn't the qualified beds but the personnel. In contrast to gas turbines, which are small standalone plants where an operator already there essential
by bildung 5y ago
The problem isn't the qualified beds but the personnel. In contrast to gas turbines, which are small standalone plants where an operator already there essentially just presses the power button.
- sterlind 5y agoWe've had to massively scale up the number of doctors and nurses before - in WWII. Learning was substantially accelerated and abridged, and the population was being drafted so being a doctor might sound better than being a combat soldier. I don't think this would work here though, since enlisting to work in a covid ward is a hard sell when you're not being drafted, and standard of care would suffer with all the inexperience. Substantially raising nursing pay and increasing the powers of nurse practitioners would be a good idea though.
- eru 5y agoWhy? The economics are exactly the same. Many people would happily do some courses (and plenty of refreshers) to be a stand-by nurse or doctor who only gets activated for a few weeks every few years, if they get a few tens of thousands of dollars for that trouble.