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I have no doubt your emotionally detached analysis decided the floors were adequately/overstaffed since the nurses hadn't all quit yet or gone on strike. I mea

• bumby 4y ago
  I think you are are either misinterpreting my stance or transferring an argument from your personally experience. Also, you may want to revisit the HN guidelines[1] My position is not that they were always adequately staffed, but that in my experience increasing staffing did not fix the problems as expected because the problems were rooted in more systemic issues. As I've stated elsewhere staffing may be part of the solution but rarely a panacea. Also, my stance is that fixing the systemic issues will help them do less non-patient-centered work so they can focus more on being a healthcare provider, where they are the most valuable. [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  • mountainriver 4y ago
    Thank you for your thoughtful responses, you seem to be the only person here with experience trying to solve the actual problem in a data driven way