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ICUs begin filling up in New York City as Cuomo, de Blasio dither on effective pandemic restrictions
Intensive care unit (ICU) occupancy is climbing toward capacity in several hospitals in New York City. With cases, test positivity rates and hospitalizations continuing to increase, it is only a matter of time until overall city ICU capacity is strained beyond capacity, resulting in an even greater loss of life than has already occurred.
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According to data from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), two hospitals, Flushing Hospital Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, are already above 100 percent ICU capacity, and four others in New York City, including Staten Island University Hospital, are at or above 90 percent capacity.
Nursing students need hands-on experience (opinion)
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
Posted Dec 22, 2020
A lack of hands-on learning deprives students of experiences essential to their formation as nurses. The hard truth is that nursing students cannot learn hands-on care from a book or a computer.
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By Faculty of Wagner College’s Evelyn L. Spiro School of Nursing.
The first surge of the COVID-19 pandemic caused health care organizations, colleges and universities to close their doors to students, including those studying nursing. Across the nation, nursing education moved online and students cared for virtual patients.
While these efforts saved personal protective equipment for the clinicians who needed it most and limited the number of people in facilities to “flatten the curve,’ teaching and learning suffered.
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