{"id":11479,"date":"2022-09-27T11:30:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottburrows.com\/?p=11479"},"modified":"2022-09-27T11:30:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T16:30:20","slug":"scott-burrows-inspirational-healthcare-speaker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottburrows.319heads.com\/scott-burrows-inspirational-healthcare-speaker-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Burrows, Inspirational Healthcare Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Given my work as an inspirational healthcare speaker<\/a>, I have the ongoing privilege of talking to healthcare workers throughout the country. Having once placed my life and recovery in the hands and hearts of medical providers and a team of dedicated healthcare workers, I came to appreciate your daily challenges and I know that in many cases, things have gotten worse.<\/p>\n Where has everyone gone?<\/strong><\/p>\n Pre-pandemic, healthcare facilities were already coping with staff shortages. The National Hospital Flash Report<\/a> of September 2021, a survey of 900 hospitals showed that post pandemic, staffing was reduced by 3 percent. The summary noted that the trend was unlikely to abate anytime soon.<\/p>\n \u201cHospital officials\u2026said their organizations may need to ration care<\/em> due to shortages in equipment, staffing, and beds to accommodate high acuity patients.\u201d<\/p>\n From a polite distance, this rationing may sound like \u201cit\u2019s a their<\/em> problem, problem.\u201d No, it isn\u2019t. Having had a real-life emergency problem, I shudder to think of what might have happened had I had less than such a strong group effort.<\/p>\n What happens during a staff shortage? Team members who are remaining are often forced to work overtime, even in a different area, as they descend into low morale and sometimes leave the profession.<\/p>\n