She wants nurses exempted from protection in a mandatory overtime bill, with rest breaks, because she says nurses probably sit around playing cards all day. Did this woman never spend time in a hospital?
I have a LOT of nurses in the family, they work their butts off.
She probably also thinks teachers have it easy because they get all summer off… I expect she’s heard a few less-than-concurring responses. Idiot.
Republican.
What a fucking surprise.
Saw this yesterday in the local birdcage liner. Not just any Republican, a Republican from Walla Walla.
There’s a persistent movement to break the area east of the Cascades into its own state (“Liberty”) so they won’t be oppressed by the lib’rul wetsiders, specifically Seattle. On the flip side, some years back a candidate for Commissioner of Public Lands proposed giving the dryside to Idaho — and if necessary, going to war to make them take it. There are times when such a proposal seems attractive, and this is one such.
One hopes that nurses everywhere remember this when the good senator shows up in one of their ICUs. “Oh, you need more pain meds? Well, this hand should be over in about a half hour.”
I figure that it has been about 50 years since the go-to image of people slacking off is a spontaneous card game. Has the senator not heard of Candy Crush?
This appears to be the week for Washington state legislators going crazy.
In all honesty, you probably could take northern Idaho from, Grangeville or Lewiston and combine it with eastern Washington as it’s own state. No. ID switched to Pacific time from Mountain time many years ago.
There would probably be a fight over whether to make Lewiston or Spokane the capitol.
Heck while we’re at it, western Oregon as far as LaGrande at least, seems to look to Boise more than Salem. Though if that were to happen, they’d probably hate it. Oregon does take very good care if the roads, better than ID does.
In keeping with the OP, yep that person is seems dumber than a bag of hammers. A problem endemic to the political class.
I concede up front that her comments were asinine, but I’m curious about the issue she was addressing. I had never heard of a critical access hospital, but Google informs me that it’s a rural hospital that is supported by the federal government so that people in rural areas have access to emergency care. How busy would a hospital like that be? Would the nurses at a rural hospital really be so busy all the time that they barely had time to take a pee break? I have nothing but respect for nurses in hospitals of any size; I don’t think any of them play cards at work. But I don’t think it should be controversial to say that, Cabot Cove aside, emergency personnel in small towns do not have the same workload as emergency personnel in cities. It should be said in less inflammatory language than the Senator used, but was her amendment wrong? I don’t know and I’m hoping someone has knowledge of the workings in a rural hospital.
You may not realize it but there is a nursing shortage in rural and underserved communities. Their workload can be just as great because there are fewer folks to back them up.
I did not know that. Thank you for the links, that was informative.
Not to pile on Washington state senators…but why not?
There’s Sen. Lynda Wilson, who unsuccessfully opposed a bill removing the personal belief exemption for child MMR vaccination.
“…state Sen. Lynda Wilson, who also represents a portion of Clark County, said it should be up to parents whether to have their children vaccinated. “Science is not settled,” she said in floor debate on Wednesday.”
Wilson (a Republican, as if I had to clarify that) is having better luck with her bill to permit hunters to wear fluorescent pink outfits in addition to orange as an approved protective color. Now there’s an issue that has been overlooked long enough. :dubious:
Oh, and it’s flagrantly disrespectful to suggest that nurses spend lots of time playing cards. Everyone who works in a hospital knows that nurses’ spare time is spent drawing up vacation schedules. d&r
There’s a world of difference between downtime and an actual break. During downtime you never know how long the lull will last and are still at the ready, particularly in a place that provides emergency care. You can’t leave your area to do anything like make an important phone call or even just have a cig. And you certainly cant leave the building to take care of personal business like a quick trip to the bank or grocery store. Having a break at a specific time for a specific length of time is very important.
I love my state senator Claire Wilson. She re-posted this video along with “#areyoukidding” on Facebook. She resoundingly beat out the incumbent conservative, Mark Miloscia, last year. I couldn’t stand him.
She’s a moron, to be sure, but this part is actually about hunting safety and preventing accidental injuries and deaths. Deer are red colorblind and studies have suggested fluorescent pink could work better than blaze orange since it appears duller and with less yellow in it to a deer while being just as (if not moreso) visible to humans.
And I’m pretty sure that there are also Republicans opposing the hunter’s-pink rules, because pink is an unmanly color.
The science is not settled on deer being colorblind.
Like any emergency-based jobs, part of the issue is that average and peak workloads can be extremely different. I recently spent the night at a rural ER: from 9pm to about 1am it was a frenzy; by 4am it was practically dead.
It’s a common problem for jobs such as maintenance, laboratories or public transportation, as well. People who don’t realize what the job really entails will say “you dealt with Thismany situations for a total of Thismuch time, so you have enough with one qualified person per shift.” And then you don’t have enough people to cover all hours, due to vacation, sick time and so forth, and when you need several qualified people simultaneously… there isn’t.
I’m sorry,
In my earlier post I said the legislator in was dumber than a bag of hammers, that was wrong of me. A bag of non-sentient hammers can be useful.
Does this person not speak with her constituents? Is she really that ill informed?
To further address Steve McQwark
Yes they are a thing. Most of Idaho has government sponsored health facilities such as that(not sure what the actual term used is) and there aren’t enough nurses or doctors willing to live that rurally or be that much less than they would in an urban setting to keep the clinics staffed. No hospitals in ID are allowed to turn away anyone, for any reason and each county has a fund to (partly supplied by the state) to help pay for people who can’t afford that $100G spine or neck surgery.
These two biggest hospitals in ID each have a clinic in Baker City Oregon. The clinics basically share a parking lot. I was delivering a portable MRI(i think, medical imaging device anyway) and commented about it to the clinic director. She said it was a compromise since they had the equipment and the other had the staff.
It was too late to edit when I realized the sentence should have read “live that rurally or be paid…”