Understaffed and overworked: Nurses fatigued at the onset of pandemicâs winter wave
Understaffed and overworked: Nurses fatigued as pandemicâs winter wave rages
The influx of COVID patients has some Bay Area hospitals and their staffs stretched thin. KTVU spoke to the head nurse of the Covid unit at San Joseâs Regional Medical Center about nursing fatigue.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - The influx of COVID patients has some Bay Area hospitals and their staffs stretched thin. KTVU spoke to the head nurse of the COVID unit at San Jose’s Regional Medical Center about nursing fatigue.
Liz Thurstone, charge nurse at the unit, said it’s not a problem getting more ICU beds, but what they really need is more staff. Many nurses are working a lot of overtime, 12-hour and16-hour shifts to care for patients.
personnel captured and so it works for them, so why would they stop doing it? sure. josh fuller, before you leave this morning, what is the thing that sticks most in your craw about this bowe bergdahl situation? of two my buddies that died in afghanistan, pfc justin casillas and aaron fairbarren that died on the fourth of july. they re not going to get to see their families again. this guy is being hailed as a hero. at the same time, some people in the administration are trying to slime the people, like you, who are speak out about what they saw there. specialist josh fuller joining us from fort worth, served in the same battalion as mr. bergdahl. josh, thank you very much. thank you, sir. it s now 20 after. next up, hillary clinton said she got it all wrong. the big admission in her new
whose health had deteriorated and we were deeply concerned about and we saw an opportunity and we seized it and i make no apologies for that. okay. so what do the men who served in the same battalion as bergdahl in afghanistan think now? joining us for reaction, retired army specialist josh fuller joins us today from fort worth. good morning to you, sir. good morning, sir. thank you for having me. let me ask you about this because we ve been talking about this story for the last week. i think we all agree that you never leave somebody behind. but what should happen to bowe bergdahl going forward now that he s back with us? what should happen to him? i think that they need to have a hearing for him because i do agree that we need to have all of our people back, but it needs to go through the right channels and due process. sure. now, tell us how this worked. the higher ups tried to reach
looking for taliban. you can see why some of his platoon mates, thought he might not be just a deserter, but potentially a detective defector. you talked to the plaen platoon mates, can you tell usz how unusual it is for other soldiers not to speak about something? is that standard practice? i think if they are told not to say anything, that s one thing. i mean, it would be expected that they won t want to be giving up information about the soldier who is missing, about their efforts to rescue him. that seems to me to be per function tory. the real question is they were given nondisclosure agreements. the clip that you just played from earlier from tox and friends with josh fuller saying
friends with josh fuller saying they were not to talk about what they had seen or their own conclusions about bergdahl having walked off the outpost butnb) uz actually say that he in fact a pow who had been captured which is, you know, being instructed in effect to lie. taking it around the table. kimberly. i m looking at that video, he seems to me to be the picture of health, it doesn t look like he was deteriorating in health. i think that s a good question. we re going to hear a lot more about his health, about his condition when he was turned over. national security council briefer, after he was captured, said bergdahl was in good condition. we can see that he wasn t in the kind of dire straits that