Covid 19 Part XXV-44,159 ROI (1,830 deaths) 21,898 NI (598 deaths) (13/10) Read OP

Eod100 wrote: »

This is pure waffle

Wolf359f wrote: »

I'd say he had a snooze earlier. Stephen had him bouncing on a trampoline earlier to tire him out.

KrustyUCC wrote: »

Mehole doing OK so far

KrustyUCC wrote: »

I never understand why they keep quoting death figures for the entire island

walshb wrote: »

Did he just say ‘cetch?’

ACitizenErased wrote: »

I acc don't think this is one of his worst, it's acc not bad

Goldengirl wrote: »

Interesting podcast last night Soeckle , thanks .
Reinforces what I have been saying all along .
Staff will be taken from areas like theatre and recovery to staff ICU beds if necessary , but the down shot of this is a reduction in general medical and elective surgery .
There are, simply put , as I and other in the area have said , not enough specially trained and experienced nurses to run extra ICU beds .
Nurses from other areas will have to work supervised for quite a while to be able to perform with any level of autonomy, and in situations like this there is little time to train or supervise .
Last year when I said this on the Nurses strike thread that specialist nurses were leaving Ireland to work in Australia , UAE and Canada because they were not adequately paid for their qualifications and experience , I was told by some who are shouting on this thread for " more beds , more ICU beds , now ! " that there were enough nurses in Ireland , and that they were better paid than anywhere else .
These nurses some of whom tried to come back initially when the crisis began should be offered flights home , and re registration in Ireland asap along with a compensatory bonus for coming home to help in what is, after all , a national emergency.
Present re registration is taking at least 3 months btw , which is ridiculous as most of the qualifications are standardised internationally and have been for years .