Stanford nurses sleep in vans between shifts
Stanford nurses sleep in vans between shifts
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Stanford emergency nurses sleep in vans in between shifts at the hospital
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little do they know they'll have to move said vans every couple hours or risk being towed
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Being on call means they have to show up within 30 minutes? That's ridiculous. Idk about that specific area, but in most major US cities it takes 30 minutes to travel ~20 miles on a good day and much longer during peak travel times. So even if they were sitting in their car, waiting for the call, they can't even live that far away at all. Just the other side of San Jose takes 30 minutes without traffic like wtf
Yah this seems like really poor planning on their part. I get it that 30 minutes is probably a lot for nurses, but that means they can't leave the premises. I know when I had an on-call job, I wasn't allowed to leave the building at night, but it was a live-in position.
They're a level 1 trauma centre. When I worked in a lower-grade level 3 I had a similar on-call status for mass casualty incidents. You might need five people to work a single polytrauma so they call in anyone who can place an IV. Half an hour is about the time it takes for the ambulances and helicopters to start pouring in.
edit: That being said it's a big source of PTSD in that field. Emergency medicine eats you alive unless you can compartmentalise it as fully as possible. I wasn't able to live away from my hospital so even in my off-time I was listening to every incoming siren and fixating on the possibility of having to deal with something terrible. My stress level was near-constant 24/7.