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What happens if nurses stop showing up to work?
What happens if this pandemic gets worse? What if it got so bad that healthcare workers, doctors and nurses all walked off the job?
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I am worried about ever being on the frontline due to my age (over 60) and being immunocompromised position at the moment. I have however stopped my medication and I am just waiting for them to be out of my system. Also want to wait to see if symtoms return. Still working in private practice but not on the frontline.
I think we have done exceeding well except for the cruise ship fiascos.
Hopefully Australia won’t get to that point. But if it does will we be expected to just soldier on and catch the disease, and some of us die? Many places are following the “No emergencies in a pandemic” and even in an emergency you stop and don PPE before going into a coding patient. Will the same rule apply to routines care for a not very sick patient?