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Krucial Staffing

A Staffing firm that deals with emergency preparedness has been one of those in the fore-front of bringing nurses and respiratory therapists to the frontlines in the fight against COVID19.

In responding to COVID19, Krucial Staffing’s actions have been prompt and engaging. If you are looking to supplement your income, this would be a good way to do it.

The staffing firm has had many good stories shared about them by nurses and RTs in the frontlines. The company has its headquarters located in Overland Park, Kansas.

They also have the first Annual Conference scheduled for October 28^th– October 30^th, 2020 and you can sign up for that here

Nurses on the frontlines, share your stories about Krucial Staffing, our readers would love to hear it!

KP Mendoza was running in Central Park last week when he was flooded by exhaustion, anxiety, guilt, and frustration.

As the relentless pressure of being a nurse battling the pandemic in New York bore down on him, Mendoza began thinking about what could happen if he contracted the coronavirus. 

So, at 24, he decided to draft a will.

Mendoza is young and healthy. But treating COVID-19patients, wearing the same N95 mask for hours and even days at a time, forced him to think seriously about dying. It’s all the worse that the US, he said, was woefully unprepared for a pandemic and millions of people have since moved on to dismissing it as a hoax. 

Mendoza expressed this maelstrom of emotions on Facebook. His gut-wrenching words have since been shared over 132,000 times, with people thanking him, offering prayers, and lifting him up.

Overwhelmed by the attention and praise, Mendoza, a surgical and transplant ICU nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital, said that he stands by the first sentence of his post: “I am no hero. I am not ready to die.”

Having graduated from New York University in 2018, Mendoza, who considers himself a “baby nurse,” told Business Insider that he is not looking to be a “savior” or a “martyr.”

“This is my first job, and I didn’t sign up to die because I wasn’t protected enough,” he said. “I’m not here to just mitigate my own death. I’m here to do good work and to go home and come back the next day to continue doing good work.”

Article Originally from Business Insider

This topic is of a very sensitive nature and has ruffled more feathers than can be counted ever since the original article was published. In healthcare as in other groups, I am sure; there is usually some sort of power tussle going on-who is better at something, who should be given the most respect etc. It is almost never-ending and can be exhausting!

Advanced Practice Nurses are in fact Middle-LEVEL providers. Being mid-level providers does not take away from the expertise of APRNs.

In the hierarchy of things, healthcare in this case, everyone has a role to play from the Patient Care Technicians (PCT) to the Physician and when we all are masters at our roles, that it when everything thrives. Everyone should know their role and play it well!

Not too long ago, nurses were upset when it seemed that Medical Assistants (MAs) were seeking to replace them in physician offices so it is with physicians- Some MDs feels slighted that after the amount of student loans and tedious study, that APRN almost seem to be replacing them.

There is no truth to this- APRNs will NEVER replace MDs; APRN may play a role in helping fill up shortages in under-served areas but not to replace the group out rightly!

There is also absolutely no reason to be antagonistic toward each other- we need to understand the bottom line here which is MONEY/PROFITABILITY. Administrators want to maximize the best use of their resources by hiring more and cheaper labor to “spread” around, while keeping expenses to a minimum.

Is it fair? No

Can they do it? Yes.  The Administrators do after all owe it to their companies to be profitable. And if substituting one for the other is the way for them to do it, then that it the way it will be done.

“In business, you don’t get what you want, you get what you negotiate”- Karass

If the parties APRN and Medical Association feel aggrieved, it would better serve us to put heads together and present a unified front.

These constant bickering takes us nowhere!

My Nurse Consultant