Nurses and other health care workers at the Department of Veterans Affairs say its government hospitals are not prepared to resume normal operations as regional plans roll out for reopening facilities and lifting coronavirus safety protocols.
care workers have bristled at the Trump administration’s push toward getting back to more normal conditions. The pushback occurs as negotiations over employee compensation and benefits have stalled between Veterans Affairs leadership and the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents VA nurses and doctors across the country.
President Donald Trump listens as Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie speaks on protecting Americas seniors from the COVID-19 pandemic in the East Room of the White House, April 30, 2020.VA hospitals across the country have relied on a combination of volunteers and re-assigned hospital workers since they started screening all veterans and visitors in March.
Barbara Galle, a Minneapolis VA ICU nurse and AFGE regional vice president, was concerned hospital managers were moving too recklessly even as more patients recover. Two woman wearing scrubs and masks exit the Pittsburgh VA Medical Center, April 27, 2020, during the coronavirus outbreak.COVID-19 patients at her hospital have been isolated in a special ward. Hospital administrators assigned nurses with intensive care unit training to work as front door screeners which has left nurses like Galle concerned about short staffing.
Other centers have staffed up as well with the VA waiving certain rules to re-hire retired physicians, nurses, pharmacists and lab technicians more quickly.
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