Archived Affirmative action kills: Hospital mistakes take over 400,000 lives a year. (Identitarian)
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Archived Affirmative action kills: Hospital mistakes take over 400,000 lives a year. (Identitarian)
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[–] KittenCat 0 points 11 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago
Nurse here. You're right, this isn't something that's really talked about. I didn't get the full scope of it until I went to school, where it was talked about frequently.
I agree with you that lowering standards so that darkie can get into med school is part of the problem. When you're dealing with life or death shit like this, you need highly qualified people. If you can't meet the standard, that should be the end of it. If that results in 99% of the healthcare professionals being straight white men, so be it.
That's not the entire problem, though. There is a huge staffing issue. The staff to patient ratio is absurd, and it's not safe for either party. Combined with long hours and fatigue, this is a recipe for disaster. At one point I regularly had 50 completely dependent, high risk patients delegated just to me. There are surgeons who get sent in to do major surgery, but they've been working and on call and haven't slept in 36 hours. Even the best will inevitably make a few mistakes under these conditions. Throw in people who should never have been admitted to med school in the first place, and you're fucked.
[–] CRKT_M16Z 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago (edited ago)
Okay, since you're a nurse.....
My PCP is a physician assistant. He's got this lady who must be a CNA or an LPN straight off the boat from Nairobi or some other super dark-skinned country.
She had already checked basic vitals. Then the PA came in and looked at them as was like, "I'm gonna check them again." He got different readings. Then he made a comment that stuck out to me saying, "Ever since she got here, things have been a little more difficult".
Can they go through some sub-standard nursing school in Africa, then come here and use those credentials? I'm assuming they'd still have to pass some sort of certification though, right?
Edit: grammar
[–] KittenCat 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I don't know the entire process, but I'm pretty sure if you're licensed in another country you can come back to the states and practice, just like a doctor could go to med school outside the US and then come back. Each state has their requirements for what they want in order for the license to be valid, so you'd have to do anything extra they might want from you. I know a lot of states are reciprocal. Honestly though, if she came from Africa or whatever she probably didn't have to do much extra, if anything, depending on what state it is. Muh diversity and all that.