CV and mad panic behaviour

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ICU nurses dont earn that much more than ordinary RN's and considering the training/schooling required vs the pressure you are under you are relying on the goodwill and care factor to keep them in the job but that only stretches so far.
You also dont get many ICU trained nurses working for agencies, ditto for Cardiac and the other specializations. Agencies will send out an ordinary RN as a fill in but they often dont have the specialization required and it shouldnt be allowed but it happens.

Anyway EB1, that same report I read about available ICU beds dropping mentioned that to reach Australia's emergency ICU bed cap, which doubles the number of available ICU beds, you need an extra 40k fulltime ICU nurses, it's not going to happen, it's a fantasy! For each 24x7 ICU bed, you must need about 20 staff to both directly service the bed and to maintain supply chain and support logistics / services!

For example, they said if every Australia Emergency Surge ICU bed was occupied, there are not enough technicians available across the country to keep all the gadgets running for more than a month or so! They would have to change the rules / laws about compliance and calibration to make it work, but that then opens them(hospitals/staff) up to the opportunistic lawyer to litigate when things go wrong!