'Dr. Google' meets its match in Dr. ChatGPT'. Not quite, but a doctor who can use a chat model will be a better diagnostician than one what doesn't.
It’s based solely on what we want in an ideal world and doesn’t appear to address what are the resources we have to accomplish that. I’m very concerned about how Oregon hospitals are going to do this.
It’s not easy. An RN is a highly educated person. It’s not something you can snap your fingers and say, “You’re an RN today.”
Take a regular med-surge floor. Under the bill, there’s a 1:5 ratio. That’s one nurse for every five patients. If you’ve got a med-surge unit of 30 beds, it requires you to have six nurses. If you’ve been doing this long enough, you know that sooner or later one will get sick. Does that mean your 30-bed unit is only a 25-bed unit and what do you tell those patients? The statute is specific in that no nurse can be assigned patients in excess of the ratio, with the exception for critical patients in an ED. That’s not good care management at all. If the patient isn’t critical but you’re one of those five, you’ve got to what, wait in the lobby? Get transferred to a different hospital? You’ve got that kind of real-world issue that isn’t adequately addressed.