How is this EMS related? I'm sure the moderators asking this and wanting to delete it.
These programs will help to reduce the number of 911 calls and hospital days tying up bed space. Unfortunately there are not enough.
Nurses Assist Those With Nowhere Else to Turn
http://www.emsresponder.com/article/article.jsp?id=9993&siteSection=1
These programs will help to reduce the number of 911 calls and hospital days tying up bed space. Unfortunately there are not enough.
Nurses Assist Those With Nowhere Else to Turn
http://www.emsresponder.com/article/article.jsp?id=9993&siteSection=1
Jul. 23--They have tended their patients under bridges, in tent cities, and in the starkest of homes.
Their patients are often those nobody wants to hear about but whose lives depend on the constant care of the nurses who work for the Visiting Nurse Association of Tulsa.
"These are people who have no Medicare, no Medicaid, no resources. Nobody else wants to see them," said George Beilke, the organization's CEO for 28 years. "Our job is to get them back on their feet."
Many can't afford to pay for their utilities, and some are homeless.
Many nurses make $20,000 to $30,000 less each year than they made working elsewhere, but they stay because they care.