{"id":4732,"date":"2020-11-27T18:28:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T18:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/?p=4732"},"modified":"2020-11-30T20:46:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T20:46:22","slug":"you-and-covid-19-critical-personnel-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/2020\/11\/27\/you-and-covid-19-critical-personnel-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"YOU and COVID-19 Critical Professional Shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/nurse-530.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4733\" src=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/nurse-530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/nurse-530.jpg 530w, https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/nurse-530-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCare is about more than a room with a hospital bed. It\u2019s about medical professionals taking care of patients. If you don\u2019t have the staff to do that, people are going to die.\u201d So declares CEO of the Texas Organization of Rural &amp; Community Hospitals, John Henderson. At this moment, medical centers in over half of the fifty United States report dangerous shortages of nurses, physicians, laboratory technicians and other specialists &#8211; this in the face of 176,572 new <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#cases_casesper100klast7days\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 diagnoses<\/a> and 1,283 deaths <em>yesterday<\/em> alone. As a result, many precarious patients are being transferred to better-staffed medical centers in other states.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Managing this pandemic &#8211; and healthcare as a whole &#8211; is taxing and requires multiple resources: testing, medication, technology, buildings, logistics, <em>and<\/em> skilled personnel. INMED is a training center, equipping healthcare professionals with crucial skills to care for the planet&#8217;s most vulnerable people &#8211; including how to better manage personal stress and even compassion fatigue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmed.us\/courses-info\/professional-certificate-course-in-healthcare-for-marginalized-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Healthcare for Marginalized Americans<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmed.us\/courses-info\/academic-calendar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Refugee Care<\/a> are two highly-anticipated INMED courses beginning in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmed.us\/courses-info\/academic-calendar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2021 Winter Term<\/a> on January 4th. Such courses can be taken for continuing medical education, and also credited towards the INMED <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmed.us\/masters\/mih\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Professional Master&#8217;s Degree in International Health<\/a>. Ultimately, the greatest outcome is YOU being prepared for today&#8217;s critical professional shortages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201cCare is about more than a room with a hospital bed. It\u2019s about medical professionals taking care of patients. If you don\u2019t have the staff to do that, people are going to die.\u201d So declares CEO of the Texas Organization of Rural &amp; Community Hospitals, John Henderson. 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