It's sweaty and hard and chaotic and bloody. "It looks heroic," Nichole Atherton, a nurse who resigned from Singing River Ocean Springs Hospital, said. In August, Daily Kos reported Mississippi as one of the states with the highest number of nurses leaving the field due to exhaustion and burnout. Hospitals across the country are struggling to support patients amid a national nursing shortage due to burnout associated with the pandemic. The resignations come amid a national staffing shortage. There are thousands of positions that are open north of the Thruway and now we have a challenge to work through, you know, with the vaccination mandate.” “Our hope is as we get closer (to the deadline), the numbers will increase of individuals who are vaccinated, fewer individuals will leave and maybe, with a little luck, some of those who have resigned will reconsider,” Cayer said. “Anyone who has resigned who changes their mind will be welcomed back,” he said, according to The New York Times. “The answer is unequivocally yes.”įor those who have resigned Cayer hopes they reconsider and get their shot before the deadline.
“I have been asked several times if I support the vaccination mandate for health care workers and others,” Cayer added. The mandate ensures we will have a healthy workforce and that we are not responsible for transmission in or out of our facilities.” “Essential health services are at risk,” Cayer said. The pause in maternity services is expected to be temporary, during the pause Cayer noted that the health system will focus on recruiting nurses to get baby deliveries back up and running.
Other departments also remain at risk but have not yet announced closures or pauses in services. In total 27% of employees remain unvaccinated, as of Friday.Īs a result, patients may now have to rely on other facilities or hospitals for maternity and postpartum care. Because these employees are undecided or resigned, officials are unable to staff the maternity ward. But 30 other employees resigned from 21 clinical areas, including six from obstetrics services-another seven are still deciding whether they want to be vaccinated or leave. 27.Īccording to Cayer, nearly three-fourths of hospital staff have received the vaccine, including 30 employees who received it after the mandate was announced in August. Under state law, hospitals and nursing home employees must at least have their first dose by Sept. While the original mandate included religious exemptions, the new one only makes room for medical exemptions for those in health care. 16 to ensure that all health care workers in New York must be vaccinated. The vaccine mandate follows a rise in cases nationwide due to the delta variant.
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