“We just don’t have enough nurses over there,” said Debra Robinson. Robinson has been a nurse for more than 40 years. She says right now the need for nurses and other health care workers is higher than ever. “I’m not sure there’s going to be enough to take care of us,” said Robinson. “I gotta stay healthy, because… I’m just not sure if there will be enough if I were to get sick. Yeah, and that’s scary. That’s real scary.” Just before the pandemic, Robinson became a traveling nurse, something she says a lot of hospitals around the U.S. are utilizing because of the lack of workers. “We don’t have the same amount of staff to care for our patients. This time around we will run out of staff before we run out of beds,” said commissioner Sarah Lopez during the Sedgwick County Commission meeting Tuesday morning. Lopez says the recent spread of the delta variant combined with the nursing shortage is a recipe for disaster.
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