My mother is a retired RN with an "inactive" license in Washington state. She does elder care as a side gig for individual clients.
She recently had to turn someone down because the patient was intubated; it's not legal for her to care for such a patient. If anything went wrong she could be both at risk of a lawsuit and in trouble with the state for practicing medicine without a license.
(She's also in her seventies herself, putting her in the high-risk category, but that's a different issue.)
I'm at a loss as to how our legal and licensing institutions can be adapted to allow for a quick increase in the number of personnel who can care for intubated patients.
My mother is a retired RN with an "inactive" license in Washington state. She does elder care as a side gig for individual clients.
She recently had to turn someone down because the patient was intubated; it's not legal for her to care for such a patient. If anything went wrong she could be both at risk of a lawsuit and in trouble with the state for practicing medicine without a license.
(She's also in her seventies herself, putting her in the high-risk category, but that's a different issue.)
I'm at a loss as to how our legal and licensing institutions can be adapted to allow for a quick increase in the number of personnel who can care for intubated patients.