Cairelle RN
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http://www.sss.gov/FactSheets/FSmedical.pdf
Found that from a link on allnurses.com. Forgive me if it's posted, I looked but didn't see it.
MEDICAL DRAFT IN STANDBY MODE
The Health Care Personnel Delivery System (HCPDS) is a standby plan developed for the Selective Service System at the request of Congress. If needed it would be used to draft health care personnel in a crisis. It is designed to be implemented in connection with a national mobilization in an emergency, and then only if Congress and the President approve the plan and pass and sign legislation to enact it.
No portion of the plan is designed for implementation in peacetime. If implemented, HCPDS would:
Provide a fair and equitable draft of doctors, nurses, medical technicians and those with certain other health care skills if, in some future emergency, the military’s existing medical capability proved insufficient and there is a shortage of volunteers.
Include women, unless directed otherwise by Congress and the President.
Draft a very small percentage of America’s health care providers into military service. Impact on the availability of civilian health care would be minimal. Those health-care workers whose absence would seriously hurt their communities would be deferred on the basis of community essentiality.
Begin a mass registration of male and female health care workers between the ages of 20 and 45. They would register at local post offices. HCPDS would provide medical personnel from a pool of 3.4 million doctors, nurses, specialists and allied health professionals in more than 60 fields of medicine.
Require minimal training for HCPDS draftees, because they are already skilled personnel.
I bolded a sentence up there because, if left as it stands, no nurse would ever go anywhere because there aren't enough of us now as it is! My husband is telling me that I am basing that statement on current staffing standards (which suck on a good day), and that there's nothing to stop anyone from changing said standards - for instance, changing the standard of 2 patients per ICU nurse to 4. :surrender:
I guess I'm wondering if TSHTF in a huge way, if this "medical draft" could be used to force nurses in to work?
Overall, an interesting link of which I was unaware. Silly me.
Found that from a link on allnurses.com. Forgive me if it's posted, I looked but didn't see it.
MEDICAL DRAFT IN STANDBY MODE
The Health Care Personnel Delivery System (HCPDS) is a standby plan developed for the Selective Service System at the request of Congress. If needed it would be used to draft health care personnel in a crisis. It is designed to be implemented in connection with a national mobilization in an emergency, and then only if Congress and the President approve the plan and pass and sign legislation to enact it.
No portion of the plan is designed for implementation in peacetime. If implemented, HCPDS would:
Provide a fair and equitable draft of doctors, nurses, medical technicians and those with certain other health care skills if, in some future emergency, the military’s existing medical capability proved insufficient and there is a shortage of volunteers.
Include women, unless directed otherwise by Congress and the President.
Draft a very small percentage of America’s health care providers into military service. Impact on the availability of civilian health care would be minimal. Those health-care workers whose absence would seriously hurt their communities would be deferred on the basis of community essentiality.
Begin a mass registration of male and female health care workers between the ages of 20 and 45. They would register at local post offices. HCPDS would provide medical personnel from a pool of 3.4 million doctors, nurses, specialists and allied health professionals in more than 60 fields of medicine.
Require minimal training for HCPDS draftees, because they are already skilled personnel.
I bolded a sentence up there because, if left as it stands, no nurse would ever go anywhere because there aren't enough of us now as it is! My husband is telling me that I am basing that statement on current staffing standards (which suck on a good day), and that there's nothing to stop anyone from changing said standards - for instance, changing the standard of 2 patients per ICU nurse to 4. :surrender:
I guess I'm wondering if TSHTF in a huge way, if this "medical draft" could be used to force nurses in to work?
Overall, an interesting link of which I was unaware. Silly me.
