{"id":2767,"date":"2020-04-01T00:56:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T06:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2022-08-23T15:15:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T21:15:17","slug":"how-crisis-affects-u-s-healthcare-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/how-crisis-affects-u-s-healthcare-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"How Crisis Affects U.S. Healthcare Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Back in 2002, thousands of miles from New York City, I worked with a hospital in Oregon. I was amazed to find that they had staffing data from 9\/11 about the up and down for that month. As you can see in this X Chart, absenteeism (understaffing) was lower for each of the four following days, 9\/12-15, and then recovered. I have noticed this pattern with COVID-19 as well: a week of paralysis followed by a return to normal. Unfortunately, healthcare workers haven&#8217;t had the luxury of downtime when dealing with the new crisis.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001-hospital-staffing-downturn.jpg\" alt=\"2001 hospital staffing downturn\" width=\"728\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001-hospital-staffing-downturn.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001-hospital-staffing-downturn-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001-hospital-staffing-downturn-115x57.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>So don&#8217;t be surprised if crisis and uncertainty cause you or someone you know to hit the pause button. They&#8217;ll come back. Humans are surprisingly resilient.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2002, thousands of miles from New York City, I worked with a hospital in Oregon. I was amazed to find that they had staffing data from 9\/11 about the up and down for that month. As you can see in this X Chart, absenteeism (understaffing) was lower for each of the four following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,1,3,5],"tags":[439,202,48],"class_list":["post-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-jay-arthur-blog","category-lean","category-qi-macros","tag-control-charts","tag-data-mining","tag-insights-tagged-as-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5974,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions\/5974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}