Ecomony

Well I know that it has been a very long time since my last posting. I am terrible at this for sure. But I have the noticed that the economy is effective the medical field. As I work in labor and delivery. We find that many women or not having babies. There has been a large drop in deliveries at our hospital as well as the surrounding hospitals around our county.



Since I also work in the nursing home field and there is not as many patients being admitted at this time. Many people either or don't have the means to spend the money to have others to take care of their loves one. Due to the state medical care insurance they have been cutting back on spending money to send the elderly to rehab or nursing home before letting them go home. It becoming scary they way things are going right now.



So many people are out of jobs. I have no people in my own family. Plus many friends I have or know someone out of a job right now too. They are so hard to find right now too. If you are not in the military or medical field you are pretty much not guarantee a job. I know for some fields in the nursing speciality nursing such as NICU, L&D,CCU and SICU the jobs are hard to find. The med. surg floors have plenty of nursing. But people are finding that they are willing to take any job at the time and will work any floor. Some floors have cut back on the support system in the medical field too.



As I have told many people that they need to make themselves as less expendable as possible. If you can find a way to make sure that they can't live without you. We are right now doing extra around our floor to make sure they don't cut our hours back as they have on other floors. Staying seen at all times. Making ourselves available on our off days. Trying to cover all shifts they are not schedule instead of farming it out to other department staff.



So far managment have worked with us and trying to keep the hours the same and letting us pick up shift if possible. Since I work part-time at my other job and was not schedule for the month of May. So scamble for shift for the second job has been very hard. I turning in my schedule for availility but no guarantee. Which is scary because since each day I wonder if my husband will have a job because he works for the newspaper business. It is always a up and down issue in that field. They have cut back on staff and layed people off just recently. They were just bought out too. So it is right now a day to day or week to week if he will have a job tomorrow.



We have cut back or fun time and doing things right now. Any extra money I have put aside to keep just incase things change for us. So we are not planning on doing things outside of the home this year. I have not been driving me car long distances due to the raising gas prices. Cooking more at home. All our entertainment has been movies from netflix or blockbuster. I know it isn't much but never know when the next shoe is going to fall is nerve racking.



But it has made our family closer together. I know that this world will get better. But how much more do we slide before it get's better. I think about it all the time. I guess we can only see. Wake up each morning a say thank goodness I have some kind of job and I can feed, cloth and a roof over our heads. To help those that are in need. Only time will tell......