Most US nursing homes are understaffed, potentially compromising health care for more than a million elderly residents
Reduced staffing means nursing home residents make more unnecessary trips to the hospital.
Aug. 22, 2023 • ~5 min
A new study found that temporary assignments in new places reignited nurses’ passion to help others and helped them rediscover the meaningfulness of their work.
Reduced staffing means nursing home residents make more unnecessary trips to the hospital.
Nurses who identify as Democrats have a significantly higher likelihood of having their children vaccinated against COVID-19 than those who identify as Republicans.
Exhausted and demoralized nurses are leaving the profession at alarming rates as the COVID-19 pandemic drags on.
Long-term solutions to the nursing shortage call for changes that value nurses and offer them a safe place to work.
To keep our health care providers healthy, we need to help them sleep.
Professor of Defence Mental Health, King's College London
The COVID-19 pandemic has shined a spotlight on another US medical emergency: a serious shortage of nurses.
COVID-19 has again demonstrated the health inequities that exist between African-Americans and whites.
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