Topics About 'Short Staffing'.

Night shift staged a sit-in in the break room -did not accept assignment due to having SEVEN RN's to cover 100+ ED patients. Multiple patients on ventilators due to COVID-19. Usual staffing would have been 21 nurses to provide care for that many ...

Talk to any nurse and they will have something to say about the staffing at their hospital or facility. More often than not, that something will be an unflattering depiction best summed up with three words: stretched too thin. Additionally, the COVID...

Short staffing in nursing homes due to cost-cutting decisions, nurses retiring due to age, or the added stresses of COVID-19, along with increases in patient caseload and complexity have played a pivotal part in the short-staffing crisis. The results...

To address the current nursing shortage, we must first address the reason that so many nurses are leaving the profession. Is it stress from witnessing death on a daily basis as was the case during the height of the pandemic, or burnout from working t...

Self-care has become a band-aid to fix a gaping stab wound. And by gaping stab wound, I mean the work environments we are forced to endure every shift as nurses. The system is broken. We are not broken So why is self-care thrown out as the a...

Hi everyone, I am a new LVN and have currently been working at my job for a couple of months now. I had five days of training which I told them I needed more training, the scheduler told me that he “believed in me” so I was forced onto the floor in m...