Press items report deadly nursing shortage on both sides of the Atlantic A study of European hospitals shows that missed care due to nurse understaffing has increased death rates, according to an…
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Don’t show up, don’t come out
In April 2020, U.S. nurses appeared in the media to tell the public why Covid-19 must be taken seriously and managed with social distancing measures. An anonymous California nurse did that forcefully in an installment of the Guardian’s “ER Diaries” series, explaining that Covid patients were pushing his hospital to the brink. And on PBS’s NewsHour a Miami nurse manager likewise pleaded for distancing, describing how challenging it is stay safe while providing critical care.
No time to choose between life and death
L.A. Times on covid-19’s terrible toll on Wuhan health workers The Times report focuses on the desperate efforts to contain the coronavirus, which has killed many Chinese health workers; some have actually died of overwork….
No deal
Guardian item says Brexit caused “nurse of the year” to have mental breakdown Nursing leader Joan Pons Laplana left Spain for the U.K. in 2000, and now he has a family there….
You gotta keep the devil way down in the hole
London Free Press on firing of Ontario CNO for understaffing report June 17, 2016 — Today the London Free Press (Ontario) ran a piece by Jonathan Sher reporting that the city’s largest…