Diane Eastabrook’s Post

Everyone talks about the "nursing shortage". This is a narrative hospitals and systems are pushing to divert blame. There are plenty of nurses out there but they don't want to put their license, credibility, and patients lives at risk. "According to a January 2023 survey conducted by the Michigan Nurses Association, 42% of polled nurses know of a patient death they attribute to unsafe staffing levels within hospitals. That number was 22% in 2016." Can you imagine knowing you could have saved someone's life but were unable? Many cannot as they've never been faced with this. Training more nurses to go into the "meat grinder" is not the solution. Fix the core problem and you fix the staffing crisis. #healthcare #nursing #nurses #staffing #hospitals #business #hr