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There's even more in here beyond the headline about nurse satisfaction. USA healthcare pretty broken, and sliding into catastrophe. Nurse dissatisfaction is ju
by jrochkind1 5y ago
There's even more in here beyond the headline about nurse satisfaction.
USA healthcare pretty broken, and sliding into catastrophe. Nurse dissatisfaction is just the tip of the iceberg, or the canary in the coalmine.
> Eighty-four percent of emergency room nurses and 96% of intensive care or critical care nurses have a 4:1 ratio, which is double the optimal target of 2:1.
> Thirty-six percent of nurses said they've seen patients with acute health conditions walk out of the ER because of the wait times for an inpatient bed. And 37% said that surgeries had to be rescheduled because of bed shortages.