The real question isn't if the US has enough masks or beds. It's if we have enough nurses.
The Healthcare Workforce Resiliency Act would allow US hospitals to hire international nurses to meet the demands of this pandemic.
By why does healthcare staffing matter to your family? Simple: overworked nurses means underserved patients.
Increasing a nurse’s workload by just one patient increases patient mortality by 7 percent, according to Becker’s Hospital Review.
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The Hill: "This pandemic will expose what those in the industry have known for decades. America doesn't have enough nurses, and it's the country's caregivers and most vulnerable populations that will pay the price." Read more.
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Roll Call: "For decades, the U.S. has maintained a delicate health care staffing balance by relying on foreign-trained nurses like me. Without us, most U.S. medical facilities would collapse." Read more.
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Roll Call: "Questions about equipment miss the system’s most obvious structural problem: Even before the very first novel coronavirus infection last year, the United States didn’t have enough nurses to treat the patients we already have." Read more.
One year into the coronavirus, one-third of nurses considering leaving bedside
Sixty percent of respondents in a nationwide survey of more than 1,000 registered nurses reported that nurse-to-patient ratios have risen to unsafe levels in the last year.
AAIHR in the Orlando Sentinel: Nurses needed to fight Florida coronavirus surge
Unlike bustling urban corridors with well-staffed and provisioned hospitals, the rural and bedroom communities in which the coronavirus is spreading today are the least-equipped in the country to contain the
AAIHR commends bipartisan bill to recapture unused visas to fight COVID-19
Foreign nurses can help mitigate the crisis. It’s time for Congress to act
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