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.
States look to overseas nurses
"Our caregivers are exhausted. They're fatigued physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually," Tom VanOsdol, president and CEO of Florida health system Ascension Florida, testified before a panel of Sunshine State legislators
Medical rationing in America
America’s nursing shortage has become so acute that hospitals—large and small, rural and urban—are being forced to ration medical care. We’ll say it louder for those in the back: the
A national crisis deserves a national response
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021—The Department of State last week updated its visa processing protocols to provide a possible pathway for emergency visa processing of foreign healthcare workers. The move comes as American hospitals
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