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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 this week.
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 United States is rationing healthcare because it has too few nurses to provision it.
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
“It’s no longer a PPE crisis. It’s a caregiver crisis.”
AUGUST 30, 2021—Hospitals in every corner of the country are once again buckling under the weight of the coronavirus. But unlike earlier surges when intensive
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 emerging outbreak.