Becker's Healthcare February 14, 2023
The widespread shortage of nurses is the result of a foundational crack in hospital systems across the country, Amanda Bettencourt, PhD, APRN, president of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, told Becker’s.
It’s not about money and it’s not about burnout, Dr. Bettencourt said. “Hospitals are failing to provide safe, healthy work environments, and the result is an absolute feeling among critical care nurses that hospitals don’t have our backs.”
In the AACN’s most recent survey, published in the October 2022 issue of Critical Care Nurse, less than half of the participating nurses said their hospitals value their health and safety.
Not an unlikely statistic considering a Press Ganey report said more than two nurses were assaulted every hour...
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