Healthcare Innovation December 4, 2023
During University of Pennsylvania webinar, panelists say minimum safe staffing levels in hospitals would aid retention efforts
Many nurses are continuing to raise their voices about what they perceive as unsafe staffing levels in hospitals. Lisa Cornelius, a registered nurse at Mountain View Hospital in Las Vegas, recently told Spectrum News that “There’s not really a staffing shortage. There’s a shortage of nurses who are willing to work under the conditions the way that they are in the hospitals today.”
Cornelius, speaking at a recent rally organized by National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United, said she is sometimes tasked with caring for up to twice as many patients as would normally be standard.
Another nurse at the same rally,...