The Nursing Shortage and Patient Care

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This paper talks about the deterioration in the quality of care patients receive as a result of the nursing shortage. It talks about the causes of the nursing shortage, the implications of this shortage for the future of patient care, and what can be done to alleviate the problem.

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"A lack of nurses, or even a lack of highly trained and qualified nurses, can have a serious impact on patient recovery. Most patients deal with nurses much more than they deal with doctors and because of this nurses are very important to patients and how well most of them recover. Unfortunately, the nursing shortage that began several years ago is getting worse and therefore patients are suffering in many ways. It is important not only to understand how significant nurses are in the lives of their patients, but also to understand why there is such a shortage in nurses at the present time. There are several reasons why this is the case but the largest one has a great deal to do with how much nurses get paid. Most of them are concerned about the wages that they receive and feel that it is not sufficient for much of the work that they perform on a daily basis. In other words, they often work much harder than their pay actually reflects."

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