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We Need More Nurses

NYT

MAY 28, 2015

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/
opinion/we-need-more-nurses.html

nurse        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/society/
nursing

2024

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/22/
nurses-england-cost-of-living-crisis-nhs

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/22/
nurses-england-credit-savings-costs-rise-nhs-pay

2023

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/09/
joyce-hastings-obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2022/dec/16/
martin-rowson-on-rishi-sunak-and-striking-nurses-cartoon#img-19

2022

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2022/may/20/
the-nurses-getting-huge-bills-for-quitting-the-nhs-podcast

2020

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/26/
heroism-is-the-most-human-of-qualities

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/24/
year-nurse-tories-10-years-bad-care-nhs-crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/18/
remains-of-nhs-workers-who-died-of-coronavirus-lost-for-days

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/05/
nurses-fell-like-ninepins-death-and-bravery-in-the-1918-flu-pandemic

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/24/
nurse-coronavirus-journal-er-diaries

2014

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/09/
hospitals-need-thousands-extra-nurses-
or-patients-safety-at-risk

2003

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2003/nov/30/
health.medicineandhealth

palliative care nurse        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/03/
regret-dying-palliative-care-nurse-top-5-regrets-prof-john-ashton

nursing knowledge and skills        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/09/
joyce-hastings-obituary

Hospital Greed Is Destroying Our Nurses.

Here’s Why.

NYT    20 January 2022

Hospital Greed Is Destroying Our Nurses. Here’s Why.

Video    NYT Opinion    20 January 2022

We’re entering our third year of Covid, and America’s nurses

— who we celebrated as heroes during the early days of lockdown —

are now leaving the bedside.

The pandemic arrived

with many people having great hope for reform on many fronts,

including the nursing industry,

but much of that optimism seems to have faded.

In the Opinion Video above,

nurses set the record straight about the root cause of the nursing crisis:

chronic understaffing by profit-driven hospitals that predates the pandemic.

“I could no longer work in critical care

under the conditions I was being forced to work under with poor staffing,”

explains one nurse, “and that’s when I left.”

They also tear down the common misconception

that there’s a shortage of nurses.

In fact,

there are more qualified nurses today in America

than ever before.

To keep patients safe and protect our health care workers,

lawmakers could regulate nurse-patient ratios,

which California put in place in 2004, with positive results.

Similar legislation was proposed and defeated

in Massachusetts several years ago

(with help from a $25 million “no” campaign

funded by the hospital lobby),

but it is currently on the table in Illinois and Pennsylvania.

These laws could save patient lives

and create a more just work environment

for a vulnerable generation of nurses,

the ones we pledged to honor and protect

at the start of the pandemic.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrDyii0P4DU

Inside a Covid I.C.U., Through a Nurse's Eyes

NYT    25 February 2021

Inside a Covid I.C.U., Through a Nurse's Eyes

Video        NYT Opinion        25 February 2021

The short film above

allows you to experience the brutality of the pandemic

from the perspective of nurses

inside a Covid-19 intensive care unit.

Opinion Video producer Alexander Stockton

spent several days

reporting at the Valleywise Medical Center in Phoenix.

Two I.C.U. nurses wore cameras to show

what it’s like to care for the sickest Covid patients

a year into the pandemic.

So many Americans have died in hospitals

without family by their side,

but they were not alone.

Nurses brush patients’ teeth,

change their catheters and hold their hands

in their final moments.

In just a year

 we’ve lost half a million Americans to Covid-19.

Vaccinations may be offering some relief,

but inside I.C.U.s, nurses continue to contend

with the trauma and grief of America’s carousel of death.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvqmP7jtaCs

nurse        USA

2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/
1173107527/nursing-staffing-crisis

2022

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/05/18/
1097341962/covid-whidbey-island

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/25/
1094689736/stanford-hospital-nurses-strike

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/04/05/
1090915329/why-nurses-are-raging-and-quitting-
after-the-radonda-vaught-verdict

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrDyii0P4DU
video - NYT - 20 January 2022

2021

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/10/20/
1046131313/worn-out-nurses-hit-the-road-for-better-pay-stressing-hospital-budgets-and-moral

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/10/
1026577164/hospitals-face-a-shortage-of-nurses-as-covid-cases-soar

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/08/06/
1025372158/an-icu-nurse-posted-an-appeal-for-people-in-louisiana-to-get-vaccinated

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/
health/nursing-shortage-disabled-children.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/
opinion/covid-icu-nurses-arizona.html

2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/
nyregion/coronavirus-orthodox-jewish-nurse.html

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/02/
848997142/nurses-left-vulnerable-to-covid-19-
we-re-not-martyrs-sacrificing-our-lives

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/
nyregion/nurses-coronavirus.html

https://www.propublica.org/
article/diary-of-a-covid-nurse - April 24, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/
nyregion/coronavirus-deaths-nyc.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/
nyregion/coronavirus-new-jersey-hospitals.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/
nyregion/ny-coronavirus-doctors-sick.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/
nyregion/nurse-dies-coronavirus-mount-sinai.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/
opinion/coronavirus-doctors-nurses.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/
opinion/sunday/coronavirus-hospitals-doctors.html

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/20/
817674836/93-year-old-retired-nurse-

it-takes-a-special-person-to-go-into-the-profession

2019

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/19/
686830475/morphine-and-a-side-of-grief-counseling-
nurses-learn-how-to-handle-death

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/04/30/
526056664/a-trauma-nurse-reflects-on-compassion-fatigue

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/09/28/
443468965/a-nurse-reflects-on-the-privilege-of-caring-for-dying-patients

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/
opinion/we-need-more-nurses.html 

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/12/
providing-the-balm-of-truth/

trauma nurse        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/04/30/
526056664/a-trauma-nurse-reflects-on-compassion-fatigue

compassion fatigue        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/04/30/
526056664/a-trauma-nurse-reflects-on-compassion-fatigue

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