Why nurses are striking: patient/nurse ratios

By artappraiser on Thu, 04/18/2019 - 6:28am |

Nurses, already in short supply, have not been afraid of going on strike at their hospitals.

Between the lines: Pay and health benefits are almost always part of why any worker considers striking. But nurses, who make $72,000 per year on average, are also consistently unhappy about understaffed hospitals, saying they're caring for too many patients at once.

The big picture: Nurses are in high demand but low supply, and that has led to a "high-pressure work culture" and "emotional burnout," Jaimy Lee of LinkedIn recently reported. Juggling a lot of patients over long hours has prompted many nurses to walk out [....]

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https://www.axios.com/nurses-strikes-hospitals-understaffing-a3255dad-7d3d-441a-b3b4-b23c1b6e90e7.html