CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) – In the fall of 2022, leaders from both UTC and our local hospitals came together to solve a nationwide issue. “It’s almost at a crisis, where they can’t open wards because they don’t have enough nurses,” Chancellor Angle said at the press conference. UTC’s response was to create an accelerated nursing degree program. This program enables
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If you’ve recently been a patient in a hospital or seen your physician, you most likely experienced the impact of our nationwide nursing shortage. Longer wait times, delayed care and even patient harm can all result from an inadequate number of nurses to meet rising demand. South Carolina already has too few nurses and is expected to be among the
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Thenurse practitioner position is the number one best healthcare job in 2023for several reasons. There have been nursing shortages in the U.S. before, but this one is different in many ways. I have already seen nursing shortages, first in the late 1980s and again at the beginning of this decade. Experts say the current nursing shortage is culminating in the
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Every decision by the government (or anyone else) comes with costs. Making good decisions is a matter of looking squarely at all the costs and benefits and choosing wisely in their light. One lesson of the COVID-19 pandemic is the importance and difficulty of accountingfor all the costs of agency actions in emergency situations. The ongoing vaccine mandate forhealth care workersis a
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A union frustrated by what it calls lack of action on ER nursing shortages has sent an open letter to Nova Scotia government officials on behalf of Halifax Infirmary nurses. The Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union, which represents more than 3,200 nurses, sent the letter to Premier Tim Houston, Health Minister Michelle Thompson and Karen Oldfield, president and
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