Nurses and healthcare workers have been spotlighted as heroes throughout the pandemic, but they've been susceptible to workplace violence and abuse for years with little done to prevent it, a Dec. 10 investigation found.
As hospitals fill up and health care workers become overwhelmed by COVID-19 cases, the state has created a temporary stop gap to help with a shortage of nurses.
The reports have come in from all across the country: Hospitals are filling up, especially in the Midwest, and they are running out of the staff they need to take care of patients.
A shortage of nurses means hospitals are paying high salaries to get the help they need. That threatens to shift the supply to more affluent areas.
More than 76,000 Americans are hospitalized, the highest number of the entire coronavirus pandemic, as healthcare workers battle severe burnout.
State hospitals pleaded to retired nurses to put back on their scrubs and head to work as the state faced a shortage of nurses with more COVID-19 patients in the hospital.
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