As US Covid-19 hospitalisations climb, a chronic nursing shortage is worsening

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NEW YORK - American hospitals are once again filling up with coronavirus patients - but not with nurses to care for them.

The nation's chronic shortage of registered nurses is as bad in some parts of the country as it has ever been, experts say, and it is showing signs of getting worse.

In New York state, the shortage is at an"all-time high," said Mr Matthew Allen, a registered nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City and a board member of the New York State Nurses Association. To close the gaps, hospitals are offering financial incentives for new hires, bringing in more freelance nurses and in some cases cutting services that they cannot adequately staff to provide.

At Johnson Memorial Hospital in Stafford Springs, Connecticut, inpatient and outpatient surgery has been halted since June 9. Part of the problem, Ms Mayhew said, was the large number of nurses who were leaving regular hospital jobs to earn more money as temporary and contract nurses."We have a turnover rate that is 25 to 30 per cent, the highest we have ever seen in the decades we've been tracking that data," she said.White House to prioritise Covid-19 vaccine boosters, testing for Omicron BA.5 subvariant

Demand for nurses is projected to keep growing significantly in the United States. The McKinsey consulting firm projected in a report in May that the nation could face a shortage of up to 450,000 nurses by 2025.

 

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