A Vascular Access Discussion on the Nursing Shortage and Impact to Patient Care

Nurses are notoriously helpers. That is why we became nurses. We fill in the gaps when needed. If a unit secretary is sick, the nurses end up answering phones and doing their role in addition to their own. Environmental service staff are short? Nurses take up the slack and strip beds and empty trash. Nurses are drowning. In spite of all of this, they are going home worried if they did enough for their patients.