Martha Huddelson A robust float pool can handle sick calls.  And nurses will fill those openings when it's safe to work in a hospital---nurses last 5-6 years at the bedside and then move on because it's disheartening to deliver substandard care, and jeopardize their licenses, to boot.  Once you strip the job of the rewards inherent in providing excellent care, you're left with a demoralized staff that's just looking for an exit.  Staff us properly and we'll stay.  Hire agency nurses, pay crisis rates and commit to staffing ratios---if you build it, they will come.  Patients deserve it.

Martha Huddelson A robust float pool can handle sick calls.  And nurses will fill those openings when it's safe to work in a hospital---nurses last 5-6 years at the bedside and then move on because it's disheartening to deliver substandard care, and jeopardize their licenses, to boot.  Once you strip the job of the rewards inherent in providing excellent care, you're left with a demoralized staff that's just looking for an exit.  Staff us properly and we'll stay.  Hire agency nurses, pay crisis rates and commit to staffing ratios---if you build it, they will come.  Patients deserve it.

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