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Why the U.S. Nursing Shortage Keeps Getting Worse

Nurses in both the U.S. and U.K. flexed their bargaining muscle over the last few weeks amid increasing pressure on the countries’ respective health care system due to COVID-19. About 7,000 nurses from two New York City hospitals, Mount Sinai Hospital and Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, returned to work on January 12 after going on strike for three days. That followed tens of thousands of National Health Services nurses who went on strike in the U.K. for two days in December—those NHS workers are expected to take to the picket lines again next week. Despite the geographic distance, these nurses are proximate in their demands: that their facilities address serious shortages of health care workers, including by providing higher wages.

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By Ana Lita|2023-01-13T05:25:07+00:00January 13th, 2023|News-Letters|Comments Off on Why the U.S. Nursing Shortage Keeps Getting Worse

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