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Nurse Shortage In Nursing

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Nurse Shortage Recent visits to my doctor office has left me thinking about the long wait time and stress on all the staff during my visit. Same thing happened when we got sent into urgent care when my son had a run in with a fence. What should have been a quick visit in both locations became over baring and way to long. The Rio Grande Valley has seen a growth in population the past few years resulting in a shortage in nurses needed our health care system. As a personal experience that I have had since I work in the health care system is that it is very hard to call to the doctor’s office and get them to help us out. Front page newspaper stories paint a picture of a nursing shortage born of increased patient loads and escalation pressure to treat more people, more quickly, for less money (Facts About the Nursing Shortage July 2001). My on-line source only reflected something we are currently hearing from many doctor offices. When confronted with wait times from my own customers I talk with them about the need to get their nurses on the line for questions and the lack of such help in their doctor office. …show more content…

Who can only move as quickly as possible after the nurse has done our intake. Without our first visit to the nurse station the doctor cannot work on us slowing down an already slow process. “The nursing shortage impacts access to care and creates stress and burnout for the working nurses in the RGV” said Sylvia Vargas, RN, a family nurse practitioner, member of the Texas A&M Collage of Nursing’s Clinical Advisory Board and native of the RGV (The Rio Grande Valley Needs More Nurses January 29,2018). Imagine just how much we could accomplish if we worked through the shortage we

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