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2/6/22, 6:27 PM Nurs440: Overstaffing

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Nancy: I just read this article earlier, and it points out that nurse understaffing and nurse fatigue are the two prom inent issues that negatively im pact the quality of care delivered to patients. According to the article in JAMA pediatrics—a national study found that very few neonatal intensive care units provide sufficient num bers of nurses to m eet national guidelines and that units caring for the m ost vulnerable babies are also the m ost understaffed, putting the health of critically ill newborns at risk.

We need m ore nurses.

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