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Improving Working Conditions

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Poor working conditions, including short staffing, mandatory overtime, and low wages are driving nurses from the bedside. Nurses want to deliver the highest quality care to their patients, but conditions inside hospitals have made that more and more difficult.
  • 33 percent of hospital nurses report they are dissatisfied with their job.
  • 35 percent of employed nurses who are not working in nursing are in positions of higher pay and 46 percent of them find better hours in their current work environment.
  • When wages for nurses increased in 2001-2003, hospitals added 186,500 nurses. But when wages began to fall in 2004 and the number of nurses working in hospitals dropped as many hospitals continue to rely on mandatory overtime, contingent workers, and understaffing.
Strengthening the ranks of qualified, dedicated professional nurses is essential to strengthening America's health care system. By helping attract more nurses back into the profession, the needs of patients will be met. It is time to invest in patient care by valuing those who deliver it.


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