Linda Aiken of the School of Nursing said short staffing in hospitals has been exacerbated by the pandemic. “Chronic understaffing in hospitals and chaotic and inefficient work environments put nurses in a very poor position to be able to respond to the COVID surge because they were already reaching deep inside themselves in the normal context of care,” she said.
https://whyy.org/articles/this-is-something-that-we-werent-taught-how-a-brand-new-nurse-learned-to-treat-an-unknown-disease/ WHYY (Philadelphia)