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Nursing Care: A Lost Art
Author(s) -
Gugerty Lisa
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
nursing forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.618
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1744-6198
pISSN - 0029-6473
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6198.2008.00108.x
Subject(s) - nursing , nursing care , psychology , medicine
The nursing shortage is wreaking havoc on the profession. Nurses report being overwhelmed by the workload and the lack of staff. Faced with understaffing and increased paper work, nurses are no longer able to provide the care they were trained to do. As a result, job satisfaction is being reported at an all-time low. Nurses are questioning the quality of care they are able to give to their patients. In this article, I address the effects of the nursing shortage on nursing care and how the shortage has deteriorated the core of the profession: caring.