if nurse shortage is becoming a problem in most of the states then how can we expect to get good treatment from hospitals if they are lacking of good nurses?

Nurse short-staffing on the roads of Long Island
January 29, 2006 -- Recently the New York press has run good articles about the critical shortage of Suffolk County public health nurses. Today Newsday ran a piece by Ridgely Ochs, "Debate on public health services," that explained some of the effects of this situation on needy patients and the overwhelmed nurses.

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