nurse shortage
Not enough caregivers
A nurse shortage is a deficit in the number of qualified nurses available to meet healthcare demands.
The term describes both acute staffing crises at individual hospitals and chronic nationwide shortfalls in the nursing workforce.
Causes include aging populations requiring more care, nurse burnout, and insufficient training capacity.
The nurse shortage forced the ER to divert ambulances to other hospitals.
- staffingProviding personnel for positions
- burnoutChronic occupational depletion
- burned outExhausted from overexertion
- overtimeWork beyond scheduled hours
- hospitalMedical treatment facility
understaffed · overworked · healthcare · crisis · retention · turnover · bedside · bedside care · exhaustion · vacancy · recruitment · wages · pandemic · ICU · workload · fatigue · hiring · retirement
- shortages
- healthcare problemsmedical errors, misdiagnosis, high costs, long waits, staffing shortages
- health crisespandemic, epidemic, outbreak, health emergency, public health emergency
- health problemsdisease, cancer, diabetes, illness, heart disease