Health

With too many patients and too few colleagues, Oregon nurses say: ‘We’re drowning’

By Amelia Templeton (OPB)
Sept. 6, 2022 12 p.m. Updated: Sept. 7, 2022 12:23 a.m.

The nurse shortage at hospitals is making working conditions untenable, which leads to nurses leaving, which leads to hospitals hiring more travel nurses and pushing staff nurses harder