Short Staffing: Legal Risks & Implications for Nursing Practice
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Do you as a nurse/clinician ever feel overwhelmed by your workload?
Has short staffing and increased workload ever negatively impacted your nursing/clinical practice, exposing you to legal risk?
The current and projected nursing shortage and short staffing rates present a continuing and long-term problem for all levels of nursing professionals. Despite the prior knowledge of nursing shortage projections, the COVID-19 pandemic only aggravated staffing complications. Aside from negatively impacting the health and well-being of nurses, short staffing can also expose nursing professionals to increased legal risk.
Take a look at how staffing shortages and increased workload can place your nursing practice at legal risk and identify ways to improve and prevent yourself from landing in the courtroom.