The Rural Nursing Shortage

Timothy Sablik

Econ Focus, 2022, issue 1Q, 4-7

Abstract: During the pandemic, policymakers and reporters have focused on the number of available hospital beds as a measure of the health system's capacity to deal with COVID-19 infections. But those beds don't matter very much without medical staff — doctors, nurses, and other trained specialists — to treat the patients in them. And after nearly two years on the front lines of the pandemic, health care workers are stretched thin.

Keywords: nursing; pandemic; health care; rural; nursing shortage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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