One key step toward solving the nation’s deadly nursing shortage

One key step toward solving the nation’s deadly nursing shortage The solution is managing the peaks and valleys of patient flow created by elective surgery schedules. dtodd The Hill

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Diversion is when hospitals do not accept ambulance traffic because there is insufficient capacity to see new patients. That means last Saturday, the emergency department doors were closed to ambulances trying to find a place to deliver their patients for more than 20 hours of the 24-hour period. This delays treatment not only for the patient in the ambulance but all patients who call 911 and need an ambulance since this ambulance is forced to try to find the next closest hospital that is open and is out of service until they drop off that patient...