Is This What it is Supposed to be Like? (From the AMSN Blog)
April 2022 Connections - President’s Message
Dr. Summer Bryant, DNP, RN, CENP, CMSRN, President, AMSN Board of Directors
Recently I was talking to nurse leaders at a hospital on the east coast. We were discussing the state of their nursing unit and all the new staff they have. They told me that one of their nurses with 2 years of experience—all during the pandemic—asked them, “is this what it is like?”
The leaders confirmed with the nurse that yes, these are our regular medical-surgical patients with our standard patient-nurse ratios...