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Nurses warn of statewide staffing crisis: faculty pay, burnout and violence limit pipeline
Summary
Arkansas Nurses Association leaders told the Senate committee that nurse staffing shortages—driven by burnout, low educator pay, workplace violence and faculty shortages—pose immediate patient-safety concerns; they urged staffing committees, educator pay increases and pipeline investments and offered their workforce report to legislators.
Margaret Love, president of the Arkansas Nurses Association, and Neil Reeves, the association’s health policy chair, told the Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee that nurse staffing shortages present a patient-safety risk and threaten care quality across Arkansas.
"I am the current president of the Arkansas Nurses Association," Love said, summarizing the association's workforce findings and national sources. The…
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