This Associated Press reports this morning that hospitals throughout the country are having trouble finding and keeping nurses. Part of the problem has to do with the difficulty hospitals are having in transitioning nurses from the training to the actual doing. Let's begin in a Dallas ER, shall we?Newly minted nurse Katie O'Bryan was determined to stay at her first job at least a year, even if she did leave the hospital every day wanting to quit.She lasted nine months. The stress of trying to ke
The new and imrpoved Parkland's scheduled to open in 2014.Out this week is a report that notes the following: Patients spent "an average of four hours and three minutes" waiting in the emergency room in 2008, a slight decrease from the '07 average but an enormous jump from the '02 numbers. (In Texas, the average wait is 258 minutes, which is how long the Transformers sequel feels.) Of course, many of those seeking ER treatment in recent months are folks who've lost their jobs, and their health i
