The nurses who start the IVs, catch a patient slipping before the monitors do, and sit with someone frightened at three in the morning are, by their own account, stretched thin. Incredible Health's newly released seventh annual State of Nursing report puts hard numbers to a strain most patients never glimpse from a hospital bed. Yet the same survey of 2,240 nurses and technicians carries a second story alongside the first, one about a workforce that is not waiting to be rescued and is already reshaping the job on its own.
The strain is real, and it deserves to be named.
