Burnouts: Michigan COVID nurses reach their limit: ‘I know I can’t do this forever’

Michigan health leaders say the pandemic has deepened staff shortages that had been underway for years at hospitals across the state, particularly among nurses and other frontline workers. As a stopgap, hospitals are paying big bucks to traveling nurses to help care for the patients repopulating COVID wards. Many in the industry say the shortage will be felt for years

“But it’s a bigger problem than ever now. It’s affecting virtually every hospital in the state in some way, shape or form, whether it’s a small rural hospital or a large hospital in one of our urban centers.” ...