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A growing nursing shortage is made worse by nurses’ daily challenges of patients and their families rolling their eyes, yelling and striking

  • Written by Carolyn Dickens, Nurse practitioner and Associate Dean, University of Illinois Chicago
A growing nursing shortage is made worse by nurses’ daily challenges of patients and their families rolling their eyes, yelling and strikingA 2024 report found that 4 out of 5 nurses experienced at least one episode of such behaviors in the previous year.Ivan-balvan/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Imagine being a dentist, and your clients roll their eyes at you, comment that you don’t know what you’re doing – or even spit at you.

Unimaginable, right? But that’s what...

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