How much more corridor care can emergency care staff take?
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How much more corridor care can emergency care staff take?

Pavan Amara Nurse, midwife and health journalist

Nurses too often have to deliver corridor care, here is advice on how to report compromised care and help ensure patient safety and dignity

Most emergency department (ED) nurses are providing daily corridor care, a situation described as devastating and degrading. Nurses giving corridor care often experience moral distress and are at risk of moral injury.

Emergency Nurse. 32, 2, 7-8. doi: 10.7748/en.32.2.7.s4

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