This news seems very telling of things to come in the near future due to the nursing shortage. The service quality that healthcare providers can offer will start to decrease as the shortage of nurses worsens. A Peoria, IL based nursing home has been fined by the Illinois Department of Public Health for not carrying out physican-directed lab tests and not monitoring the prescriptive treatments given to patients. Basically they did not do the tests that were required and they did not pay attention if the right medicine was given to the right patient.

The violation is a very serious one according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Of course, the problem can be traced to the nursing shortage. They did not have well-trained and adequate staff so these things were overlooked. Some of the lab tests were carried out, but not in the way directed, others were not carried out at all. Prescriptions were given without adequate monitoring. This type of thing will start to become more and more prevalent as the nursing shortage worsens...

 


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