Baton Rouge hospitals face nurse shortages as hospitalizations increase
Nursing Home Shortage; Wednesday, Jan. 6 By Breanne Bizette | January 6, 2021 at 4:52 PM CST - Updated January 6 at 6:42 PM
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Across the country, hospitals are seeing a nursing shortage, and it’s even happening here in the capital city.
Right now, Baton Rouge’s local hospitals are trying to find a balance when it comes to taking care of COVID-19 patients and regular patients, and for nurses it’s been a hard couple of months.
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Terra Eubanks who works in the ER at Baton Rouge General’s Ascension campus says this year has been, “Chaotic, crazy, totally different from any nursing than I’ve ever done.”