Colorado Nursing Shortage Ratio Could Be Construed by Low Pay in State's Hospitals

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The Colorado nursing shortage - twice that of the rest of the country - is an artificial creation caused by staffing ratios and low pay in the state's hospitals.

That's according to a report from the Nurses Alliance of Colorado, part of the Service Employees International Union, which represents 1.3 million hospital employees nationwide.

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Colorado Nursing Shortage Ratio Could Be Construed by Low Pay in State's Hospitals

"There's no real shortage of nurses," said Rebecca Matthys, a former nurse who works as a lactation consultant and served on the NAC policy committee that issued the report. "There's a lack of nurses willing to work at the bedside in hospitals."

But the report only tells part of the story, said health care author Tom Olivo,...

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