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 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 PlusImagine 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...

