I re-read my last post and.... boy, that might have been the nadir. The low point. The end of the line. While it didn't exactly get better starting two months ago, we did start to hire nurses right around then. And that little glimmer of hope was enough to see, both in my own actions and in the eyes of the nurses I supervise. To date, we have two RNs and one LPN out of orientation with three more RNs in orientation. That's enough to cut down the overtime by about half.
There might be light at the end of this tunnel yet.
