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When healthcare workers are too overwhelmed to provide safe care

I am a nurse and I keep making small medication errors because I am overworked and understaffed but I cannot quit because my patients need me and I cannot afford to lose my job.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The system designed to heal can force healers to choose between their patients' safety and their own survival.

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