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Opinion: My daughter’s death changed how I understood the nursing shortage

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Opinion: My daughter’s death changed how I understood the nursing shortage
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I have spent my career studying nurses and why that workforce so often fails the people it is meant to serve. But my understanding of the system changed deeply the day my daughter died.



She was 21 years old. She had intellectual and developmental disabilities and had just moved into a group home in New Jersey. Within 48 hours, she was gone. Her caregivers accidentally gave her too much medicine.Read the rest…

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