A new survey says 95% of Taiwanese nurses experience severe shortages of medical staff, even as one-third of qualified nurses in the country, over 100,000, are not practicing. The nurses surveyed said the situation could be resolved by raising pay, controlling the number of patients per nurse and improving the status of the nursing profession.
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00:00A new survey says 95% of Taiwan's nurses feel the country has a severe shortage of medical
00:06staff.
00:07The poll of nurses by a local job bank comes as emergency rooms are at full capacity, overwhelming
00:13nursing staff.
00:14The health ministry says about one-third of licensed nurses in Taiwan, that's more than
00:19100,000, are currently not practicing.
00:22To bring them back, the nurses' survey suggested raising pay, controlling nurse-to-patient
00:27ratios and increasing respect for the profession.