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Nurses, there are staffing shortages plaguing every part of the health care system and nurses say some hospitals have turned to controversial methods to stretch their existing personnel from mandating on call shifts to increasing the number of days nurses must work.

According to reports filed with the Department of Public Health,

several hospitals have turned to mandatory overtime

which requires nurses to stay beyond their scheduled shift.

The practice is prohibited under state law except in cases of emergency.

Now, the state in this case is Massachusetts and the words I have been reading are shared by our next guest,

Jessica Bartlett, medical reporter for the Boston Globe,

in a devastating new piece, Massachusetts hospitals turn to controversial labor practices to stretch beleaguered staff. A recent survey by the Massachusetts Nurses Association

found that nearly a fifth of nurses in Massachusetts plan to leave the field in two years or less.

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