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Patients see benefit in bringing own nurses.(The Virginian-Pilot)
NORFOLK, Va. _ At age 78, Murrell Werth has had seven operations and has been hospitalized many times over the years. Lately she's noticed a disturbing trend. Nurses seem so busy and overworked that they don't have time to help her with basic needs like making up the bed or getting a glass of water.
One time, she rang her call button for 2{ hours to no avail.
So now, when Werth needs to stay overnight at the hospital, she tries something different:
She brings her own nurse.
Werth is one of a small but growing number of patients in Virginia's Hampton Roads region helping to fuel a resurgence in the use of private-duty nurses. These professionals were popular with wealthy clients in the 1950s and 1960s, but all but disappeared from hospitals by the early 1980s, when medicine became more sophisticated and high-tech.
Today, with hospitals across the country facing a critical shortage of nurses, patients such as Werth say they're willing to pay out-of-pocket for extra care.
"I tell all my friends, `If you are going to the hospital for more than one night, get a private nurse,'" said Werth, a Norfolk native who recently returned to Hampton Roads after living in New York. "I would not go to the hospital again without a private nurse."
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...league job. That's about where Jayson Werth was at the start of the 2008 season. By...how the rest of the story turned out: Werth played his way into a starting job for...this July at the age of 30. And now, Werth is again a critical component of the Phillies...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Patients see benefit in bringing own nurses.(The Virginian-Pilot)