Making a staff stretch. (Cleveland Clinic anticipates a shortage of nurses)
Clinic program anticipates nurse shortage
The Cleveland Clinic is taking some preventive medicine for a projected nursing shortage by grooming hospital workers to help take care of patients in its 10 intensive care units.
Sharon Coulter, chairwoman of the Clinic's nursing division, is developing a new educational program which will train employees to become patient care technicians. It will be offered to nursing assistants already employed at the hospital.
The program's basic goal, Ms. Coulter said, is to allow the Clinic's registered nurses to devote tim
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