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There may be enough nurses to do the job of nursing, but the hospital has cut support staff so the nurses are expected to do the jobs of unit secretary and nurse tech as well as provide excellent nursing care. This is not OK! Young nurses are overwhelmed and experienced nurses are leaving because they can not maintain the high standard of care they want/need to provide. The upper management in the nursing division is disconnected from it’s nursing staff, thinking of patient/nurse ratios as numbers on a paper and not people in beds with potentially life threatening illnesses. These cost saving cuts are having a detrimental effect on both the patient population and the nursing staff. They have squeezed that dollar until the eagle screams…that scream is now echoing down the halls of an overcrowded, understaffed hospital.