short-staffed

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• Occasionally when we are short-staffed we have to pull people away from monitoring.
• We were so short-staffed at points that senior management were often doing the duties of junior prison officers.
• If you're so short-staffed that all they can do is keep somebody dry and fed, they're not going to have time to give the person-centred care," she said, referring to an individualized approach. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
• We don't want to cause disruption to the public but we are short-staffed and our pay rise wasn't good and people are upset.
• So everyone was very stressed, a bit short-staffed.
• But don't worry, we were short-staffed before this, so you'll have lots and lots of opportunities to work off any residual guilt. FALLEN WOMEN
• They're quite short-staffed on this ward, so I doubt if anyone will get round to thinking I've gone AWOL. NIGHT SISTERS
• It also revealed that the Clyde-based agency was short-staffed on the day of the tragedy last July.
• The hospital is desperately short-staffed.
• We knew we weren't supposed to do it, but we did it because we were short-staffed and it was the only way to get the rounds done on time.