How much can one nurse take on while still providing the best possible care for his or her patients?
Though the issue of safe nurse-to-patient ratios the number of patients a nurse has under direct care has been a hot button issue for the medical community for years. Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, it elevated to an unprecedented level, nurses say.
They say hospitals have hit, and at some times exceeded, capacity limits with patients carrying a highly communicable disease, testing the limits of nurses abilities.
As more and more nurses are facing burnout and difficulty in providing proper care as they are overwhelmed with far too many patients, workers, unions, legislators, allies and others have called on health systems to ensure that staffing ratios are a guarantee for the nursing community in the commonwealth.
Monroe County lags in COVID-19 vaccinations
Monroe County is lagging behind with less than 10 percent of people in the county vaccinated. Doctors at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono explain why. Author: Carmella Mataloni Updated: 7:11 PM EST February 26, 2021
MONROE COUNTY, Pa. The number of people getting first and second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine continues to grow across Pennsylvania.
In our 17 county viewing areas, Lackawanna County has had almost 20 percent of its population get at least the first dose.
Luzerne County has had 18 percent.
Monroe County is the third-highest population in our viewing area, but it comes in sixth for vaccination numbers.
Newswatch 16 asked doctors at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono why.
Negotiations between JNESO and Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono have come to a conclusion, and while a new contract has been ratified, the fight for nurses’ rights is far from over.
After weeks of negotiation reaching back to the end of December, health care union JNESO, which represents the nurses of LVH-Pocono, was able to come to a new three-year contract agreement with the hospital on Feb. 11.
AnnMarie Ruggiero, a registered nurse in the cardiovascular telemetry unit and president of LVH-Pocono’s JNESO chapter, noted that the dialogue between the union and LVHN officials had been “spirited,” with the nurses’ representatives fighting to secure a wealth of proposals made all the more necessary during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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