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One year of COVID: How Pa. nurses fought hospitals on staffing ratios


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As health care workers battled the coronavirus in 2020, the pandemic laid bare issues of nurse staffing at the region’s medical systems. What was a point of debate pre-pandemic became front-and-center as patients suffering from COVID-19 inundated hospitals.
Nurses negotiated new contracts at Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia, Mercy Fitzgerald and Crozer Health hospitals and nursing facilities in Delaware County, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, and St. Mary’s Medical Center in Langhorne last year and staffing grids were the primary concern of union leadership.
Staffing grids are essentially standards that determine how many patients a nurse can take care of in a given hospital unit. For example, in an intensive care unit there may be a 2-1 patient-to-nurse ratio. ....

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PA nurses fight for patient limits to ensure quality care


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. ....

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