The workers, represented by California Nurses Association/National Nurses United, say the Duarte cancer treatment and research center’s failure to address critical patient safety and equipmen…
plan to stage a silent protest at the facility Thursday, claiming they’re understaffed and working in an environment of lax COVID-19 safeguards and aging infrastructure., say the Duarte cancer treatment and research center’s failure to address critical patient safety and equipment concerns creates unnecessary risks for its immunocompromised patients.
The hospital has also converted single-occupancy rooms into double-occupancy rooms. Nurses say that that’s made it harder to handle the increased patient load. “We have an excessive number of nurses who are out on sick call, because they’re symptomatic, have COVID-19, or are caring for family members with COVID,” the 49-year-old Orange resident said. “You can’t take chances. If you have sniffles or a scratchy throat you need to call in sick because we’re dealing with transplant patients who are very sick.”
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