Emergency room nurses at UC San Diego Health’s La Jolla hospital held a rally to point out what they said are unsafe and overcrowded conditions, as the health system deals with a spike in patient demand.
“This is not the care we want for our patients or for our own families,” said Estefania Urbano, an ER nurse with UCSD Health.Urbano said she worries about long wait times and treating patients in hallways, especially those that might be immunocompromised.
ER nurses, and the union representing them, are calling for more nurses and other support staff. They said management has brought in some extra help, but it has not been enough. “We need the county’s help with placing our patients in skilled nursing facilities and behavioral health step-down facilities, as well as decreasing ambulance traffic from emergency rooms to alternative care sites for patients who do not need the high level of care provided at the ER,” said Dr. Ghazala Sharieff, chief medical officer with Scripps Health.
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