On Friday morning, Methodist Hospital returned striking nurses back to work — but it wasn’t a smooth transition for patients or nurses. Nurses filed a number of Concern for Safe Staffing reports as well as internal quality tracking reports about compromises in patient care. Nurses anxious to return to their patients on med-surg floors were held in conference rooms for as long as two and one-half hours and when they finally got to the floor, found that patients hadn’t received morning medications on time and that other patient care needs hadn’t been met in a timely manner.
They live here, too: The providers who keep northeast Minnesota healthy
My name is Jenna, and I am a Hospitalist at Essentia Health in Duluth.
I first experienced Duluth as a 20-year-old college student visiting with my mom to run the Garry Bjorklund half marathon.
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