MNA Nurses fill out hundreds of Concern For Safe Staffing forms online each month. The story below is just one example of how unsafe staffing conditions inside Minnesota hospitals continue to have negative – and sometimes even deadly – consequences for patients and nurses. (Note: Due to HIPAA privacy laws for patients and concerns for potential workplace retaliation by employers against RNs, we do not identify the specific nurse and/or patient(s) involved in each story in this space.)
Today’s Story: Extremely busy, high acuity with no available resources, nurses came from other units to help as able, but were not able to perform tasks necessary such as del, OR, scrub. No breaks taken. I felt patients received basic care … once patient was safely delivered and deemed stable enough, I had to move on to more urgent patients needs and hope for the best. I made a point of visiting today the 3 patients I had who delivered for me yesterday to apologize for the rushed and chaotic feeling of the unit and lack of any TLC.
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