Nurse Staffing
It is outrageous to see in print (“Debate Over Nurse Staffing Grows,” April 5) that the California Healthcare Assn. would propose “one nurse for every 10 patients” in a medical-surgical unit. Along with an ill patient come family and loved ones who also need the bedside nurse’s time and reassurance.
A bedside nurse is the most important person in an ill person’s hospital stay. When spread too thin, everyone loses. The patient and his/her family feel unimportant and the nurse gets lost trying to balance everyone and everything around her/him.
SUE ROSENBERG RN
Duarte
