Residents at Good Samaritan Hospital to protest management’s failure to address chronic understaffing that jeopardizes patient care

The California Nurses Association announced that registered nurses working at HCA’s Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose, California, will hold a rally on Wednesday, October 30, to protest management’s failure to address chronic staffing shortages and lack of meal and break assistance. National Nurses Association (CNA/NNU) today.

Over months, nurses applied for more than 100 posts despite objection forms (known as ADOs) documenting unsafe staffing and missed meal and rest breaks. Nurses say management is violating state rules safe personnel law by not taking into account patient acuity (a measure of how sick a patient is). Despite repeatedly raising issues of unsafe staffing with management, the hospital continues to ignore nurses’ input into staffing decisions. Title 22, the RN-to-patient ratios law, requires minimum, specific, numerical RN-to-patient ratios for acute care hospitals.

“To ensure the safety of patients, it is critical that residents have knowledge of how hospital staffing is done,” he said. Stephanie Landry, RN He has been working in the pool unit at Good Samaritan for 16 years. “When patients are very sick, they need more care, and that means more nurses. Understaffing is a dangerous practice and undermines nurses’ ability to provide appropriate care based on the intelligence of our patients. We expect HCA to do better for society and patients. That’s why we’re organizing a rally to draw public attention to these unsafe practices and encourage change.”

WHO: Nurses at Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose
What: Rally for patient safety
When: Wednesday, October 30, 08:00–10:00
Where: Good Samaritan Hospital, 2425 Samaritan Dr, San Jose, CA 95124, (sidewalk on Samaritan Drive between the emergency room and the hospital’s East Entrance)

“State law requires registered nurses to be knowledgeable about how hospital staff are assigned,” he said Lydia Vasovich-Gmerek, RN He is in the neonatal intensive care unit, having worked at Good Sam for 37 years. “Based on our responsibility to act in the best interests of patients under our license and oath as nurses, our voices are essential to safe patient care. HCA prioritizes profit over the safety of our patients. This harms society and puts patients at risk. We are coming together to change these dangerous staffing practices that HCA is trying to normalize. Patient safety and appropriate care should be in everyone’s best interest. HCA needs to do better.”

CNA represents more than 900 registered nurses at Good Samaritan Hospital

The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Association is the largest and fastest-growing union and professional association of registered nurses in the nation, with more than 100,000 members in more than 200 facilities throughout California and approximately 225,000 RNs nationwide.