Nurses in Orange County protest staffing conditions at local hospitals
Orange County nurses are protesting against hospitals, saying staffing ratios are dangerously low and unsafe for patients.
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ORANGE COUNTY (KABC) The support for nurses demonstrating outside South Coast Global Medical Center is clear. It was one of four protests at Orange County hospitals.
Nurses say that their safety and patient lives are at risk after the state allowed their hospital, part of KPC Health, to increase the patient to nurse ratio in the middle of a pandemic. So instead of giving us more nurses we got more work. Patients are going to die, nurses are gonna break, nurses are exhausted, says Karen Rodriguez, a registered nurse.