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As COVID-19 Surges, California Overrides Limits on Nurse Workloads
Nurse Cherry Costales prepares a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at St. John s Well Child and Family Center on January 7, 2021, in Los Angeles, California.
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Californiaâs telemetry nurses, who specialize in the electronic monitoring of critically ill patients, normally take care of four patients at once. But ever since the state relaxed Californiaâs mandatory nurse-to-patient ratios in mid-December, Nerissa Black has had to keep track of six.
And these six patients are really sick: Many of them are being treated simultaneously for a stroke and covid-19, or a heart attack and covid. With more patients than usual needing more complex care, Black said sheâs worried sheâll miss something or make a mistake.
California’s telemetry nurses, who specialize in the electronic monitoring of critically ill patients, normally take care of four patients at once. But ever since the state relaxed California’s mandatory nurse-to-patient ratios in mid-December, Nerissa Black has had to keep track of six.