Nurses call out Ellis Hospital, charge staffing inadequate | The Daily Gazette
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SCHENECTADY The statewide union for nurses is pressing as hard as ever for one of its top priorities minimum staffing requirements and calling out Schenectady County’s only general-service hospital in the process.
The New York State Nurses Association on Thursday said Ellis Hospital nurses filed 293 complaints to hospital management in 2019 and 2020 about understaffing in critical care units, with a total of 1,116 signatures appearing on the complaints.
It’s an issue that stretches across that state and beyond. In the same two-year period, NYSNA said, 26,219 such complaints were signed statewide by nurses 97,715 times.
Created: April 08, 2021 11:55 PM
The New York State Nurses Association says they need more staffing at Ellis Hospital. They say nurses have filed nearly 300 complaints to hospital management over the last two years.
“We’re constantly asked to do more with less and it s getting increasingly harder,” said Denise D’Avella, a registered nurse at Ellis Hospital.
Denise D’AVella works in the Cardiac Cath Lab at Ellis Medicine. She says staffing has been challenging.
“Now it’s becoming the norm to have one nurse to three patients and these nurses are taking care of some of the sickest patients in the hospital,” said D’Avella.