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California has the only legislatively mandated nurse-to-patient ratios in the country. [3] In December 2020, during the fall/winter COVID-19 pandemic surge, governor Gavin Newsom gave all hospitals a temporary waiver from those mandates, which allowed hospitals, for example, to have ICU nurses care for three patients rather than two.
Black, a registered nurse at the telemetry cardiac unit of the Henry Mayo Hospital in Valencia, just north of Los Angeles, barely has time to take a break or eat a meal. Overwhelmed with COVID-19 ...
In the past week, 2,302 patients were admitted to the hospital in California due to the coronavirus, and 2% of deaths were COVID-19-related, said health officials said in its weekly respiratory ...
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Since the restrictions due to COVID-19 are limiting the family members allowed to come into the hospitals, health care workers have found ways to still support the patients using the source of technology. Web-based video conferencing using FaceTime and Skype, along with camera systems have shown benefits in the hospital settings. [16]
Some of these stress-related illnesses include cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal symptoms, and musculoskeletal disorders. [33] Due to the stress from the Coronavirus many nurses are facing compassion fatigue and burnout. Part of burnout is due to a nursing shortage, there are more patients than nurses are used to taking care of at once.
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Filipino Americans in California are the second most affected, in part due to a high percentage of workers in healthcare on the frontlines, and as well as having a very high percentage of essential work. [157] On September 8, the CDPH reported that the daily statewide new case positivity rate in COVID-19 testing is at 4%, the lowest since May ...