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Management refuses to hire more expensive travel nurses to fill the gap, despite spending $5 million weekly on travel nurses during the 10-month strike, according to the state nurses association.
The California Department of Public Health declared an “immediate jeopardy” at Doctors Medical Center in Modesto over the use of nurse anesthetists to sedate and monitor surgical patients ...
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.
The Medical Board of California (MBC) is a state government agency which licenses and disciplines physicians, surgeons and certain allied healthcare professionals in California. The Board provides two principal types of services to consumers: (1) public-record information about California-licensed physicians, and (2) investigation of complaints ...
In 2021 Democratic Assemblyman Jim Wood introduced AB 890 to allow nurse practitioners in California to practice without physician oversight. The association, in partnership with conservative advocacy group Physicians for Patient Protection, lobbied against the bill. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the bill into law which goes into effect in 2023. [9]
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Nursing staff had effectively abandoned home-care patients, inspectors determined. Some had gone weeks without receiving medication. “Patients are not being seen,” a nurse said, explaining that she skipped visits because she didn't have gas money. The hospice had run out of money and its administrator had disappeared.
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