Healthcare IT News September 8, 2021
Two-thirds of the ICU nurses brought in to help manage the COVID-19 surge at a Humboldt County hospital left just a day after arriving. They say they weren’t given adequate training resources.
[This article has been updated with further comment from Providence St. Joseph Hospital representatives.]
Four out of six traveling intensive care unit nurses quit just one day after arriving at Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka, California, this past week.
The reason, according to hospital officials quoted in local outlet the Times-Standard, concerned a lack of familiarity with the hospital’s electronic health record.
“The primary reason was that they were not familiar with our electronic medical record system – a system that is used by many...