Becker's Healthcare November 13, 2023
Nurses at a CHI Health hospital in North Dakota are calling on executives to stock emergency crash carts, which they say has been a monthslong issue, according to a letter published Nov. 13 in The Bismarck Tribune.
Rachel Heintz, RN, an emergency nurse at CHI St. Alexius Health Bismarck (N.J.) Medical Center, penned the letter on behalf of the hospital’s nursing staff. For the last six months, hospital leaders have changed the process for stocking critical care crash carts, resulting in “inconsistencies” in supply management, the letter alleges.
“The ER nursing staff stocks hundreds of pieces of equipment, linen and supplies in the ER daily, while also taking care of the hospital’s most critical patients,” according to the...
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