ANAHEIM, Calif.—As staff shortage continues to be a problem at hospitals, registered nurses experiencing “moral distress” picketed outside West Anaheim Medical Center on Feb. 14 demanding better work conditions. About a dozen or so health care workers were standing at the corner of South Beach Boulevard and West Orange Avenue with signs reading, “Patients First in the Hospital,” “Safe Staffing Now,” and “Hands Off Our Ratios. Save Lives.” The organizer said about 50 to 100 more were expected to show up throughout the protest during their breaks or days off. “A lot of nurses are being forced to take on too many patients,” emergency nurse Sofia Rivera told The Epoch Times. “It makes it unsafe to provide safe care.” For emergency rooms, the nurse-to-patient ratio should be one to four, but nursing capacity has become tighter because of the staffing “crisis,” while the COVID-19 surge has been flooding the hospital …
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