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Nurses tell commission short staffing and missed breaks are risking patient safety; union asks for open staffing hearing
Summary
Multiple nurses from San Francisco General and Zuckerberg testified to persistent understaffing, missed meal and break periods and unsafe conditions; speakers urged the commission to fund permanent nursing positions, add a budgeted break nurse, and hold a public staffing hearing.
Several nurses and union representatives used the public-comment period at the Health Commission meeting to describe chronic understaffing at San Francisco General and Zuckerberg San Francisco General and to urge changes in the department—s budget and operations.
Diana Yanez, a birth-center registered nurse at San Francisco General, read a signed letter from 30 nurses reporting repeated missed meal breaks and understaffing, and said understaffing creates patient-safety risks; she recounted a recent birth in which a newborn required resuscitation…
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