Empower Nurses to Blow the Whistle on Unsafe Hospitals
March 24, 2017
Saving lives was the reason I became a registered nurse. For more than 30 years, I’ve worked with some of the sickest patients at Northridge Hospital Medical Center, helping them on the path to recovery. My passion for saving lives has taken me across the U.S. and as far as the Philippines, Nepal, and Haiti to help with disaster response. Today, I’m worried about a brewing disaster that affects people here in my community: a chronic understaffing by hospitals that puts the lives of the patients I care for at risk and jeopardizes nurses who are doing their job to protect patient safety.