Nurses are worried about making mistakes while caring for patients in overcrowded emergency department corridors in the face of unprecedented demand around the country. Nurses in over-capacity emergency departments aren’t assigned to sick patients forced to wait in the corridor until space becomes available. (File photo)Most hospitals were full of patients, which made it difficult to move people from the emergency department and into other wards. “It is not just about emergency department,” she said. At Hutt Hospital, 84 per cent of emergency department patients were admitted, discharged or transferred within six hours in February.

Source: Stuff May 07, 2021 17:03 UTC