St. RNS at Bernardine Medical Center to protest management’s refusal to address chronic staffing shortages that impact patient safety

California Nurses Association/National Nurses Union (CNA/NNU), Dignity Health St. in San Bernardino, California. Nurses at Bernardine Medical Center announced they will hold an informational strike on Tuesday, October 29, to protest management’s refusal to address chronic understaffing that affects patient safety. St. CommonSpirit Health, owners and operators of Bernardine Medical Center, has failed to invest in staffing, leading to high turnover rates at a hospital already understaffed during the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Due to CommonSpirit’s inability to retain hospital staff, nurses have had to take on multiple roles beyond their assigned duties; we act as technicians, certified nursing assistants, and transportation and security personnel,” he said. Donielle Kelosky, RN in the intensive care unit. “This is the definition of unsafe working conditions. “These conditions not only endanger the physical and mental health of nurses, but also the safety of the patients entrusted to our care.”

WHO: St. Registered nurses at Bernardine Hospital
What: Information strike for safe working and patient care conditions
When: Tuesday, October 29, 7:30 – 9:30
Where: Dignity Health, St. Bernardine Hospital, 2101 N Waterman Ave, San Bernardino, California 92404 — nurses will gather on the sidewalk near the emergency room entrance

According to the 2024 ranking; CommonSpirit Health is the nation’s largest Catholic hospital chain and second-largest nonprofit hospital chain In the United States, net patient revenue is just under $30 billion. Because of its nonprofit status, the hospital system does not pay tens of millions of dollars in federal taxes, resources that should go back to its workforce and the communities in which it operates.

“CommonSpirit has the resources to put an end to the staffing crisis, work overload, and increased stress and moral distress that nurses face and which leadership has failed to adequately address,” she said. Simon Seyoum, RN in the telemetry unit. “We called in the watchdog because we were tired—tired of working without breaks, working extra shifts, and being strapped for resources—all while seeing CommonSpirit rake in billions in revenue.”

There is no shortage of nurses, but there is a severe hospital staffing crisis, according to an NNU analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing. There are 166,233 actively licensed nurses in California who do not work at the bedside. For more information on why this happens, please read here.

California Nurses Association, St. It represents approximately 800 nurses at Bernardine Medical Center. St. Nurses at Bernardine notified their employers of the information strike on October 16.

The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Association is the largest and fastest-growing union and professional association of registered nurses in the nation, with more than 100,000 members in more than 200 facilities throughout California and approximately 225,000 RNs nationwide.