Hospital Patients Being Treated In Corridors And Waiting Areas Says The Rcn Hospitals
Hospitals are so overstretched and understaffed that patients end up being cared for in clinically ‘unsuitable’ settings where staff may not have the right skills. More than one in four hospital nurses (27%) have seen patients being cared for in areas not set up for this purpose, according to a poll by the RCN of more than 20,000 nurses and midwives. A nurse on an adult ward in Scotland said patients and their relatives complained when an extra bed was squeezed into a four-bed bay, leaving the fifth bed with “no buzzer, no curtains, not even two metres”....