nursing shortage

AS COUNTY DECLARES HEALTH EMERGENCY OVER HEPATITIS, STATE LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING SHORTAGE IN SAN DIEGO

 

By Miriam Raftery

Photo:  Jaundice, or yellowed eyes and skin, is one tell-tale sign of Hepatitis.

September 3, 2017 (San Diego) – The Joint Legislative Audit Committee on Thursday approved by a 10-3 vote auditing San Diego County’s Health and Human Service Agency for what Service Employees International calls “dangerously low staffing levels of public nurses.”  


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