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Nurses who recently unionized at St. Mary’s Hospital say a a top issue is that their staffing levels fail to account for patients’ sickness level and can lead to burnout and subpar care.
While UW Health and UnityPoint Health-Meriter use staffing models that adjust nurse assignments based on acuity — a measure of how intensive patients’ care needs are — nurses at St. Mary’s say their hospital uses a flat number of patients…