Union nurses say inadequate staffing at SSM Health St. Louis University Hospital is a safety issue.
About a dozen employees represented by National Nurses United/National Nurses Organizing Committee rallied Tuesday night outside the emergency department entrance at the hospital on South Grand. The union has long argued that nurses are responsible for too many patients.
Union representatives said greater staffing may have been able to prevent the death last month of a person from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the hospital’s emergency department…