Surgical nurses, who typically spend more time in the operating room than the surgeons, are leading the push to eliminate the hazardous plumes. Already 18 states, including neighboring Georgia ...

continues to clash with management primarily over nurse-to-patient ratios in the hospital’s medical-surgical unit. The nurses are asking for a 1-to-5 ratio — or one nurse to five patients in ...

In a comparison study, benefits of nurse-led preoperative counseling and follow-up care was significantly greater compared with surgeon-led or no counseling models.

“It’s a slap in the face!” said Stacy Matsuyama, a nurse at the Medical Surgical unit for 17 years. “Management is giving the scab nurses one-to-two nurse-to-patient ratios while our usual ...