Emergency room nursing staff at a Detroit hospital were told to leave Sunday night after they refused to work and demanded more nurses be brought into their overrun emergency room, health care workers there told CNN.
The night shift ER nurses at Sinai-Grace Hospital refused to leave the break room until hospital administrators brought in more nurses to help out, a physician at the hospital told CNN.
Hospital administrators decided, after four hours of deliberation, they would not be bringing in any more nurses to help and that the nurses could get to work or leave the hospital, the doctor said.
Some did then leave, said the physician, who spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity out of concern for their job. The details provided by the physician were corroborated by ER nurse Sal Hadwan, who discussed what happened in a video livestreamed on facebook...
...In the video, Hadwan said he and the other ER nurses shown were told leave the hospital.
"Tonight, it was the breaking point for us," Hadwan said in the video, streamed on Sunday night right before midnight.
"Because we cannot safely take care of your loved ones out here with just six, seven nurses and multiple (ventilators) and multiple people on drips. It's not right. We had two nurses the other day who had 26 patients with 10 (ventilators)." The nurses need extra help, because for three straight weeks they've had more than 110 patients in the ER, Hadwan said in the video....
