Nurses in the psych unit say the reality on the ground is dire. The unit’s 19 beds are typically filled and psych patients who will often end up waiting for hours in the ER, where they sit alongside people experiencing all kinds of medical emergencies.
The City hired 200 health care workers but they won’t be deployed to the Psychiatric Emergency Services unit at S.F. General Hospital where nurses say they are overwhelmed.
Nurses in the psychiatric unit say the reality on the ground is dire. The unit’s 19 beds are typically filled and psychiatric patients will often end up waiting for hours in the ER, where they sit alongside people experiencing all kinds of medical emergencies. Many of the recent hires will staff the Tenderloin Linkage Center, which opened in fall under an emergency declaration and aims to connect individuals with social and housing programs, food and hygiene services, as well as referrals to substance use disorder treatment.
It’s often faster to hire and onboard temporary nurses, often called traveler nurses, but that class of health care workers does not receive the same benefits and union representation as their full-time peers.
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