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When nurses have too many patients to care for, medications are given hours late, and patients must wait for basic needs like bathing, toileting, eating, and drinking to be met. Those who can’t hold their own cups must wait for a few sips of water and are sometimes found with visibly dry lips.
Some patients lie in their own waste, waiting to be cleaned, and some develop bed sores from not being moved often enough. That, according to Tuesday testimony from a registered nurse, at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, where the House Health Committee is considering House Bill 106, the Patient Safety Act….