You rushed a friend at 10:00 in the evening to the nearest hospital due to unbearable chest pain. But at the emergency department, you were greeted with a number for patients waiting to be attended to. It took 30 minutes before your friend was taken care of by the emergency nurses.
You wonder, what is this shortage about emergency nurses? Arent there enough people who would like to take care of sick people anymore?
According to a study conducted by the researchers from Cambridge Health Alliance as reported in Health Affairs, wait times went up an average of 4.1 percent per year for all patients. Unfortunately for heart attack patients, the wait stretched to 11.2 percent every year. Blacks, Hispanics, women and patients in urban hospitals have longer wait times that others.
So how long exactly are these percentages? For patients diagnosed with heart attacks, the waiting time in 1997 was 8 minutes, but in 2004 it rose to 20 minutes. Patients who needed attention within 15 minutes, according to the nurses who evaluated them, have to wait 10 minutes back in 1997. But in 2004, it went up to 14 minutes. Emergency room wait in urban hospitals was 30 minutes....
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