The story continues...staff members and nurses failing basic portions of clinical competency assessments among the other problems faced here. BD
The reform effort at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital appears to be faltering, as the county backs off key promises to purge most of the staff and effectively hand control of the hospital to highly respected Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
The two pledges were cornerstones of a plan last year that persuaded regulators to hold off on pulling all federal funding, which would have effectively shut down the troubled Willowbrook hospital.Meanwhile, deficiencies persist among King-Harbor nurses. New data obtained by The Times show that in April, 60% of 285 registered and licensed vocational nurses failed one or more parts of basic clinical competency assessments. More than one in 10 failed three or more sections of the assessment.
Nearly half of King-Harbor's specialized nurses — those who work in intensive care units and post-anesthesia care, for instance — failed at least one section of a separate round of competency assessments last month. The same was true of more than 60% of operating room RNs and surgical technicians.
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