The cur­rent nurse-to-pa­tient ra­tio of one nurse to as many as six pa­tients at the St James Med­ical Com­plex is in keep­ing with in­ter­na­tion­al best prac­tice and will be en­forced by nurs­ing staff as part of in­dus­tri­al ac­tion from next week.

Dur­ing a Face­book Live on Tues­day, Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) pres­i­dent Idi Stu­art called on nurs­es not to care for more than six pa­tients at a time. He said the mea­sure will take ef­fect from April 28, co­in­cid­ing with the Gov­ern­ment’s first an­niver­sary.

“On April 28, the one-year an­niver­sary of the cur­rent Gov­ern­ment, we are go­ing to en­sure it is ac­ti­vat­ed. We want to make sure every­one is cog­nisant of all the re­quire­ments at hand, and we are go­ing to pub­lish the ra­tios,” Stu­art said.