There are currently 19 people waiting on trolleys in Cavan General Hospital.
That's according to figures released by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.
All 19 patients are waiting in the emergency department at the hospital with no patients on trolleys in wards or elsewhere in the facility.
Nationally, 803 patients have been admitted to hospital without a bed today.
INMO General Secretary Phil Ní Sheaghdha said: "Yet again we are seeing huge numbers of patients being admitted to hospital without a bed today. We know when activity is this high across the system, patient and staff safety suffers.
"INMO members have advised that they are very concerned about the age profile of patients being admitted to hospital on trolleys. In one location a ninety-year-old was waiting on a hard chair for over 45 hours before receiving a bed. In another location, over 72% of admitted inpatients are over 75. The fact that older citizens who have been deemed sick enough for admission are being treated on trolleys, chairs and other inappropriate spaces for long periods is distressing.
"Staffing remains problematic across many sites. Unsafe staffing is undermining the ability of nurses and midwives to deliver safe and timely care. The continued use of trolleys and reliance on surge capacity mean that too many nurses are routinely working short-staffed. In many hospitals, unfilled rosters are becoming the norm rather than the exception, creating increasingly unsafe conditions for both nurses and patients."
