One of the largest complaints from the nurses is the “staffing by numbers”, in other words all patient conditions are not equal and one nurse may have 6 patients who require a lot of care and when the mix of patients who require less care is not considered, the nurses state patients are not getting the...
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As I am reading the content here, this breakdown and potential strike issue is about “working conditions” and not benefits and money. Hospital Corporation of America is the one of the largest “for profit” hospital chains in the US. This has been an interesting year in the for profit business...
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This is big as 12,000 nurses are on strike today. We talk about patient safety and nobody sees that more than the nurses who are the constants we rely on at the hospital today. Around 10,000 nurses were going to participate today in California until a judge said they could not, so in exchange...