Dive Brief: About 6,500 nurses at 12 Tenet hospitals are walking off the job in three states Friday after failing to come to new contract agreements with the for-profit chain, National Nurses United said. Dallas-based Tenet said it will have replacement nurses tending to patients during the one-day strike. The Florida and California nurses’ contracts… Read More »
You are at your daughter’s recital and you get a call that your elderly patient’s son needs to talk to you urgently. A colleague has a family emergency and the hospital needs you to work a double shift. Your patient’s M.R.I. isn’t covered and the only option is for you to call the insurance company… Read More »
Sen. Maureen Walsh, R-Walla Walla, right, hugs a colleague before being sworn-in Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, on the opening day of the legislative session at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) A hospital is not a casino or a cruise ship. Nonetheless, Washington State Senator Maureen Walsh said the discussing a proposed… Read More »
Psychiatric nurses are to strike in February. The Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) is setting out an escalating campaign leading to strike action. It is “in response to the failure of Government to address the recruitment and retention crisis in nursing,” they said in a statement today. The PNA represents approximately 6,000 nurses working throughout the country.… Read More »