On the heels of other successful union pushes in area hospitals, nurses and advanced practitioners at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital announced May 29 that they had overwhelmingly opted to hold a union election with a 'substantial majority' of over 1,000 votes. The nurses add to the tally of successful organizing bids — as well as strike votes — at hospitals including Western Psychiatric Hospital by nurses affiliated with SEIU.
Massachusetts health authorities completed their reports this week and found no evidence of a link between Newton-Wellesley Hospital and staffers who developed benign brain tumors. One report was conducted by the Massachusetts General Brigham Occupational Health Services and the other was by the state Department of Public Health. Both entities determined the hospital environment is safe and there's nothing to suggest a common cause to the tumors.
Nurses at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital will be calling for a union election this afternoon. The union for nurses and healthcare workers in the state says the substantial majority of the more than 1,000 nurses at Magee say they support forming a union in what's being called the largest organizing effort by nurses in recent history in Pennsylvania. Those forming the union would include RNs and APPs including midwives, NPs, and others, who say the insurance executives' priorities are getting in the way of the needs of medical providers.
The University of Iowa’s Iowa Nurse Innovators Program connects nurses to the resources and expertise they need to turn workarounds into specially crafted, even marketable, solutions.
With early successes from UIHC nurses currently getting off the ground, the program is working to reach health care professionals across the state.
The Broken Arrow Economic Development Corporation says the city will need at least 350 new nurses in the next three to five years to meet healthcare demands.
Oklahoma ranks near the bottom nationally in the number of nurses per capita, and leaders in Broken Arrow say the situation is becoming critical. With many local nurses working multiple shifts, city leaders are launching education-based initiatives to recruit new talent—and keep it local.
Nurses at UnityPoint-Health Meriter went on strike Tuesday morning after negotiations between the union representing them and the hospital stalled.
Nearly 1,000 RNs joined the strike, holding signs and picketing outside the hospital at 202 South Park Street in Madison's Greenbush neighborhood. The strike is set to last for five days.
The nurses and SEIU Wisconsin have been negotiating with the hospital since January, and claim the hospital's latest contract offers don't go far enough to address concerns around safety, staffing and pay.