Nurses at a Western North Carolina hospital are taking their concerns for patient safety public after conversations with hospital leadership have gone nowhere, according to their union.
Midwifery moved a step closer to becoming a licensed profession in Illinois on Wednesday thanks to a measure advanced by state senators during the second day of the fall veto session.
State Sen. Cristina Castro, D-Elgin, said the bill creating a licensing process for midwives is a “historic measure,” one that has been in the works since 1986.
After another tough weekend at work, Grace Brooks, a pediatric ICU nurse at Children's Minnesota had an idea.
She put out a call Sunday on her Nextdoor App asking neighbors and strangers if they would be interested in giving her unit’s hospital break room a little upgrade.
“If you have letters you want to write, art you want to make, or if you want to donate a gift card for us to buy a meal for people staying extra late,” she said. “I need to do something to boost morale.”
The response was overwhelming. Photographers offered up their work. Teachers have offered to have their students write letters or make artwork. Another woman offered to come in and give massages for staff. More than $1,000 in gift cards have come in so far.
Nearly two years into the coronavirus pandemic, there's some truth in a joke circulating among frustrated ICU nurses: They ask their hospitals to appropriately pay them for the hazards they've endured. And the nurses are rewarded with a pizza party instead.
WORCESTER, Mass. — The CEO of Worcester hospital afflicted by the longest nursing strike in Massachusetts history on Monday sent an open letter about the organization's "last, best and final offer" to end the strike.
Saint Vincent Hospital CEO Carolyn Jackson has issued an open letter to the hospital’s striking nurses asking for them to accept its final offer and return to work after the hospital invoked its right under federal labor law to unilaterally implement its last, best and final offer on Friday. The terms of that final offer were implemented on Sunday, Oct. 17.
In the open letter, which was obtained by MassLive, Jackson asks the striking nurses to “come back to work and enjoy the benefits of the terms of the last, best and final offer.”