Johns Hopkins Hospital has reached a settlement with registered nurses seeking to unionize, their national organizing committee said. “This settlement makes clear that nurses have the right to form a union, we have a right to speak with our coworkers about a union, and Johns Hopkins does not have the legal right to target and intimidate nurses who engage in union activity,” registered nurse Alex Laslett said in a statement.
Nurses shared facts most people don't know about hospitals with Business Insider. Nurses said many people do not know the difference between a nonprofit and a for-profit hospital, as well as the difference between a teaching hospital and general hospital.
After a measure that would set maximum patient-nurse staffing ratios at hospitals throughout the state failed to come to a vote during the spring legislative session, supporters say they’re not giving up. “Of course we want to see the bill passed into law because we know it’s going to save lives, but we’re looking at it like … it’s not the law yet. We’re going to keep advocating and keep working on this until we get it done,” said Alice Johnson, executive director of the Illinois Nurses Association.
In the days when a nurse uniform involved a skirt and lots of starch, you might have been called a "worry wart." But today researchers call this tendency "neuroticism," loosely defined as a type of personality that experiences higher levels of anxiety.
Doctors Medical Center received a warning from the city of Modesto for watering on the wrong day after nurses picketing outside said the sprinklers were turned on multiple times in an effort to get them to disperse. Nurses at Doctors and seven other Tenet Healthcare-affiliated hospitals in California picketed Tuesday to bring attention to what they say is inadequate staffing for nurses, leading to forced overtime and missed breaks.
Nurses picketed outside Tenet-affiliated hospitals across California on Tuesday afternoon in a union-organized event meant to urge management to invest in nursing staff. More than 3,700 registered nurses represented by the California Nurses Association at eight California hospitals are in ongoing contract negotiations that began in September 2018 with the Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corporation.