The Ohio Nurses Association said Monday that the Mount Carmel investigation involving at least 35 employees, 25 of them nurses, is a “wake up call to look at how health care is delivered in Ohio and to look at areas for improvement.”
Before last November’s election, as the debate over a ballot question to regulate nurse staffing intensified, several members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association wanted to display their support by wearing “Yes on 1” pins. But hospital executives who strongly opposed the ballot measure known as Question 1 sometimes intimidated nurses who expressed their support this way, according to the nurses union.
Saying the need for health care outpaces Florida’s physician workforce, Rep. Cary Pigman on Tuesday swayed members of a House panel to approve a bill that would give advanced practice registered nurses — and physician assistants — the ability to work independently of doctors.
During one night shift at the children’s hospital where she worked as a nurse, Nicolette Mabeza‘s unit filled up with intubated children. She and the other nurses were frantic. “It was just the entire floor running around,” said Mabeza, who worked in the intensive care unit at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital in Washington Heights. “Some nurses had two intubated patients and they weren’t even right next to each other.”
Tensions between Santa Clara County and a local nurses union hit a flash point March 11, when the union called a one-day strike at two county hospitals, in San Jose and Gilroy, beginning Tuesday morning, March 12.
The American Nurses Association isn’t ready to join a growing movement of union nurses in backing the single payer version of Medicare for All as medical care providers sort out how to support an expansion of healthcare coverage. Like many national physician groups, nurses generally support universal health coverage, but they aren’t all ready to throw their weight behind a Medicare for All approach that would upend the private insurance industry’s role in administering health benefits.