Simulation labs are an important component to becoming a nurse and now virtual reality is becoming an important part of simulation programs. At the Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing, simulation provides students a safe environment where they can gain confidence and proficiency in their clinical judgment and nursing skills.
A nurses' union announced on Monday that nurses at Michigan Medicine, the medical arm of the University of Michigan, have voted to authorize a three-day strike "to protest ongoing and continuous violations of their workplace rights." The union has yet to set a date for the strike, which will go ahead "if University officials fail to remedy their ongoing unfair labor practices," the union said in a statement.
When they talk about the impact of ballot Question 1, Massachusetts hospital executives keep repeating one big number: $1 billion. That’s how they’ve described the approximate cost — annually — of the question that seeks to regulate nurse staffing. Last week, they started detailing the costs for individual hospitals. If the ballot question passes, the parent company of Cape Cod Hospital estimates it would have to spend more than $34 million a year to comply with the measure.
Some 14,000 registered nurses working in University of California medical centers and student health centers are scheduled to vote this week on a new five-year labor contract, after 20 months of negotiations. The agreement calls for a 15 percent pay raise, staffing to provide "safe patient care" and workplace violence and sex harassment protections, according to a news release from the California Nurses Association, a labor union that represents 100,000 members throughout California.
Scanlon McGinity — a lead player in the University of Michigan Professional Nurse Council’s ongoing contract bargaining with the hospital system — spoke in a 2015 interview of her dislike for unions and her experience of locking the nurses’ union out of the hospital when they held strike during her time as an administrator in the University of Maryland hospital system.
Contract talks are resuming between the University of Vermont Medical Center and union representing nurses. The Burlington hospital and the union have been in talks since March. Higher wages remain a sticking point for the contract. The nurses are seeking a 22-percent raise over three years.