Because the three women who filed the lawsuit are seeking class-action status, it could impact some 1,200 registered nurses employed by Dignity Health, according to the lawsuit.
Union nurses at Michigan Medicine will begin voting Monday on whether or not to hold a work stoppage. The University of Michigan Professional Nurse Council has been negotiating a new contract with hospital administrators since January. The original contract expired June 30, and negotiations have solved several issues regarding the new contract.
In a 30-second television advertisement airing across Massachusetts, a nurse looks toward the camera and declares that government-mandated restrictions on nurses’ caseloads would put hospital patients at risk. “You can never apply a one-size-fits-all to nursing,” she says. “It’s not good for patients.”
Union officials representing nurses at Northside Hospital said Friday they have reached a tentative agreement with Steward Health Care. The nurses had been negotiating a severance package with the company. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (the union representing the nurses) would not give specifics on Steward's offer or what the union proposed.
UAB's new School of Nursing is now open. The state of the art facility is advocating for the future of nursing and fighting the nursing shortage. UAB’S new School of Nursing is getting national attention, ranked top 10 in the country and brings technology in the most advanced opportunities for educating the nurses of the future.
As a family physician with close to 50 years in practice, I am writing to alert your readers about proposed legislation in Harrisburg that I believe could put Pennsylvania’s patients in jeopardy. Several bills have been introduced in Harrisburg that would essentially provide a shortcut for thousands of nurses and physician assistants by allowing them to work as physicians — without the education or training required.