There are few things that can make a person feel more alone and scared than being the victim of sexual assault. But there is a special team of nurses trained to make sure victims are not alone. They are Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner or SANE nurses.
“If you look at the employment projections, health care occupations in general are going to be high in demand over the next decade. Nurses do appear to be really satisfied with their jobs — more than one might expect,” said Martha Gimbel, research director for Indeed’s Hiring Lab.
With talks between Lifespan’s Rhode Island Hospital and United Nurses and Allied Professionals Local 5098 scheduled to resume on Wednesday, union members on Monday afternoon staged an informational picket outside the hospital.
Dozens of UVM Medical Center nurses are sticking to their plan to demand higher wages. They were back on the picket line, Monday afternoon, to reveal results of a survey, that they conducted.
Most of the schools formerly covered by North Mississippi Medical Center’s school nurse program have found ways to cover the nursing gap. Last February, North Mississippi Medical Center announced it was discontinuing the program that provided 11 registered nurses to cover 15 schools in seven districts, citing a $54-million drop in federal reimbursement over the past five years.
Unionized nurses and other health care professionals at Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital on Thursday voted no confidence in Lifespan’s CEO, Tim Babineau, and Rhode Island Island Hospital’s president, Margaret Van Bree, and called on Lifespan’s board “to take immediate, corrective action to restore the public’s trust in Rhode Island’s only Level One Trauma Hospital.”