Nurses at McLaren Macomb Hospital in Mount Clemens gathered Wednesday night to demand a new contract. The nurses have been negotiating since May 2017. They want safe staffing, which would allow nurses to work overtime instead of the hospital hiring contracted workers, and they want to protect nurses against workplace violence.
More than 100 nurses gathered at the state Capitol on Tuesday to call for limits on the number of patients they can be asked to care for in hospitals and nursing homes. The nurses held a rally and delivered petitions in support of House Bill 1500 and Senate Bill 214.
A state senator who has fought to restore Maine’s corps of public health nurses is suing Gov. Paul LePage’s administration for failing to comply with a 2017 law that required the state to hire more than two dozen nurses and rebuild a public health program the administration largely dismantled in its first six years in office.
Continuing education is critical in the rapidly changing world of nurses – whether their goal is keeping up or getting ahead. All licensed practical nurses and registered nurses in Georgia must meet some continuing education requirements as a condition of license renewal.
New Jersey lawmakers have not been as quick to act as in California, where it is already law, or Massachusetts, where it will be a ballot initiative this fall. But there is at least a measure introduced in both houses of the Legislature that would set patient limits for nurses in hospitals across the state.
Rhode Island Hospital is no longer diverting certain patients away from its emergency room as its 2,400 unionized nurses, techs and therapists continue to strike outside on the sidewalk.