Around 100 nurses, community members and labor allies rallied Tuesday at Brittingham Park to address safety concerns within the nurses’ contracts at Meriter Hospital, emphasizing that nurses are prepared to strike if their demands continue to go unmet.
Meriter nurses have been working without a contract since March 23. They began negotiating their contract in January with Meriter management to improve safety for nurses and patients, according to Pat Raes, president of Service Employees International Union Wisconsin and a registered nurse at Meriter.
Nurse practitioners met in Lansing Wednesday to discuss improving their industry.
At the annual Michigan Council of Nurse Practitioners (MICNP) Legislative Advocacy Day, nurse practitioners discussed health care worker shortages, full practice authority, continuing education and other points of concern with law makers to advocate for the future of the profession, according to MICNP officials.
Five nurses working in the same unit at a Boston-area hospital have been diagnosed with non-cancerous brain tumors, prompting them and their labor union to search for answers while the medical facility contends it has ruled out an environmental risk for workers there.
According to a statement that Mass General Brigham’s Newton-Wellesley hospital provided to NBC10 Boston, the five nurses either work or have previously worked in the facility’s fifth-floor maternity unit.
The hospital said it interviewed 11 staff members who have worked at some point on that floor as part of an investigation into the nurses and the tumors. Of them, five were diagnosed with brain tumors, all of which were benign growths, while the other six were found to have other health concerns.
A patient was injured in a small fire at UPMC Hanover Monday night. According to a spokesperson from UPMC Hanover, a small fire occurred in a patient room at the hospital last night. The staff responded by extinguishing the fire and moving nearby patients to other units away from the blaze.
As of this month, five nurses working on the same floor Massachusetts General Brigham's Newton-Wellesley Hospital have been diagnosed with non-cancerous brain tumors, the hospital announced. MGB interviewed eleven staff members who worked on the fifth floor in connection with concerns brought up at a staff town hall last month, according to a memo released by the hospital.
In a report released by the International Council of Nurses, the shortage of nurses in the current healthcare system should be treated as a global health emergency.
This shortage is detrimental to the United States healthcare system and there need to be changes and solutions to motivate nurses.
This crisis requires immediate solutions and one nurse has stepped up to implement these needed changes. Bre Loughlin, a nurse of over 20 years, created “Nurse Disrupted”, a Madison-based platform that allows nurses to work virtually, according to The Cap Times. This platform gives nurses and their affiliated hospitals the flexibility to utilize their services while giving nurses a new way to work that doesn’t overload them.