Nurses in Saskatoon are set to rally on Monday in response to what they say is a crumbling health-care system across the province. “The planned rally is in response to inadequate action on dangerous overcrowding, unsafe conditions for patients in emergency departments, and worsening registered nurse shortages throughout the system,” a release from the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses said.

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same people crying about ups drivers winning $42/hour are the same people who dismiss unions and say they just take your money and don't do anything for you. Bet you'd like $42/hour!!!!!!!

Nurses' union: Unethical to rely on migrant workers to fix staff shortages

Nurses’ union: Unethical to rely on migrant workers to fix staff shortages

A nursing academic says it’s unethical to rely on migrant workers to fix staff shortages. Health New Zealand will run an international recruitment service, to ease immigration for health workers. But, New Zealand College of Nurses Executive Director, Jenny Carryer, told Heather du Plessis Allan there’s a 12 million-strong global shortage of nurses, and other countries may have greater need than…

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A nurses' strike is looming at Rochester General Hospital this week. The system that delivers and manages half the care in the Rochester area is preparing to keep operations running during the scheduled union picket. The Rochester Union of Nurses and Allied Professionals says members are ready to walk off the job beginning Thursday morning. Rochester Regional Health, which runs Rochester General Hospital, was notified that the work stoppage is planned from Thursday at 7 a.m. until Saturday at 7 a.m. Nurses are planning to walk the picket lines at that time, no matter when shifts end. Officials with Rochester Regional say the health system plans to bring in hundreds of nurses during the strike from what it calls a nationally respected agency. It intends to maintain all services without interruption from emergency department response to scheduled surgeries. RRH says the strike comes after 15 negotiating sessions with the union to get its first contract.

Solidarity with nurses- they have been treated so poorly during the pandemic and more recently, they deserve everything.

The general consensus of that post i made 2 days ago

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On Saturday, thousands of union members across disciplines formed a common front and marched through the streets of Montreal. On Sunday, members of the Interprofessional Lanaudière Health Union (FIQ-SIL) launched their own demonstration in front of the constituency office of Quebec Premier Francois Legault in L'Assomption, Que.

Many spent the day at his office doorstep, and several of them set up camp to stay the night, with plans to march through the streets of the municipality Monday morning.

FIQ-SIL President Marie-Chantal Bédard says the round-the-clock demo reflects the working reality of nurses.

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National Nurses United Statement on the Crisis in the Middle East As nurses, our patients trust us to help and heal them when they sustain harm due to the conditions in their everyday lives. To honor that sacred trust, it is our duty to speak up for every human being’s right to a life free from violence and the traumas of war. As patient advocates, we are horrified by the mass killing and brutal violence that is happening in Israel and Palestine. We condemn the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas which led to the deaths and kidnapping of more than a thousand Israeli civilians. We call for the immediate release of all civilians still being held hostage. We condemn the massive attacks from the Israeli military that have killed more than 11,000 civilians in Gaza, and have devastated the health care system. We grieve all the lives lost in these indefensible tragedies. Nurses believe that our patients and their families have the right to health care and to the necessities required to sustain life and health. The siege imposed by the Israeli army has prevented civilians in Gaza from accessing necessities including food, water, electricity, fuel, and life-saving medical supplies, while also preventing the safe movement of civilians currently trapped in Gaza. The resulting humanitarian crisis endangers the health and wellbeing of millions of civilians. Further, the bombing and destruction of critical health care infrastructure in Gaza is a violation of international law, and puts the lives of patients, nurses, and other health care workers at risk. Nurses are no strangers to caring for patients in traumatic situations. But we know that we cannot provide the care we are educated and called to provide for people who entrust their lives to us when we do not have even the most basic supplies and infrastructure, and when we don’t know whether our patients and we nurses ourselves are safe at work. We stand in solidarity with the nurses and health care workers in Palestine and in Israel as they work to provide care in a time of crisis, under conditions that do not support health and healing. National Nurses United calls for an immediate ceasefire, delivery of humanitarian aid, release of all hostages, and an end to this violence. We urge all parties to protect human life and the health and wellbeing of civilians in both Israel and Palestine. To support the humanitarian efforts in Gaza, NNU has made a donation to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières.

#OTD in 1916 – Easter Rising | Margaret Keogh was shot and killed by British soldiers while rushing to attend to patients and the wounded at the South Dublin Union (now the site of St James’s Hospital).

Among the first victims of the Easter Rising was a nurse rushing to attend to patients and the wounded. Margaret Keogh (Kehoe), from Leighlinbridge, Co Carlow. Margaret was working as a nurse in the South Dublin Union (now the site of St James’s Hospital). Six republican riflemen, who had been firing from a top floor on the British soldiers, vacated their position and there was a lull in the…

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In this house we support unions and strike action

Union Victory!

Horray we did it!

What a faff!

Cheers to successful negotiation and really really good chants!

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- Nurses at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick were on strike for a fourth day Monday.  Staffing levels are a sticking point between the United Steelworkers Local 4-200 and the hospital. After contract talks stalled, more than 1,700 nurses walked off the job Friday. But passion on the picket line is not waning.  "Clearly, we're all united for a common purpose here," said Jennifer Kwock.  Kwock, who works in the neonatal ICU, said depleted staffing levels create dangerous conditions for patients and cause nurses burnout.  "If we are spread, too many patients to take care of, how can they get the attention and the care that they deserve, that any patient deserves?" said Kwock.  Burnout is a factor in creating a nationwide shortage of nurses, which is hurling the industry into crisis mode.  A study released earlier in the year by the American Nurses Foundation found 57 percent of nurses surveyed said they felt "exhausted" and 43 percent felt "burned out." 

I’m ready to walk out of my job.

The last straw was, this week they cracked down on overtime. This was the last straw for two reasons:

1. Normally (pre-COVID), our patient volumes are lowest in summer. This year, we’re having winter-flu-season patient volumes (flu season is always the busiest time in the hospital). We now have the second busiest ER in the metro, seeing hundreds of patients per day (we’ve reached a thousand per day several times this year!!!) in a 25-bed ER. This is coupled with the fact we’re operating at 30-50% (a third to a half!!) normal nurse staffing, and have been doing so since 2021. There isn’t a staff member in the hospital who is twiddling their thumbs for a second. I heard tonight that the hospital is trying to end all their contracted labor early (and I assume we’re relying heavily on contracted nurses to fill staffing shortages!)

2. Because of this patient load vs low staffing, it is literally impossible for us to finish all the tasks we are assigned each day. But we still have to meet our metrics and are chastised/penalized when we don’t meet them! Worsening the situation: instead of asking each ‘problem’ staffer why they’re always clocking out late, my department management emailed all the problem people with “suggestions on how to leave on time”. Suggestions that are bullshit because they don’t address the actual reason the person gets overtime consistently.

So this whole perfect storm is coming together to convince me that corporate expects us to work off the clock. Which I’m about 95% sure is fucking illegal.