Kathy Misk, another registered nurse at Children's, works in case management and helps families transition from hospital care to caring for their child at home. 12, 2022 outside North Memorial Health Hospital in Robbinsdale, Minn. Mary Turner, president of the Minnesota Nurses Association, left, joins nurses striking, Sept. "We have to have a bottom line where you just can't shove any more patients on to that nurse." "The pandemic did so many things in pointing out, clarifying and shining a light on what life is like in the hospitals and what nurses are expected to do, which is a lot with very little," Ross said.
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Jean Ross, co-president of National Nurses United, billed as the largest union and professional association of registered nurses in the U.S., said more nurses across the country are pushing back and that most job actions revolve around the same core issues - staffing and pay. It said despite staffing hospitals with "experienced nurse managers, trained replacement nurses and some existing traveler nurses" that people may see some delay in being treated. The statement said people with emergency issues should continue to call 911 or go to emergency rooms. "The union rejected all requests for mediation and held fast to wage demands that were unrealistic, unreasonable and unaffordable," several of the Twin Cities hospitals under strike said in a joint statement. Hospital leaders called their wage demands unaffordable, noting that Allina and Fairview hospitals have posted operating losses and that the cost of such sharp wage increases would be passed along to patients.
The hospitals have offered a 10-12% wage increase over three years, but nurses are seeking more than 30%. Union spokesman Sam Fettig said the nurses chose a three-day strike, rather than an open-ended walkout, out of concern for patients. Another child maybe had to wait for a breathing treatment because we just couldn't get to them all fast enough." "I work with people all the time that go home every day and feel horrible because one child had to wait longer for medication, or another child needed to wait longer for an IV. "There are shifts where you have three critically ill patients, and you have to decide which patient gets the care, when," Dittrich said. Tracey Dittrich, 50, a registered nurse at the hospital for nearly 24 years, said nurses are tired of "hospital administrators and managers that are telling us to do more." The hospitals need more nurses and more support staff, and higher pay will help, she said. Clad in the red T-shirts of the Minnesota Nurses Association and carrying signs with such slogans as, "Something has got to give," several said their chief concern was patient safety. outside Children's Hospital in Minneapolis, one of 15 hospitals affected. Scores of nurses began walking the picket line at 7 a.m.
The affected hospitals said they have recruited temporary nurses and expected to maintain most services. Some 15,000 nurses at seven health care systems in the Minneapolis and Duluth areas walked out, a number the union says makes it the largest strike ever by private-sector nurses. The Ukrainian military destroyed 4 enemy warehouses and one K-52 helicopter.Thousands of nurses in Minnesota launched a three-day strike Monday, pressing for salary increases they say will help improve patient care by resolving understaffing stresses that have worsened in the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile, the AFU continued to inflict powerful blows on the Russian occupiers. In the last 24 hours, defenders of Ukraine have repelled attempted offensives in the area of Soledar, Zaitseve, the Butivka mine, and Spartak. The enemy's losses are being specified," the message says.Īs Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, Russian invaders continue to make offensive attempts in Donetsk region, but the AFU successfully repel them. "As a result of the coordinated work of the aviation and artillery, several platoon strongholds, about 5 positions of anti-aircraft missile systems and the enemy's artillery battery were hit.
Thus, it is reported that missile troops and artillery continue to perform tasks of counter-battery combat, disruption of the control system, logistical support, destruction of anti-aircraft defense equipment, fire equipment and enemy manpower. That follows from a statement by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On September 5, the aviation of the Defense Forces carried out more than 30 strikes aimed at hitting the personnel, combat and special equipment and other military objects of the Russian occupiers.
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