Patient Rights
Nurses Strike Over Patient Safety Concerns
06/11/10 08:30
We often see nurses caught between hospital
administration, doctor orders and patient care.
Doctors usually say ‘my way or the highway.’ nurses
who question the wisdom of treatment can find
themselves shunned and scorned or, worse, find their
jobs at risk. More alarming, nurses find themselves
‘understaffed’ and unable to provide care for the
patients. In short, Hospitals choose to maximize
profit by keeping the bare minimum of nurses on duty.
This not only exposes patients to potential injury
and death, it also puts a great deal of stress on the
care giver, the nurse. Nurses at heart want to help
people. When the hospital puts them in a position
that they can’t do their jobs properly, and they know
they can’t be so many different places at one time,
this causes severe heartache for the nurse who knows
that patients are being harmed.
Minnesota nurses stood up, fought back and went on strike. Interestingly, even though many nurses usually sit on the opposite of the table from our firm, their argument is the same as ours, that hospitals are putting profit over patient safety. Tell the hospital to get off their wallet and give you the care you deserve.
Minnesota nurses stood up, fought back and went on strike. Interestingly, even though many nurses usually sit on the opposite of the table from our firm, their argument is the same as ours, that hospitals are putting profit over patient safety. Tell the hospital to get off their wallet and give you the care you deserve.
