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Hands down, it was the worst thing I have witnessed from administrative and clinical perspective. The biggest losers through the entire experience were the patients. The entire experience was contentious and deeply bitter and personal. I feel for the nurses and their work environment and think that the administration should have been more sensitive to their concerns and work loads. However, it was my experience that the union made it very difficult for any decent negotiations to occur. Even after an agreement was finalized the nurses were still bitter and anger.
My take is administration should take any reasonable steps to keep the unions out and take care of the nurses that work on the front lines. The nurses should also meet administration half way and make some changes.
Unions work in some respect but keep them out of healthcare!
Unions need to go away. Their entire purpose has become to sustain themselves, not benefit the members.
Your statement is grossly unfair and inaccurate. I dare say you have not been employed in government or as a teacher or you would know that incompetence and laziness are not attributes of either of those groups of workers. One must meet high levlels of qualification to gain employment in either of those fields. The work is demanding (Have you ever tried to satisfy all of the public all of the time? It is an impossible task.) and evaluations are regulary completed on all these workers. Those who are found deficient are counselled and placed in programs for mentorship and improvement. It is easy to complain and make unsubstantiated allegations. It is quite difficult to serve the public and deal with complaints when things do not go as each person wants in spite of special consideration and effort. I hope you don't ever have your work held up to public scrutiny where the only the side of the story being told is that of the complainers.
with all the laws there are protecting organizers, the nursing shortage, and the high cost of recruiting / hiring experienced workers, I am sure there is much more to this than we are hearing. It sounds like others (SLR Staff's comment) were getting pressured by these nurses. Like "Proud to be an RN" says, there is a nursing shortage, if things were so bad there, why did they stay so long?
It would appear that the nurses who lost their jobs, lost the battle at SLRMC, but management could loose two fold. First they have lost valuable employees with vast amounts of knowledge and experience and second they may loose the war of idealogies if their system does not provide adequate customer service and the place closes and leaves them without jobs. Time will tell...
for profit, I see the bottom line driving management
to keep costs low at the expense of quality care.
Many nurses left for various reasons. As of the last 5 years, management expected charge nurses to accept
incoming patients whether or not there was adequate
staffing or if there was adequate staffing, some
nurses were not yet capable of high acuity patients.
Wouldn't you rather have an experienced ICU nurse
tell your bosses that a situation is unsafe from a
patients' standpoint --since we hospitals in SLC
are not field hospitals, why would anyone want to
jeopardize a human life? The union organizations
were trying to keep human lives safe--both from
an RN and a patient situation. If management would
deny access to discussion on a safety basis, then
where could nurses go?
When I was there these nurses were never willing to mentor the new nurses. "I had to leave because of that". One would think, with all their experience they would teach the new comers, all they did was criticize. They had no intension on building, they wanted to destroy. If that's what a union is all about, I don't want any part of it.