About 5,000 nurses at Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford were on the picket lines Monday morning, after the Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement (CRONA) announced a strike Sunday evening.
CRONA said 93% of eligible nurses voted to authorize the strike.
Sacramento-based Sutter Health has locked out thousands of registered nurses who hit 15 of the healthcare giant's Northern California sites with a one-day strike, leaders of the California Nurses Association said Wednesday.
In a statement, Sutter Health representatives said management had informed nurses before they walked out that they would not be able to return to work until Saturday.
Forensic nurses at UCHealth are shining a light on the rise in violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. The healthcare system is one of the first to offer an outpatient clinic to victims of violence as well as specialized care.
Forensic nurses say the severity of violence during the pandemic is both evident and alarming. To put that in perspective, when the program started in 2017, the clinic was seeing about 20 patients a month. Now in 2022, they're seeing about 200 victims a month.
Despite a warrant and a grand jury presentment against her five months ago, a travel nurse fired by Ballad Health last July for stealing narcotics intended for patients got another job out of state and allegedly did the same thing—and questions remain about the case that put dozens at risk.
Ballad acted on evidence Jacqueline Brewster had stolen narcotics from Johnson City (Tenn.) Medical Center—firing her, reporting her, and sending about 100 patients letters telling them to test for blood-borne diseases due to Brewster's alleged actions. Ballad also sent a news release that said the hospital system had fired a travel nurse for "improperly handling controlled substances."
But Brewster's name wasn’t made public until a similar case against her last month in West Virginia.
Hundreds of nurses at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center will vote to decide whether to strike over unfair labor practices, the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) announced Monday.