'Management's retaliatory threats are despicable, but union nurses won't give up on our fight for our patients.' nationalnurses
Registered nurses represented by National Nurses United staged the strike despite a threat from Ascencion, the second-largest Catholic nonprofit healthcare network in the U.S., to impose a three-day lockout on anyone who took part in the work stoppage.
NNU said that despite Ascension's vast financial resources, it has for years maintained what nurses say are dangerously low staffing levels, with roughly six patients assigned to each nurse in a shift, according toIn California, hospitals are legally required to assign no more than five general patients or two critical care patients to a single nurse.
Lindsay Spinney, who works in Seton's neonatal intensive care unit, told the outlet that she is frequently tasked with caring for three or four medically fragile babies at a time.
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