Countering the Chant of Mandated Nurse-to-Patient Ratios
by Lori King, DNP, RN, APRN-BC The threat of labor strikes in health care surged in 2019. National Nurses United (NNU) is calling unit after unit of nurses out on the picket line, chanting for mandated nurse-to-patient ratios in contracts. A New York Times press...Positive Employee Relations: What Should I Say to My Employees About Health Care Reform?
Most provisions of the new healthcare reform law don’t go into effect until 2014, and many of the provisions are poorly understood without further explanation in the regulation process. Most employers will simply choose to say nothing about healthcare reform...Hartford Nursing Home Residents At Risk
Let’s hope that residents of four Hartford, CT, nursing facilities don’t read our article about the risk of death in unionized healthcare facilities. With the SEIU-affiliated employees of Spectrum Healthcare planning on going on strike “until a settlement is reached,”...Are Healthcare Unions Deadly?
The National Bureau of Economic Research released a new paper titled “Do Strikes Kill? Evidence from New York State.” The abstract states “that nurses’ strikes increase in-hospital mortality by 19.4% and 30-day readmission by 6.5% for patients admitted during a...Union Free Patients Live Longer… Study Shows Strikes Kill Patients
Many consider strikes in healthcare immoral or, at the very least, unethical. Here’s a very good example of why. This study explains that there are higher mortality rates among patients cared for in striking patient care units. Is it too late to add a no-strike...
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