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To truly honor #IWD2023 and its goals, we must revisit the story of International Working Women's Day, of thousands of fed-up workers boiling over into the streets of New York.
Today, we celebrate what we've accomplished and make an honest assessment of what oppresses us. (1/11)
Today, we celebrate what we've accomplished and make an honest assessment of what oppresses us. (1/11)
The RNs of @NationalNurses have a reputation for being outspoken, for being militant, and for being unafraid to strike when necessary.
So we feel a real kinship with the working women who led a history-changing strike that gave rise to #InternationalWomensDay. (2/11)
So we feel a real kinship with the working women who led a history-changing strike that gave rise to #InternationalWomensDay. (2/11)
The earliest known "Women's Day" celebrations were held in New York City in March 1910 to celebrate garment workers.
Over the course of a two-month strike in 1909, these working women changed the course of history and U.S. labor for the better. (3/11) teenvogue.com/story/internat…
Over the course of a two-month strike in 1909, these working women changed the course of history and U.S. labor for the better. (3/11) teenvogue.com/story/internat…
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: There is no shortage of nurses. The so-called “#NursingShortage” is a crisis of the health care industry’s own making.
Here’s how we got here. 👇🧵
Here’s how we got here. 👇🧵
You might be asking, “Why would the health care industry intentionally short staff hospitals?” To make money!
To cut labor costs, and increase profits, the hospital industry deliberately refuses to staff our nation’s hospitals with enough nurses to care for patients.
To cut labor costs, and increase profits, the hospital industry deliberately refuses to staff our nation’s hospitals with enough nurses to care for patients.
This isn’t new either. For decades, the hospital industry has driven nurses away by intentionally understaffing and closing units across the hospital.
Hospitals also fail to protect nurses from infectious diseases, workplace violence, and #MoralInjury.
Hospitals also fail to protect nurses from infectious diseases, workplace violence, and #MoralInjury.
As a librarian, it's my job to help distinguish reliable & accurate sources of information & debunk misinformation (regardless of intent) & disinformation (intended to mislead).With the @theRCN members voting to strike, let’s look at some of the misleading information. A thread🧵
Nursing is a highly skilled graduate profession, not a vocation. It is risk-oriented & patient safety focused. There’s a lot of talk about nurses being paid on average £35,500. That figure is indeed an average; it takes into account the most highly specialised nurses & managers.
In Wales, newly qualified nurses start on band 5 at £27,055 & progress to £32,934 after 4 years, which is the highest salary they can receive, without applying for a new job at a Band 6. Here’s a link to the NHS pay bands 2022-23: bit.ly/3UvgMqN
We are announcing today that 3,300 workers at Kaiser Permanente in Oregon will be voting on whether or not to authorize a strike. The key issue is #SafeStaffing, and we are concerned that Kaiser's low offers at the table could accelerate the staffing crisis. *thread*
After months of bargaining, Kaiser is still putting forward proposals that will not support our members or our communities. They are offering 1%: far below what comparable positions make in the area, and so low that they won't attract new staff.
More importantly, they are pushing forward "two tiers," which would mean that new staff will get much lower wages and benefits. This would create a disaster for the staffing ratios, which are already a massive problem.
"...when the pandemic hit, the staffing levels went from a strain to a crisis unto itself for many nursing homes." #ProtectAllWorkers #ProtectAllResidents #SafeStaffing #Union skillednursingnews.com/2021/03/staffi…
"Over and over again, the witnesses testifying in the hearing emphasized that the issue of low staffing in nursing homes predated the pandemic — a point that was also made in one of the first hearings on the impact of COVID-19 in nursing homes in 2020."
"Nurses and CNAs leave their roles for multiple reasons, Ramos testified. But the short staffing conditions tend to feed into that turnover, because it creates an unsustainable workload, alongside low wages that necessitate multiple jobs."
The @gmcuk annual training survey is out, looking in particular at the impact of COVID19 on medical trainers and trainees
gmc-uk.org/-/media/docume…
gmc-uk.org/-/media/docume…
As always there is lots of granular data in the report but at the high level:
~25% of trainees & ~20% of trainers score “high” or “very high” on Copenhagen Burnout Inventory questions in the survey
40% of both trainees and trainees describe work as emotionally exhausting
~25% of trainees & ~20% of trainers score “high” or “very high” on Copenhagen Burnout Inventory questions in the survey
40% of both trainees and trainees describe work as emotionally exhausting
And almost half report feeling tired/fatigued at the end of the day
(though, as always, I think the phrasing of the question “are you exhausted in the morning at the thought of work” is quite an existential way of asking it!)
(though, as always, I think the phrasing of the question “are you exhausted in the morning at the thought of work” is quite an existential way of asking it!)
