Category: human resources

Members of the California Nurses Association are alleging unsafe overcrowding at San Diego-based UCSD Health’s Jacobs Medical Center.

Members of Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West will protest and picket throughout March at 26 Dignity Health facilities in California.

Registered nurses and healthcare professionals who work for Ventura County’s health system have taken their concerns about staffing, pay and benefits to the county’s board of supervisors, the Ventura County Star reported.

Job seekers have greater access to information on compensation today than in years past, with salary ranges appearing on nearly half of the jobs posted on one search site. 

Operation Nightingale — the Justice Department initiative that discovered more than 7,600 fraudulent diplomas allowed unqualified purchasers to practice as nurses — shocked HHS, the FBI and medical professionals nationwide. 

On March 3, the Region 6 office of the National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint against Pittsburgh-based UPMC and one of its subsidiaries, UPMC Altoona (Pa.), over allegations related to the termination of an agency nurse.

Registered nurses at Adventist Health Lodi (Calif.) Memorial have voted to join the California Nurses Association, an affiliate of National Nurses United, The Sacramento Bee reported March 9. 

Registered nurses at Ascension Via Christi St. Joseph Hospital in Wichita, Kan., have voted to join the National Nurses Organizing Committee, an affiliate of National Nurses United. 

Registered nurses at Ascension Via Christi St. Joseph Hospital in Wichita, Kan., have voted to join the National Nurses Organizing Committee, an affiliate of National Nurses United. 

Members of the Oregon Nurses Association have filed a class action lawsuit against Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health alleging wage theft and missed payments at its Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg, Ore., and St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton, Ore., acc…