In this interview, ER Nurse Beckett Augat discusses her meeting with members of the hospital administration and MA. Nursing Assoc. (MNA)  Nurse’s Union. The nurses have sent 600 unsafe staffing forms with no response from the hospital administrations. The nurses need more staff to give good care. Their nursing ratios are too high !. The nurses have been on strike for 8 weeks. Beckett spoke that negotiations didn’t go well. When MNA asked about more staffing Members of the Hospital Administration response was they are taking back the money that was offered.  Members of the Hospital Administration don’t seem to understand what goes into taking good care of patients. Beckett also discussed the “one patient law”. If a patient comes in and is seriously ill and needs a critical care bed that patient is assigned a nurse, it is the only patient that nurse has until this patient gets stable. Unfortunately, this is not the case in the Emergency room where the staffing ratios are higher.
This is an interview that the public needs to hear. This Strike is for Safe Patient Care Not MONEY as it is led to be Believe in the Media!
If you really want to help the Nurses from St. Vincents Hospital, please contact your Legislators in Massachusetts and express your concerns.  You really do not realize how powerful your VOICE is!!!    Help the Nurses as this STRIKe is for YOU- the patient.

Who is holding your hand when you are a patient in the Hospital?  No! it is not a Member of the Hospital Administration, No! it is not the Doctor. Who is left?  The NURSE! So let's support the Nurse by speaking up for the Nurse and call your Legislator in Massachusetts and Call the Hospital to register your complaints.  Please use your voice and make a stand for the Nurses at St. Vincent Hospital.

This issue for the nurses is just not in Massachusetts it is all over the United States of America. There are Nurses on Strike happening in many places so this is not just one isolated Strike happening in Massachusetts.  The Publick (and that is you) Need to step up and help these Nurses.  Look, I know we are in a Health Pandemic in the United States, and the World but life still continues with problems that still have to be solved every day.
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