Management's refusal to take Nurses' patient safety concerns as seriously have pushed Nurses to the boiling point, and this show of unity is just the beginning. Nurses are commited to doing whatever it takes to win the contract that Nurses and patients deserve! Watch and listen in the Facebook Group for PVHMC RNs.

Member Voices

Our colleages had some inspiring words when we delivered our nearly 1,000 petition signatures to management. Watch and listen in the Facebook Group for PVHMC RNs.

Recently a NICU nurse was attacked in front of Women's Center while coming to work, and staff were threatened by parents with possible gun violence...Workplace violence is real and it is serious. We nurses always put our first priority on patient safety. I think the hospital should emphasize patient and employee safety by [agreeing to] what we proposed.

— Amanda Wong NICU

One of the common things I hear from patients is that our response time is delayed in providing care. Part of that reason is because the charge nurses are the only ones responsible right now for providing breaks and that takes up more than six hours of my day. And during that time I'm not relieved of my charge nurse duties and so i play double duty...To the patients' families that communicates that they're not a priority when I can't get to them in time to help them to the bathroom so they have an incontinent episode, or they're sitting in pain and I'm not meeting their desired pain response time."

— Scarlett Holden, Tele 6

There have been several occasions where some of the new grads have been out of ratio. It was brought up to management. And not only are we risking patient safety, we're also risking our own license and our livelihoods.

— Guillermo Mendoza-Lujan, Emergency Department