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Let SPNN Nurses Talk about Quality of Care
On March 27, a UNAC/UHCP member, who is an ICU nurse with more than 20 years of nursing experience, tried to go to Sharp Grossmont Hospital to discuss quality of care issues with our members there. But Maryann Cone, the Chief Nursing Officer of Grossmont Hospital, personally ordered our member to leave.
Please use this form to send a fax/e-mail urging Sharp Healthcare management to allow our union nurses and representatives full access rights that are allowed under the current contract.
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Subject: Let Union Nurses Talk About Quality of Care
Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,
I am extremely disappointed that Maryann Cone, the Chief Nursing Officer of Sharp Grossmont, has denied access to a UNAC/UHCP ICU nurse with more than 20 years of nursing experience. This nurse was simply trying to talk to fellow nurses about the quality of patient care. I think it was not only wrong to deny her access, but it was outside the guidelines of your contractual agreement with the union. I urge you to follow the contract that you signed with the union and allow union nurses and representatives full access rights that are allowed under the current agreement.
I will be waiting to hear from my union to see whether Maryann Cone has changed her behavior and has stopped trying to silence nurses' voices.
Sincerely,
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Campaign Launched:
March 29, 2007
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In surveys distributed by union members, nurses at Sharp say preventable patient injuries are occurring because of poor staffing and lack of medical supplies. But when union nurses and representatives tried to respond to the troubling results of the survey and investigate the problem, Sharp managers silenced them.
On March 27, a union nurse with more than 20 years of nursing experience tried to go to Sharp Grossmont Hospital to discuss crucial patient care issues with union members. Unfortunately, Maryann Cone, the Chief Nursing Officer of Grossmont Hospital, personally ordered the nurse to leave. Our union filed charges to prevent Sharp from silencing us.
“Instead of working with nurses to improve the care we provide our patients, Sharp is turning away nurses. That’s bad for nurses and bad for patients,” says Pam Jackson, RN, a UNAC/UHCP member and post-partum nurse at Sharp’s Grossmont Hospital.
The contract between our union and the company protects union members’ access to Sharp facilities so they can communicate freely with co-workers. Because Sharp has violated the union contract, our union filed an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charge with the National Labor Relations Board.
The contract between Sharp and UNAC/UHCP is set to expire in June and talks are scheduled to begin next month.
You can send a message to Sharp managers and tell them to stop silencing nurses who want to talk about the quality of patient care.
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