Disturbing pattern at NARH

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And too, as simple as you are. But your input is always welcome here on this.... well whatever it is.

The nurses are educated people they had to go to school to do their jobs not just anybody can go in and do their jobs.It's okay for the hospital to say what the nurses make. What about the higher ups in management.There was a paper circulating around the hospital from 2007 taxes shows they make a lot more, to sit behind a desk and have endless meetings about nothing.The nurses are the ones who work directly with the patients not these higher ups.Does the hospital really need 6 nursing supervisors. I don't think so. Maybe the hospital should think about cutting at the top for once instead of at the bottom. I am not a nurse I worked at the hospital in a totally different department. Lets just say towards the bottom of the totem pole.

WOW wrote:

If the nurses can't stand the "working conditions", they should resign.

Be careful what you wish for. Who will be left? Like travelling to Pittsfield for hospital care, do you?

Wrong wrote:

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Your comparison is laughable. NARH is, in your mind, the equivalent of a big multinational corporation? Palmisano makes the same as the chair of Walmart? The nurses at NARH are treated like minimum wage workers by the evil Man? I bet a lot of people who live in North Berkshire wish they were treated so horribly by their employer while being paid 88-grand a year, no co-pay health plan, 7 to 9 weeks of vacation a year. Yeah, just awful working conditions, I'd say.

They do have copays with their health insurance and the most weeks vacation you can accrue at the highest level is only 6 weeks.

right wrote:

Is it equally fascinating to Ms. Bahnsen Connerton that the MNA has now taken out a full-page ad in today's Transcript? That's an expensive ad. Maybe the money could have been better spent giving it to charity, for instance.

The MNA pays union dues to pay for their print and radio ads. That's what dues are for!

So are you stating that overtime should not be based on NEED? OT is when things are busy and workers included nurses are scarce. The need of the person who is sick or dying should be more important than the greed of any union or non union employee.
Anyone making 68 grand and more should not be complaining, that ius just plain greed.
Usually I would stand by the employees, but this time they are totally wrong! It’s time for the Hospital to restructure, while doing so they can just do emergency medicine and send patients to Pittsfield and Northampton until such time as anew system is in place.

BBp

right wrote:

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The answer is that they want to work OT when they want to work OT ... and when they don't feel like it, they don't.

i work at the hospital and am not a nurse. my union almost striked and it was a really scary time for some people that could not afford it.
i don't know what the mna/narh is negotiating exactly... but i do know that everyone watching from the outside does not know either ... and i think there are alot of IGNORANT comments being left on these blogs.

and another thing:

to all that think they have an easy job:

if your loved one is in a hospital, you can still enjoy your christmas or holiday because the nurse who has children is here taking care of your loved one so you may enjoy your holiday.
your shift is ended, your patient isn't doing well, you cannot just walk off, you take care of your patient.
there are many people walking the streets of north adams who would have died if it wasn't for the nurses of north adams hospital.
so instead of criticizing, you should thank god that these wonderful nurses are here for you should you be sick.

who knew that? not me