medical staff refusing to care for the covid 19 infected

[Daveyboi]

"Nurses union says workers were suspended for refusing to help coronavirus patients without N95 masks"

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/493095-nurses-union-says-workers-were-suspended-for-refusing-to-help-coronavirus

thought this was interesting. thoughts?

[boogak]

"Nurses union says workers were suspended for refusing to help coronavirus patients without N95 masks"

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/493095-nurses-union-saycs-workers-were-suspended-for-refusing-to-help-coronavirus

thought this was interesting. thoughts?

[user120312]

A California hospital suspended a group of nurses after they refused to enter rooms where patients were being treated for COVID-19 without first getting N95 respiratory masks, the National Nurses Union told The Associated Press.
The union said that 10 nurses working at the Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., are not allowed to return to work until the hospital's human resources department finishes an investigation into the dispute. The nurses will receive payments while they are suspended.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcar...lp-coronavirus

https://time.com/5822237/nurses-suspended-n95-masks-covid19/

So, suspended with pay.

[Helpful_Cub]

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/493095-nurses-union-says-workers-were-suspended-for-refusing-to-help-coronavirus

[2shotjoe]

they're not slaves, they can refuse to treat people. keeping employment is a different issue. why should they risk their lives when the employer fails to get them protective gear? that union is doing a disservice to the people they are there for, the nurses.

[bagman]

Sounds like they need to get OSHA involved.

If you were removing asbestos and I'm sure many other things and your employer said you couldn't wear PPE you can bet they would be liable.

The old saying, poor planning on your part doesn't constitute an emergency on my part. Hospitals should have taken some of that $27 per tylenol money and used it to prepare instead of giving it out as dividends.

[sealocan]

I'm just guessing here but it was probably just one or two nurses who said "no" and that one person was sent home with pay, just to sit at home, and in no time at all the word got back to all the other nurses who also would prefer to sit at home.

Rather than risk their lives with no protection at all.
Given those two options would you rather sit home and get the same money for doing nothing or be a front line nurse, doctor, firemen, policemen or soldier with nothing to protect you?

[capo]

The failures of hospitals to adequately prepare for epidemics with proper stockpiles of PPE and other emergency equipment is becoming really embarassing for our health care system. Maybe regulation should focus less on the type of care private companies have to offer and to whom but instead on their level of emergency preparedness, that's where the system really seems to break down.

[ScottsBad]

^ Agree

[Vinnie Boombatz]

Can't do the job if you don't have the proper equipment. And if those nurses get sick because they don't have proper PPE they aren't going to be able to work.

[Doheny]