Nurse Fired During Fight For PPE Now Facing Board Of Nursing Investigation By We Do The Work, Popular Resistance. December 1, 2020 Nurse Fired During Fight For PPE Now Facing Board Of Nursing Investigation2020-12-012020-12-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/press-statement-image-e1606828241468.jpg200px200px Cliff Willmeng, RN of 13 years, Union Steward, and Whistleblower, Has January 7, 2021, Date Set for Union Arbitration: Local and National Defense Campaign Mobilizing Now. Cliff Willmeng, the RN employed at Allina Health’s United Hospital in St Paul, Minnesota, who was fired during workplace struggles for frontline safety and patient care, received notification that Allina Health reported him to the Minnesota Board of Nursing last week. […]
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Interview With Striking Nurse In Philadelphia Suburb November 24, 2020 Interview With Striking Nurse In Philadelphia Suburb2020-11-242020-11-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/st.-mary-strike.jpg200px200px Above photo: Fox 29 Philadelphia. Nurses at St. Mary Medical Center outside Philadelphia went on strike Tuesday morning, demanding safe staffing ratios to confront the growing numbers of Covid cases in Pennsylvania. Left Voice spoke with Drew, one of the nurses walking the picket line. On Tuesday, November 17, nurses at St. Mary Medical Center (SMMC) in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, went on strike after management refused to establish safe staffing ratios to confront the growing numbers of Covid cases at the hospital. Left Voice spoke with Drew, […]
Nurse Survey Exposes Hospitals’ Failure To Prepare For Covid-19 Surge By National Nurses United. November 21, 2020 Nurse Survey Exposes Hospitals’ Failure To Prepare For Covid-19 Surge2020-11-212020-11-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/survey_4_hero_16x9-e1605992426639.png200px200px Eleven months into pandemic and entering the cold and flu season, nurses say there are no excuses for the continued lack of PPE, testing, and workplace protections. National Nurses United’s new nationwide survey of more than 15,000 registered nurses reveals that 11 months into the pandemic, hospitals are failing to prepare for a surge of Covid-19 cases during flu season and that basic infection control and prevention measures are still lacking. Nurses cite the […]
Nurse Alleges Forced Sterilizations, Medical Malpractice At Immigrant Detention Center September 17, 2020 Nurse Alleges Forced Sterilizations, Medical Malpractice At Immigrant Detention Center2020-09-172020-09-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/detention-e1600351748875.jpg200px200px Above photo: Detention facility in McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 17, 2018. US Customs and Border Protection. “I thought this was like an experimental concentration camp.” A whistleblower complaint filed on behalf of a nurse who worked at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in southern Georgia until July alleges that a number of immigrant women detained there were subjected to sterilization through hysterectomies without their consent. In the complaint, filed by the legal advocacy group Project South, the former […]
An Arkansas nurse who vanished while jogging was abducted, raped, and buried, police said during a court hearing Monday for the farmer charged with her murder. Quake Lewellyn, 28, a third-generation farmer, was silent as he walked up the steps to the courthouse in Jackson County. But authorities say he confessed when they questioned him in the disappearance of Sydney Sutherland. According to pool reporters in the courtroom, Arkansas State Police agent Mike McNeal took the stand and told the judge that Llewellyn said he spotted Sutherland on the highway as he was driving, doubled back, and abducted her. Police and […]
A young nurse became a national hero in Lebanon after rescuing three newborn babies from an ICU and carrying them to safety following the massive Beirut port explosion. Now she has returned to the hospital to tell her story. St. George Hospital University Medical Center is one of the oldest and most advanced in Beirut. But on Tuesday, it became a nightmarish scene when the blast wave from a powerful explosion about 1km away swept through the building and turned vast swathes of the city into a wasteland. Young nurse Pamela Zeinoun stepped up to the plate and her moment of […]
Cori Bush has unseated Democratic Party congressman William Lacy Clay, defeating a political dynasty that has represented its district in St Louis, Missouri, for more than half a century. The race ended on Tuesday night, though far from a landslide, with Bush, a former nurse, edging the incumbent out by a mere three percent of the vote. The primary win will likely guarantee her a seat in Congress since it is a ‘blue’ district, demographically favoring the Democratic Party over the Republicans. The outgoing Lacy Clay was first elected in 2000, right after his father Bill retired following thirty-two years of […]
Nurse Strike Wave Grows By Mike Elk, Payday Report. July 12, 2020 Nurse Strike Wave Grows2020-07-122020-07-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/nursuunionnbc-news-777×437.jpg200px200px Above photo: Nurses hold a demonstration outside Jacobi Medical Center to protest a new policy by the hospital requiring a doctor’s note for paid sick leave, Friday, April 17, 2020, in the Bronx borough of New York. AP Photo/Mary Altaffer. Scabs Nurses Brought Into Bust Strike in Illinois As the country undergoes a severe surge of COVID cases, many hospitals are still short of PPE. Nurses across the country went on strike this week demanding these vital protections. This week, nurses at the AMITA Saint Joseph […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107967/56/1079675680_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_59e4c91317194ddf5a74d58d88151e5a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202006201079675644-nurse-gets-modeling-contract-after-seen-wearing-bra–shorts-beneath-see-through-ppe/ The nurse noted that she wasn’t wearing a swimsuit, but rather a gym top and shorts, underneath her protective clothes. A 23-year old Russian nurse named Nadia Zhukova from the city of Tula, who was thrust into the limelight last month when a photo of her performing her duties while wearing nothing but underwear underneath her transparent PPE, has won a modelling contract with prominent Russian sportswear brand Zasport. As Nadia herself explained in an interview with the brand’s website, she was dressed that way because it was “too hot”, and she “wasn’t ready” […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107964/16/1079641666_0:221:3050:1936_1200x675_80_0_0_489c4c6dde9662f85bb026950ec03fb1.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202006171079641706-people-protest-in-paris-call-for-release-of-nurse-arrested-at-previous-demonstration—video/ On 16 June, police arrested a 50-year-old nurse named Farida during a demonstration demanding an increase in salaries and improvements in working conditions amid the coronavirus pandemic. Live from Paris, France, where people have gathered in front of a police prefecture to demand the release of a nurse who was arrested at a protest the day before and is currently being held at the facility. Footage of the incident that was shared on social media showed the 50-year-old nurse being arrested by a group of more than 10 police officers while she screamed and begged […]
A video has emerged showing several French police officers round up a woman in a white medical robe during a health workers protest in Paris. Officers can be seen dragging her by the hair as she begs for help. The shocking video, filmed at protest in the French capital on Tuesday, shows a policeman in full riot gear pulling the middle-aged woman by the hair and slamming her repeatedly against a tree in an apparent attempt to take her into custody. Une femme en blouse blanche, tirée par les cheveux, durant une interpellation, finira évacuée le visage en sang durant la […]
Allegations that England’s chief nurse was stood down from a Downing Street Covid-19 daily briefing after refusing to publicly back PM Boris Johnson’s top aide Dominic Cummings have provoked outrage. Ruth May was scheduled to appear alongside UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock on June 1 to update the public on progress being made in tackling the coronavirus pandemic. However, according to senior NHS sources, England’s top nurse was dropped just hours before the briefing. Also on rt.com ‘Told the truth’: Piers Morgan blasts ‘pathetic’ BBC for throwing Newsnight presenter ‘to the wolves’ after Cummings monologue May is said to have told […]
A female nurse at a hospital in Tula, central Russia, has become an online sensation overnight after she turned up to work wearing nothing but underwear beneath a see-through protective suit, gloves and goggles. The photo of the nurse, clad in a sheer plastic protective suit and carrying a tray full of medication she was about to administer to her ailing patients, has gone viral after it was first reported by the local daily Tulskie Novosti late on Tuesday. The image was reportedly taken at a regional hospital for infectious diseases in Tula, the largest city of the Tula Region, located […]
Leslie Neal-Boylan, The Conversation Nurses are heroes of the COVID-19 crisis. May 12 is International Nurses Day, which commemorates the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the first “professional nurse.” The World Health Organization also named this year the “Year of the Nurse” in honor of Nightingale’s 200th birthday. To nurses everywhere, this day and this year have great significance. Nurses, who are being recognized as heroes, have long awaited recognition as health care professionals in their own right and not ancillary to physicians. It’s wonderful to be recognized now in the context of coronavirus, but nurses have always been at the forefront—during war, epidemics […]