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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Battle Hymn of the California Nurse, by Marilou Morgan RN

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You can find them at the bedside
With shot to kill the pain
You can find them passing bedpans
They do this without disdain
As they share with you compassion
Always hoping for your gain
There're dwindling away.
 

California Needs more nurses
HMO's have filled their Purses
Now were really in the Lurches..
We're dwindling away
 

She is working extra hours
He is working extra days
Tryin' to keep a nurse beside you
As you struggle thru this maze
If they had an extra minute
They would take a coffee break
Like other people do.
 

New York City Needs more nurses
HMO's have filled their Purses
Now were really in the Lurches..
Where has the money gone?

We are told were are an item
Like the linen or the lights
We must work under conditions
Never mentioning our rights
If we try to buck the system
A New Grad will be your plight
so we keep hanging on.

Carolina Needs more nurses
HMO's have filled their Purses
Now were really in the Lurches
How long will this go on!

When you think about your nurses
Let your voices ring out clear
they are trying to protect you
From the system, and they fear
You will be in worse condition
from the shorgages we face
and it sould not be so...

Arizona Needs more nurses,
HMO's have filled their purses
Puts us really in the Lurches
and it should not be so!

Copywrite 1999
Marilou Morgan RN

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Thursday, September 3, 2009

Texas: No more mandatory overtime for nurses

Sept 2, 2009, Texas:"No more mandatory overtime for nurses:"Hospitals in Texas can no longer require registered nurses and licensed vocational nurses to work mandatory overtime. The law, which went into effect Tuesday, makes Texas the 15th state to prohibit the practice of forcing nurses to work longer than their scheduled shifts. “It's very, very important for patient safety,” said Fernando Losada, state director of the National Nurses Organizing Committee Texas in Austin. The group is part of the California Nurses Association, a union which lobbied legislators for the law." http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/sixel/6600043.html

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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Alaska State: Nursing overtime spurs safety concerns

Alaska: Monday, March 24, 2008: Nursing overtime spurs safety concerns: By Alan Suderman | JUNEAU EMPIRE:"Lawmakers in the Senate Finance Committee heard continued testimony Friday on a bill that would outlaw mandatory overtime for nurses except in a few cases. Some nurses, nursing groups and other supporters of the measure say overworked nurses in Alaska pose a serious threat to their patients and themselves, and a state law is needed to protect them from being forced to work overtime. "Mandating that nurses work overtime could be unsafe," said Sue Behnert, a nurse at the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium. But hospital administrators say mandatory overtime isn't a problem in Alaska, and the bill is an unneeded extra regulation that would bog down hospital staff."
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