RNs from the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) have filed an urgent plea with the state of California to step in and force Sutter Solano Hospital to provide nurses with proper safety equipment when they care for patients infected with the H1N1 “swine flu” virus. The nurses fear that the unsafe procedures at the hospital create a danger of infection for every patient at the facility as well as for the surrounding community.
The plea comes as nurses are actively caring for hospital patients infected with the virus. And with up to 10 RNs from the facility experiencing severe respiratory illness in recent weeks that their physicians have called “probably” the swine flu, many have been left physically unable to work. Read More…
I heard about this before I left for a trip a couple weeks ago.. anyone know how it turned out?