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Posted on 09/12/2021 7:05:56 AM PDT by george76
The nurses union believes that mandatory COVID vaccines will only "exacerbate" the chronic issue of short-staffed hospitals.
The Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA), a left-wing union that supports universal health care, said its members are divided on the issue of mandatory COVID vaccines and recommended that hospital vaccination programs be voluntary.
Their recommendation stems from the results of an internal survey asking MNA members about their stances on a vaccine mandate. A press release says the survey yielded a “wide variety” of responses — so wide that the MNA Board of Directors refuses to support mandates and has endorsed voluntary programs instead.
In their Thursday statement, the MNA Board also expressed their belief that mandatory COVID vaccines will only “exacerbate” the chronic issue of short-staffed hospitals, which they claim is a “deliberate” measure to cut costs.
“We question the timing of the impending vaccine mandates and believe these mandates will continue to exacerbate staffing shortages,” they said.
The MNA Board called for adequate staffing, paid COVID leave, and the maintenance or improvement of infection-control measures to provide better care and lighten the physical and mental load on understaffed and overworked nurses. Such infection control measures include high-quality personal protective equipment, rapid testing and results, contact tracing, and environmental controls.
“We believe that hospitals and other health care institutions have a responsibility to provide all these measures to keep both workers and patients safe,” the statement read. “Unfortunately, hospitals across our state and country have abandoned that responsibility in lieu of cost cutting measures that have left our facilities unprepared for the current crisis we are facing.”
“It’s time for our health care system to get back to healing the patient and upholding their responsibility to workers.”
Increasing numbers of hospitals throughout Minnesota have implemented mandatory COVID vaccines after the FDA fully approved the Pfizer vaccine in August. As of early September, all workers in nine Minnesota hospital and health care systems are required to get vaccinated, except in instances where medical or religious exemptions are approved.
Similar to hospital nurses, Minnesota nursing home staff have previously expressed their own worries that a vaccine mandate will exacerbate chronic staffing issues. In August, President Joe Biden said nursing homes that do not require COVID vaccinations will not receive Medicare and Medicaid funding.
The president announced a vaccine mandate last week that forces all businesses with at least 100 employees to require the vaccine or weekly testing. Businesses that do not comply are threatened with thousands of dollars in fines.
Gov. Tim Walz called the sweeping mandate on an estimated 100 million workers “the right move.”
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Nurses’ unions can be way more vicious than teachers unions, because they know they have a job critical to the welfare of our nation, ie., a nurses strike can have a more deadly effect than a teachers strike.
Which is to say, don’t eff with a nurses Union.
Nurses unions are very weak. Teachers unions are way more powerful.
ICU Nurse Says Hospital Set to Deny Care to Unvaccinated. [For any injury, illness or reason. No vax, no treatment.]
> Chelsea Walls, BSN, has been working with COVID patients from the beginning, and she joined Stew Peters to DEBUNK all of the LIES we have been told by the CRIMINAL media.
> Doctors at her large hospital are not allowed to even mention FDA-approved HCQ or Ivermectin, but only unapproved Remdesivir, which is also only under an EUA, and harms the patients.
> Hospital administration has given an Oct 31 deadline: take the Covid spike-protein jab, or be fired.
> She has never seen so many strokes and heart attacks among the young; most vax side effects go unreported.
Please watch and share this video! Nurses are quitting because they KNOW what the spike protein injection does!
https://www.brighteon.com/5860f783-b072-4957-bc84-e9ca53e29064
Covid vaccine “adverse effects” like in the picture above are now being blamed on the Covid virus.
They really do think we are morons.
Most nurses do an incredible job.
And they manage to stay reasonsbly positive.
It’s another situation where I know I couldn’t do that job but am thankful there are people who can and do.
Same with the EMTs.
That said ..they should not have to EVER do something that goes against their conscience.
I suspect the goal is to get all the hospitals and healthcare providers to require vaccines. That way any nurses who quit over the vaccination will have nowhere to go to get another job. Extended unemployment and the eviction moritorium have ended. It’ll be get the Fauci ouchie or starve.
The jabs don’t work. They marginally eleviate symptoms but the potential side effects outweigh the theraputic benefits. The jabs are certainly not what a vaccine is supposed to be.
The nurse unions are weak but the nurses themselves are passively strong and strong minded in great numbers. They will leave in great numbers when the FEDGOV and Managements of hospitals try to call their bluff. And there will be no immediate help from import of foreign nurses....those countries are trying to keep their own people.
Nurses have valuable and transferable skills and can easily walk...regardless of what their unions do.
Nurses hold all the cards in the marketplace.
Nurses can easily create a variety of custom health care arrangements for people to circumvent any rules....
Ordering around nurses is definitely like herding cats...
Left wing and Unions is redundant.
Can they now?
A great number of nurses are married and earn the lesser salary and can afford at least for a while to live on one salary. They can wait out the mandates and let the hospitals screw themselves. Also there are quite a few smaller businesses that employ RN’s that are less than 100 people in many towns. Private doctor’s offices, home care and personal care agencies. I think a lot of businesses that employ more than 100 people may be quite liberal on how they grant exemptions as per what may be allowed under the mandates. (a lot of people may become nominally Jewish or Moslem if Kosher and Halal rules are allowed to be used for exemptions. A lot of moslems may refuse the shots under Halal rules esepecially for vaxxes that include products from abortions...I think we will see stories on that soon.)
Humans are amazingly adaptable....
Sometimes we forget what folks can do when they really really have to...
Lawyers are amazingly good at creating contracts to legally circumvent oppressive laws.
That is one reason the economy has continued to function despite decades of insane federal, state and local bureaucracy.
The impossible can be easily defeated by folks with a little smarts, determination and imagination.
I hope you do get to meet folks like that someday—they are really cool...
BREAKING: More BS from the Reconciliation Bill !!
What a coinkydink.
No WE Nurses can’t “easily create a variety of custom health care arrangements for people to circumvent any rules....!” We can leave the profession en mass. There have been several en mass exits in the past 40 years...the biggest was in the late 1980’s when DRG’s were introduced which gave the hospitals the reason to try and lay off nurses...what happened is that many more seasoned nurses saw what was going on, didn’t want to be overloaded with extra work(especially with the low salaries they were getting), and were upset at what was happening to friends and colleagues. So they left or retired in large numbers leaving the hospitals scrambling for help. The hospitals had to give in and start paying better salaries and offer better benefits but the damage was done as other opportunities for women had dramatically opened up for women and not as many went into nursing. More men have gone into nursing but not enough to fill the gaps.
Every 5-8 years or so there is an outflow of nurses, either away from the bedside to other less “hands on” roles, or retirement, or just simply burned out and leaving with fewer coming in to replace those at the bedside who had left. There is no one but me left on our unit that has anything greater than 15 years of bedside experience and most have 10 years or less. I have 35 years.
The mandates will cause many to leave or be fired.
A good lawyer is all nurses need to make new arrangements outside of the big hospital workplace.
You may not know such lawyers, but they do exist and can work miracles.
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