The striking nurses emphasized hospital understaffing endangers both workers and patients.
There ought to be nine nurses on the day shift at 9 Tower, a trauma surgery unit inside the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey.“Sometimes I’d look at a patient’s face and know that I won’t be able to maybe help feed them when they need to be fed,” said nurse Sophia Moccio, “or clean them when they need to be cleaned. It is distressing, and depressing for us.”
And for newer nurses like Moccio, the heavy patient loads are a “trial by fire” that leaves people “burnt out and exhausted,” she said. “It’s all the trademarks of an abusive relationship,” Moccio said. “There is gaslighting. There is deceiving. They leverage these words of kindness, sweetness, and thankfulness for what we do while continually reminding us not to ask administration for what we need, and telling us we’re greedy when we do.”
A court has ruled against picketing outside the hospital, claiming it’s too disruptive. Now an injunction bars the nurses from gathering in large groups outside the hospital; they cannot delay or obstruct scab nurses from entering. “Our issues are not specific to New Brunswick or to New Jersey. What we’re asking for is what all nurses should be asking for throughout the country.”
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