Nurses Walk Out Over ‘Unsafe Staffing’ At Dignity Health In Bakersfield
Mary Lynn Briggs, a nurse at Mercy and Mercy Southwest and member of the California Nurses Association, says units in the hospitals are not being provided with break relief, meaning nurses are having to work 12-hour shifts without a break.
The Bakersfield Californian:
Nurses Protest For Change In Staffing At Dignity Health
Members of the California Nurses Association from Mercy, Mercy Southwest and Memorial marched at Dignity Health in protest of short staffing on their floors. Mary Lynn Briggs, a nurse at Mercy and Mercy Southwest and member of the California Nurses Association, said they have had numerous meetings with management to voice their staffing concerns. She said management has made no staffing changes since they started having these meetings. (Hall, 5/3)
Meanwhile, an effort to close the budget gap at UC Berkeley leads to uncertainty for its medical school program —
The San Jose Mercury News:
Cost Of Cutting UC Berkeley Program? Desperately Needed Doctors
UC Berkeley's plan to close a $150 million budget deficit has created great uncertainty across campus -- and perhaps nowhere more than at a unique medical school program that mints some of the country's most desperately needed doctors: primary care physicians. (Murphy and Seipel, 5/3)