Stage set for Temple University Hospital strike by PASNAP

I became a nurse to take care of sick people. When you become sick I promise to take care of you and not let ANYONE stop me from doing so.

And you believe that when all the competent speciality nurses are on strike that the employer will just be able to engage whatever management nurses they have to take care of patients No , they are free to tap into whatever source of staffing are available to them , so if the management nurse are not upto the task they will look to agencies that employ strike breakers.My continued contributions to this thread was prompted by Vprice's ( response #5) , were travel was used as a justification for strike breaking . So while I accept management can do what it wants to try to staff in a potential strike , I find the usual justifications /excuses of strike breakers to ring hollow , because they take these posts in the knowledge that the hospital management has been forewarned of a potential strike and always has the option of moving their patients out of the facility , so as to ensure safe care , which leads me to the simple conclusion that both the management and strike breakers are more interested in the $$$'s than patient safety .Seems to me that by employing competent nurses ( you have lost me here are you talking of the staff on strike or the strike breakers ?)they are the one's taking care of patients ( only if they employ an adequate number of verified competent nurses for the roles they are going to fulfill )and not the nurses who should be( who are out on strike trying to ensure the employer employs an adequate amount of competent nurses at all times ).