Agency strike at Grady

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  1. Should agency strike at Grady?

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      Yes
    • 3
      No
    • 10
      Do a one to two day call out

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Grady memorial in atlanta GA goal is to faze out all agency and trvel nurses. Grady's agency and travel nursing makes up 83% of the staff. We have been threatened and coherced into coming on staff. Some of the agency are talking of striking or at least a one day call out. What do you guys think?

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I say go for it- if it will make a difference.

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Specializes in Corrections, Psych, Med-Surg.

Well, I've heard about talking to to oneself, but this is the first time I've seen it on a BB!

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Specializes in Case Management, Home Health, UM.

(Yawn)....Just another example of crappy management, looking to save $$$, at the cost of what little staff they have left...and, ultimately, at the cost of patient care.

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Specializes in Oncology/Haemetology/HIV.

Honey,

Grady is nuts. Not many really want to work, agency or travelor. The pay for travelors is abominable, and they have many extra requirements, I kind of laughed when my recruiter told me about them.

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How can you strike against a company for whom you are not employed? Aren't you an employee of the Agency??

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Specializes in Everything except surgery.

I have heard a lot of things about Grady, and wouldn't even go there myself! But I think a one or two day call out, will be pretty impressive.:cool:

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Specializes in Oncology/Haemetology/HIV.
Originally posted by purplemania

How can you strike against a company for whom you are not employed? Aren't you an employee of the Agency??

If every agency nurse refused to go there for one or two days, it would force the Hospital to recognize their need for agency.

Grady is a rough hospital to work for with a difficult clientele, you think that they would know better than to think that they could eliminate agency. Hospitals threaten that frequently but can rarely deliver.

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Originally posted by purplemania

How can you strike against a company for whom you are not employed? Aren't you an employee of the Agency??

Its not so much striking for a company we don't work for. It's making a point. Agency nurses who have been working at Grady for years, myself included have been made DNR/DNU or harrassed . When these nurses are singled out dor DNU Grady telle them :You can't come backvia agency- but You can return if you come on staff and work for us. This is ridiculous! And if any of you have ever worked for grady agency, traveleor or otherwise- you know how they treat they're staff.

So we should just make a point. If the agency and travelor ratio makes up 83% of the hospital - and they're forcing us to come on staff or threatening to faze us out. I say we strike or call off and let them run there hospital any which way they choose for a day or two. Why should agency and travelors wait to be fazed out. Let grady work w/o us for a day or two.

The point we need to make is.

1. Nurses can stick together and unionize to say not to harrassment.

2. Grady would have to close it's doors it agency and travelors called off.

3. We do not need nor encourage Grady to continuosly harrass us. Most of us wrok Grady through agency for a reason THE PAY.

ICU CCU nurses are offered $21.00- $24.00 hr and that's with experience. Now here is a hospital that you work twice as hard at. Work understaffed. ICU nurses end of taking 3-5 patients and the upper brass shrugg their shoulders and say OH Well! do what you have to do.

I worked in Step down ICU the other night. There were 20 patients and two nurses assignned in STEP DOWN ICU. One nurse stayed over and worked 20 hrs. The day before that There were 18 pts and 5 nurses. Four of the five nurses had been there for 16 hrs, and would be leaving at 11pm that left two nurses with 18 patients to divide up. I don't know about you But I've gotten attached to my license. This is getting ridiculous and with all of that their continuing to threaten and harrass us.

The nurses I,m talking with are saying Honey let them try it. But I say Lets fight back and not take this harrassment.

In California the same thing occurred in another hospital. All it took was a two day sick call to have the hospital big whigs removed from the short yellow bus and shocked into the reality faze of (NURSES WHO WOULD RATHER WORK IN SAFE ENVIRoNMENTS for themselves, their license and the patients.

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Originally posted by Brownms46

I have heard a lot of things about Grady, and wouldn't even go there myself! But I think a one or two day call out, will be pretty impressive.:cool:

Then trust me when I say, it's no joy ride. Nurse staffing is a joke. The managers treat their own staff like unworthy trash, and then they over work you and expect to under pay you. Then to top it all off you have no voice if you need tyo complain. I don't min working agency I can deal with a lot for $39.00 hr but I would never work staff under the same conditions for $21.00- $25.oo hr.

I've worked in several states and frequently work in MD and I have never earned every penny of my money more than when I work at grady. You are not only the Nurse but you are the clerk, the techs, the maid, clean up crew, house keeper and everything else under the sun. And to top it off you have to do it all with a smile and not complain.

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Pls excuse the typo's

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Originally posted by sjoe

Well, I've heard about talking to to oneself, but this is the first time I've seen it on a BB!

:chuckle Spend a week at Grady those of us who are sane would be driven nutts and those of us with the slightest disposition to hysteria would be hysterical.

I was actually trying to respond to someone else so forgive me I'm still learning my way around on this board.

Pls forgive any typos- I tend to think and type faster than my fingers really want to go.

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