Kaiser Permanente nurses begin 7-day strike

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Registered nurses at Kaiser's flagship Los Angeles Medical Center started picketing at 7 a.m.

The walkout involves approximately 1,200 registered nurses who are pushing for their first contract after becoming members of the California Nurses Association back in July 2015.

"For the nurses to have protections when they're doing their job and for staffing ratios," said Sandra Hanke, a pediatrics registered nurse on strike. "Mostly it's all about the patients and that we have enough staff and supplies and the processes in place to take care of the patients that are the sickest."...

Kaiser Permanente nurses begin 7-day strike | abc7.com

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Specializes in SICU/CVICU.

Doesn't California have mandated staffing ratios?

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Specializes in Critical care, tele, Medical-Surgical.
Doesn't California have mandated staffing ratios?
Yes. Too many hospitals are violating the law.

They start with correct staffing and then don't provide break relief and/or plan for newly admitted patients.

This is regarding HIPAA violations, but the California Department of Public Health almost never cites hospitals for ratio violations either:

The Consequences for Violating Patient Privacy in California? Depends Where the Hospital Is - ProPublica

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Yes, California has safe patient ratios.

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