:uhoh21: just in time for nurse's week new york methodist hospital has just "eliminated" 33 registered professional nurses from their position effective immediately. all due to "immediate budget reductions!" according to the vp of nursing this was unforeseen, they had no idea the hospital was in such a financial turmoil :stone. the union that represents the rn's at methodist is nysna, which all 33 rn's would have been official members in june 2008. the hospital did their cuts in a sinister manner but legally. although they had a steady decline of their overall hospital census since january 2008 yet still they had no warning of their fiscal crisis! there was no for warning to these nurses, many of them were working and was told there was a meeting after lunch. that is when they learned their fate, and for many of the nurses this was their first "professional" nursing job! let's not forget to mention that all of these nurses have responsibilities such as families and bills. as one of the vp's mentioned there is always unemployment, for which we don't qualify for! after an intense orientation process, classes, test to find out that your dispensable. never did nursing school prepare me for this, nurses are the last line of defense...we do it all !
