H1N1 Nurses Union has reached an agreement on security in the United States

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After months of negotiations, s is the largest union of nurses in U.S. Trade and California is not the largest chain of health care nonprofit to ensure that this does not happen nurses, as suggested by national model for containing H1N1 swine influenza in hospitals have agreed to serve.

The H1N1 pact announced Monday as part of a settlement agreement between the Association of Nurses in California and Catholic Healthcare West, which has prevented a strike by day by thousands of nurses threatened on more than 30 hospitals.
Already one of the most powerful political forces in California, the CNA is working with the United American Nurses and the Massachusetts Nurses Association, a gesture that the combined entity would result in fusion of 150,000 nurses.

The agreement addresses the complaints of nurses in California and elsewhere, that many hospitals are compromised by an increase in cases of H1N1 preparations. Others cite the problem, do not have masks for specialized medical personnel and lack of isolation rooms for patients registered containing the transmission of influenza.

The nurses say they lawyer, measures to reduce costs, some hospitals around the purchase of security equipment and training in small and planning fall. Some nurses, hospital administrators have unduly restricted the rationing of masks do not receive deliveries.

Concern for nurses with equipment gear to protect them from infection - and the spread of the H1N1 virus - has been delivered by problems of swine flu vaccine in time "for health workers in the event of a pandemic in recent weeks an increase vaccinated increases.
The focus of the new environment is the creation of a task force of emergency nurses coupled with the administrators of the hospitals in the will of the entire Western Catholic health system to see if a pandemic declared, too.
Special committees of each hospital, nurses will be trained in the network to work with groups of infection control for implementation of policies throughout the system and procedures. (Read More...)

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