Nurses win court decision in hospital-staffing case (Schwarzenegger lost)

[Robbien]

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger acted illegally in seeking to overturn portions of state law requiring registered-nurse-to-patient hospital ratios, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Judy Hersher ruled Tuesday.

In upholding a lawsuit by the California Nurses Association, Hersher issued a permanent injunction overturning two emergency regulations by Schwarzenegger to suspend parts of the ratio law, the controversial Assembly Bill 394, signed by former Gov. Davis in October 1999.

The emergency regulations, Hersher ruled, exceeded the administration's scope of authority and were made without sufficient evidence. The administration, said Hersher, "abused its discretion and failed to follow the procedures established by law in determining the regulations were necessary for the immediate preservation of public health and safety."

Deborah Burger, a registered nurse and president of the California Nurses Association, said, "Today's decision sends a compelling, unmistakable message that this governor is not above the rule of law, and that a law enacted to protect patients may not be sabotaged simply to financially benefit his hospital corporate donors."

http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2005/06/06/daily24.html

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

1. This RN says Yessss! n/t

MKJ

[goclark]

3. Congrats fdor the nurses!!!!!

The groper is a fool and I am delighted that people are finally seeing the light.

[maveric]

30. So does this LVN!

Fuck You Ah-nold!

[vickie]

2. Terrific smackdown of the knuckle dragging Gropennator!

[rocktivity]

4. Arnold's going to be the one feeling sick, hee hee!

Congrats, CA nurses!!!

:bounce:
rocknation

[UCLA Dem]

5. Yea!!! Go Nurses!!

[Megahurtz]

6. Good.

The Governator has done terrible things to this State.

[mcscajun]

7. Y-Y-YES!!!!

:woohoo: :applause: :woohoo:

California has some Kick-Ass Nurses, DAMN!

:)

[libodem]

8. This RN says yeees,too

you just can't provide quality patient care with too many patients. It truly endangers lives and puts your license on the line.

[rainbow4321]

22. Ever read "Nursing Against the Odds"???

I just started reading it last week. It nails exactly what is wrong w/ our profession.


Nursing against the Odds: How Health Care, Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care


http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/19/features/bookven.php

Exhausted by heavy work, mandatory overtime and the stress of looking after hospital patients who are sicker, frailer and in need of ever more high-tech intervention, nurses are leaving the bedside faster than they can be replaced.

The situation is so bad, Gordon writes in "Nursing Against the Odds," a gloomy assessment of American nursing, that even nursing educators, the people we rely on to train the next generation of nurses, are leaving the field, so nursing schools cannot accommodate declining numbers of would-be students.

Gordon, a journalist who specializes in nursing issues, is hardly the first person to make these points. The cost-cutting of managed care has been notoriously hard on nurses, whose salaries loom large on the hospital bottom line.

But these are not the only issues in her book. Issues of respect and regard must also be dealt with if the nursing crisis she sees is to be addressed. And these issues, she writes, will never be solved unless nursing as a profession comes to grips with them

[rocktivity]

9. Turn your head and cough, Arnie! And by the way

Where is California's NINE BILLION DOLLARS????

:headbang:
rocknation

[AX10]

10. If things keep going in this direction...

Arnie may just have to drop out in 2006.

[Senior citizen]

11. If he ever needs to be hospitalized,

he'll probably have to go back to Austria--and good riddance.

[gratuitous]

17. Nah, nurses are far too professional

They'd never do anything to retaliate against Ah-nuld. Although, yes, it is too bad the examination room right here is unusable, and yes, you do have to walk all the way down the hall with your flabby man buttocks hanging out the back of your johnnie, it's the only one left in the supply closet, too bad it's kind of small, but you know how it is, and yes, the air conditioning does need to be cranked up that high, keeps the medicines on the floor fresh, you know, and no, I'm afraid you can't have your own slippers, and these little disposable booties are all we have.

[HuckleB]

12. Nurses win! Nurses win! Nurses win! =

Patients win! Patients win! Patients win!

Arnold, you're a big sissy man who doesn't give a rat's ass about what's important in this world.

[sam the dawg]

13. girlie man

Outdone by girls. Does this make the terminator a girlie man?

[newyawker99]

16. Hi sam the dawg!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Rainscents]

29. girlie man... Welcome to DU!!!

Love to have you here and stay awhile and chat with rest of us!!!

:hi:

[maveric]

31. And guys too. I'm a male nurse.

[kineneb]

14. In my "vision," Arnie has to visit the hospital,

and there is this nurse with a big hypodermic...

never anger the hand that holds the needle...

[maveric]

32. I'd like to give him a colonoscopy with a garden hose!

And engage in digital colonic evacuation.

[Judi Lynn]

15. Update: Calif. Gov. to Appeal Nurse-Patient Ruling

Calif. Gov. to Appeal Nurse-Patient Ruling

Schwarzenegger to Appeal Final Ruling on Nurse-Patient Ratio

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. Jun 7, 2005 — A judge Tuesday upheld a first-in-the-nation law requiring hospitals to have at least one nurse for every five patients.

The Schwarzenegger administration and California Hospital Association both vowed to appeal.

Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Judy Holzer Hersher said the administration erred when it issued an emergency order last November trying to delay the state law requiring hospitals to provide more nurses.
(snip)

"Patient safety is a top priority for the Schwarzenegger administration," countered Health and Human Services Agency spokeswoman Nicole Kasabian Evans. "We believe a one-to-six ratio is a safe ratio."
(snip/...)

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=829122

[HuckleB]

18. Ugh.

He's a punk, that Arnold. A punk!

[0007]

19. Arnold can't hit the nurses curve ball, all he can do is grope.

[deacon2]

20. Time for Ahnuld to get a new "fantastic" job n/t

[yellowcanine]

21. 2005 turning out to be a bad year for the the Groper Guv.

[Booster]

23. YEAH, NURSES. Arnold took on the wrong group when he

attacked nurses. I'm so proud of you guys. YOU ROCK!

[LeftCoast]

24. Hurray for the health and safety of the public!

These staffing ratios have a direct impact on patient health and safety. This is a win for anyone who might ever be hospitalized - ie everyone! :)

Hurray for nurses too of course - I just didn't want people to overlook the main issue here.

[meti57b]

25. CONGRATS to CA Nurses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rainscents]

26. Does anyone here has link to Nurses Union in CA?

I would love to write them email for standing up to scum bag!


Good Jobs Nurses!!! YOU ROCK!!!:yourock:

[rainbow4321]

33. Here it is....

http://www.calnurses.org/

There main page has a pic of a nurse and then a pic of Ahnold..under the nurse it says "she heals" and under his pic it says "He wheels and deals"...ain't that the truth.

[Enraged_Ape]

27. Schwarzenegger picked the wrong fight

There are just a few groups in society that you just can't mess with, because public opinion will almost certainly turn against you. Nurses are one of those groups. There isn't one among us who hasn't required, and appreciated, the services of a nurse at one time or another.

Way to go, Austrian Joke.

[rodeodance]

28. take that Arnie boy!!

[LWolf]

34. So who kicked whose butt, here?

:evilgrin:

<snip>

Schwarzenegger infuriated CNA members when he pointed at a group of protesting nurses in the audience at one of his fund-raisers and told the crowd they were "special interests" and he was always "kicking their butts." His remarks were also meant for the state's teachers, police and firefighters who have good reasons to oppose him. . .

http://prorev.com/2005/05/nurses-kick-arnolds-butt.htm

Public school teachers and administrators aren't far behind the nurses; 2005 is going to leave him bruised and battered.