Nurses at MountainView Hospital approve new 3-year contract

Nurses astatine MountainView Hospital successful Las Vegas approved a caller three-year declaration Tuesday with HCA Healthcare that, on with different provisions, volition adhd much wellness and information protections.

The corporate bargaining declaration with the Nashville, Tennessee-based healthcare institution covers 960 registered nurses and includes caller protections specified arsenic escaped COVID-19 tests aft imaginable vulnerability and entree to idiosyncratic protective equipment, according to the National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United (NNOC/NNU).

MountainView RN Nicole Taylor, a subordinate of the nurses’ negotiating team, said these protections were indispensable to maintaining a harmless situation for staff.

“We are pleased to person achieved further wellness and information protections that we person been pressing for from HCA management,” Taylor said successful a quality release.

The declaration comes astir a period aft the hospital’s registered nurses held an informational picket past period to publically stock harmless staffing problems and improvements needed to support and enlistee caller nurses.

HCA Healthcare was not instantly disposable for comment.

MountainView spokeswoman Jennifer McDonnell said it “reached a just statement with NNOC that supports a civilization of workfellow safety, attraction excellence and compassion.”

“We are pleased that MountainView Hospital and this labour national came to an agreement,” she said successful an emailed statement.

Under the caller contract, nurses volition person entree to the aforesaid level of extortion specified arsenic single-use PPE erstwhile encountering patients suspected of being infected with COVID-19, not conscionable erstwhile a lawsuit has been confirmed. Nurses besides volition person entree to escaped coronavirus investigating aft exposure.

Wage increases were besides negotiated into the caller contract. Nurses volition person wage increases of up to 19 percent implicit the word of the three-year contract. It besides includes wage increases for nurses who enactment weekends oregon erstwhile captious further staffing is needed.

Other provisions see instauration of committees to code and beforehand diversity, equity and inclusion connected race, gender, property and intersexual orientation; improved reporting of harassment and discrimination; improvements successful however the infirmary provides compensation erstwhile nurses prime up other shifts; and paid clip disconnected to ballot successful elections.

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