Thousands of nurses at Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in California are striking this week over contract issues, staff shortages, burnout, and exhaustion.
Nurses began their strike on Monday morning. The labor union representing the nurses, the Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement (CRONA) announced the strike on Sunday, saying 93 percent of eligible nurses voted to authorize the strike.
In a statement, Colleen Borges, president of CRONA and a pediatric oncology nurse at Packard Children’s Hospital, called on the hospitals to “demonstrate leadership” and work with nurses to “solve the burnout and exhaustion that is driving many of us to reconsider our jobs and our profession.”
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