Horrific office politics emerge in hospitals
Regarding physician and nurse unions fighting disclosure rules (editorial Aug. 15): The Assembly Business and Professions Committee got it right by not accepting amendments.
The Editorial Board is naive by agreeing that hospitals should report all nurses who are fired or “forced to resign” to the California Board of Registered Nursing.
In any work environment, and you would think that health care environments would be void of that, but horrific office politics do emerge. In hospitals in particular, nurses can be forced to step down or are fired for nonpatient care or patient safety events.
Their privacy should be protected just as anyone’s privacy should be protected. Hospitals are already mandated to report violations to the various licensing boards. I support hospitals continuing to follow their reporting responsibilities, and the hospital human resource departments to handle personnel issues as they would in any business environment.
If any public support is needed, resources should be given to the BRN and other licensing agencies to support their ability to investigate reported incidents more timely.
Beatrice Hensleit, Fresno
This story was originally published August 17, 2017 at 5:41 PM with the headline "Horrific office politics emerge in hospitals."