Local Nurse Speaks out on Working Conditions

Posted by Rachel Goodman | Jan 14, 2022 | All Talk, COVID-19, Local, Politics, Rachel Anne Goodman, Talk of the Bay, Wellness | 0

Talk of the Bay from KSQD

Local Nurse Speaks out on Working Conditions

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Maureen Ryder has been a nurse at Dominican Hosptial for twenty years. She participated in the nationwide day of action sponsored by National Nurses United, the biggest labor union representing nurses in the U.S. In this interview, she talks about what it’s like spiritually, morally, and emotionally to have to ignore calls for help from her patients due to short staffing. On the same day the U.S. supreme court decided it was legal for hospitals to require their employees to be vaccinated, not all nurses feel this is fair.

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Rachel Goodman

Rachel is host of Talk of the Bay and Board Chair of KSQD. She is the producer of radio documentaries such as Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country and Old Time Music, The Boomtown Chronicles, and Pastures of Plenty, a History of California Farmworkers. She teaches journalism at Cabrillo College in Aptos. She is a recipient of a Peabody award for excellence in journalism.