To: HEALTHCARE ORGANIZTIONS
LABOR REGULATIONS FOR NURSING ASSISTANTS
Stop the abuse of Nursing Assistants on hours worked. Forcing them to work overtime, doubles or extended shifts. Nursing homes, healthcare facilities can make a nursing assistant stay after their shift because the next staffer has not shown up for work. If that nursing assistant leaves before a 16 hour shift they can say you abandoned the patients and take your certificate and not allow you to work anymore.
Why is this important?
Nursing assistants are the lowest paid. They usually make minimum wage or slightly over. They are the manual labor of the health care industry, physically working very hard. Like everyone they have family and home obligations or work elsewhere. These polices are not used or enforced on any other type of healthcare worker other than CNA's or Nurses.
