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koreamax t1_j6ojtku wrote

Reply to comment by Wukong1986 in Mount Sinai investigating newborn’s death during NYC nurses' strike by CasinoMagic

I didn't blame the workers. Them not being there likely contributed to the death of the newborn, but they are striking and that's completely not their fault. You're making sweeping generalizations about what a management team is given the power to do and oversimplifying the process of reallocation of staff and funds. Especially when we're talking about highly specialized departments

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Wukong1986 t1_j6on4ga wrote

They lose a maternity ward - they hire specialized nurses. You mean a group of MDs in Management can't figure out who to hire? Get adequately staffed or reduce service. Can't have it both ways.

What is missing from Management's toolset? Spell it out for me. You make it sound like the CEO or anyone below him don't have the power to make tough calls, like reduce service to reflect inadequate staffing, or raise financing, or just overall powerless to watch this unfold. Will all avenues perfectly work out? No, then Management balances all the info. It was predictable there'd be gaps, so how did Management address the immediate issues?

At the end of the day, nurses were striking over inadequate staffing ratios (i.e., too many patients vs nurses), among other things, that Management was unwilling to fix. So it seems like someone/several people in Management need to wake up.

Saying inadequate workers to contributed to the death is literally the tip of the iceberg and not reflective of the root cause(s). Go down a couple levels of why and those are your root causes. And Management's task is to figure out how to solve that. Not the workers, not the board, Management's.

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