Wisconsin Nurses Urging State Legislature To Ban Mandatory Overtime - 02/29/08
28th February 2008
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Loading ...Registered nurses in Wisconsin are asking that the state legislature ban mandatory overtime. Jesse Russell reports from Madison:
At a hearing on Wednesday concerning SB 512, a bill before the Wisconsin State Senate, six registered nurses expressed why the state needs to step in and ban mandatory overtime. In concept mandatory overtime is only supposed to be used in extreme situations, but according to the nurses on Wednesday overtime has been increasingly used at Wisconsin hospitals to fill permanent holes in staffing schedules. As a result nurses are fatigued and overworked, resulting in dangerous situations for patients, as well as lower morale in a profession already seeing a shortage of workers. Ann Louise Tetreault, a registered nurse at the University of Wisconsin Hospital: