Disciplined by Employer

Nine nurses in the Beckley, West Virginia, and Hazard, Kentucky, hospitals of Appalachian Regional Healthcare were suspended for one day without pay for alerting prospective patients and the community to dangerously low levels of nurse staffing at both facilities. The United American Nurses (UAN) and Kentucky Nurses Association (ANA) held a press conference on August 12, 2005 questioning the discipline of the nurses. To see the press release at http://www.nursingworld.org/uan/newsreleases_0811.htm. To read an article in the Lexington Herald see http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/12374016.htm.

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