{"id":25486,"date":"2023-06-13T19:29:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T19:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2023\/06\/13\/va-nurses-join-nationwide-protests-over-working-conditions\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:09:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:09:56","slug":"va-nurses-join-nationwide-protests-over-working-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/hr\/2023\/06\/13\/va-nurses-join-nationwide-protests-over-working-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"VA nurses join nationwide protests over working conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nurses at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals in California and Georgia took part in nationwide demonstrations June 13 demanding improvements for short-staffed medical facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caregivers from the Jennifer Moreno VA Medical Center in San Diego and the Atlanta VA Medical Center joined peers from 16 other hospitals across the country to protest conditions they claim overburden medical personnel and compromise patient care. National Nurses United, the country\u2019s largest union of registered nurses, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalnursesunited.org\/press\/unionized-registered-nurses-to-hold-national-day-of-action\">organized<\/a> the rally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Understaffing has plagued VA medical facilities since the early 2010s, and the COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed the crisis. A VA Office of Inspector General investigation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.va.gov\/oig\/pubs\/VAOIG-22-00722-187.pdf\">published<\/a> last year found that 91% of Veterans Health Administration facilities reported a severe shortage of nursing staff during fiscal 2022. All 139 VHA facilities surveyed for the study reported acute vacancies in at least one occupation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Erin McLeod, an NNU local director with 15 years of nursing experience at the VA\u2019s San Diego campus, estimates that the hospital\u2019s nursing team has operated at 80% of total capacity for several years. Bureaucratic hurdles and uncompetitive salaries are hampering agency efforts to remedy the issue, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf we\u2019re paid less, and we have less support staff, and we\u2019re not following a nurse-to-patient ratio like other hospitals, it makes it hard to hire and keep good nurses here,\u201d McLeod told Military Times. \u201cWe want to serve those who have served and give them the best care we can, but it\u2019s hard when our hands are constantly being tied.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">VA leaders are conscious of the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne of VA\u2019s top priorities right now is recruiting, hiring, and retaining our great nurses,\u201d a spokesperson told Military Times. \u201cTo do that, VA advocated strongly for the PACT Act and RAISE Act \u2014 which raised pay for more than 10,000 VA nurses across the country. We have also maximized bonuses and retention incentives to reward VA nurses for their excellent work and keep them at VA, where they belong.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials also point to thousands of new nursing hires and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.va.gov\/EMPLOYEE\/docs\/Section-505-Annual-Report.pdf\">comparatively low<\/a> staff turnover rates as signs of progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From October 2022 through May 2023, \u201cVA has hired 6,819 Registered Nurses, 1,413 Licensed Practical Nurses \/Licensed Vocational Nurse, and 2,058 Nursing Assistants \u2014 more hires in these three critical occupations than at any time in the past 20 years,\u201d the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, many VA nurses and facilities continue to struggle. Teshara Felder-Livingston, an NNU shop steward, began working as a nurse at the Atlanta complex in 2017. She can recall few days when she and her team were not straining to juggle caregiving responsibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe do not have the correct staff mix to safely care for patients; it\u2019s just not there,\u201d she told Military Times. \u201cWe would need at least 20 to 30 more nurses to be able to do the things we\u2019re being asked to do. Not having staff readily available for the patients is the biggest safety risk you can have at a hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She doubts that better compensation would ease the stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur wages in [the Atlanta area] are competitive,\u201d Felder-Livingston said. \u201cHowever, when people do come here to work, we\u2019ve seen nurses leave within days when they see what\u2019s required of them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Capping the number of patients assigned to an individual nurse and decluttering shift schedules could, she says, be more productive solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nursing industry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The VA\u2019s staffing woes are symptomatic of broader troubles in the nursing industry. More than 100,000 registered nurses hung up their clogs between 2020 and 2021, according to a report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthaffairs.org\/content\/forefront\/worrisome-drop-number-young-nurses\">published<\/a> in the medical journal Health Affairs. A 2023 survey found that almost a third of the country\u2019s remaining caregivers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/05\/01\/nursing-shortages-survey-amn-hospitals\">expect<\/a> to follow suit because of the pandemic, when long hours, patient overloads, and inadequate equipment stretched many overworked hospital staffs thin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some experts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snhu.edu\/about-us\/newsroom\/health\/nursing-shortage\">attribute<\/a> the nursing deficit to demographic and educational pressures\u2014older nurses are retiring en masse, and there aren\u2019t enough qualified caregivers to replenish their ranks. Meanwhile, the country\u2019s elderly population\u2014and, in turn, the demand for nursing care\u2014is climbing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NNU advocates reject this narrative. Shorthanded wards, they argue, are the product of hospital mismanagement and exploitative employment policies, not a lack of capable nurses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe hospital industry created the current staffing crisis through its own bad practices of routinely short-staffing units and driving away nurses who refuse to tolerate the moral distress and moral injury suffered from working in untenable, unconscionable, and unsafe work environments,\u201d NNU wrote in a press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 14,000 of the NNU\u2019s 225,000 members <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalnursesunited.org\/press\/va-rns-sign-3-year-contract-nnoc-nnu\">work<\/a> in VA facilities. 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VA nurses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2022\/08\/31\/va-nurses-protest-staffing-shortages-they-say-pose-risks-patient-safety.html\">staged<\/a> protests at four hospitals last year to push negotiations forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VA hospitals across the country have suffered from acute nursing shortages for 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