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03.31.2006
Action Alert to UMMC Nurses
Great Letter today in the T&G
Let's Keep them Coming
Below is a wonderful letter to the
editor in today's Worcester T&G. Way to go, Laurie Bundnick.
Now, it's your turn. Write you own letter.
You can send a letter to the editor at letters@telegram.com.
Keep your letter to 250 words or less (anything
longer and they won't get printed) and include your name, address
and phone number.
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Friday, March 31, 2006
City deserves best nursing care
I am a staff nurse at UMass Memorial Medical Center,
on 7-East. As you know, we are in the midst of negotiations and
they are stalled. I love being a nurse. I have worked at UMass for
18 years. I love my patients. I chose this profession knowing the
holiday, weekend and shift rotations. I keep myself current, and
give 110 percent when I am at work. A nurse is not a nurse. I work
in oncology. I want my patients to do well, and they know it. I
educate, medicate and support patients and their families. After
reading management’s plan to replace us, if needed, with agency
nurses — how very scary — I really feel management does
not know what we are doing at the bedside. Why don’t they
start asking our patients, whom we fight for every single day, what
they think we are worth? This isn’t about money — it’s
far deeper than that. Worcester deserves the best at their bedside
and the best deserves to be retained as such. Yes, we care for our
patients like family, not because that is UMass’ slogan, but
because that is what we do best.
LAURIE BUDNICK, R.N.
Sutton
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