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“They’re angels in disguise. Everything they’re asking for they’re absolutely entitled to.”
Pattie Lockard June 13, 2010
We thought you’d like to hear how patients in Minnesota reacted to the largest-ever strike.
Cue the harp
According to the Star Tribune, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, (
Twin Cities nurses strike stays calm, but pressure on by JOSEPHINE MARCOTTY and CHEN MAY YEE), the day long strike was an opportunity to show their numbers and passion for patient safety.Striking nurses showed up to picket in the damp and wind.As for the patients, according to the newspaper, “Outside United Hospital in St. Paul, a pregnant woman wearing a patient’s robe walked from the hospital to the picket line, spoke with some of the nurses, picked up a picket sign and went back inside.”At another hospital, a woman living near North Memorial Hospital in Robbinsdale, offered her bathroom to the striking nurses. A friend of Colleen Patterson, a patient recently discharged after a reported 25-day stay.”Patterson, wearing a baseball cap to cover the surgical scar on her head, sat in the back yard of the house, hugging nurses who showed up.”"I hundred percent support the nurses,” she said. “They’re angels in disguise. Everything they’re asking for they’re absolutely entitled to,” reported the Star Tribune.
You can READ the news story at: http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/96041534.html?page=1&c=y
