Posts Tagged ‘Sandstrom’
Abuse protection sought for health care workers
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
By Lisa Rosetta, The Salt Lake Tribune, Oct. 22, 2009
Air Med flight nurse Laura Sorensen told her boss in 1993 that she had multiple sclerosis. In hindsight, she believes, she shouldn’t have. (more…)
Tags: Chris Buttars, HB 224, Laura Sorensen, Michelle Swift, Sandstrom
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Laws needed to stop health profession bullying, panel told
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
By James Thalman, Deseret News, Oct. 21, 2009
An epidemic of workplace bullying in hospitals and clinics has gotten so bad it will take legislation to put a stop to it, members of the Legislature’s Health and Human Services Interim committee were told Wednesday.
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Tags: HB 224, Laura Sorensen, Sandstrom, Utah
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SLC Public Forum on Workplace Bullying
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
The Public Forum on Workplace Bullying and House Bill 224 Healthcare Abuse Prevention Act was held on Oct. 20 in Salt Lake City the night prior to the public hearing for the bill.
Panel: Bill sponsor Stephen Sandstrom; Utah Nurses Assoc president Nancy Watts; Lauren Scholnick, attorney; G. Namie & D. Halverson, WBI; Sharlene Watson and Laura Sorenson, nurses. From this meeting will come a Utah Healthy Workplace Advocates group. Contact the WBI-LC State Coordinator ut@healthyworkplacebill.org to be connected.
Tags: Ewell, Halverson, HB 224, Sandstrom, Scholnick, Sorenson, Utah, Watson
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Abusive Bosses in Medical Fields Targeted
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
By James Thalmanr Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT) February 4, 2009
Hospitals would become bully-free zones and bad-boss behavior prohibited in state statute under a bill that a legislative review committee on Tuesday earmarked for interim study.
Despite opposition to the bill by the head of the state Division of Risk Management, former district Judge Roger Livingston, counter testimony from disgruntled health-care workers who support HB224 was too compelling for lawmakers to ignore.
They heard and were given written accounts of ostensibly competent, caring medical providers being driven from their jobs and even out of the state by supervisors who induce stress in an already high-stress occupation. The hyper-patrolling and controlling oversight — which included employees having to ask to go the bathroom are far from uncommon and are adding injury to the insult in the form of serious mistakes and harm to patients, committee members were told.
Tags: bully MD, HB224, healthcare bullying, Healthy Workplace Bill, Sandstrom, Utah
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