I m scared. I just bought a house, said Amy Costello, a nurse on the same unit. But she favors a strike because the hospital s proposals are just insulting, she said. Kate Pinheiro said that often nurses are placed on mandatory overtime in areas of the hospital where they have no experience. It s not fair being floated to other floors.
Nursing is specialized.
It s an endangerment situation. Everyone is just so tired of how we re staffed and treated, said Patti Carreiro, a nurse in pediatric intensive care. There aren t many other jobs that won t let you go home after eight hours. Erica Agren, a mental health worker on the hospital s psychiatric unit, said she had been on the job her first real job only six months. She didn t want to say how she voted.