Outrageous firing of hospital employee; Pujols gives Cards deadline; Peter Forsberg's immigration issues
February 8, 2011
Union must act
Apparently 40 years of health care service, and 26 years at her current hospital employer, isn't enough to accept an employee's word that she did not view at all, let alone the several seconds that she is accused of, the records of Iowa football players being treated for a condition resulting from a workout.
One of the contributors to SLT is a Registered Nurse as well as an attorney, and assures SLT readers that the only employees that have their "own" desk and computer are managers, physicians, and high level executives. In a busy nurses' station, or out in a hallway, there are a number of staff who have virtually unrestricted access to a computer sitting out on a table top. In fact, it is often a struggle to get access to a computer to do your job. So, even if management at the hospital doesn't flat-out and without qualification believe their veteran employee's statement of her innocence, and also don't take into consideration how very briefly the files were visible, they have got to know that it is very difficult to guard a computer from being glanced at, inadvertently or otherwise, by any of several co-workers. There is no way, in the opinion at SLT, that her firing is warranted.
For more on the statements made by union representatives and the employee, as well as the current status of the matter, see this link.
Latest news on Cardinals - Pujols contract talks
Union must act
Apparently 40 years of health care service, and 26 years at her current hospital employer, isn't enough to accept an employee's word that she did not view at all, let alone the several seconds that she is accused of, the records of Iowa football players being treated for a condition resulting from a workout.
One of the contributors to SLT is a Registered Nurse as well as an attorney, and assures SLT readers that the only employees that have their "own" desk and computer are managers, physicians, and high level executives. In a busy nurses' station, or out in a hallway, there are a number of staff who have virtually unrestricted access to a computer sitting out on a table top. In fact, it is often a struggle to get access to a computer to do your job. So, even if management at the hospital doesn't flat-out and without qualification believe their veteran employee's statement of her innocence, and also don't take into consideration how very briefly the files were visible, they have got to know that it is very difficult to guard a computer from being glanced at, inadvertently or otherwise, by any of several co-workers. There is no way, in the opinion at SLT, that her firing is warranted.
For more on the statements made by union representatives and the employee, as well as the current status of the matter, see this link.
Latest news on Cardinals - Pujols contract talks
Albert Pujols has set a deadline to get a new deal done with the St.Louis Cardinals- by the beginning of spring training. Of course deadlines like this are not written in stone, but the word coming from St.Louis is that management is not optimistic at the current time.
Forsberg has to jump through immigration hoops before he can skate in the United States
Peter Forsberg will have to leave the United States and re-enter to satisfy immigration requirements. Although he has signed for $1 million with the Avalanche for the remainder of the season, and has practiced with the team, he needs his work visa before he can see league action.
Forsberg has to jump through immigration hoops before he can skate in the United States
Peter Forsberg will have to leave the United States and re-enter to satisfy immigration requirements. Although he has signed for $1 million with the Avalanche for the remainder of the season, and has practiced with the team, he needs his work visa before he can see league action.
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