IV specialist job losses

HeraldTribune.com report that Sarasota Memorial Hospital will lay off 31 employees “Among the hardest-hit units is the hospital’s team of nurses that specialize in inserting intravenous lines. Eight of the 13 nurses were laid off.

Sarasota Memorial will keep a smaller IV nurse team, and give all nurses a refresher course in starting IVs, officials said. The hospital will retain its overall nurse-to-patient ratio of 1 to 5, Chief Nursing Officer Jan Mauck said.

Most layoffs take effect this week, and employees will get severance pay and assistance in finding new jobs, officials said”.

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