By Matthew White
May 28, 2008
Concerned about unsafe working conditions that they say have gotten worse since the state began its mental health reforms in 2001, about 25 members of the union UE Local 150 took to the street in front of Cherry Hospital Tuesday afternoon demanding action.
But even they acknowledged that much of that change would have to come from the state level.
"We want fairness and justice for the workers," Cherry Hospital health care technician Larsene Taylor said.
Taylor, who has been at Cherry for 16 years, also serves as secretary/treasurer for the Cherry Hospital chapter of UE Local 150, which includes the North Carolina Public Service Workers Union.
She explained that they were making the noon protest to raise awareness of the situations and conditions they face every day -- and to promote the mental health workers' public hearing on Thursday in Raleigh.
There, she explained that they will be hoping to address several issues, including turnover, wages, mandatory overtime and safety -- all things that Cherry Hospital Director Dr. Jack St. Clair acknowledged are problems.
"We just want our voice heard," Taylor said. "We're not treated right. We have a workers' bill of rights that we are asking for.
"But this has not just started, it has been going on. It's because of the crisis in the system reforms."
In fact, said Teresa Howell, an 18-year veteran of the state system and a med nurse at Cherry for the last eight, morale "is the worst I've ever seen it."
At Cherry, as at other state psychiatric institutions, the 400 health care technicians, who are all required to be at least certified nursing assistants, do the brunt of the work, attending to the patients' daily needs.
There is supposed to be at least a 5:1 ratio, not counting those cases where patients, such as those considered suicide risks, may need special attention.
On Tuesday, there were 253 patients -- including 13 on suicide watch -- at Cherry, which was enough to put the hospital into diversion status, which basically means it's full and that new incoming patients have to be diverted elsewhere.
The hospital, though, only has about 1,100 employees filling each three-shift, 24-hour period -- at least 50 less than ideal.
However, because of illnesses or other absences, the high number of patients and the low number of staffers, some of those workers were likely to be pulling mandatory overtime -- one of the group's largest complaints.
"There needs to be a law that bans it or limits it," Taylor said. "What you're doing is burning your workers out."
Unfortunately, St. Claire said that while he agrees it's not good for safety or morale, they're often left with little choice, occasionally asking employees to work up to 24 hours of overtime per week.
"On rare occasions we might exceed that," he admitted. "But everyone who comes here is told the hours are subject to change and that that includes overtime. Everyone knows the needs of the facility have to be a priority."
Still, he knows that people break down eventually, and explained that they do try to work with employees when possible to meet their individual needs.
He also explained that they're working to create as safe a work environment as possible under the circumstances -- another top concern of the union.
"They're looking at patient safety, not staff safety," health care tech Corey Bell said.
"If people in the community understood what we deal with, they'd be amazed," Ms. Howell said. "And then they want to condemn us ..."
Meaning, she explained, that if anything happens to the patients, it's more likely to make the news than are the 11 employees injured by patients during the last two to three weeks.
But there, too, St. Clair emphasized that at Cherry, he feels they're doing all they can by training staff to recognize the signs of a patient about to lose control, having a responsive coding system, teaching basic "therapeutic holds" and other soft defensive and restraining techniques, and the proper use of medicine and restraints, as well as by holding debriefing sessions after each incident.
"Many of those concerns are serious. We have patients who are very volatile and very dangerous. Safety is an issue," he said, explaining that while many injuries are relatively minor -- bruises, cuts, pulled muscles or wrenched joints often requiring, at most, only a couple of days off work -- there are some patients like the man who recently ripped the sink out of the wall in his room, who can pose a threat.
And while he agreed that even minor injuries are unacceptable, he believes they have become, in many ways, a byproduct of the 2001 system reforms.
"The problem is, we're dealing with more patients and patients with a much higher level of acuity than before," he said. "But it's a system-wide problem, not just Goldsboro."
Unfortunately, he added, the best solutions are out of his hands.
"I think we've been very pro-active in addressing these issues. I think, by and large, we offer more in these areas than the other hospitals do, but I agree with a large part of what they're saying," he said. "We need more staff and we need to pay our staff better wages, and I think a big part of it is getting those legislators on board."
And while he does expect about two dozen more health care techs and other employees to come on board in the next few weeks, resolving those concerns is one of the goals of Thursday's event, which at least one local legislator, Larry Bell, D-Sampson, is slated to attend.
Scheduled for 6 to 8 p.m., the rally will be held at the Wake County Office Park Commons Building, 4001 Carya Drive, at the corner of Poole Roads, just off the I-440 beltline at exit 15. A pre-hearing rally will be held at the location from 5 to 5:30 p.m.
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Yesterday I went to see a whore about noon and told her to get on top; she flew into a rage, pretending I wanted to restore the tyranny of Hippias.
--Xanthias, a slave
(in the play "The Wasps," line 500, by Aristophanes,
in Greece, in 422 BCE,
translated here by Eugene O'Neill)
"Aristotle and Phyllis," woodcut, 1510 CE, by Hans Baldung Grien
It shows the much venerated ancient philosopher, Aristotle, having succumbed to his lust for the beautiful Phyllis, usually said to be Alexander the Great's wife or mistress. According to a common version of the legend, Aristotle had earlier warned Alexander, his pupil, that the young man was paying too much attention to this woman. When the philosopher approached Phyllis with his own desires, she insisted, before she agreed to gratify them, that Aristotle put on a bridle and let her ride on his back around the garden. This he did, and Alexander and a companion is shown looking on. The basic moral of the story is quite clear: even so rational and learned a man as Aristotle can allow his desire for a woman to overcome his reason; he is thus reduced to behaving as beasts do.
(from H. Diane Russell, Eva/Ave: Women in Renaissance and Baroque Prints [Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1990], page 149)
While blatantly hocking his new book, Dr. Ogi Ogas (ah, yes, also famed game show contestant and Homeland Security consultant), offers a highly original and nuanced argument: feminism is ruining our love lives. We’ve never heard that before.
In any case, Ogi (I have to use his first name because it’s just too much fun), is arguing that women and men are both turned on by inequality based on the internet search data he has mined for insights into human sexuality, plus some neuroscience that–surprise, surprise–he interprets as directly correlating with his pre-cooked theory about how people get turned on.
--Courtni Martin, "Feminism, once again, blamed for, well, everything,"
(A review of Mr. Ogi Ogas's stale old gas
"Why Feminism Is the Anti-Viagra:
The neural circuitry of dominance and submission")
Yesterday I went to see a whore about noon and told her to get on top; she flew into a rage, pretending I wanted to restore the tyranny of Hippias.
--Xanthias, a slave
(in the play "The Wasps," line 500, by Aristophanes,
in Greece, in 422 BCE,
translated here by Eugene O'Neill)
It shows the much venerated ancient philosopher, Aristotle, having succumbed to his lust for the beautiful Phyllis, usually said to be Alexander the Great's wife or mistress. According to a common version of the legend, Aristotle had earlier warned Alexander, his pupil, that the young man was paying too much attention to this woman. When the philosopher approached Phyllis with his own desires, she insisted, before she agreed to gratify them, that Aristotle put on a bridle and let her ride on his back around the garden. This he did, and Alexander and a companion is shown looking on. The basic moral of the story is quite clear: even so rational and learned a man as Aristotle can allow his desire for a woman to overcome his reason; he is thus reduced to behaving as beasts do.
(from H. Diane Russell, Eva/Ave: Women in Renaissance and Baroque Prints [Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1990], page 149)
"Though a woman's preference for physical sexual submission appears to be controlled by the unconscious, inaccessible subcortical part of her brain, this unconscious physical preference is complemented by an independent psychological preference for dominant men. [See footnote 1.]-----
Footnote 1: It's important to distinguish between sexual dominance and submission and social dominance and submission. In mammals, sexual dominance and submission refer to very specific physical actions (such as lordosis and intromission) controlled by circuits in the subcortex. In contrast, social dominance and submission refers to an individual's status in the social hierarchy. Social dominance is managed by a testosterone-mediated neurohormonal brain system that drives status-seeking behaviors in male mammals, including kangaroos, elk, coyotes, and stockbrokers. There are clear sexual benefits from being dominant: ...."
--Mr. Ogi Ogas, Ph.D., 2011 CE
who couldn't win at the gameshow Who Wants to be a Millionare
with the help of his buddy Mr. Sai Gaddam;
so he and Sai write a book together, called A Billion Wicked Thoughts;
and he pretends, when getting some online space on the Psychology Today blog
to promote his thoughts, that he's moved on to other fetishes:
"He no longer watches any steamy porn,
instead preferring the steamy vegetables on the Food Network."
While blatantly hocking his new book, Dr. Ogi Ogas (ah, yes, also famed game show contestant and Homeland Security consultant), offers a highly original and nuanced argument: feminism is ruining our love lives. We’ve never heard that before.
In any case, Ogi (I have to use his first name because it’s just too much fun), is arguing that women and men are both turned on by inequality based on the internet search data he has mined for insights into human sexuality, plus some neuroscience that–surprise, surprise–he interprets as directly correlating with his pre-cooked theory about how people get turned on.
--Courtni Martin, "Feminism, once again, blamed for, well, everything,"
(A review of Mr. Ogi Ogas's stale old gas
"Why Feminism Is the Anti-Viagra:
The neural circuitry of dominance and submission")
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