California Nurses: What the heck is going on at UCI Med Center?

In the past 3 months, 13 nurses have been fired from UCI Medical Center. The allegations are that some have been fired for reporting med errors that didn’t actually affect any patients. Nurse Lilliam Triana was suspended for a day without pay when she began to investigate the firings. One theory is that the hospital is trying to clean house to make up for their recent scandals which include problems with the transplant and infertility programs. But if that were true, why would it make sense to fire the nurses?

Here’s a press release from the California Nurses Association and here’s the magnet hospital, they’ve also been recognized as a number one hospital in Southern California by an ADVANCE for Nurses Readers Choice Survey. But 13 nurses in 3 months is a very high number. It would be great if there were some UCI nurses out there that could comment on this. There has to be more to this story.


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