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Dear George, I write in response to Nurses Upset With Pay Cuts. Is this what the academic side employees can expect when the charter school initiative is implemented next July? And how do pay cuts get more "permanent" nurses? The real truth is they need to save money on the backs of their employees to build new buidings, new parking garages, pay administrators more to do less. Perhaps if they stopped trying to get "Magnet" status at 50K a shot--which they never will get--they could continue to pay their nurses what they promised they would pay them originially. Obviously UVA made a huge mistake in offerig a per diem type arrangement. Now they are really making out like bandits-cutting the per diem nurses pay by about half PLUS no benefits or retirement to pay. In the meantime, patient care is suffering in a big way but THAT is a whole other story. I suggest that unless you are on your deathbed you do NOT go to UVA. Probably not much of a chance that you'd make it out alive. 90% of the nurses that WORK there would not let themselves or a loved one go to this hospital. So much for codified autonomy. Jan Cornell (electronic mail, September 17, 2004)
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