Sherri Stoddard

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  www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/story/127719.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/28/2007    Last Visited: 8/28/2007  

  Nurses were pleased with the contract that includes a 25 percent wage increase over the four years, said Sherri Stoddard, a nurse and board member of the California Nurses Association union.

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  www.laborradio.org/node/11574 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/21/2009    Last Visited: 7/21/2009  

  Sherri Stoddard is an RN with the CNA in San Luis Obispo.
  
  [Stoddard]: "You want your nurses to be able to take their sick leave and not come to work sick.

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  BW Online | May 28, 2002 | Nursing: On the Critical... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/30/2002    Last Visited: 5/30/2002  

  When nurse Sherri Stoddard finishes her shift at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in San Luis Obispo, Calif., she's routinely wracked with anxiety.Stoddard has so many patients in the maternity ward to look after that she often doesn't immediately notice when a fetal heart rate has slowed or an expectant mother has requested more pain medication."It's a horrible feeling," she says. >
  
  Registered nurses such as Stoddard are finding their jobs so difficult that they're bailing out in droves.The current 26% turnover rate among nurses is the highest in decades.Some hospitals have resorted to offering sign-on bonuses up to $15,000 and finders' fees of $5,000.
  
  LABOR PAINS.The dissatisfaction among nurses could spiral into a crisis.Squeezed by skyrocketing drug costs and decreasing insurance reimbursement rates, hospitals have been skimping on RNs to the point where nurses complain they can barely do their jobs safely.

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  BW Online | May 28, 2002 | Nursing: On the Critical... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/8/2001    Last Visited: 6/19/2002  

  When nurse Sherri Stoddard finishes her shift at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in San Luis Obispo, Calif., she's routinely wracked with anxiety.Stoddard has so many patients in the maternity ward to look after that she often doesn't immediately notice when a fetal heart rate has slowed or an expectant mother has requested more pain medication."It's a horrible feeling," she says. >
  
  Registered nurses such as Stoddard are finding their jobs so difficult that they're bailing out in droves.The current 26% turnover rate among nurses is the highest in decades.Some hospitals have resorted to offering sign-on bonuses up to $15,000 and finders' fees of $5,000.
  
  LABOR PAINS.The dissatisfaction among nurses could spiral into a crisis.Squeezed by skyrocketing drug costs and decreasing insurance reimbursement rates, hospitals have been skimping on RNs to the point where nurses complain they can barely do their jobs safely.

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  Dayton Miami Valley AFL-CIO - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/27/2009    Last Visited: 9/9/2009  

  It's not too late for Tenet to rethink and redo this by restoring our extended sick leave," said Sherri Stoddard, a member of CNA/NNOC.

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  New Times SLO :: Publishing Local News and... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/25/2006    Last Visited: 5/25/2006  

  BY SHERRI STODDARD, RN
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  Sherri Stoddard is on the Board of Directors of the California Nurses Association covering the Central Coast region.You can reach her at rosietr@charter.net
  
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  New Times SLO :: Publishing Local News and... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/10/2006    Last Visited: 2/10/2006  

  Sherri Stoddard, who has worked as a nurse for more than 20 years, most of that time at Sierra Vista Hospital in San Luis Obispo, was very pleased with the court's decision.The ruling confirms that Schwarzenegger's actions were against the law, Stoddard said.
  
  ‘In my opinion, health care should not be for profit.'
  
  Sherri Stoddard, nurse at Sierra Vista Hospital
  
  "It seems obvious that they wanted to make the emergency changes into permanent changes," she explained.
  
  The lifelong nurse went on to explain the changes that occurred in the medical industry back in the 1990s, when HMOs (health maintenance organizations) came along and transformed hospitals into profit centers.
  
  "Hospitals are more concerned with profits than the need to serve the patients," she said."In my opinion, health care should not be for profit."
  
  The California Hospital Association (CHA) and Governor Schwarzenegger â€" who has received over $26 million in contributions from the CHA â€"maintain that these ratios would create a crisis because there are not enough nurses to staff at that level.But Stoddard doesn't see it that way.
  
  The problem, she believes, is that hospitals have become more economically competitive.They're always trying to cut costs, and the highest costs are in labor; so they'll send nurses home or ask them not to come in to work, just to save money.With that approach, many nurses no longer feel good about the work they are doing or the level of care they are providing, said Stoddard.
  
  "And now they call it a nursing shortage, after they drove nurses away from the bedside."
  
  If the hospitals would allow their nurses to take care of patients the way they know how, Stoddard is convinced that many of them would return to the profession.The nurses are out there, she said, they just need to be paid fairly.

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  New Times SLO :: Publishing Local News and... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/11/2005    Last Visited: 3/11/2005  

  Sherri Stoddard, who has worked as a nurse for more than 20 years, most of that time at Sierra Vista Hospital in San Luis Obispo, was very pleased with the court's decision.The ruling confirms that Schwarzenegger's actions were against the law, Stoddard said.
  
  ‘In my opinion, health care should not be for profit.'
  
  Sherri Stoddard, nurse at Sierra Vista Hospital
  
  “It seems obvious that they wanted to make the emergency changes into permanent changes,†she explained.
  
  The lifelong nurse went on to explain the changes that occurred in the medical industry back in the 1990s, when HMOs (health maintenance organizations) came along and transformed hospitals into profit centers.
  
  “Hospitals are more concerned with profits than the need to serve the patients,†she said. “In my opinion, health care should not be for profit.â€
  
  The California Hospital Association (CHA) and Governor Schwarzenegger â€" who has received over $26 million in contributions from the CHA â€"maintain that these ratios would create a crisis because there are not enough nurses to staff at that level.But Stoddard doesn't see it that way.
  
  The problem, she believes, is that hospitals have become more economically competitive.They're always trying to cut costs, and the highest costs are in labor; so they'll send nurses home or ask them not to come in to work, just to save money.With that approach, many nurses no longer feel good about the work they are doing or the level of care they are providing, said Stoddard.
  
  “And now they call it a nursing shortage, after they drove nurses away from the bedside.â€
  
  If the hospitals would allow their nurses to take care of patients the way they know how, Stoddard is convinced that many of them would return to the profession.The nurses are out there, she said, they just need to be paid fairly.

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  Press Release - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/17/2003    Last Visited: 9/20/2004  

  It has come about through the tenacity and collective strength of our RNs and our organization," said Sherri Stoddard, RN, chair of CNA's Statewide Tenet Council."For Tenet nurses," said Stoddard, who works at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in San Luis Obispo," this agreement acknowledges our importance and strength in our workplaces and allows us to collectively advocate for the quality of care each of our patients deserves."

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  San Luis Obispo Tribune | 09/05/2004 | Labor gains - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/5/2004    Last Visited: 9/6/2004  

  As a nurse at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in San Luis Obispo, Sherri Stoddard remembers clearly why she and her colleagues decided to organize a union in late 1994.
  
  At the time, she said, the hospital, owned by American Medical International, told them to take a 14 percent pay cut to save money.The relationship between management and nurses was often tense.
  
  "We tried to negotiate, but we realized we had no power to negotiate with them," said Stoddard, who has worked in labor and delivery at Sierra Vista for 17 years
  
  A decade later, nurses at Sierra Vista, now operated by Tenet Healthcare Corp., and other local hospitals are working together to increase pay and benefits, improve working conditions and job protections, all while raising the level of patient care.
  
  By teaming up with the California Nurses Association, the state's largest nurses' union, hospitals will be in a better position to retain and recruit more staff at a time when housing prices are high and health-care professionals are in short supply, Stoddard said.
  
  "We're realizing the California Nurses Association is in the forefront of legislation that will help with the quality of patient care," Stoddard said.

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