Haney, and supervisor aaron peskin will be joining us shortly, as well as supervisor sandra lee fewer. Thank you to this committees clerk, john carroll, and id like to thank sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copies of any documents should be provided to the clerk. Items acted on today will appear on the march 10 board of supervisors agenda. [agenda item read]. Chair mar supervisor fewer, thank you for joining us this morning as the sponsor of this hearing. The floor is yours. Supervisor fewer thank you, committee. I call this hearing today after discussions with ifpte local 21 because i am concerned about the use of Civil Service exclusions and the impact it has on our Civil Service industry. I realize that discussions have been ongoing between the department of Public Health and local 21 regarding a process of conversion for these positions since the last hearing that we ca
To encourage is what we call a culture of safety, where everybody feels comfortable reporting everything all of the time so that we have the ability to respond to it. Then what we do we have this detailed questionnaire and tool kit where we do a long series of questions. I think its 54 questions in total, that is developed by cal osha, so we respond we figure out all the details about why that happened so we can address those. And then we provide whatever support that employee needs, whether its emotional support, whether they need attention in the Emergency Department or any kind of physical or behavioral support they need. So its quite a lot that we do to respond. Supervisor stefani i just want to make sure, too, because if a violent incident is occurring, like say someone is under meth induced psychosis and in that moment a nurses life is threatened, how quickly i know there is the deputy sheriff. I just want to make sure the Response Time is quick and thats what im trying to get at
Thank you can, heather. I hope that was as powerful to the supervisors as it was me listening to it. The struggle so many nurses have been in so long to get an ear is very moving to me. Its also moving to me that our patients suffer from all the things that youre hearing. Were very dedicated people. Nurses are good people, were short on ego, were long on competence, we do our jobs because we care about people and we dont like suffering. What we see because of these problems is more suffering that could be fixed. So Patient Experience, im not going to spend time on this. Heather really gave you the story, but the Patient Experience due to these problems with staffing is obviously negative. I work in primary care. The worst the worst day of my week is when i have a patient who is decompensating, running out of breath, turning blue, sweating and i have to say, we got to get you to the emergency room. And the patient says, no way. [please stand by] [please stand by] to make my point, i wou
Browns short time in the bay area was filled with drama. He missed practice with frostbitten feet and multiple grievances with the nfl over his helmet. After being fined almost 54,000 by the team, he got into a verbal altercation with general manager mike mayot. Friday, the team said he would play in their opener on monday night against denver, but fined him all of his bonus money voiding his contract. And brown asked to be released. So Antonio Brown moves to boston. Bill belichick will be the ring master there. Im Katie Nielsen at raider headquarters. It has been a trying 24 hour. Antonio brown never wanted to come to oakland. He was actually acquired as part of a trade. Thats why some experts say he created all of this drama on his own to get exactly what he wanted to get cut from oakland. Do you want to be a raider . Reporter this is part of the Youtube Video he shared that reportedly a phone call with the head coach questioning browns commitment to the team. But Sports Marketing ex
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