Another hospital wont hire nicotine consumers (Bon Secours Virginia)
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LMFAO, Another example of our jobs being ruled by big business, cut cut cut cut employees rights and hours while the doctors get bigger and bigger fees and buy more and more huge homes and cars.....UNIONIZE the medical jobs and all that bull.... will come to an end.
Hospital administrators are notoriously short sighted. Even with the current economy and the increase in older people applying to nursing schools, there is a shortage of nurses nationwide with a MASSIVE increase in that shortage headed their way in 2015-2020. Coupled with the rising age of the population, increased complexity of medical treatments, and the bulk of nurses in the nation being baby boomers rapidly approaching the age of retirement, hospitals will be facing a crippling shortage of qualified nurses. Yet, they want to turn their nose up at the 1 in 5 of them that use nicotine? Do they really believe that what they think they'll save in insurance costs will come close to the multi-billions they will pay out in wrongful death suits due to short-staffing? 
The numbers may be higher than 1 in 5. High pressure jobs tent to have higher smoking rates plus it's not just smokers. Any nic use could be closer to 1 in 3.
Not gonna tell you how I know this, but the powers that be at BS are being quite self-congratulatory about this bold move, saying that 'sometimes you just have to save people from themselves.' For those that are so in favor of these smoking bans because of the 'costs' that smoking incurs, I wonder how many of them would be okay with the same restrictions being applied to overweight people or diabetics or people with high BP. Or even just ugly people who also are not part of a protected class. I'd really like to know. Actually, because they die earlier, smokers don't really cost that much more money. It's the people who live the longest and take the most in Social Security and other sustaining medical treatment that actually cost us the most.
It's just the new Morality Police, social engineering with a vulnerable target.
It's just the new Morality Police, social engineering with a vulnerable target.
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Crumpet, you're right except perhaps the morality issue. I believe it has more to do with feeling superior and exerting control over others.
Isn't that illegal or something???
Not unless Virginia has a lifestyle protection law, which they apparently do not.
That's Strange. I have to wade through smoking nurses to get into the hospitals here in Texas. Come down here we have a shortage of medical workers.
Bon Secours posted an article on this (GoodSharing Blog) and comments are allowed:
Bon Secours Good Sharing » Blog Archive » Bon Secours Virginia Health System Adopts Nicotine-Free Hiring Policy
Bon Secours Good Sharing » Blog Archive » Bon Secours Virginia Health System Adopts Nicotine-Free Hiring Policy
Open for comments, eh? Let's see how well thought out their policies are, and if they will even respond to comments
They have been so far, but not to mine. I would guess that they need to bring in some folks with the exertise to refute what I posted about Dr. Benowitz presentation on smokeless tobacco being low-risk. But since it is easily verifiable that he did present this information, they might have a problem.
Dear "Eciggerssuck": Since your post on the article has been rightfully flagged for libel, it might not be there the next time you look. So I will issue my challenge here.
You stated, "nicotine addiction is dangerous and very unhealthy way of life."
Please list studies involving human subjects that support your allegation.
You stated, "nicotine addiction is dangerous and very unhealthy way of life."
Please list studies involving human subjects that support your allegation.
Now I'm confused. Googling will show that Virginia has/had a lifestyle discrimination statute in particular protecting smokers from this. What happened to it??
Don't know specifically, but I fear tobacco/nicotine isn't what they consider lifestyle discrimination. A list I found for VA-
State Laws Prohibiting Discrimination in Employment - Workplace Fairness
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It might have only applied to government positions since I found this-
http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/...id=3EB6C63C687455D589A64F5A72346543.tobacco03
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OK, for some reason I can't bring this in as a link. It is for state employees only in Virginia.
ash.org/smokersrightslaws.html
ash.org/smokersrightslaws.html
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