Employees of state-run Alaska Psychiatric Institute on March 8 marched from API to MacLoughlin to bring attention to the unsafe work conditions at API.<\/p>\n
We would like to bring to the public’s and news organization’s attention that some of the unsafe work conditions for staff are self-inflicted by the employee union. In 2011, a nine-page report<\/a> by Disability Law Center stated, “API violates Patients’ Rights in Handling Patients’ grievances,” saying union rules were keeping patient grievances secret.<\/p>\n Patients have a right by law to gender choice of staff for intimate care — same-gender staff must do routine safety checks into bedrooms, bathrooms and showers. Unions do not agree with employees being assigned by gender in policy.<\/p>\n Patients are separated from family at API for convenience — family has a calming effect on patients and rights of patients are removed by staff for minor infractions of hospital rules and that antagonizes patients.<\/p>\n Employee unions at API, with the help of the Department of Health and Social Services, have helped create an atmosphere that antagonizes patients and makes a bad situation worse.<\/p>\n Faith Myers<\/strong><\/p>\n and Dorrance Collins,<\/strong><\/p>\n Anchorage<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Employees of state-run Alaska Psychiatric Institute on March 8 marched from API to MacLoughlin to bring attention to the unsafe work conditions at API. We would like to bring to the public’s and news<\/a> organization’s attention that some of the unsafe work conditions for staff are self-inflicted by the employee union. In 2011, a nine-page […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-10143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10143"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}