UC medical centers use "temps" in patient care jobs. How could that affect your medical care?

UC medical centers are using temporary workers to fill patient care jobs. These “temps” include registered nurses, nursing assistants, respiratory therapists, and pharmacy, ultrasound, and radiology techs.

With less training in UC hospital procedures, “temps” require more supervision, which can prevent the UC career employees on their teams from focusing fully on patient care. Also, because “temps” aren’t permanent employees, they may be less invested in the quality of patient care at UC.

UC workers believe UC’s low wages have created vacancies in many jobs, which has caused reliance on “temps.

Footnotes: ¹“Regulators hit UCSF for lax drug policies,” San Francisco Business Times, 9/28/07.