Palo Alto on-call nurses allege they must sleep in cars
Source: Palo Alto Weekly
The Jan. 23 burglary of a Lucile Packard Children's Hospital nurse's car while she slept in it has become a lightning rod for nurses who allege hospital managers are not providing the safe sleeping quarters required by their union contract.
The on-call nurses, who work late at night, said they are sleeping in their cars between assignments. Though some said they have asked for a bed in the hospital, they haven't been given one or they were reprimanded when seeking a spot on their own.
The hospital insists it is in compliance with the contract, and a room is given to any nurse who requests one. But there is a huge discrepancy between the hospital's and the nurses' claims, in what appears to be a breakdown in communication.
... Lorie Johnson, president of the Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement (CRONA) union, said that the hospital should provide a permanent, designated sleeping space.
"On-call happens every night, every day of the year. CRONA and the nurses have long asked that a location for sleeping be pre-designated. Here, if the location would have been identified to begin with, there would have been no need for the nurse to make a specific request," she said in an email.
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Hospitals in the real world usually have apartment buildings down the street where the nurses live, for this reason. But not in "Shallow Alto", let alone on the sprawling Stanford campus. 
I scarcely even need to point out that Stanford definitely leans repuke, what with the Hoover Institution and Kinda Sleazy Rice and all.
