The situation for nurses in Cook County is critical and getting worse every day in patient safety and keeping RNs in the system. What the nurses want, and the county needs, is for the RNs to have a strong voice in patient care decisions and staffing.

When he ran for office, he said that he was going to make fundamental changes to the system and yet he is perpetuating the system in an even more exacerbated manner by the amount of fund raising he is doing.

We can't continue at management's current pace. The county is not taking their nurses seriously, but the nurses are very serious about resolving this situation immediately.