Injustice Case Study

Injustice I have witnessed My Mom went to Community college and received an associate’s degree in nursing. After that she got a job at Lutheran General Hospital, in Park Ridge Illinois, as a member of the intensive care unit. After working there for a few years she was then moved to Northwest Community Hospital to work in the cardiac unit. She worked night shifts at the hospital for the extra money but eventually she started to have kids. After having her first child she still had enough time and energy but a year later she had a second child and had to start working the day shifts. Another year and a half passed and she had her third child. At this point she became very busy with her kids and her husband could not help out because his work had very demanding hours. As a result, her hours at the

Add another year and a half and she had her fourth child. At this point, she was only able to go into work like once a month so she decided that for the hospitals sake that she would hang up the towel until her kids grew up a little more, so she could give more time to her work. On her last day her boss said to her, “Laura, as soon as you think you are ready you are always welcome to come back and work for us, you have been a great RN, but until then, I wish you the best.” Fast forward six years, my mom is ready to get back to work and when she called the hospital they said “We are sorry but we do not accept people with associates degrees anymore, because we feel that our employees should be more qualified to work here.” So my mom was very discouraged because when she went to college she did not have enough money