Fired for Speaking Out or Going AWOL? NJ Nurse Fights to Be Reinstated
Matt Witt, a nurse union leader at the Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, NJ, says he was fired in April of 2020 during the height of the pandemic for speaking out against the facility’s lack of PPE and other safety violations.
However, his employers argue they fired him because he disappeared in the middle of his shift when his colleagues needed him most. Now, Witt is fighting to get his job back at the facility and to restore his reputation in the healthcare field.
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A 33-year-old woman arrived at the emergency room of Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune and promptly suffered cardiac arrest due to clots in her main pulmonary artery.
She was stabilized thanks to the quick actions by a team of people, including a patient care technician who performed CPR.
That technician was Ethan Carpenter, a nursing student at Georgian Court University in Lakewood. Today Carpenter becomes a nursing graduate along with a few dozen classmates who served on the front lines in hospitals during the pandemic.
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A teenager has admitted to stabbing two Hudson Valley men on the Jersey Shore during a fight last year, authorities said.
Juwan Roman, age 18, of Newark, pleaded guilty on Thursday, May 13 to two counts of aggravated assault and weapons offenses, according to Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer.
Roman s name was made public this week after he waived his right to juvenile status in Family Court.
Roman was 17 during the 2020 assault, but he voluntarily agreed to be prosecuted as an adult, the prosecutor said.
On Sept. 7, 2020, at about 3:30 p.m., Point Pleasant police responded to multiple 9-1-1 calls about a fight on Jenkinson’s Beach.