About 35 nurses who work at Southern Ocean Medical Center held a two-hour informational picket on Saturday morning, carrying posters and shouting slogans such as “we are the nurses – mighty, mighty nurses” as they marched outside the hospital on the grass bordering Route 72 in Manahawkin, drawing sympathetic honks from passing motorists.
Members of Health Professionals and Allied Employees Local 5138, the unionized nurses were pushing for safer staffing levels at the hospital.
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