SHORT SURVEY ON STAFFING LEVELS: Please take a minute for UAN to collect

[BrokenRNheart]

what is rn staffing like

where you work?

as part of the newly launched safe staffing campaign, uan is collecting feedback from staff nurses on what staffing levels are like in their facilities. we'll share the responses with the public, elected leaders, the media and you.

please take a minute to complete the short survey below and return it to uan.

http://www.uannurse.org/survey/

[forrester]

BTW- CNA includes members it does not actually represent for collective bargaining in its numbers- the UAN does not."

I am not opposed to the UAN. I support ANY effort on the part of nurses to coordinate political pressure and make sure their work environments are safe..for patients and for nurses.

I do believe that unionization, per se, is a slug fest and requires way too much energy and effort.

Why fight 3000 battles when you can fight one war???

We need this legislation on the Federal level, and if we can't do that, we need to be implementing it on the state level.

The UAN is doing great things for the nurses it represents, I'm sure. But it has not captured the imagination of nursing.

And for the record, the attitudes of unionized nurses in general, and particularly those from the UAN who attended the ANA convention in 2000, turns a lot of people off.

I understand the appeal of unions. But the "leftest" lingo and socialist "attitudes" of some is disconcerting to many.

Seems to me an intellectual discussion is preferable.

We need some independent research by neutral parties to assess the attitudes and working conditions of nurses (unionized and non-unionized). Unfortunately, most academic institutions are just as afraid of discussing unions as the working nurses are. AONE has tremendous influence, as warped as it is, on both academics and administrators.

Where have all the free thinking nurses gone?

Where is nursing's "critical reflection"?????