[Nurse Nevada]

Please come sign a petition to lower the nurse-to-patient ratio in Nevada. Hospitals are increasing our patient load and nurses are leaving the state. We already have the least amount of nurses in all 50 states. Please help us by signing a petition. Go to:

http://users.lvcm.com/nursenevada

Thanks for your help!

Dianne Moore, RN

[sanakruz]

Wow least amt of nurses in all 50! I signed!

[cactus wren]

What good would it do for a nurse in another state ,and not licensed in Nev, to sign this.? I`m confused here...... Goos idea, tho....

[-jt]

Hospitals in Nevada, like facilities in most other states are actively recruiting across state lines. Not only are the targetting nurses in California and other states along their borders, but their advertisements have even been in publications all the way over here in NY. They are trying to lure RNs from all over the country to come work in Nevada. It would do a lot of good for them to hear what those nurses have to say.

[SKM-NURSIEPOOH]

Originally posted by Nurse Nevada
Please come sign a petition to lower the nurse-to-patient ratio in Nevada. Hospitals are increasing our patient load and nurses are leaving the state. We already have the least amount of nurses in all 50 states. Please help us by signing a petition. Go to:

http://users.lvcm.com/nursenevada

Thanks for your help!

Dianne Moore, RN

- Moe

[-jt]

I clicked on the envelope & saw the copy of teh letter from your Senator. Good response from a terrific Congressional supporter of nurses. Just have one suggestion -- you might want to XXXX out your address from the top of the letter. Youre opening yourself up to all kinds of crazies on the internet.

[quackers]

I also work here in Nevada. If you think the hospitals are short try working in LTC. LTC nursing has always been challenging but now it is getting scary. I know that patients in the hospitals are sicker than before because of the payment systems. These same patients are being transferred to the LTC facilities for continued medical treatment. Last night I had to take care of 17 medicare residents which means 17 total assessments, all the medications and treatments as well as taking care of 44 nonmedicare residents. The staffing is to short for good nursing care. I greatly depend on my CNAs to watch the other residents. Which they really do a good job. But there are times when there just isn't enough time to get everything done. Why do I stay? Because this old nurse has worked in LTC most of my life and I will probably stay in it and complain that there isn't enough staff to work and to many patients to take care of. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about changing professions, but then nursing is in my blood.

[Nurse Nevada]

Hello again,

Much thanks to all of you who signed the petition. Even if you're not from Nevada, other states will follow suit if enough of us stand up for patient safety. I am going to be working with the Nevada Nurses Association to see what we can do with all the out of state signatures. Nothing gets done if we don't try. I had a nurse tell me last week that she had 14 patients on the night shift in med-surg. They also assigned her a new nurse to precept who also had 4 patients of her own. That made the staff nurse responsible for 18 patients on her shift. It is impossible to give decent care to that many patients. The nurse was frantic and was talking about leaving nursing altogether. This is just one of many stories I hear all the time.

Anyway, thank-you!
Please encourage others to sign!

Dianne Moore, RN

[Nurse Nevada]

Hello all,

I am the one who started the petition in Nevada. Even if you're not from this state, I'd appreciate your signatures. Who says we can't try to change it at a National level? If anyone is interested in how to start a petition in your own state, you can contact me at: nursenevada@lvcm.com

I sent an email to the members of the Nevada Nursing Association telling them of my intentions to start a petition and put it on a website. They contacted me and are giving me their support. It only takes one person to get the ball rolling. Fortunately I've learned how to build web sites and was able to do it with minimal cost. There are other ways to get it done. The nursing agency's are all supportive and are handing out pieces of paper (business card size) with the address of the website to sign the petition. I also says on the paper "pass it on." Nurses are giving the paper to their co-workers. This is just the beginning. We need to stand up for ourselves and the safety of the public. People are dying because of unsafe nursing conditions and the public is unaware of it. As nurses, it's our responsibility to bring it to their awareness. I expect the media will be jumping all over this soon, as the word gets out. Dr's are leaving the state because of the high cost of malpractice insurance and a lot of it is being covered by the media.

I can hardly believe how supportive everyone is being. I didn't think I'd get that much support. In fact, the first person I spoke to about the idea (a city councel person in Minnesota) tried to discourage me from doing it because of the shortage. I believe this issue is contributing to the shortage. Hospitals want to show profits as every business does. Cutting staff is one way of achieving it. But when they are using profits to build beautiful new hospitals and not paying attention to causes of shortages it hurts everyone.

Please help me make a change.

Thank you to the person who started this thread!

Dianne Moore, RN
Nursing Nevada

[Nurse Nevada]

Please come to the website below and sign our petition. There was a precedent set whereby out of state signatures may be accepted because of travel nursing.


[url=http://users.lvcm.com/nursenevada]Nursing Nevada