[BrokenRNheart]

Thanks, it can't hurt to try.

[maestrotee]

This board deserves a sticky!

[marie-francoise]

Originally Posted by maestrotee

This board deserves a sticky!

Indeed it does. Moderators, can you make this ANA "Safe Staffing" link into a sticky? If others could respond to it saying they've submitted the message to the ANA, then we'd have an idea as to volume of submissions.

http://www.safestaffingsaveslives.org/default.aspx

All - this is a simple letter you can modify or submit as is to the ANA, who will then send it to your Congress people. It's about safe staffing. It's easy.

P.S. Love the dancing baby!

[DolphinRN84]

Sent it! Hopefully some changes will be made. Nurses definitely deserve better working environments.

[BrokenRNheart]

Thanks again and again.

Love the dolphins.

I have gotten a lot of action through friends and family.

[medsurgrnco]

For anyone who hasn't already clicked on the link to send a letter to your congressmen, I suggest that you add in the letter that hospitals also inform the public of how much time nurses spend on documentation. This information is important to patients as well as the number of patients nurses care for. If a nurse is spending much of the shift documentating then that is time taken away from taking care of patients. See the website below for info regarding documentation:

http://www.mbon.org/commission2/docu...challenges.pdf

[BrokenRNheart]

Originally Posted by medsurgrnco

For anyone who hasn't already clicked on the link to send a letter to your congressmen, I suggest that you add in the letter that hospitals also inform the public of how much time nurses spend on documentation. This information is important to patients as well as the number of patients nurses care for. If a nurse is spending much of the shift documentating then that is time taken away from taking care of patients. See the website below for info regarding documentation:

http://www.mbon.org/commission2/docu...challenges.pdf

Good idea. Thanks for adding.

[Scrubby]

I'm not from the USA but i took the poll as well. Safe staffing is a universal issue and i believe it contributes to the worldwide nursing shortage and overall job dissatisfaction. Good luck!

[BrokenRNheart]

Originally Posted by Scrubby

I'm not from the USA but i took the poll as well. Safe staffing is a universal issue and i believe it contributes to the worldwide nursing shortage and overall job dissatisfaction. Good luck!

Thanks and you are right.

I also have a link to a national petition that is not generated by any agency.

PM me for the link.

[rn undisclosed name]

I also sent in my info to have the letter sent.

I will say I have recently left my previous job because I wasn't happy in the direction the ratios were going and they weren't doing anything about it except trying to get agency nurses to come in and work. Unfortunately the agency nurses didn't want to come anymore because they didn't like how they were treated even when they were offered an extra $20/hour bonus to come and work. There was also a law that was effective 1/1/08 and they were not doing anything about setting up a committee to have any standards in place. No matter how many people said things to management it just went on deaf ears. I have started at another hospital that is union and they NEVER exceed the ratios. I welcome the change. Enough was enough!