Nurses General Nursing
Published May 4, 2001
-jt
2,709 Posts
the Discovery Health Channel will rerun its five-part series on NURSES in celebration of National Nurses Week. Watch all five episodes on Sunday, May 6, beginning at 6PM (ET). Individual episodes will be shown at 7 p.m. (ET) each night May 7-11. For additional replay times and more information about the series, go to www.discoveryhealth.com. To purchase the entire NURSES series on videotape, call (800) 475-6636.
It's not too late to secure media coverage for your own events and issues during National Nurses Week. Go to www.nursingworld.org/pressrel/nnw/ for media kit materials to help you get your message out.
The American Nurses Association is continuing to secure media coverage on the nursing shortage, inadequate staffing and mandatory overtime, and occupational health and safety issues.
Safety, Staffing Set as Priorities
A Message From ANA President
Mary Foley, MS, RN http://www.ana.org/pressrel/nnw/message.htm
Foley Discusses Staffing Shortage on MSNBC.com
5/17/01
The crisis in nurse staffing and emerging nursing shortage has been on the front page of papers nationwide for the past few months, particularly during this past week's celebration of National Nurses Week. Front page headlines of the NY Times on April 9, 2001 gave Registered Nurses and the staffing crisis page one coverage.
ANA President Mary Foley, MS, RN, continued to share that message with consumers in an op-ed on MSNBC.com. To read it, go to http://www.msnbc.com/news/571673.asp
P_RN, ADN, RN
6,011 Posts
jt, thanks for the post. When I read the topic I was all ready to voice my opinion on the portrayal of nurses in the media. What a refreshing thing to see it is about REAL nurses and the desperate situation health care is in.
NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN
10 Articles; 18,370 Posts
Thanks JT.
The article summed up our problems.
What we chose to do about adressing the solutions is up to each one of us.
Level2Trauma
121 Posts
moving right along......
"Nurse Shortage Promising To Worsen -
Overworked Nurses Clamoring To Leave
PHILADELPHIA, 9:33 a.m. EDT May 18, 2001 -- A survey finds that hospital nurses are suffering from burnout......
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/sh/health/stories/health-75784420010507-100542.html
and while youre at that page, check out:
Not Enough Nurses http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/sh/idi/health/nurses/index.html
very interesting
PHILADELPHIA, 9:33 a.m. EDT May 18, 2001 -- A survey finds that hospital nurses are suffering from burnout...... http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/sh/health/stories/health-75784420010507-100542.html
the best part of the article - a quote from the researcher who did the study at the University of Pennsylvania -
"hospitals need to offer personnel policies and benefits comparable to those offered by other businesses."