Come together

Earlier I posted regarding a new nursing organization to try to bring nurses together to improve nursing. I made a couple of mistakes in the posting so am trying to introduce you to it without breaking the rules.

I see nursing going downward as a career. The biggest reason our jobs keep getting worse seems to be so overpaid administrators can make more money; bigger salaries and bigger bonuses. Nurses traditionally don't stick together and stand up for themselves so administration takes advantage of this fact.

I believe we are the blood that flows through the veins of healthcare. You can remove any other department's staff and there will be a nurse there to make sure the patients are taken care of. Remove nursing and you have to lock the doors.

We are about 3 million strong. More than 4:1 compared to doctors in the USA. I believe that is only RNs too, add in LPNs, CNAs, PCTs, etc.. We are a workforce to be reckoned with if we come together. We can change not only the hospital and facility conditions, but we can change national policy.

The ANA says they represent 2.9 million nurses. I have read that only about 3% of nurses actually belong to ANA. I don't know of anything the ANA has done to help me and my career. I don't know of anything the ANA has done to raise the level of nursing, to protect nurses in the workplace or do anything to benefit working nurses.

It is up to us to come together and make the difference. If we come together, make common goals to benefit nursing always sticking to doing the right thing, we can't lose. There can't be healthcare without professional nurses!