Letter to Congress: ANA "Safe Staffing Saves Lives" campaign

You're welcome. But true thanks goes to BrokenRNheart for introducing this link to this forum.

P.S. Thanks for sending the letter!

Has anyone else sent in this letter to ANA/Congress re: safe staffing, or is planning to?

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

Anyone else?

This offers some way to try to improve things...

Thanks. Although I'm a bit surprised that others on this board haven't responded. This affects all nurses, and all patients - all of us.

This is such a simple way to try to make a difference in nursing working conditions, is sponsored by the ANA itself, and potentially can have an impact on Congressinal opinion, and....

...THE SILENCE HERE HAS BEEN DEAFENING.

If we can't even hit "submit" on this pre-made letter to the ANA/Congress, how the heck are nurses going to improve their own working conditions?

If this is a barometer of how galvanized nurses are to change their own working conditions, it doesn't bode well.

This may not propose the best solution (I myself don't think that individual units/hospitals can be trusted to really staff safely, but that set ratios should be broadly applied across general categories of work settings). BUT, it's a START, at the very, very least.