Covid 2021 Survey: How is your staffing determined and do you feel it is safe? Do you experience moral distress?
As nurses, we have been tested like no other over the past almost two years, with COVID-19 highlighting the many challenges that nurses face. This survey will allow you to add your input to that of thousands of other nurses regarding facility staffing methods, unsafe staffing, and moral distress.
This is a study on hospitals and other facility staffing methods. It will assess for any moral distress experienced by nurses.
The survey will be open the entire month of October.
Nurses must have an active RN or LPN license and work in the US.
As nurses, we have been tested like no other over the past almost two years. Unsafe staffing and moral distress have always been a hidden problem in our profession, and Covid 19 only highlighted the many challenges that nurses face. Some nurses have stayed, some have taken up travel nursing, some advanced their education/role, and some have left the profession. All for many different reasons.
Our last national survey received almost 9,500 responses. The data was published in a white paper by the University of Illinois, School of Labor and Employment Relations and the Illinois economic policy institute. We have expanded this survey to assess how this pandemic has affected you both personally and professionally by asking questions on moral distress.
We hope to gain more responses and publish multiple papers showing your voice of what is occurring during this strenuous time in nursing.
We understand that nurses fear retribution and please know that all responses are anonymous.
To this day the NursesTakeDC event is a collaborative project that continues to focus on the following:
Uniting all nurses to join in the fight to get safe nurse-to-patient ratios
Educate the masses: Nurses, healthcare professionals and the community on the need for safe staffing and the legislation that would establish a standard of care. Legislation that would ensure that nurses could not be forced to take over a certain amount of patients. Legislation that also includes acuity to be factored into the staffing process.
Get people involved in the process of contacting their legislators via calls, emails, and social media. Getting people to visit their legislators either in their own state, Washington DC, or both.
Please complete, share with all of your nursing colleagues. We thank you in advance.
Specializes in L&D/HIV/ID/OB/GYN Primary Care Adults/Children.
Nurses— this survey is for LPNs RNs and APRNs! We have 2 weeks left and the response rate is quite low compared to last time. We had close to 9500 RNs respond. It’s no where near that amount. I know everyone is tired. But please do it. Your voices will be heard. It will be published. Please share with your colleagues.
Here’s an article I wrote for Medscape. We’re trying to get the word out about the survey. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/960519?src=
Specializes in MSN, FNP-C, PMHNP, CEN, CCRN, TCRN, EMT-P.
My ER is still 5-1 just like pre Covid. 4 rooms and 1 hallway. 2 trauma nurses floating if they don’t have a trauma alert. We aren’t any busier than pre Covid 225 pt a day
The pay and incentives have become amazing through. The nurses are making higher hourly than I am as an FNP($80/hr)
Specializes in Peds, Med-Surg, Disaster Nsg, Parish Nsg.
Nurses - have you taken the survey. This is a great chance to let your voice be heard!! Don't wait until it's too late. There are only a few days left until the survey closes.
Doris Carroll, BSN
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Nurses— this survey is for LPNs RNs and APRNs! We have 2 weeks left and the response rate is quite low compared to last time. We had close to 9500 RNs respond. It’s no where near that amount. I know everyone is tired. But please do it. Your voices will be heard. It will be published. Please share with your colleagues.
Here’s an article I wrote for Medscape. We’re trying to get the word out about the survey. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/960519?src=