Nurses General Nursing
Published Aug 7, 2002
Good story about the nursing shortage on tonight's ABC World News --thank you, Peter Jennings!
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/nursingshortage020807.html#
Love-A-Nurse
3,932 Posts
originally posted by leesonlpn why, whenever there is a discussion about the nursing shortage, it only mentions registered nurses. licensed practical nurses are a regulated profession body of nurses, and play a vital part in the health care system. i have been one for 22 years, and still feel invisible sometimes.
why, whenever there is a discussion about the nursing shortage, it only mentions registered nurses. licensed practical nurses are a regulated profession body of nurses, and play a vital part in the health care system. i have been one for 22 years, and still feel invisible sometimes.
originally posted by superman! "no one can make you feel inferior without your permission." author? you tell me. ~superman (lpn, rn, emt, and army medic!!)
"no one can make you feel inferior without your permission." author? you tell me.
~superman (lpn, rn, emt, and army medic!!)
by the way superman, welcome!
my first thought to the article, where are the solutions to the root of the problem?
are there any nurses who are reporters out there?
OC_An Khe
1,018 Posts
There was a good and new point to this story, and that is JCAHO using its own inadequate self reporting system has finally acknowledged that a shortage of RNs leads to patient deaths. To my memoery this is the first time that JCAHO acknowledged this impact of the RN shortage.
andrewsgranny, ASN, RN
99 Posts
no one "can" make you feel inferior unless you let them. i dont feel inferior nor do i feel superior. just asking to be a part of the nursing realm. if we are good enough to teach,stick,chart,and whatever else our titles allow, then we should be counted in nursing polls of whatever the situation.just my 2 cents
fedupnurse
790 Posts
I love how my facility which has at least one administrator per patient bed, counts all the suits with RN after their name in the nursing numbers. The actual number of bedside caregivers is about 300 less than what is stated on their website for the numbers for my facility. What a joke. We had a picture where they boast these 400 plus nurses have something to smile about... and there were maybe 40 people in the picture. One person I worked with is literally standing next to herself. Isn't this called false advertising??????
Nothing is going to change as long as these usiness people keep lying to the public and disregard the right way to run patient care areas of their hospitals. Remember, when they and theirs are patients, they get the red carpet treatment, often at the expense of other patients. It is this very commission, among many others, that do contribute to the problem with their ridiculous rules and paperwork that have no positive impact on patient care.
Time these organizations and the stinking suits start to put their money where their mouths are!
Repat
335 Posts
I read the article, and had basically the same response to it that all you out there have noted. Have any of you written Peter Jennings? There was an article in our local paper today to say that one of our state politicians, a nurse by profession who has three sisters who are nurses, would not allow one of her loved ones to go into the hospital by themselves these days. But that wasn't the headline, and you really had to read the article closely to find that bit of information. We have to make that kind of statement the headline. How do we do it?
Brigitasha
4 Posts
Superman, that would be Eleanor Roosevelt.
melissa24
94 Posts
Originally posted by SuperMan! "No one can make you feel inferior without your permission." Author? You tell me.
"No one can make you feel inferior without your permission." Author? You tell me.
According to "The Princess Diaries" it was Eleanor Roosevelt.
teeituptom, BSN, RN
4,283 Posts
Howdy yall
from deep in the heat of texas
Why yall listen to peter jennings I dont know. He is a weasel and only out for himself