ABC News story on the Nursing Shortage and its EEffects on Patients

[spineCNOR]

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]

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.

great question, lesson.

[Love-A-Nurse]

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!!)

superman, you are correct; no one can make you feel inferior, unless you allow it, but lpns are not asking to be excluded from the nursing realm.

[Love-A-Nurse]

by the way superman, welcome!

[Love-A-Nurse]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Superman, that would be Eleanor Roosevelt.

[Brigitasha]

Superman, that would be Eleanor Roosevelt.

[melissa24]

Originally posted by SuperMan!

"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]

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