If all nurses left a facility, would it still be in existance next month..a year?

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

This assumes no hiring of nurses....Interested in your responses.

[caroladybelle, BSN, RN]

Why am I visualizing MCP when you write this?

Treat your employees badly, require unrestricted OT, they strike and the facility closes.

I know that it is different but still.

[1940Nurse]

This assumes no hiring of nurses....Interested in your responses.

NO. Patients come to a hospital for nursing care. Not the soft beds, great food, or the wonderful view of the ocean.

[Roy Fokker, BSN, RN]

If you kicked out all the NCOs, would you have an Army? :)

Doctors may set the plan or assume the responsibility - but it's the nurses who run the unit/show.

Besides:

NO. Patients come to a hospital for nursing care. Not the soft beds, great food, or the wonderful view of the ocean.

Biiiiiiingo! :biggringi

Infact, if I maybe so bold as to state: The primary function of any hospital is to provide recuperative nursing care. You can have all the surgeries, MRIs and biopsies - but without nursing care, a hospital is a hospital in name only.

[pickledpepperRN]

Like all the above posted. Of course not.

[DarciaMoonz, LPN]

I'd say it would be almost impossible. If It did last, it would only be for a very short time.

[Hellllllo Nurse, BSN, RN]

I'm unsure/undecided.

I think if all the nurses left a facility, the powerful hospital and physician lobbying groups would push super fast legislation through allowing Med Aides, CNAs and PCTs to do nursing care under physicans' licenses.

I think the hospital would become a death trap. But, I don't think that would stop the docs and hospitals from trying to do it without us.

[LauraF, RN, ASN, CNA, LPN, RN]

I'm unsure/undecided.

I think if all the nurses left a facility, the powerful hospital and physician lobbying groups would push super fast legislation through allowing Med Aides, CNAs and PCTs to do nursing care under physicans' licenses.

I think the hospital would become a death trap. But, I don't think that would stop the docs and hospitals from trying to do it without us.

I agree. I think if all the nurses left a facility those tight-reared admins would find a way to get it to work for a few months until they realized that they were losing people because of poor care. I think we are taken for granted. I think that a lot of people think that anyone can do what we do, with less training and knowledge.