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Am an RN that feels is time for nurses to have an organization at a national level to advocate for them. Am looking for nurses that feel the same way and are willing to be part in forming an organization to represent nurses and advocate nurses. A national union to advocate for nurses rights, better working conditions and to represent us in front of the state board. An organization of nurses for nurses. If the nurses united for an stethoscope, can we unite to support each other? I believe that we are a force to reckon with, if we act together.

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.

Wouldn't National Nurses United meet your description?

National Nurses United

There is also the ANA for lobbying

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Specializes in MICU, SICU, CICU.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/929997953713716?ref=bookmarks

Nurses United for Safe staffing is worth checking out.

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Specializes in Critical care, tele, Medical-Surgical.
https://m.facebook.com/groups/929997953713716?ref=bookmarks

Nurses United for Safe staffing is worth checking out.

I can't look because I choose not to be on Facebook.

Using a search engine this came up:

We have two national safe patient ratio bills, one in the Senate S. 864 (Boxer) and the House HR 1602 (Schakowsky).

  • The National Nursing Shortage Reform and Patient Advocacy Act | S. 864 (Boxer) This bill establishes requirements for acute-care facilities to provide registered nurse staff based on the acuity of patients provided that minimum nurse-to-patient ratios for each unit are met at all times. Registered nurses shall also have the obligation to act in the exclusive interest of their patients, and the right to be patient advocates.
  • Safe Nurse Staffing for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act - HR 1602 (Schakowsky) Nurses are increasingly put into impossible situations by hospital managers who demand they care for more patients than is safe. There is a proven method to save patient lives and save hospital money — mandated minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios. In Congress, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) re-introduced her Safe Nurse Staffing for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act to improve patient quality of care by establishing a requirement for nurse-to-patient ratios that put patient safety first.

National Campaign for Safe RN-to-Patient Staffing Ratios | National Nurses United

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Specializes in Med-Surg, OB, ICU, Public Health Nursing.

NNU National Nurses United was a merger of United American Nurses, California Nurses Association and Massachusetts Nurses Association and represents over 185,000 nurses in US. SEIU (Service Employees International Union) represents over 85, 000 nurses in 21 states. I am not sure if AFSCME has some nurses. In Canada I know British Columbia has a province wide union.

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I can't look because I choose not to be on Facebook.

Using a search engine this came up:

We have two national safe patient ratio bills, one in the Senate S. 864 (Boxer) and the House HR 1602 (Schakowsky).

  • The National Nursing Shortage Reform and Patient Advocacy Act | S. 864 (Boxer) This bill establishes requirements for acute-care facilities to provide registered nurse staff based on the acuity of patients provided that minimum nurse-to-patient ratios for each unit are met at all times. Registered nurses shall also have the obligation to act in the exclusive interest of their patients, and the right to be patient advocates.
  • Safe Nurse Staffing for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act - HR 1602 (Schakowsky) Nurses are increasingly put into impossible situations by hospital managers who demand they care for more patients than is safe. There is a proven method to save patient lives and save hospital money — mandated minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios. In Congress, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) re-introduced her Safe Nurse Staffing for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act to improve patient quality of care by establishing a requirement for nurse-to-patient ratios that put patient safety first.

National Campaign for Safe RN-to-Patient Staffing Ratios | National Nurses United

I have a great deal of respect for all RNs. However, lets not forget the LPNs. They too are required to care for over loaded pt assignments and are putting pts at risk with every med pass. So unsafe. Also CNAs should never be required to care for more than 6 pts at a time. I base this on the fact that child care must have one teacher for every 5-6 children so why not the elderly as well?

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Specializes in Critical care, tele, Medical-Surgical.
I have a great deal of respect for all RNs. However, lets not forget the LPNs. They too are required to care for over loaded pt assignments and are putting pts at risk with every med pass. So unsafe. Also CNAs should never be required to care for more than 6 pts at a time. I base this on the fact that child care must have one teacher for every 5-6 children so why not the elderly as well?
I agree 100%.

I worked as a CNA in a nursing home with impossible assignments. The day I was ordered to do range of motion for 79 patients in addition to all basic care, bathing, and feeding for 12 patients I gave my 2 week notice. The next day I saw, "ROM all four extremities" charted with my initials on a patient. I told the LVN medication nurse. She said the DON had charted after i left on ALL 79 patients!

I walked out of there and immediately wrote a letter to the BRN.

I was an LVN for many years. Often passing meds for up to 30 patients on a med/surg unit. To my knowledge I only made two med errors that I documented.

Back to the proposed legislation. Both bills include LPN/LVN staffing for the future.

SEC. 3403. Minimum direct care licensed practical nurse staffing requirements

(a) Establishment.—A hospital's staffing plan shall comply with minimum direct care licensed practical nurse staffing requirements that the Secretary establishes for units in hospitals. Such staffing requirements shall be established not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this title, and shall be based on the study conducted under subsection (b).

(b) Study.—Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this title, the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, shall complete a study of licensed practical nurse staffing and its effects on patient care in hospitals. The Director may contract with a qualified entity or organization to carry out such study under this paragraph. The Director shall consult with licensed practical nurses and organizations representing licensed practical nurses regarding the design and conduct of the study.

© Application of registered nurse provisions to licensed practical nurse staffing requirements.—Paragraphs (2), (4), (5)(A), and (6) of section 3401(b), section 3401©, and section 3402 shall apply to the establishment and application of direct care licensed practical nurse staffing requirements under this section in the same manner that they apply to the establishment and application of direct care registered nurse-to-patient ratios under sections 3401 and 3402.

(d) Effective date.—The requirements of this section shall take effect as soon as practicable, as determined by the Secretary, but not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this title, or in the case of a hospital in a rural area (as defined in section 1886(d)(2)(D) of the Social Security Act), not later than 4 years after the date of enactment of this title.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/864/text

It can be difficult to require a specific ratio for LPN/LVNs because there is much overlap between licensed nurses and certified nursing assistants.

For example the acuity system for a telemetry unit at my hospital required additional staff to meet the needs of each patient.

If the patient was incontinent with diarrhea, took a long time to feed, or had other needs a CNA could meet the acuity required assigning an additional CNA, LVN, or RN that shift.

For patients requiring frequent trach or oral suctioning, tube feedings, dressing changes, or other care within the LVN practice Act the acuity system required an additional LVN or RN.

Of course they always used nursing staff with a lower hourly pay unless no one was available.

That helped us keep our experienced LVN, but unfortunately administration didn't hire new grad LVNs any more.

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OK so Im back with another question. If I wrote a nurses note for 5/1/2020 and handed it in to my home care agency and then one week later could not remember if I actually wrote it and rewrote another one to the best of my knowledge and handed it in but it does not match perfectly to the one I wrote earlier can I get in trouble for this even though I called the agency and explained?

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