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Pens and more pens!! Oh please, do not even get me started on that. When I find one that writes well, where the ink flows just right, and the grip is adequate, I try to lay claim on it. Trouble is, most of the time, it is not my own. So then the wh...

I find it ironic that the healthcare system is set up so that after the surgery is done and the patient leaves the OR, he or she starts competing with other patients for the attention and focus of the nurse, no matter what unit the patient is transfe...

Charting on COWs should be easier, user-friendly, and not take the nurse away from his or her patients even more!! In Florida, last hurricane season, with all the power outages, and generator failures, nurses had to resort to their own resources to g...

Can you expand on why the worst place to work is the med.ward? I have some idea but would love to read the reasons for your statement.

a great letter to the editor addressing the issues we have been mentioning at this site, and written by a bedside registered nurse was published on saturday, may 13th in knoxville, tn! read it at the following website: http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/p...

Hi, Nurses across the nation! Happy Nurses' Week! Send an e-card to your fellow nurses from www.valuecarevaluenurses.org. I say if managers, administrators and the rest of the of the crowd out there is silent towards us, we take matters into our own ...

We have the solutions: safe staffing ratios no mandatory over-time no collusion among employers to set wages increased funding for nursing education and ...

The coherent message will be that current working conditions at the bedside prevent nurses from providing the quality care the patients deserve. When we "triple" in ICU, the patients are at risk; when a med-surg nurse cares for 8 to 10 patients, the ...

Thanks for the research and the information. Very helpful! I sent a letter to each of the contacts stating that our patients deserve a show that tells the story of the real nursing crisis and allows bedside nurses to fulfill our professional oath: to...

I hope I am not reading you say that no nurse will step forward and tell it like it is! I know of several nurses that have not shied away from taking on the so called "big-guns". Nurses that testified at Congressional hearings, on radio, on TV, telli...

Well said! To quote some of my favorite nurses: Marietta and Juanita from Miami: "My voice alone is just a whisper but with all of our voices together it will become a roar".

So, did you write to her about another Nurses Week coming up and why we need to address the serious crisis in healthcare that is gripping this nation?

I beg to disagree with some of your statements, my very dear savanah, though I feel your pain when you describe your turmoil! 1. I do not think that Oprah is not Prime time enough! She would not have gotten to where she is today were it not that so ...

Done!! I sent the producer of Oprah's show an e-mail stating I thought they should do a show where bedside nurses can share their story with the public. Who is the next nurse that is going to send the same request? You know how this works, right?...

Can you give us all Oprah's website? That way by bombarding it with requests and stories we could see her response, and call the question on her.

That is what we, the nurses of the Nurse Alliance of SEIU are stating. Nurses throughout the country are joining in the conversation about solutions to the healthcare crisis that is gripping this nation and is undermining the quality of care we can ...

Asking a lot of questions and details about the patient's condition during report (according to my co-workers).

:balloons: I am totally on board. I just attended the Nurse Alliance of Colorado Conference in Denver, where Diana Mason, RN and the Chief Editor of the American Journal of Nursing was the principal speaker. She talked about the same points. 1. Util...

Oprah and Michael Moore both sound like good options. But they still are only a vehicle to get the story out there. We, the bedside nurses, the ones who deliver the care to the patient, are the ones who can do something about the current healthcare c...

I work in NICU and love it! Cannot do geriatric, becomes too sad. Would avoid working in a non-unionized facility if at all possible. If I went to work at one, would organize my co-workers to join Nurse Alliance of SEIU!

"Raiding", "decertifying", are terms that define dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs in terms of representation in a unionized environment. Participation in the everyday activities of the union as an organization ensures that the voice ...

Of course employees talk with or to management without "the union"!! WE are the union!! So we can talk and meet with our managers as much as (or as little as) before forming a union. Up to now, your stated perceptions of unions come straight out of ...

"It was never mentioned to him.." Now that is a novel and naive idea! People talk and word of any unionizing attempt spreads faster than the speed of light. The first ones to hear about it are usually the managers. "In the late 1990's we were 1:4...

Guess what? The word "union" was mentioned and your CEO came running!Doesn't that tell you something? Anything but share the power on a binding contractual legal document. What you have now can be taken away anytime and there is no recourse.

I totally agree. Packing up and leaving is what too many nurses have been doing for too long. Going somewhere else in the hopes that, at the next hospital, conditions will be better. Only to find out that they are not, or that they are worse! And l...