Doris Carroll BSN

L&D/HIV/ID/OB/GYN Primary Care Adults/Children

RN committed to making change ? RN-BC, CCRC

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    Staffing and Unions: Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak

    Doris Carroll replied to Melissa Mills's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Nurse Unions do work effectively to provide shared governance—a voice at the table, requiring administrators to be transparent, safe workplace conditions. Listen, management despising unions is as...
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    Illinois Nurse Staffing Survey

    Doris Carroll replied to NursesTakeDC's topic in General Nursing

    HB2604, Safe Patient Limits Act of Illinois, may be brought to the House floor for a vote next week. The Illinois Hospital Association is practing fear mongering, telling legislators: staffing is not...
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    Doris Carroll replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I’m sorry. Our state already has Acuity Based staffing law in place x10 yrs. Hospitals either ignore it or refuse to implement the staffing committees recommendations. The IHA only just now, faced...
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    Doris Carroll replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    The Illinois Nurses Association (INA) is a Nurses Union. Not affiliated with the ANA. We were, but we separated in 2012-and now there is the ANA-IL and the
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    Doris Carroll replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I was afraid you’d say that. It isn’t easy. 20 would be ideal. 10 would be doable. Just saying.
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    Doris Carroll replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    In Illinois’ we DO have an Acuity Staffing law. For 10 yrs. We’d expect Acuity and Ratios to be the our perfect
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    Doris Carroll replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    What I mean is if nurses are ready to organize, if you have 20 nurses representing different units in the hospital, who are ready to work hard to talk to their colleagues, what union representation...
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    Doris Carroll replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    And no one here in Illinois is saying that. Acuity and ratios. We have the Acuity law which needs MUCH strengthening. And now we are attempting to pass the ratios legislation. Please. Be informed. I...
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    Doris Carroll replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I’ll find one for you.
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    Doris Carroll replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I feel such frustration reading your comments. Yes. Like Cher in Moonstruck I want to slap them and say “ Snap out of it!” Because those who stand back, leave you hanging, kowtow to admin and/or...
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    Doris Carroll replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    We could change that.
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    Doris Carroll replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Good grief is right. They just don’t get it. And I’m tired of them saying “do the best you can” This is not my best! When will they hear us? When you have a union forcing these issues through...
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    Doris Carroll replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    From 2015. The ANA does not support ratios.
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    Doris Carroll replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    The ANA does agree staffing is an issue. However, they are anti-ratio and Pro staffing committees- where bedside nurses are still
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    Doris Carroll replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    No. It is not the best approach. The best is ratios and acuity. Since Illinois has the Acuity Staffing committee law in place x 10 yrs, this ratio law would be utilized in conjunction. However since...
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    Doris Carroll replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    No no no. The ANA-IL is part of the ANA. The Illinois Nurses Association is the Nurses Union. 2 separate organizations. HB2604 was written by the INA, in collaboration with NNU, another nurse union....
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    Doris Carroll replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I stopped paying dues to ANA last year. They do not represent bedside nurses. The education they provide is necessary. But they cannot state they are the voice of nursing. They are the voice of...
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    Doris Carroll replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Yes. Long standing position is the ANA supports staffing committees with equal #s of management and bedside RNs. It’s not working in the 7 states that have those staffing laws. In Illinois it’s...
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    Doris Carroll replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Yes I am. My union, the Illinois Nurses Association, introduced the bill, collaborating with National Nurses United. This has been a work in progress. Ever since I became active with a handful of...
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    Doris Carroll replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Beth—how does a staff nurse vote against safe staffing? I’m. Just. Sad. That nurses would believe management, who maintain the unsafe staffing, who offer no alternative, who tell you we’re one...
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    Doris Carroll replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Actually nurses and the public read the law incorrectly in MA. Enactment on January 1 doesn’t mean they only had 37 days from Nov 6. It meant that hospitals would begin the process. And when the...
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    Doris Carroll replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    In Illinois, despite the law, many hospitals do not comply. No penalties in the law. The IHA lied to the nurses who co-wrote the law. Nurses call me to complain. In ICU 3-4 patients for example....
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    Doris Carroll replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    The difference in Illinois? At my hospital my staffing committee chair is an NSICU of many years. The committee is 50/50. For 10 yrs now. Yet they just give us charts and blah blah blah. We have...
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    Mandated Nurse-Patient Ratios

    Doris Carroll replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Thank You Beth Hawkes! We are so thrilled to have you speak on April 26th 2018 in DC. We love your support. Nurses across the country must act. No time to waste. Talk to your colleagues. Come to DC....