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Come over to NJ and see what the ratios are in the NJ hospitals. Probably you are right that no newly arrived nurses have come for years but the problem still exists that they will just NOT speak up except for a few and that does not help even in th...

I agree with all of the above, also when it comes to nursing unions within hospitals they are very reluctant to participate verbally and just go along with the crowd. For the most part they do NOT help the unions get ahead.

Your facility should have safe handling equipment that should learn to use. If not maybe another place would have it. Almost all hospitals have that equipment now.

Yes, we went on strike approx. 10 years ago, we were out approx. 5 days and for the most part the CEO of the hospital did NOT get truthful info or he never would have locked the nurses out. We had already gotten a pitiful pension from the union. (th...

I think there is another problem especially where I live and that is cultural. Many nurses in the NJ NY area come from a culture where women seem to be totally run by men so as nurses they r afraid to speak up, afraid they will be shipped back so to...

Many states including NJ have started and have been for many years proposing safe staffing legislation that would mandate nursing/pt ratios for RNs and Nursing aides especially in LTC facilities. Why are nurses afraid speak up and push for this??? ...

I worked Cardiac Rehab full time the last 10 years before I retired, but, I worked CCU/Cardiac Rehab split for many years before that so I got to see many of the patients coming and going, plus I also did inpt teaching before the pt were discharged f...

Why does it seem that nurses here in the USA cannot get safe staffing laws passed. Only California has been able to do this

Until nurses SPEAK UP and stop being whipping posts and just grumbling about their lot, NOTHING WILL CHANGE. Get some backbone and refuse unsafe staffing, protest to your politicians, make them aware of the situations. The nursing associations are...

Hi all, just wondering what the RN staffing ratios look like now this year 2017 in subacute rehab here in NJ. I just retired from hospital nursing but have inlaw now in subacute who broke her femur. When I went to visit yesterday it looked like 1 ...

Then we should try to get federal legislation passed rather than going state by state. Any other news about these bills??

Has anyone ever thought about a nationwide "class action suit" against hospitals for endangering nurse's licenses due to unsafe staffing??

and do you really think that the ANA will sponsor this. I think the ANA is made up of more management type RNs than staff RNs.

Really, do you think there is a shortage of RNs where you live. Have all of the RNs recently graduated found jobs? Is it a ploy to bring in more immigrant nurses???

http://nj1015.com/is-new-jersey-facing-a-new-nursing-shortage/

Don't forget that most nurses in the US work for private hospitals which give them no medical/dental insurance, no medical perks of anykind when they leave. No life insurance unless you now will pay for it privately. All of those extras, including...

What happens to you all if you attempt to drive to work and the roads are flooded so bad you are putting yourself at risk. Can you call the police to take you into work or does the hospital come out and get you. You should not be terminated if th...

These complaints have been going on for decades. When will nurses unite and demand fair working conditions ?? A national union, where nurses do not work for a hospital as hospitals only seem to know how to take advantage and the nurses allow the...

Yes you are right and these studies are from years ago. Again, it is all about the mighty dollar and the squeaky wheel. The general public does not see these studies and outcries from working nurses apparently most are too afraid of losing their ...

Just my 2 cents, but another problem is the huge number of foreign born nurses who have come here from countries where women do not speak up to complain. SOOO, who benefits when no one complains, obviously nothing gets better. When I graduated sc...

I will be 70 this August and I was lucky to have gotten into outpt care about 10 years ago after working critical care since I graduated from school. Had been doing part time outpt care and critical care for 10 years before that as my hospital allow...

In my over 45 years of nursing primarily in intensive care units, and head of several important nursing committees, this is my take. There are too many nurses who work just for a salary, do NOT speak up about anything, and go on their merry way. ...

I am almost 70, will renew my license one more time as still working cardiac outpt clinic which I was lucky to get into after many years in critical care nursing (which I absolutely would not go back to doing). In all of my over 40 years of experie...

what my former co-workers in the ICU say to me when I ask how they are doing. "same ____, different day, for the last 20 years. Most has to do with staffing and acuity of the patients. Thanks God I have retired after working as a ICU nurse for ove...

I am sure all who had contact with him are in isolation for 21 days. That is the process that has been enforced throughout the country