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  1. WHY do we need more nurses

    advocateforsafety replied to getinfall's topic in General Nursing

    I don't believe you read the bulk of her post. I agree that it is a job and I wouldn't do it if the compensation was not at very least fair but that doesn't mean that I will sacrifice that safety of...

  2. WHY do we need more nurses

    advocateforsafety replied to getinfall's topic in General Nursing

    The difference is that as a nurse your main focus should be on the safety of the patient first and your job security second. We are not computer programmers writing code. If we are short people die...

  3. Safe Staffing Saves Lives - ANA has started a campaign for us

    advocateforsafety replied to BrokenRNheart's topic in General Nursing

    You are correct. We can no longer ask and expect for the administrations of our hospitals to do what is right. That is where the ANA falls short they leave the oversight and managment of the "safe...

  4. Safe Staffing Saves Lives - ANA has started a campaign for us

    advocateforsafety replied to BrokenRNheart's topic in General Nursing

    I understand your leaving and I am sure the decision was difficult for you. Please write your congressman and senator and let them know why your leaving a profession that you chose. Also make sure...

  5. A call to get involved.

    advocateforsafety posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am writing this post to ask all who read it to get involved. Please take 10-20 minutes out of your busy lives to send you congressmen and senator an email explaining the need for immediate action to...

  6. How short-staffed is short staffed?????

    advocateforsafety replied to rn4ever?'s topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Daisy please write your representative and tell them your story and that you want legislated ratios like they have in California. Don't hold back tell the truth as it is. The only way we will see...

  7. retaliation or just coincidence?

    advocateforsafety replied to mtnmom's topic in General Nursing

    You can't be for real. If you are a nurse, I think you really need a class in ethics to help you understand the meening of advocate. Your Nurses license states that one of your primary...

  8. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    advocateforsafety replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    He as an american also has the right to protest and discard his medals if he sees fit. You forget the great military record of Mr Bush and all that close combat fighting he did in the Texas air gaurd....

  9. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    advocateforsafety replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Post the information showing all the tax breaks they are recieving as well. Your republican hero John McCain doesn't think it a good idea to remove their subsidies and tax breaks. The rich,...

  10. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    advocateforsafety replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    How do you know that no effort is made. And would you prefer that it take months to reimburse legitimate claims due to lengthy validation. Your arguement really has nothing to do with universal health...

  11. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    advocateforsafety replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Your missing the point. The private insurance companies are also paying for services not provided. My point is that fraud is a problem experianced by all who are providing insurance. Medicare and...

  12. Anyone work three 12 hour shifts??

    advocateforsafety replied to Hausfrau's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I work 3, 12's and am paid for 40hrs. I currently work for the

  13. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    advocateforsafety replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    If you don't believe there is not incompetance and fraud in the private sector you are mistaken. Try auditing your bill from any hospital now and then and you will find many errors or fraudulent...

  14. Safe Staffing Saves Lives - ANA has started a campaign for us

    advocateforsafety replied to BrokenRNheart's topic in General Nursing

    I agree and if we would in mass start refusing unsafe assignments and unsafe floats and inform our managers that we will not tolerate it then they would change. We need to get our profession to...

  15. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    advocateforsafety replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Couldn't agree with you more. I am always saying we are either going to pay on the front end or the back end and the back end always cost more. Universal health care is just being smart with our...

  16. Safe Staffing Saves Lives - ANA has started a campaign for us

    advocateforsafety replied to BrokenRNheart's topic in General Nursing

    Hang in there. Politics is what we will have to play if we want change and I don't mean the petty politics of the hospital setting but voting and expressing our needs and concerns to our...

  17. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    advocateforsafety replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I am an athiest but you can't deny that our countries laws and basic moralities are based on christian principles. It is in most all aspects of goverment, its even on our money. That is my point. We...

  18. Retaliation for voicing concern over unsafe pratices

    advocateforsafety replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Is their resolution process in writing and do you have a copy. Hospitals love policies even if they fail to follow them. You should in my opinion get a copy of that policy and then demand that they...

  19. Was that legal?

    advocateforsafety replied to UM Review RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Not only is it unlikely they will get caught but it is more cost effective if they are able to stop the formation of the union. The NLRB has been weak and the penalties are small for vilolation of...

  20. Hourly Rounding

    advocateforsafety replied to Erianne1074's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Scripts are yet another way that hospitals are attemting to hide the lack of care they really have for the patients and the staff. They are more interested in appearance and less on actual delivery of...

  21. question of ethics

    advocateforsafety replied to hopefornursing's topic in General Nursing

    This is why all physicians outcomes, hospital stats and nurse qualifications and ratios should be available for patients to review so that they can make good informed choices. We all know of...

  22. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    advocateforsafety replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    i support single payer, universal health care for the following reasons. 1. i do believe that as a so called christian nation we have a responsibility to care for the sick and the poor. hum who said...

  23. Job Switching Questions...

    advocateforsafety replied to abundantjoy07's topic in General Nursing

    Your PTO is yours and should be paid to you in a couple weeks after your last day. Some hospitals put your PTO in hold if you go prn and it would stay on the books as your used to if you go part time....

  24. I'm starting to get concerned about salary...

    advocateforsafety replied to justme1972's topic in General Nursing

    What state are you in? As a new grad ten years ago in California I started at 19.50/hr. I now work in Tennessee and have ten years of experiance and make 29/hr +differential and weekend pay. I don't...

  25. Freedom of speech in health care.

    advocateforsafety replied to advocateforsafety's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I couldn't agree more RN4Mercy and I wish we could have what you have. I live in a more union hostile state and will probably not see unions for nurses here unless the NLRB is changed and they change...