henriksen13

Sorry that you made a radical choice and were sold a bill of goods from labor leaders. Unions are nothing more than a false sense of security. Their real interests are for their pocketbooks not the nurses or the patients. Nurses do not need unions. We are well educated, intelligent, hardworking professionals who can come together to change the practice environment without paying union leaders. They can't do anymore than we can do for ourselves. What a shame Providence. You got sucked into the political arena. Nurse Advocacy Association - Welcome to NAA is the answer.

Unions are not the answer to our problems but merely a transfer of power from one entity to another. The fundamental problems are never corrected. Nurses can fix the problems in nursing without using collective bargaining tactics. Let's start working together to correct our problems without paying high-dollar union leaders to do what we can do together. NAA is the organization that will take a tough stance for nursing and the practice environment. Don't get sucked into the collective bargaining hype that the ANA is throwing out there. Afterall, unions didn't help Detroit from going bankrupt.

Texas nurses need to check out the new nursing association 'Nurse Advocacy Association', this is where real change will come happen. Not power hungry unions. Unions are not the answer to our problems, nurses do need to ban together to fight for real change and it won't take a union to do it.

I agree that the peer review process is a failure. The state board failed nurses when they put a ruling out without first determining how it was to be safely and effectively implemented and managed. Historically, nurses are victimized by employers for doing the right thing. It is common place for nurses to be threatened, terminated, taunted, and ridiculed for trying to do the right thing. Shared Governance is a good idea in concept, as is peer review, but to say that that answer is a union is not the answer. We do not need to pay big dollars to a few individuals to make the rules and threaten employers. The reality of it is that we are well educated professionals who can stand together to make the necessary changes. We shouldn't hide behind threats of union bosses. They don't work and we don't need this type of organization to speak for us. Check out Nurse Advocacy Association. This is where the change will come from, not unions!