Bridgid Joseph BSN, MSN, APRN, CNS

Bridgid Joseph is a BSN, MSN, APRN, CNS and specializes in Surgery,Critical Care,Transplant,Neuro.

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   Nurse Staffing Ratios Up for Public Decision? Ballot 1 in MA

   Bridgid Joseph replied to Bridgid Joseph's topic in General Nursing

   Acessible means that people have access to care when they need it, without two day waits in the ED waiting room, to a hospital not hours from their home. I am not incorrect, I have posted the site that I obtained the statistics from numerous times. I...
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   Nurse Staffing Ratios Up for Public Decision? Ballot 1 in MA

   Bridgid Joseph replied to Bridgid Joseph's topic in General Nursing

   Daisy- once it passes there is little room for change; what most people don't understand is the fact that there have been a multitude of options for improvement of the bill sent to the ANA who is pushing this bill, and they refuse to change some of t...
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   Nurse Staffing Ratios Up for Public Decision? Ballot 1 in MA

   Bridgid Joseph replied to Bridgid Joseph's topic in General Nursing
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   Nurse Staffing Ratios Up for Public Decision? Ballot 1 in MA

   Bridgid Joseph replied to Bridgid Joseph's topic in General Nursing
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   Nurse Staffing Ratios Up for Public Decision? Ballot 1 in MA

   Bridgid Joseph replied to Bridgid Joseph's topic in General Nursing

   I'm a single mother of two young women. I work long, hard, clinical hours. I have never received a bonus as a nurse, ever, and I don't make personal attacks on people through a fake name on the internet. I have my opinion, and at least I am willing t...
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   Nurse Staffing Ratios Up for Public Decision? Ballot 1 in MA

   Bridgid Joseph replied to Bridgid Joseph's topic in General Nursing

   Well, you're right and wrong. I'm not a "paper Pusher" I do have clinical responsibilities....at the bedside...but I'm not a med surg nurse. I also don't appreciate personal attacks and judgements against me for educating the general public and othe...
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   Nurse Staffing Ratios Up for Public Decision? Ballot 1 in MA

   Bridgid Joseph replied to Bridgid Joseph's topic in General Nursing

   That's nice that you think I have a marketing team and am a professional writer :) just a nurse for 16 years with a passion for not only our profession but educating the general public on all things related to healthcare.
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   Nurse Staffing Ratios Up for Public Decision? Ballot 1 in MA

   Bridgid Joseph replied to Bridgid Joseph's topic in General Nursing

   That is also my alma mater, and she is running straight staffing numbers and not taking into account overhead of hospitals- they need money for outlier services (linens, IS support, etc.) as well as building maintenance, equipment replacement, bed re...
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   Nurse Staffing Ratios Up for Public Decision? Ballot 1 in MA

   Bridgid Joseph replied to Bridgid Joseph's topic in General Nursing

   So you think that we should decrease access to healthcare, and despite our #5 ranking nationally in MA for quality/cost/access to healthcare, and beef up staffing in certain areas, without increasing beds, and hope that care is improved, despite no l...
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    Nurse Staffing Ratios Up for Public Decision? Ballot 1 in MA

    Bridgid Joseph replied to Bridgid Joseph's topic in General Nursing

    They actually can't. Even large teaching hospitals cant afford it.
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    Nurse Staffing Ratios Up for Public Decision? Ballot 1 in MA

    Bridgid Joseph replied to Bridgid Joseph's topic in General Nursing

    Most for profit hospitals will close- it won't make financial sense to stay open...
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    Nurse Staffing Ratios Up for Public Decision? Ballot 1 in MA

    Bridgid Joseph replied to Bridgid Joseph's topic in General Nursing

    Only until you are compliant with the nursing staffing, then all support staff can be downsized
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    Nurse Staffing Ratios Up for Public Decision? Ballot 1 in MA

    Bridgid Joseph replied to Bridgid Joseph's topic in General Nursing

    You are correct- the law says you ot need to keep support staff until you are compliant with the law, then jobs are on the line for support staff
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    Nurse Staffing Ratios Up for Public Decision? Ballot 1 in MA

    Bridgid Joseph posted a topic in General Nursing

    The ballot question 1 in Massachusetts (Nurse Patient Assignments Limit Initiative) which will be voted upon November 2018 was designed to establish patient assignment limits for registered nurses working in hospitals, with limits determined by the t...
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    Our Current Reality: Are You Going to Work Scared?

    Bridgid Joseph replied to Bridgid Joseph's topic in General Nursing

    I think it's great that so many of us are not impacted by mass casualties. For those of us who have been impacted (for me it was the Boston Marathon bombing and one of our MDs shot in a clinic by an enraged family member at an adjacent hospital and I...