Rally for National Nurse-Patient Ratios

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Nurses please mark your calendars to make a change. Nurses are planning to rally Washington, D.C. on May 12, 2016 for national safe nurse to patient ratios. I urge all nurses and interested members of the public and anyone who wants to make hospitals safer to make an attempt to attend this rally. We must stand united and have our voices heard. No one is immune from the dangers of short staffing in hospitals. Please spread the word.

#nursesunite #nursestakedc

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I do not believe in mandated ratios unless those ratios have strict parameters.

If you have less patients, the place of employment would likely pile up more unnecessary tasks for you.

Less patients per nurse = more nurses hired and CNAs get cut, resulting in us ending up with the dirty work.

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Specializes in Telemetry.
I do not believe in mandated ratios unless those ratios have strict parameters.

If you have less patients, the place of employment would likely pile up more unnecessary tasks for you.

Less patients per nurse = more nurses hired and CNAs get cut, resulting in us ending up with the dirty work.

We'll make sure to include a Candy Crush clause. :cool:

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Somehow, I don't think unnecessary tasks will increase the profit margin but improving nurse patient ratios will increase patient safety. Never say that you will never be a patient!

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Somehow, I don't think unnecessary tasks will increase the profit margin but improving nurse patient ratios will increase patient safety. Never say that you will never be a patient!

I think you missed the point. Maybe "unnecessary tasks" wasn't the best way to put it.

To make up for having to employ more nurses, they may employ fewer non-nurses. Nurses may find themselves doing more CNA tasks, transporting patients, cleaning, stocking, etc.

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how do i vote in poll? is it still open?

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Specializes in ICU.

Who is organizing this rally?

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Specializes in Critical Care.

It's not actually a rally for national patient ratios, it's just for ratios within the District of Columbia. I'm all for legally mandated workload limits for nurses, but I don't think simple ratios are the best way to do it. While it's great to be limited to 4 patients to one nurse on a tele unit for instance, it doesn't really help if you have no UC, no CNA's, no housekeeping, you have to prepare the patient's meals, etc.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Med-Surg, Psych, Geri, LTC, Tele,.
I do not believe in mandated ratios unless those ratios have strict parameters.

If you have less patients, the place of employment would likely pile up more unnecessary tasks for you.

Less patients per nurse = more nurses hired and CNAs get cut, resulting in us ending up with the dirty work.

NOADLS has a point, here. I live in a state with madated good ratios, which mean 5:1 max in acute care.

I've sadly observed that when hospitals give a nurse less than 5 pts, due to higher acuity, these hospitals tend to not staff the same number of aides, thus giving the nurse more tasks.

I think that all nursing related tasks should have mandated ratios, so that aides and nurses are given good ratios.

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NOADLS has a point, here. I live in a state with madated good ratios, which mean 5:1 max in acute care.

I've sadly observed that when hospitals give a nurse less than 5 pts, due to higher acuity, these hospitals tend to not staff the same number of aides, thus giving the nurse more tasks.

I think that all nursing related tasks should have mandated ratios, so that aides and nurses are given good ratios.

I have seen the same trend. Instead of the nurse having time to be diligent, spend more 1:1 time with patient and so on they end up with providing direct care that otherwise a CNA would perform (if one is available and not hiding ...).

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how do i vote in poll? is it still open?

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Specializes in TELE, CVU, ICU.
I do not believe in mandated ratios unless those ratios have strict parameters.

If you have less patients, the place of employment would likely pile up more unnecessary tasks for you.

Less patients per nurse = more nurses hired and CNAs get cut, resulting in us ending up with the dirty work.

Not true. Ratios are working in California

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