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Reading through the various replies sounds like we are at my hospital in Ohio. We are also experiencing a nursing shortage that is greatly impacting patient care. I agree with you that we need to let ANA & our legislators know of this situation.

I have tried for over an hour to get on the ANA web site, but I am getting an 'overloaded' message. Hopefully, it is all the nurses out there writing to tell them of their situations. I'll try again in the AM. We do need to stick together- we could be a very powerful group with the ability to accomplish many great things.

HI ALL!!

Brian,

Thanks for your response. I'm glad to hear that you'll be contacting Sylvia Johnson! I agree with you that asking how she wishes this to be handled is the only considerate thing to do.

I tried to post on the neat new forum you created, but could not (I'm not computer savvy and there was some Server thing(?) that prevented me from posting).

In any event, I'm still concerned that some of the people invited to read our posts will get "lost", ESPECIALLY if their computer skills are as limited as MINE!! LOL!!!

Well, I'm sure we can all work this out, huh?

We seem to be doing a darn fine job so far, and I am proud to be associated with the fine group of people I've met here!!

Talk to all of you Thursday!

Lots of hugs to all of you!

barton

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I hope no one minds that I've invited others from other BB's on wwnurse.com to join in our conversation and efforts.

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Canrckid,

I hope you don't mind that I told them we have 20/20's interest!!!!!!!!

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Brian,

I hope you don't mind that I told them you were planning to include some of our input in NURSE-ZINE.

I really didn't think any of you would mind these things, but I thought I'd post, just to be sure.

THANKS,

barton

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Hello everyone! Oh you guys have done such a great job! I thank you all for your efforts! Hugs to all!!!!

Barton, I've had another thought...suppose we should get a new topic list going re: nursing issues/concerns and how they affect our patient care? After we've gotten a few responses we can forward the entire page to our legistlators, ANA, etc. along with our other little notes of concern. Just a thought....

We can also continue to spread the word about this BB in our workplaces to fellow nurses....just post the web site on education/general news bulletin boards in the workplace and advertise it as a great nursing resource...which it is. smile.gif

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