Here is where you can be heard. ANA has all the emails set up and you just fill out the form and it gets sent to your representatives. It's a start.
You can edit your message. I added that nurses need to be protected from administration for expressing concerns about patient safety. I think that is very important. Nurses also need to be protected if they feel it is unsafe.
Many studies are out there on everything from job satisfaction, retention, infection rates, failure to rescue, blah, blah, blah.
We have more than enough "data" to convince the public that these set ratios are very much in their favor. We have the IOM report which is pretty convincing that the way the industry has been doing things is not working. We have tons of anecdotal reports from working nurses.
What we don't have access to is the wealth of knowledge in those year after year in house employee surveys that are proprietary information. Haven't tried to get it though.
And what nursing can't seem to develop is a spine, to recognize that caring for and about our patients means just that, we need to care what happens...as a profession. Of course, the worst of the problem is on the med-surg and tele floors, and although they comprise a great many nurses, they have no significant political representation as a specific group.
Seems what we need is a bedside nurses association.
ABNA
The American Bedside Nurses Association.
30$ yearly membership
A political presence due to our numbers
Oh, that's right, the NNOC is already doing that.
Check them out.
I still support the ANA, however, vague wording or not in their "safe staffing intiative".
Thanks! Same stuff different article. So when will they get it!
I had a discussion with the previous employer. Talk about the typical problems in this field. ANYONE interested PM me. I would love to vent and tell you and I am sure you will shake your head as so many of you have experienced this.
I just don't get it. It states right here and all over the place about job dissatisfaction and where that comes from but they keep doing it.
This story is a treat. I'm not going to post it publicly.
Sounds like you work at my hospital. They are strongly encouraging scripting(cuz we all love to hear someone scripting when we call our banks or gas companies, maybe we should all adopt an Indian accent when we script to our pts). They even went so far as to send us to a conference that informed us that our pts were our boss and anything they wanted we need to provide them with. The slogan? "give them the pickle"(you can watch the quack video on youtube). So that means your pt who came in with hyperglycemic crisis who just got off the insulin gtt can certainly have 3 cups of reg ice cream. Why not?!?!?! Ditto to everything you said, especially the falls.
Sounds like you work at my hospital. They are strongly encouraging scripting(cuz we all love to hear someone scripting when we call our banks or gas companies, maybe we should all adopt an Indian accent when we script to our pts). They even went so far as to send us to a conference that informed us that our pts were our boss and anything they wanted we need to provide them with. The slogan? "give them the pickle"(you can watch the quack video on youtube). So that means your pt who came in with hyperglycemic crisis who just got off the insulin gtt can certainly have 3 cups of reg ice cream. Why not?!?!?! Ditto to everything you said, especially the falls.
Reading this made my stomach quiver again. Any hospital topics make me SICK.
It is out of control. There is another topic out there about ativan (anxiety). The nurse that started it and all the nursing assessment topics are 100% right about our training but the hospital is too wishy washy and we can't be nurses in hospitals. It is no longer nursing it is customer service with a 3 ring circus approach to try to balance what is right medically to what is right to keep the customer happy and not get in trouble. Keeping the customer happy and not getting in trouble is the priority unless something goes wrong. Then, per the hospital, you are just WRONG. You couldn't prioritize? You couldn't make a professional decision.
Reading this made my stomach quiver again. Any hospital topics make me SICK.
It is out of control. There is another topic out there about ativan (anxiety). The nurse that started it and all the nursing assessment topics are 100% right about our training but the hospital is too wishy washy and we can't be nurses in hospitals. It is no longer nursing it is customer service with a 3 ring circus approach to try to balance what is right medically to what is right to keep the customer happy and not get in trouble. Keeping the customer happy and not getting in trouble is the priority unless something goes wrong. Then, per the hospital, you are just WRONG. You couldn't prioritize? You couldn't make a professional decision.
This:jester: makes me:barf01:
I think they are trying to create theme parks. You come into the private room at the "marriott" hospital, where you are catered and sedated, and medicated to your complete satisfaction , regardless of the medical consequences, given a pill to take, and sent back to your unhealthy and glutinous existence.
Hmmm, too much?
We want marriott healthcare on a motel six budget.
We want to be passive recipients instead of active participants.
It looks as though something is giving, and has been giving - i.e., the nursing shortage. No home-grown nurse wants to stay at the bedside, for good reason.
Not only are hospitals not hiring enough nurses, but home-grown nurses are fleeing the bedside (again, for good reason).
It looks as though something is giving, and has been giving - i.e., the nursing shortage. No home-grown nurse wants to stay at the bedside, for good reason.
Not only are hospitals not hiring enough nurses, but home-grown nurses are fleeing the bedside (again, for good reason).
Something is going to break, the healthcare system.
The politicianms have it wrong. The problem isn't with the payment system, insurance works pretty well (for them that got it).
I don't think any employer would mind paying $50 with a matching $50 from the employee. Nor would most self employed people mind paying $50 to $100 bucks for good coverage.
The problem is we have a healthcare system designed in the 1940's trying to deal with 21st century issues.
We need to open up primary care services in the communities at times convenient to people who work.
We need to use hospitals for intense care for intense patients, with intensivist practitioenrs.
We need to unleash nurse practitioenrs.
We need to abolish Medicare Part B.
We need a non-profit system so the money stays in the community.
We need a nursing run healthcare system.
At the same time, we need to protect what we do really well. Trauma and surgical services are incredible in many facilities.
If you are in a head on crash, there is no other country in the woprld you want to be in. If you need long term care, or palliative home care, this is not the country to be in.
I personally recommend the "public utility" model for healthcare, but the politicians are so locked into this "free market" vs "government run )or financed at least" argument that they refuse to even discuss other possibilities.
I'm afraid neither of the Democratic candidates can offer real solutions, and I like them both.
Specializes in Peds Cardiology,Peds Neuro,Pedi ER,PICU, IV Jedi.
Finally sounds as if something's being done or that some people's voices are being heard. But I wonder...as I perused my subscribed threads I came upon the one about how the Mass. Nurse's Association opposes the whole idea behind "Magnet Recognition"...and guess who's behind the whole Magnet movement? That's right, your friends at the American Nurse's Credentialing Center - the for profit subsidiary of the ANA.
Call me a skeptic. One wonders how, if they're so concerned about safe staffing and nurse/patient ratios, deplorable conditions could exist for so long?
I don't know. I do, however, hope some good comes of this movement and that all nurses experience some positive outcomes from this campaign.
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Thanks, not going anywhere, but I am very busy and only intermittently able to get on the board.