Vanderbilt Medical Center to have nurses cleaning up

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"Cleaning the room after the case, including pulling your trash and mopping the floor, are all infection-prevention strategies. And it's all nursing, and it's all surgical tech. You may not believe that, but even Florence Nightingale knew that was true," said a hospital administrator to staff in a video obtained by the Channel 4 I-Team."

http://www.wsmv.com/story/23364976/vanderbilt-medical-center-to-have-nurses-cleaning-up

But physicians actually control entry to their profession. They don't allow every school on the corner to allow an accelerated entry program into becoming a physician. Nurses do. And we've allowed ourselves to be easily replaced. THIS is why we should have made a BSN the minimum entry (with grandfathering in all existing RNs.) But instead we argue amongst ourselves about how "Well I know a lazy new-grad BSN and a hard-working ADN with 30 years experience" and "But some people DREAMMMMM of being a nurse and don't have time for a BSN" and other such BS and that means nurses are being churned out on every street corner. Physicians refuse to do this kind of BS and hospitals can't easily replace them. Nurses refuse to this? There's a sea of new grads waiting in the wings.

Maybe in the U.S., but in Canada the Registered Nurse profession is self-regulated (CARNA) and the entry to practice is BSN/BScN. We also have a union that fights for our working conditions and wages .

I was actually thinking about moving to the U.S. but it seems the state of nursing there is terrible. Also, we don't call our patients "customers" nor is our goal to cut staff to make a profit every quarter.

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Nurses refuse to this? There's a sea of new grads waiting in the wings.

True. And there's such a glut of nurses out there, not only will the hospital have no problem replacing those who refuse, the replacements will likely leap at the opportunity AND do so for even less pay just to have a nursing job.

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Don't forget Florence nightingale didn't have to do all these redundant charting and signing of fridge temps, carts, closets etc..........

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http://m.chronicle.com/article/Vanderbilt-Sets-a-Precedent/66218/

Yupp. Critical care docs, football coaches, and deans can make greater than 1 mil a year, but they can't afford housekeeping staff.

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http://m.chronicle.com/article/Vanderbilt-Sets-a-Precedent/66218/

Yupp. Critical care docs, football coaches, and deans can make greater than 1 mil a year, but they can't afford housekeeping staff.

9 men and 1 woman on that list.

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The fair thing to do would be to apply this policy across the board with all hospital execs and managers cleaning their offices and restrooms and all physicians responsible for cleaning their areas too. Selectively applying this cost cutting measures to nursing is wrong.

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Next thing you know the nurses will be baking cookies too![/quote']

I'd sign up for that lol.... You know you have to sample the product :)

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Aren't housekeepers generally cheaper than nurses?

When I worked in assisted living, The Powers That Be decided that nurses could act as dining room servers. When servers left, they weren't replaced. It didn't work out.

Don't know about hospital cleaners, but unionized hotel housekeeping staff in NYC recently won a new contract that will have them earning about $60K. Kudos to New York's hotel industry and its housekeepers for new contract - NY Daily News

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Don't forget Florence nightingale didn't have to do all these redundant charting and signing of fridge temps, carts, closets etc..........

Yeabut she had to do her shifts in a corset, crinolines and long skirts.

*LOL*

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Does anyone else see the irony of this????? Magnet status for care with excellence and shared governence with a crazy e-mail about and a mop.......:no:.

I am not rendered speechless often.....yet once again I am God smacked

Away with thee, heretic! How dare you question the Almighty Magnet designation?

Seriously, does anyone still believe that Magnet is all about nursing excellence?

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Double post

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nhs nurses may clean beds and at night may mop but we still have staff for terminal cleans. also we have ward clleaning

staff to daily deep ceans,

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