That:
The day is past dawning for changes in the profession.
We need controlled workplaces and improved benefits.
We need to have a voice in all decisions that affect our practice.
We need nurses to get together to make changes in the practice that provide autonomy, security, and workplace decisions should be heavily decided on by the bedside nurse.
We deserve a profession that not only prides itself on patient advocacy (integral to any decision to be a nurse, by anybody) but serves to provide nurse advocacy.
True Nursing Advocacy is seldom present in the decisions currently made: i.e. that JCAHO or other mandates are not just there to make administrators act like chickens with their heads cut off or to add to our workload but often their actually are some reasons for it. Like if you are a Medicaid/Medicare facility, they demand JCAHO certification for payments.
It would be nice to be provided reasons for changes as well as a voice in how they are made, NOT just being told to do something else yet again.
Nursing is a great profession and could be even greater with the VOICES of Nurses helping to make practice changes.
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