WHO Advocates for Nurses?

Why is there not a position in EVERY Nursing Facility that Is GOAL directed to make nursing workplace situations a primary issue???
That's right a TRUE Advocate for Nursing Staff. What a novel concept.

And I KNOW, you have all heard it before that your directors and administrators swear they care about their nurses (always sounds good), But, DO they live in the day to day issues that matter or does the bottom line always come first, then the bureaucracy, the doctors, than whoever? Finding nurses at the bottom when decisions are made. There may be some directors out there who really try but let them be in that position for more than a minute and they usually become administrative puppets with a goal for their own future in said administration. The ones that do truly care generally leave the position or are forced out.

The bottom line is the wrong place for nurses, it may be right for the hospital, but the absolute WRONG concept for nursing workplace issues and for PATIENT SATISFACTION and SAFETY.

WHAT is Needed is a NURSING ADVOCACY POSITION in every nursing workplace. Someone who honestly puts NURSES FIRST, (That is #1), before the bottom-line, before the doctors and before the administration.

That said, I do not place patients in this list because as any nurse knows they have always been and always will be the 1st patient advocate, that it is intrinsic at all levels of nursing to take care of the patient and advocate for them. Anyone who becomes a nurse should always know that and that it is ingrained in all decisions for the care of that patient. The dollar should not be the main decision in becoming a nurse and never has been for me.