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Re-Post Make Nurses Part of the Change Process

More forums need to be in place to allow front-line nurses the chance to help make some changes. This gives the nurses at the bedside the opportunity to voice concerns and if they are wise, they will come with ideas for changes needed, not just the issues themselves but a way to make it better. In addition to the changing views that many facilities are embracing, there needs to be changing views among the nursing-at-the-bedside staff. With professionalism encouraged at every level in facilities, it should no longer be the directors versus those at the bedside; it should be us (being every one of us) for them (being the patients and families that come through the hospitals doors). 

Through increased education, taking pride in being autonomous, improving the collaborative way in which we practice, taking command of our professionalism, and working hand-in-hand everyday for the betterment of our nursing culture, will we be able to improve nursing satisfaction. With these measures, we can ensure patient safety and satisfaction and decrease patient mortality and morbidity.

One other issue to be considered in the face of this looming crisis is that nurse’s work in alphabet soup. JACHO, OSHA, and AHCA are just a few of the alphabet telling us how to do our job and often how wrong we are doing it at varying levels. Where is the alphabet that helps us not work in jeopardy, with unsafe staffing ratio? Where is the alphabet soup FOR nurses?

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