If you read the last Blog: Then you can see:
The American Nurses Association's aim is to improve workplace situations and protect the practice of nursing.
The Florida Nurses Association even has their own lobbyist working for these same goals.
Here in the South and across the nation, so many nurses do not protect themselves.They work countless hours, many days and nights just getting by, just hoping they have not risked their license to get the job done. When staffing is unsafe and patients are more critically ill than ever, there is the constant possibility of medical errors, patient falls, etc.and they present a RISK to every nurses license. And, let's not forget the perpetual stress of working in these situations. These same situations will never improve nursing satisfaction and keep them at the bedside. IT IS DRIVING THEM AWAY.
Just think of a nurse coming home after yet again, another unsafe and harrowing shift and they see a commercial about all of the issues addressed by these associations. An ad that shows how getting involved is the only way situations can improve....Would you consider joining????
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Friday, January 30, 2015
Nurses NEED to get involved in the welfare of their profession
From the ANA Government site:
Please get involved::::
Please get involved::::
Last week, the House of Representatives passed the Save American Workers Act of 2015, H.R. 30 which would change the current definition of full-time work under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), raising it to 40 hours per week from the current definition of 30 hours.
The legislation is now in the Senate and we need your help! Would this law affect you? We need your stories so we can demonstrate the negative impact this bill would have on nurses.
The American Nurses Association (ANA) sent a letter to the House of Representativesopposing this bill because the legislation would negatively impact those in jobs where full-time work involves less than 40 hours per week. This would include the 1.69 million RNs and APRNs who are employed by general medical and surgical hospitals, other specialty hospitals, and psychiatric and substance abuse hospitals. Typically, RNs who work in a hospital setting work a three day, 12 hour shift, with a workweek of 36 hours. If enacted, employers subject to the employer mandate would no longer be required to offer health insurance benefits to those working the regularly scheduled 36 hour workweek.
We want to hear from you,
Your ANA Government Affairs Team
Your ANA Government Affairs Team
Other issues they Address:
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Back to Work...
After a long recovery, I am back to the job I truly love....
I love making a difference with my patients, caring for them, laughing with them and often making decisions that keep them alive. These are the joys of the profession I chose so many years ago.
Unfortunately, the politics of the profession, the demands and often unsafe situations are persistently prevalent. And the frustrating lack of nursing advocacy is enough to drive anyone away from this wonderful work.
Who advocates for the bedside nurse? Who makes sure that the night or day that is crazy busy is also safely staffed and that your patients will have all of the help that they need? Obviously not the budget and too often not those you work for, because the help is just not there.
Danger, Danger, Will Robinson...Aliens may not be approaching but the Nursing Shortage is not a myth and it is current and the future.
See: http://www.aacn.nche.edu/media-relations/fact-sheets/nursing-shortage
The fact of the matter is that until facilities and organizations make nursing satisfaction a priority, there will never be a solution to the shortage. The nursing schools are popping out nurses faster and faster with less training and less tolerance of the situations that older nurses have put up with for decades. And countless numbers of these nurses are retiring now and many in the next decade. The Shortage is real and will not get better until the safety of work situations and the satisfaction of the bedside nurse is addressed as an important issue. These new nurse are leaving every day, they are moving on and not staying at the bedside, where patients need them.
Every workplace for nurses NEEDS NURSING ADVOCACY that does not answer to the those that do not care about their workforce. Those highest in the realm of administration should be the ones that care the most and want to provide for their largest group of employees. The ones at the bedside providing the care that keeps patients safe and happy.
I love making a difference with my patients, caring for them, laughing with them and often making decisions that keep them alive. These are the joys of the profession I chose so many years ago.
Unfortunately, the politics of the profession, the demands and often unsafe situations are persistently prevalent. And the frustrating lack of nursing advocacy is enough to drive anyone away from this wonderful work.
Who advocates for the bedside nurse? Who makes sure that the night or day that is crazy busy is also safely staffed and that your patients will have all of the help that they need? Obviously not the budget and too often not those you work for, because the help is just not there.
Danger, Danger, Will Robinson...Aliens may not be approaching but the Nursing Shortage is not a myth and it is current and the future.
See: http://www.aacn.nche.edu/media-relations/fact-sheets/nursing-shortage
The fact of the matter is that until facilities and organizations make nursing satisfaction a priority, there will never be a solution to the shortage. The nursing schools are popping out nurses faster and faster with less training and less tolerance of the situations that older nurses have put up with for decades. And countless numbers of these nurses are retiring now and many in the next decade. The Shortage is real and will not get better until the safety of work situations and the satisfaction of the bedside nurse is addressed as an important issue. These new nurse are leaving every day, they are moving on and not staying at the bedside, where patients need them.
Every workplace for nurses NEEDS NURSING ADVOCACY that does not answer to the those that do not care about their workforce. Those highest in the realm of administration should be the ones that care the most and want to provide for their largest group of employees. The ones at the bedside providing the care that keeps patients safe and happy.
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