REPOST--NURSING and what it can mean

WHAT Nursing Can Mean

These are only a few of the pressing issues that need to be improved and examined to waylay the oncoming shortage and the danger this presents to the increasingly sick population coming into facilities around the country. Staffing is an issue unto itself and needs extreme measures and policies implemented to ensure patient safety, satisfaction and the care they deserve. Tied to this is nursing satisfaction. Patient safety and satisfaction decrease with decreased nursing satisfaction. Research has noted that patient mortality and morbidity, that is their deaths, increases with nurses unhappy in their situation. Safe staffing ratios can be found throughout nursing studies; many have shown that a nurse with more than two patients in a critical care area compromises patient safety and care, and the nurses on the floor should have no more than four patients to care for and ensure their safety. Some states have even mandated that hospital units advertise their staffing ratios so patients and families know what they are walking into.

Attitudes are changing; hospitals across the nation are adopting more nurturing and less punitive reactions. Nevertheless, they seem to have missed the realization that as the nursing shortage continues; the value of a skilled and professional nursing staff that feels appreciated is paramount to the stability of any facility. The attitudes unfotunately are still Like it or leave. And Big Clue Here...Guess what is happening?? NURSES will continues to leave this wonderful profession for the same reasons that they have left for the last many decades. NEW NURSES will LEAVE for the same reasons because the issues are not being repaired; the problems with this profession are not being fixed. These newly educated nurses are walking into seriously compromised staffing situations and viewed with many of this younger generation’s work ethic, they will not stay as long as the nurses currently in place. THE DEATH OF THE BEDSIDE NURSE IS WHAT IS HAPPENING... For any who care...