How Nurses Are Making a Difference

Posted by nurse on March 19, 2012 under Critical Care, Nursing Careers, patient health | Be the First to Comment

Patients may not know how much nurses are doing for them. In fact, beyond the clinical and bed side setting, nurses are using their energy and intelligence to promote and support patient health care on their own time. Even nurses caring enough to aid with transitional assistance and prescription pickup know their is room in the administrative plan for patient care to expand its reach to close the circle of healthcare visits and community wellness in a positive manner.

But the impact from nurses does not end on the hospitals steps or past the elevator line. Nurse are winning crucial gains in nursing right and patient care victories across the nation. The agenda for professional nursing organizations to improve patent care and hospital care has been under reported n the news, perhaps due to the overwhelming lack of press attention to nurse community support versus hospital clinic and HMO facility support.

But nurses can benefit from a wider scope of attention to their independent community support not only f nursing contracts and patient wellness rights, but institutional changes toward patient care for the impact of all nurses, healthcare technical staff, physicians, and patients. Nurses at the local Manhattan VA hospital recently acted against workplace violence, returning their facility yo t abetter atmospheric environment for patients and nurses.

Do patients know how much nurses fight for them even when they aren’t in the hospital? Do patients know how much nurses are their advocate even before they get to the hospital? Nurses are in a position to assess the need for facilities for public healthcare and how they match patient and family access to services. Nurses who know the insurance firewall many patients have to face to afford services support the means by which patient can access care in multiple community and facility scenarios.

Nurses who stand up for their rights provide an arena where they can support patients with adequate return and compensation. The collective bargaining and contract negotiations they pursue with their respective employment groups can affect the standard of nursing care any patent receives in future. The good news is that nursing right s and wages have been strongly supported recently in wage and professional demonstrations and labor agreements.

A San Leandro California acute care facility was kept open by widespread support in person by masses of healthcare staff to demonstrate the need for its operations to continue. The facility was facing closure. In May, the national Nursing United association supported senators Sanders and Rep. Jim McDermott introducing the American Health Security Act of 2011, which would bring to patients everywhere a single-payer bill for healthcare services.

Children’s Hospital nurses struck recently in Oakland, California to defend the healthcare rights of children in that facility for expanded hours and technical staffing. The University of California body of nurses administration won a new contract for 26 months. That’s 12,000 nurses who will be committed to quality healthcare in an extended scenario of skilled patient care planning and execution of bedside and operation and procedural skilled nursing.

University nurses nationwide met at a convention held in Chicago in March to share policies, advise wisdom and experiences. This level of concentrated nursing power, together with the monetary and community gains in healthcare access due to nurses, show that nurses have more than just a commitment to a paycheck. Whether the workplace is skilled nursing, home care, clinical assistance or surgical nursing, nurses today at all levels are showing they have a commitment to the well being and healing of all their patients.