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Nurse Activism

Become Heard! Bringing Activism To The Masses

How do I engage in activism regarding the nursing industry? Signing petitions to let your congresspeople know what’s important to your vote is a huge start. It takes unity to increase awareness of pressing issues and vote for those who support your view. This page has various petitions to sign that will be sent to your Representatives and Senators. Become Heard, and sign the petitions that matter to you! If there is something you would like to see on this page, please email us: activism@nursenirvana.com.

#WeAreAllPatients

National Nurse to Patient Ratios, Mandatory Overtime Regulation, & Dangerous Work Conditions

Nurse Nirvana is working to provide a campaign to help nurses come together to enact change through social media and a national hashtag of #WeAreAllPatients to bring public awareness and demand Congress pass safe nursing laws. Together we can help eradicate the top 3 issues affecting nursing today of National Nurse to Patient Ratios, Mandatory Overtime Regulation, & Dangerous Work Conditions.

Sign Petitions To Make Nursing Safer

National Nurse To PAtient Ratios

We have to ask ourselves as nurses the reason legislation is not at the forefront of priorities for our Congress? High Patient to Nurse Ratios affect every person, not just nurses. We are all patients at one point in our lives. Sign our petition to help end unsafe practices.

Mandatory Overtime Regulation

Mandatory overtime for nurses is one of the most pressing of the top 3 issues affecting nursing today. It is a hot topic being addressed currently by various states individually. 18 States have already instituted some degree of mandatory overtime legislation, there is still a long way to go.

Dangerous Work Conditions

It is estimated that 650,000 individuals injured each year in the healthcare industry alone. It is no wonder why dangerous work conditions are one of the top 3 issues affecting nursing today. Sign the petition to let our Congress know that it should be the nurse who decides if they work overtime and not hospitals.

Safe Nurse To Patient Ratios

Safe Nurse to Patient Ratios Saves Lives! Sign Now!

6:1 patient-to-nurse workload in psychiatric facilities
5:1 patient-to-nurse in medical-surgical units, telemetry, and oncology;
4:1 in pediatrics;
3:1 in labor and delivery;
2:1 in intensive care units
#WeAreAllPatients

National Nurse To Patient Ratios Laws

Dear Sir or Madame,

As an advocate with Nurse Nirvana, I am asking you to support the Safe Staffing for Nurse and Patient Safety Act of 2018 (S. 2446, H.R. 5052)

Safe staffing through adequate nurse to patient ratios can be a matter of life or death, and getting the right ratios requires nurses and management to work together.  Data shows that better patient outcomes and fewer hospital readmissions are achieved with lower Nurse to Patient ratios.  We are all patients at one time in our life, even you.  Would you prefer a nurse with 10 other patients or 4?  #WeAreAllPatients, is a national campaign to increase awareness and support politicians who legislate for safe nursing and patient laws.

I hope you’ll stand with patients, nurses, and everyone who will ever need a nurse,  by supporting safe staffing legislation. The health of your constituents and their vote is on the line.  We propose a national nurse to patient ratio as follows:

6:1 patient-to-nurse workload in psychiatric facilities
5:1 patient-to-nurse in medical-surgical units, telemetry, and oncology;
4:1 in pediatrics;
3:1 in labor and delivery;
2:1 in intensive care units.

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Nurses not only can impact their communities, states, and the country’s policies, regulations, and well-being, but can be global advocates as well! We’ll look at the 2018 elections and the impact on the political advocacy work individually and in a coalition, as well as offer tips and words of wisdom from our members of Nurse Nirvana on how to make every year a year of advocacy at any level, in any role and setting.

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Mandatory Overtime Regulation

Safe Nurse to Patient Ratios Saves Lives! Sign Now!

It’s up to us as nurses to decide when enough is enough, yet our decisions can affect other people’s lives. This should not be a hospital administrative decision and only mandated in emergency scenarios that are clearly defined. Nurses are being taken advantage of for hospital profits and forced to work over their capacity of safe patient care.

#WeAreAllPatients

National Mandatory Overtime Laws

In 2002, the Institute of Medicine issued a report linking mandatory overtime and the understaffing of nurses to thousands of patient deaths each year and called for an all-out prohibition of the practice.   It’s up to us as nurses to decide when enough is enough, yet our decisions can affect other people’s lives.  This should not be a hospital administrative decision and only mandated in emergency scenarios that are clearly defined.  Few states have laws that protect the nurses right to refuse overtime.

It’s up to us as nurses to decide when enough is enough, yet our decisions can affect other people’s lives.  This should not be a hospital administrative decision and only mandated in emergency scenarios that are clearly defined. We implore you as our congressperson, to fight for our rights to refuse Mandatory Overtime for Healthcare Professionals.

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Dangerous Work Conditions

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For too long nurses and administrators have said: “It’s just part of the job”. Some local agencies will do little to file reports and prosecute offenders who perpetrate workplace violence. It is up to us as nurses to disseminate what is “part of the job” and what isn’t and Congress to pass laws that protect nurses in the workplace with harder sentences and zero tolerance laws.

#WeAreAllPatients

Dangerous Work Condition Laws

As an advocate with Nurse Nirvana, I am asking you to support the Safe Staffing for Nurse and Patient Safety Act of 2018 (S. 2446, H.R. 5052) and adding laws that protect the nurses and patients with regards to violence against nurses in the workplace and developing harder laws that penalize facilities who don't protect nurses health.

Workplace violence in health care is five to twelve times higher than the estimated rates of any other occupation according to a Government Accountability Office report.  Workplace violence is one of the most dangerous issues facing nurses across all disciplines and facilities.  Physical violence accounts for 45 percent of all workplace violence incidents in all industries in the United States.   Nurses are 48% more likely to have wrist, back and/or ankle sprains or strains on the job, compared to all other occupations.  They are 60% more likely to report chronic soreness and pain, especially in the feet and lower back.  53% of all injuries while nursing was reported to be due to overexertion.  83% injuries were musculoskeletal.  The leading causes of MSIs (Musculoskeletal Injuries) were awkward posture (25%) and force (23%)

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