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Nursing is all about patient advocacy. Let’s face it, that’s the job of nurses.
Patients require care and nurses are foremost the advocate for the patient. Nurses are the only one with the patient 24/7.
Think about it. How many times have you stood up for your patients? Hospital managers forcing excessive workloads and threatening quality care for the patient? Bullying and unfair treatment in the workplace? Patients abused by Doctors? It is a continual fight. Health systems, managers and Doctors just do not listen to nurses.
A SafeWork report confirms that “the role of nursing is associated with multiple and conflicting demands imposed by nurse supervisors and managers, and by medical and administrative staff”.Copyright©International Labour Organization 2000
Unfortunately, this not only takes its toll on patient care but nurses suffer also. Who is the advocate for the nurse? No one. That’s what this website is all about, advocacy for you, the nurse.
During what has been the worst period of my life, this website has emerged. This period has been lonely, depressing and absolutely frightening. Through talking with other nurses, I had found that I was not alone. I had met many others who were going through the same type of thing. Yet nurses individually suffer, fearing that they are alone. It is time to make a change for the better, for patients and for nurses.
Has your nursing career caused you stress? Depression? Anxiety? Frustration? Then this website is for you.
Why are nurses ignored? If health systems, managers and Doctors learned to listen to nurses, stress levels would virtually disappear. True, the financial advisers would suffer a major coronary at the mention of such an idea, but hey, isn’t the health system about people? Isn’t it about the patient? Should that not be the top priority?
As an individual nurse, this fight is futile. As a profession, it is conquerable. Nurses need to survive. The patients need to survive a health system in crisis. The patients need nurses to survive. As a profession, it is the nurse's duty to win this fight, or nurses will have failed at the basic heart of nursing-advocacy for the patient.
As you seek ways to fight this ceaseless stupidity of ignoring or abusing nurses, I hope this website will be helpful to you personally. Be comforted to know you are not alone, there are many others out there.
It would be hard to believe that these sorts of problems only arise for the nurses in Queensland, Australia. I've read many articles citing similar problems worldwide. Unfortunately, the links and suggestions I have provided through this website are specifically Queensland related. If you are not working in Queensland, please see the International page for additional help.