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very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce

Comment by Idetrorce — December 15, 2007 @ 12:39 pm

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Thank you, for your brief comment: I only wish you had submitted more expansive input on why you disagree, as we are seeking positive solutions and a constructive way forward. Do you feel that there is no need for regulating staffing to guarantee the safety of patient care? If you are a Medical professional or working in some aspect of Healthcare, I am glad to hear that at your facility you have not been impacted by the dire consequences of understaffing. We all greatly desire the opportunity to deliver safe, high quality, patient care, as this is what initially motivated the majority of us to enter this career in the first place, but this has become increasingly difficult under the current circumstances. If you are a patient or family member of a patient who has received excellent care, by attentive staff who were able to perform their duties and monitor conditions thoroughly without the added stress of an unreasonable workload, I am genuinely thrilled to hear this. It is important that we highlight facilities that are getting things right so that their good example might be emulated by less forward thinking, struggling institutions. I welcome your future comments, many thanks, Kim.

Comment by Kim Sanders-Fisher — December 17, 2007 @ 2:39 pm

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thats for sure, man

Comment by Keatonwv — March 19, 2008 @ 2:43 pm

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Please be kind enough to contact me via my email address. I would like to know more about your organization. Many thanks.

Josephine

Comment by Josephine Carol Cicchini — May 19, 2008 @ 11:26 pm

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As you can see I am support or your campaign.

Nurses are afraid to speak up but inside the walls it is very obvious that it is about profits. Hospitals are raking in profits selling merchandise which used to be referred to as medical care, diagnostics and education. They are constantly trying to find a new product to sell. There profits are well displayed in forms of remodeling, fountains, new buildings, newer and fancier televisions and more. The money exists in the hospitals to provide better nursing care to patients but they refuse to do so. They have turned nurses into slaves bound to secrecy in order to save their jobs. Whistleblowing is a big problem with staff members being slandered by vicious management personnel for speaking up or complaining about conditions. It is negligent! It is criminal. It is practically pre-meditated when mistakes cause death or serious injury. They are fully aware of how unsafe conditions are and choose to do nothing about it to assure large profits. The patient has gone from customer to victim in this inhumane corporation! Nurses have turned from professional to slave.

Comment by Blogger6420 — July 22, 2008 @ 4:49 am

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Could’nt agree more. Its way over due. JACHO and the state agencies that are supposed to ensure safety and safe delivery of care are a joke. The hospitals and their administrators are allowed to act without regard to safety and the patients and the staff are the ones that suffer. When you speak up, you are labled a trouble maker or a moral problem. The problem is not enough staff, not enough respect and managers that have forgotten they are nurses and that their primary responsibility is to be the patients advocate. We need legislation now. I will post a link to your site on my blog and hope we can help one another in our efforts to improve health care. I applaud your efforts and support your cause. Let me know if I can help in any way.

Comment by Michael Chapman — July 22, 2008 @ 9:13 pm

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I sincerely believe that the movement for single payer healthcare cannot ignore the issue of patient safety or lack of such.

In Texas only the CNA?NNOC has attempted to address this issue with the patient safety act. At present nurses are NOT fully protected when they advocate for their patients!

Hospitals used to be where one could go and get well. Today it is the last place to get well. Today due to workforce cutbacks, nursing shortages and other major factors people get sicker when they have to stay in a hospital. Infection control seems to be ignored as patients are acquiring MSRA, scabies, VRE and other infectious conditions in hospitals! Nurse to patient ratios are typically 12:1 and as high as 15:1! Depending on the condition of the patient, these are NOT safe nursing care levels!

California recently voted to implement a safe patient to nurse ratio and as a result the so-called nursing shortage is rapidly coming to an end! The number of nurses not in a hospital available for work has NOTHING to do with a shortage of nurses! It is about hospital bosses squeezing as much work out of nurses as they can!

We must band together and fight as one united force if we expect to make significant changes in the system!

Comment by Frank Valdez — July 24, 2008 @ 7:52 pm

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Hi There,

I only just saw your post on my site. I know it has been awhile. I hope to see more from you!!

This is a great site.

Comment by Anne — February 8, 2009 @ 8:23 pm

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I was a graduate student at the homewood campus of Johns Hopkins, and I worked at Johns Hopkins hospital in summer of 2005. My father also was in Johns Hopkins in summer of 2005 for a prostatectomy. He was only in the hospital for a brief period of time but I did not witness any of the treatment issues or understaffing that you discuss on the website or at ripoffreport.com . However, I also volunteer at Keswick nursing home, and in speaking to one of the residents I believe he mentioned that there was sanitation issues, and other issues at Johns Hopkins hospital. I believe he mentioned that he lost a lot of weight while he was there perhaps because of the understaffing issues. I haven’t read through your website, but I applaud your efforts to try to improve healthcare for all Americans, and I expect that these issues will continue to confront us as the population ages.

Comment by David Friedman — May 19, 2009 @ 2:14 am

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