When National Council for Nursing broke into the system, 70s in force, the incidences of disciplinary actions against nurses by regulatory agencies doubled; when big corporations completed their takeover of the health care systems. The Nursing bds sounded their glory filled trumpets with success in disciplinary actions against incompetence and immoral behavior hovering via alcoholism/substance use disorders which still plagues nursing. Dissecting c/c to the sources of nurse irritation often reveals many non clinical issues whose treatment for political and not nursing testimony is the stock and trade of the growth of nurse regulations.
By the late 90s c/c sources were not from patients or families. This fact is the account, today, of complaint sources from regulations not connected with nursing. The deficit of 90% versus 10% clinical complaints is results of 10 yr study.
AzBN disciplinary numbers are in the 1000s requiring huge staff to regulate and monitor stipulated nurses. Many nurses have left nursing as they were not politically correct and were violated for non nursing issues. In several cases political values are paramount but only call it that here as the dollars are not on the table that is countable.
It is now all nurses know where the industry is at. Survival does occur with mobster attitude revealing the location on the corruption map with sooo many templates of agency crimes, all across the country.
With the accumulated nurse throat slashings and the unruly pandemic, nurses have walked. The nurse world is now at the head of the class of management failures, with the public and educated nursing being forced out. This goal of reducing nursing seems thrifty for corporate and pt. nurse ratios standards go away.
The advent and popularity of SM and the poor trust issue related to conventional media has brought insight and transparency upon people like JoBeth Ridenour the director if AZBN. The economic downfall of the health care system comes from the inside when Ariz nurses are needed to be hired via head hunter rates at an average of $2000.00 per shift for 1 nurse. The economic math on that is nauseating when multication of population is applied. Arizona has the lowest number of residential licensed nurses in the U.S. which equates to easy travel agency money. Although hospitals ‘s costs for nursing has soared. This is somehow devaluating for nursing, making more money? The Bd designates options against nurses relative to their pay level. Meaning if nurse A Trujillo were working in home health she’d still be there working. Getting rid of the nurses corporate or physicians say to eliminate saves money. Carol Scheaffer’s paycheck for long standing loyalty and dedication was way higher than manager’s; so now you can figure the current of this page. Not all the busy little bees are finished making honey. The evidence for nurses to carry to one another and students is being transmitted throughout nurse networks. Arguing about political rhetoric issues against nurses interferes with what is happening now. The dumpster fire is now raging in the AZBN, patience.
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