Something else Obama is getting blamed for.Must be Fox or RepubliCons writing again. Remember 5,000,000 more people got covered under the ACA..

I agree whole heartedly. I have a diploma and Assoc. degree worked at the same hosp for 19 yrs...left to seek FT job..tried to come back perdiem at the same hosp, the recruiter said NO BSN NO JOB!!

Amen to the writer of this article this should be printed in every paper in the United States Everyone should read this article.

well said.....

Precisely. Nursing and nurses have always been on "the back burner" compared to physicians, etc. Bedside nursing should be a focus rather than something we have to make time for.

I agree with this . Just one thing Press Ganey is just the vendor they many hospitals use to administer the HCAHPS survey. That's the survey for reimbursement not Press Ganey.

how can I help'nurses seem to be u respected by hospital boards.So sad this is happening.
How do you know if a hospital is a magnet,in a magnet hospital.

I am just as proud of my profession as I was when I started twenty years ago. Policies and ideas come and go. Take the time to train new nurses with compassion and care and they will pass it on

This is unfortunately so true. What don't they get about sick people needing thoughtful and tailored care they are not a widget in their money machine

I agree ... Where Do we start.

One of the requirements for Magnet is that 51% of the Board of Trustees have to be nurses. I have never seen that happen. ANCC wants Nurses to be seen as professionals but treats them as servants .

Amen! This article describes what I have been trying to explain for years. They have taken the "fun" out of nursing. I actually liked being a bedside nurse, not a mini- administrator!

I totally agree with this article. The art of Nursing is dying fast! The technical, mechanical robot nurse is in high demand. No empathy required. I love my job and I love what I do but the joy is getting harder to find/share with my patients. I hope we f

The answer to all of this Magnet nonsense is for nurses across the USA to unionize--plain and simple. It is our field and we need to take it back.

Amen! I'm sorry to say, because I love what I do, but I'm just around the corner from retirement and I'm ready! And then they complain about the overtime when you can't get it all done!

With welfare the way it is, it's next to impossible to please patients of this caliber. The high demand from employer is getting over welling. The love for the job is getting to be a stretch.

Have very little faith in Press Gainey 's ability to really capture a solid survey response for which validity can be the "real picture" - seems like we are paying them big bucks to do very little!!!

Amen

I would rather know good patient is care and goo bedside manners are still in affect.if staff isn't happy it takes away from their passion/ or calling which makes better health care and healing proces

Happy employees will create patient satisfaction.

Totally agree. I think we are educating nurses away from the bedside. We're so worried about creating great patient experiences and keeping families happy that we don't have time to take care of the patient.

I believe patients would also rather have their experience at a hospital where the staff is happier at their place of employment. Totally agree with the views of this author!!

I have been a nurse 35+ years, but sadly retired early, because I could no longer work in an environment you described. My fear is when I will be a patient at the mercy of our misdirected profession.

Amen. I have tried my best to talk my daughter out of following me into the nursing profession.

Article hits the nail on the head-as a 40yr nurse, I am glad to be out of the hospital setting. We took good care of pts-now they just make it "look good" in the computer.

I said from the beginning that Magnet Status (I refer to it as Maggot Status) was a joke. Jumping through hoops and paying lots of money for a certificate.

Amen and Hallelujah

Amen!!!! From a 40 yr hospital nurse.

Great article. I'm one of the old nurses who gave excellent bedside nursing and knew my patients instead of sitting in meetings .LPNs worked with me. Pt care was paramount!

Hiring new nurses with masters in the management positions that makes it horrible because how can they function to lead in a role that they aren't expert at?

I agree, can you imagine 50 years ago, a 12 hour shift is still 12 hour shift at this generation but I can't count how many more responsibilities, committees have been added & expected to do them all?

I have seen LPN's go and get their BSN without ever practicing as a RN and then go into higher more demanding roles that they just are not qualified to perform. Experience should count.

And then there r hours of charting with out going into overtime and handling all the families needs, wants and desires!! Whew 😒

I am so glad to hear I am not the Only one who thinks the "Magnet" designation is Bogus! I have been a manager for 24 years, but I can't "Be" the manager anymore because I don't have a Masters degree!

So much of this is right on point. It's up to us to change it. Get active with legislature & carve out our roles. We need to stand together to protect the art of nursing as we balance the business.

Amen! Nursing is no longer what it was but a series of numbers crunched into time frames. Overworked unappreciated by administration and pushed to the brink..

Great article! There is SO MUCH TO SAY! Hospital nursing is not the same. Working at surgicenter and love it! Don't miss hospital administrators!

This article is right on point. I recently received my BSN in nursing but have been a nurse for twenty years prior with my associates. I am still asking myself how this degree make me Knowledgeable?

This is soooo true. The public is made to believe untruths about nursing and the care they will recieve.

Error: press ganey is not used. Government formed a NEW agency, something like HCAPS, to assess how much a hospital gets reimbursed by medicate

This is so True!
EXhausted retired RN

Magnet was always elitist. The best nurses are RNs that went BACK TO SCHOOL and got advanced degrees without being $40,000 in debt for their BSN as their initial degree.

Amen!

Nurses go through different stages in their careers, and keeping balance with family can preclude other committee work, etc. at certain times. It does not mean they are less qualified as a good nurse.

This is so true and why so many nurses are leaving the profession and or the bedside to move into administration or anything away from the bedside due to their frustration.

The only change that will happen when it's too late, oops no nurses.

This is exactly why I retired and got out of nursing completely

I am confused about the slam blame on the Affordable Care Act which gives the non-rich access to healthcare. Control costs but not by shortchangeing RNs.

This is so true. Hospitals and Directors are becoming more and more wrapped up in numbers and not what is actually going on in our ER's or on the floors. A title does not make a great Hospital!

Excellent Article! Very accurate. Glad I'm an ASC nurse. Proud to be able to still be a real nurse after 40 years in the profession.