Welcome to the Nursing Advocacy Project, where we defend and fight for our nurses’ rights. Nurses and their skills are needed at every healthcare institution, with nurses holding vital roles like tracking irregularities, advocating for patients’ needs, and delivering appropriate patient care. Unfortunately, modern-day nursing has caused nurses to face immense pressure due to the disproportionate nurse-patient ratio. This has stemmed from healthcare slowly becoming a business model that focuses on monetary gain. Healthcare management consciously maintains the ratio gap to increase profit margin. However, this should not be done on the cost of nurses and their overall wellbeing. Nurses are providers who need optimal physical, mental and emotional health to be present at every single shift they walk into. Therefore, nurses are being affected, emotionally, mentally and physically, resulting in patient outcome and retention rates to be at its lowest. 

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If nurses are unable to be treated well, how will they provide the best care for patients? With these negative effects on nurses and patients, it is vital to speak up on the realities of the workplace. Through research and testimonies, it is evidently clear that these negative effects are present and sporadic. Especially with the COVID-19 pandemic, these effects on nurses have only worsened as patient count increased at a rapid rate. With this in consideration, it is vital to not only acknowledge that these problems exist but to target them and advocate for nurses who are silenced into accepting this reality. 

 

As the Nursing Advocacy Project, we are here to provide the reality that nurses are facing everyday but also solutions that can aid in fixing these issues that have persisted for too long.