The Sacramento Bee June 7, 2010: Popular Auburn State Recreation Area could close down, because of California’s budget crisis. The preference of voting by mail or by going out to the polls. Tens of thousands of dollars are going to the Sheriffs campaigns. In the article on California’s budget crisis, they did not give much information on how they were going to try to fix the problem. It was mostly one-sided on how the state can’t do anything to fix the problem. I’m wondering if the people who contribute so much to their candidates are some of the same people who are upset about the national recreation area closing. If they have enough money to support their candidates then do they also have enough money to donate to the park to keep it open? There are tens of thousand of dollars going into this election, yet the city can’t keep a national park open, it just doesn’t seem right to me. June 8, 2010: Neighbors come together to get city officials to fix drainage problem. Nurses plan a one-day walk out to strike for better patient care and hospital staffing. Voters are wondering how to stop political robocalls. In the article about nurses planning to strike, there is not enough information about the certain types of problems going on in the hospital and how they could try to fix these problems. The article is very one-sided, it gets you to sympathize with the nurses, without hearing any other side of the story. In the article about the drainage problem, it concerns me that the city officials say that the draining is fine and that it is too expensive to fix. It is very contradicting when they say nothing is wrong with it, and that it’s to costly to fix. Especailly when the article has pictures of the water levels ... ... middle of paper ... ... down the mortgages of struggling home owners. Governments that are failing to fulfill their obligations of helping the poor or homeless, are getting sued for budget cuts. The Supreme Court rules that Washington state can release the names of the people who signed ballot petitions to overturn a same-sex domestic partnership law. The article about governments being sued for budget cuts is one-sided. The county officials did not make many statements to defend themselves, so you only get one story. In the article about mortgages, I am wondering why the government did not try this sooner. The article also says that it will be happening in the Sacramento area, but does not state if it will be happening throughout California as well. I do agree with the regulations to be able to apply for the program such as, the homeowners have to live in the house they mortgage.
The phrase politics of nursing or even politics in nursing has so much meaning to the individual nurse. In nature politics have a dichotomy nature, and depending on who you talk to, their individual slant is unique. This makes the discussion of politics a very complicated issue. Agreement is the basis for the efforts that arise from politics, yet with every issue there are two sides who have to compromise something to get a bit of what they want. So what happens when a nurses are so busy they cannot advocate for themselves? Who will advocate for nurses when they can no longer bridge their essential needs in a health care environment? Unions are a modern option for nurses who struggle with voicing their needs and patient needs in an outdated bureaucratic twenty first century capitalist world of health care. The purpose of this paper is to look into the contributions of Unions on nurses, patient care, and the way health care facilities address issues that limit a collaborative approach to health care.
Having one voice in the workplace to fight for specific rights can only go so far, but the voice of many can have a dramatic impact on issues of safety, wages and hours to name a few. These are a few of the reasons many nurses have turned to joining a union. As a nurse, the number one c...
On April 17th 2013, Senator Barbara Boxer (California) introduced a federal bill that is aimed to reduce nursing shortages by establishing a minimum nurse-to-patient ration in hospitals. She is also ordering whistleblowing protection for nurses who report quality-of-care violations. The law requires that every hospital implement a written hospital-wide staffing plan that will guide the assignments to...
...be beneficial for the hospital. The nurses are the front runners in patient care, and their input should be taken into serious consideration. Testing this plan, and revising it before it is fully implemented, can only have positive outcomes for the hospital and patient care.
Because of how our government functions, we as the people of the country have the ability to participate in not only small state-wide political office but affect national decisions. One example of the common citizen sparking change on a national level is with the Yosemite National Park Educational System. Children of park rangers, only able to attend the small school within the park’s borders, lacked sufficient funds to maintain the school. Rather than performing acts of civil disobedience and protesting for government change, the educators at the school brought their issue to Congress. In Senate Report 108-255, Mr. Domenici, a member of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, proposed that the State of California
...just as welfare helped people during the great depression, this new plan could help people during this extreme recession. It is so important to keep people in their homes and not on the street and with help from our government and each individual taking responsibility for their actions, the amount of people facing foreclosure can decrease. Every American wants to know that they have a place to go home to and to call their own. For many people placing their homes up for foreclosure was something they never thought would happen and it is easy to say what one would have done to prevent this. As American we must stop blaming and looking at what has happened to the housing market and start planning on ways to fix this situation. Our country should take the resources we have now in the present, and create a plane to insure that every person is taken care of in the future.
When states try to find ways to restrain from non-essential areas, unfunded federal mandates are at the top of the list. These mandates often force state and local governments to spend much more than necessary on everything from medical care to welfare to road building. A complex web of federal programs bind together the tree treasuries of the local, state, and federal government. As much as 25 percent of state budgets now comes from the federal government, and up to 60 percent of some state budgets is spent on joint federal-state programs.
Unionization in healthcare is a critical piece to the work conditions and wages for nurses and CNAs alike. There is great value to having a union on board and readily available at the disposal of the nursing staff. This written work will describe and define exactly what a union is and does for the nursing staff. It will also discuss the positives and negatives of having a union available. Keep in mind, some managers and employees are not thrilled about having unions while others may sometimes abuse the system. Finding the right balance can help all involved to have a happy and healthy workplace environment.
reason for the financial crisis, which is not the case. Only 4 percent of California's budget is spent
The staff, physicians and board members were not ready to fail. They didn’t want to abandon all those who depended on their services, but they also knew closing the hospital's doors would hurt
People who have lost their homes in the past and those of "us" with "watered down dreams" have no desire to go through the kind of hardship that we have already seen once; let alone do it again, even if they could find a lender who would finance another mortgage.
Nurses that attended the rally at the capital spent their own money because they believe this issue affects not just nurses but everyone. Mistakes can be made which can lead to complications and death. Nurses get injured and workplace violence because they leave the job tired and unfulfilled. Some of the nurses from Florida who went to the rally talked about what it’s like to go to work day in and day out. “Beth, Sanford, Florida: "We come on stressed to see our assignment. We work nonstop—if you get a lunch break of 15 minutes in a 12-hour shift, you're lucky. There's a feeling that you're not giving the care that you should for your patients. You are just running in and out of rooms (Stokowski, 2017). Some nurses came to support school nurses and the shortages of school nurses and how they only have half of the nurses they need. All the attention nurse staffing is receiving doesn’t mean it’s a new issue just now showing up, it is something that has been around for a long time but it’s just now getting the attention it deserves. It’s only gotten worse in recent years. Patients have gotten sicker but yet the nurses assigned to care for them hasn’t increased at all. “Catherine Stokes:
Nurses are pivotal members of the health care team. Nurses work constantly with the constraints of health care delivery, which includes equipment, staffing and bed shortages that plague the healthcare system in Canada (Furlong & Smith, 2005). These specific inherent flaws and funding deficits in the healthcare system may not be controlled directly by one hospital or even the health authority, but momentum of change can be driven by the unified voice of advocating nurses and their unions. Due to the nurses close interaction with patients and their families in a wide variety of settings, they are the best candidates to engage in policy reform and service strategies (Furlong & Smith,
Giving the employees the right to establish a union to bargain collectively over hours, there rate of pay and working conditions that are deemed necessary for a healthcare worker to perform there required duties. This representative is one that the employees has chosen to engage in strikes, picketing and other problems that arise giving aid and protection (Cibull, S.J., 2009). In doing so there can be no retaliation from the employer to the employee that is exercising their rights that are stated by this particular law. A hospital can violate the National Relations Labor Act by doing the
As stated before they are the backbone of the healthcare team. Healthcare facilities must learn the value of nurses and what they bring to the table. They are the patient's advocate. Nurses have the ability to express the patients’ needs or desires to the interdisciplinary team. With the critical thinking and exquisite communication skills, a nurse is a vital component when it comes to patient care. Hospitals must understand recognize that without a sufficient number of nurses the quality of care declines substantially. By adopting this legislation, the states there will be more hospitals with a higher quality of care performance. The job of a nurse goes beyond just performing a medial task. A nurse must be able to connect with the patient based on their needs. A nurse has the to the ability to strategize and design a care plan that fit the patients and will reach every one of their needs. A nurse’s role is a lot more that than just administering medication, it goes beyond that and hospitals need to consider the effect it will have if they cut back on their nursing