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Clinical Restructuring of the RN Scope, Autonomy and Advocacy Role
April 8, 2015 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Collective Advocacy: Strategies to Fight-Back Clinical Restructuring of the RN Scope, Autonomy and Advocacy Role
For the last three decades the health care industry has engaged in aggressive clinical restructuring and de-skilling of the RN scope of practice, autonomy/independent judgment and advocacy role. This national assault on nursing practice and patient advocacy promotes the elimination of (1) the centrality of the RN role in the delivery of patient care through RN displacement and skill-degrading technologies; (2) the RN right to advocate in the exclusive interest of the patient without fear of retaliation; and (3) any, existing or proposed, safe staffing standard based on individual patient acuity with specific numerical ratios as a minimum. The goal of the industry is for RNs to become accomplices to the destruction of the nursing profession including the art and science of nursing through the cooptation of industry promoted restructuring schemes enforced by nursing administration by any and all forms of workplace violence. CNA/NNOC must engage in aggressive and sustainable collective patient advocacy fight-back campaigns to resist any implementation of these schemes in violation of any laws, rules and regulation that were enacted or adopted to protect our patients and our profession.
