http://jparadisirn.com/2010/02/01/whos-flying-the-plane/ Where science, humanity and art converge Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:51:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://jparadisirn.com/2010/02/01/whos-flying-the-plane/#comment-486 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:25:11 +0000 http://jparadisirn.com/?p=3907#comment-486 You are right. It’s easy to feel that even if nurses and other health care professionals speak up, will anyone listen? We don’t have lobbyists to work out deals, like corporations do. However, as long as nurses agree to take a seat in the back of the room without participating in the debate, we lose the power of our collective voices. Martin Luther King said It’s not the harassment of our enemies that hurt us, it is the silence of our friends. What we agree on is safe,and quality health care.

]]> http://jparadisirn.com/2010/02/01/whos-flying-the-plane/#comment-485 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:34:43 +0000 http://jparadisirn.com/?p=3907#comment-485 The post makes excellent points about the importance of nurses participating in health care debate. It is essential that health care providers find points of common ground that cross disciplines. That’s a task more easily said than done. The political debate contains so many elements that simply fail to consider the quality of patient care, and really, isn’t that the bottom line here?
It’s important that nurses don’t wait to be asked.
Michael
http://www.workengagement.com

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