Every single post that talks about ratios seem to support the idea of having mandated ratios. Almost every argument I see centers on patient safety. We talk about increased mortality, medication errors, falls, missed care, and poorer patient outcomes when nurses are assigned too many patients. And those are absolutely valid concerns. But why does the conversation so rarely center on the nurses themselves? Why do we have to demonstrate that patients are being harmed before we can justify improving our own working conditions? What about our physical and mental health? Our ability to take breaks, eat lunch, use the bathroom, or finish a shift without feeling completely depleted? What about having a manageable workload that allows us to actually enjoy the profession we worked so hard to enter? I think job satisfaction deserves to be a legitimate argument for staffing ratios in its own right. I wonder if we’ve become so accustomed to advocating for everyone else that we’ve unintentionally made our own well-being a secondary consideration. Patient safety and nurse well-being aren’t competing priorities. But I don’t think one should have to justify the other. I’m curious how other nurses feel about this.   submitted by   /u/snarkyGuardianAngel [link]   [comments]