EDITORIAL
A s we venture into the 21st century, the preservation of our nursing practice, has become a more formidable task! Health care today has never been this chaotic nor patient care so economically subservient. This "financial climate" creates an additional strain to our already overwhelmed profession and our collective disposition today, determines the future of our professional survival or extinction. Do you know that there has been several proposals submitted to displace registered nurses from the bedside? Are you aware of the existence of other professional movements that intensely resist our professional growth and fiercely oppose our role expansions? If we are our patient's advocates, who is ours? Who is our professional watchdog? How do we overcome our present hurdles? How can we secure the future of nursing?AWARENESS! UNITY! INVOLVEMENT! ACCOUNTABILITY !
I believe that these attributes are critical to the preservation of our nursing practice! And as we approach 1998 with renewed energy and enthusiasm, let us remember with pride, our past achievements!!! We have gone a ... long... long ...way since Florence Nightingale and you know what? WE ARE NOT DONE YET ! Together we can transform, advance and refine the future of our nursing practice. It really depends on us!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF US!!! V icky P. HerreraEditor |
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