As time ticks on by, you are right. Our small plight is nothing compared to our sisters and bothers in the southern ends of our surrounding states and ours as well. I have tried to take a leave of absense to transfer myself to my sister facility but am unable to do so. My residents need me here right now. I have put a call out to surrounding communities and nurses to help find relief help and beds for residents who need to be transfered and displaced.I am in agreement the nurses in MS need to stand together as well as those around the country, to support one another and to continue to pass along any knowledge or advice. We do need a voice in our government, sometimes our population, be it nurses or our elderly, is overlooked or passed over. It is time that we stand together and make our pressence known. This is the time to motivate your own staff and keep them focused on their own tasks ahead, the importance of the job that they do everyday. But we need to encourage and support those who need the help in the devistated areas as well. I am with you in that my need to help is as strong as their need for help. Janet I know that your sister facilities in LA and MS both probably need attention and relief as well. If there is anyway that I can be of assistance please let me know. That is what we are here for is to care and help, be it our staff that needs a helping hand or the nurses and residents for the distroyed areas. We as nurses have responsibility to ban together and help pick up the pieces of our sisters and brothers. To be thier support systems, to be their strength when this is all over.
Don't know how to help out the Sisters in the costal Louisiana, Miss, Ala towns except to pray for them I have provided a home for a displaced family thru the Church. They came her with only photos and clothes but now are at least in a house, our little community & all the staff at my facility have really helped out. Wish that every Nsg Home in the country would agree to send just 2 or 3 Nurses (with pay, without having to use leave)to a sister facility in the storm ravaged areas when help can get in there- If we all sent only 2, there would be plenty. We can help- we just gotta figure out how- who can help with that? Get enough Nurses in one accord and anything can be done. We do it everyday
