Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Queen's University, Kingston, ON.
Chief Executive Officer, Community Care, City of Kawartha Lakes, Kawartha Lakes, ON.
Nurs Leadersh (Tor Ont). 2022 Jun;35(2):12-28. doi: 10.12927/cjnl.2022.26876.
In Canada, nurses have known about the chronic shortage of nurses for years; the pandemic has just opened the floodgates. For the authors, the current nursing crisis and the accompanying response have led to flashbacks of the early 2000s, when extensive advocacy work took place to prevent a looming nursing crisis. In the key reports reviewed in this paper, the statement "lack of respect for nursing" has echoed over and over and over again and continues to be heard today throughout social media. Based on nurses' voices, meaningful respect starts with nurse leaders and administrators recognizing nurses' education, knowledge, values and experience; seeking and listening to nurses' voices and input on decisions affecting nursing; and striving for quality practice environments with reasonable workloads, adequate supplies and resources. While long-term planning must take place to correct this, there is no easy fix and no single strategy to turn the situation around quickly. Short-term strategies to relieve nurses' feelings of disrespect are a good place to start to retain nurses and stop the bleeding. It is time to work with all the nurses to find ground-level strategies to assure a sustainable and healthy nursing workforce for today and tomorrow. In this paper, the authors provide an overview of the meaning of respect both generally and from the nurses' perspective using the literature from the past 20 years. The authors then outline several implications for nurse leaders and administrators that are relevant today.
在加拿大，护士们多年来一直都知道护士长期短缺的问题；而这场大流行只不过是让问题更加恶化了。对作者来说，当前的护理危机及其伴随的反应让他们回想起了 21 世纪初，当时为了防止即将出现的护理危机，开展了广泛的宣传活动。在本文回顾的重要报告中，“不尊重护理”的说法一遍又一遍地出现，而且在今天的社交媒体上仍然可以听到。基于护士们的声音，有意义的尊重始于护理领导者和管理人员认可护士的教育、知识、价值观和经验；寻求并倾听护士对影响护理的决策的意见和投入；努力营造优质的实践环境，包括合理的工作量、充足的供应品和资源。虽然必须进行长期规划以纠正这种情况，但这并非易事，也没有单一的策略可以迅速扭转局面。缓解护士不被尊重感的短期策略是留住护士和止血的良好起点。现在是时候与所有护士合作，寻找基层策略，以确保今天和明天拥有可持续和健康的护理劳动力了。在本文中，作者使用过去 20 年的文献，从一般意义和护士的角度概述了尊重的含义。然后，作者概述了对当今护理领导者和管理人员的一些启示。
