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Various systems warn of storms
By JILL M. YATES Staff Reporter
When severe weather poses a threat, different warning systems are used to inform the public of the existing conditions. For example, the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Both the local broadcasting stations and the Civil Defense Agency use a variety of systems, depending on the need, he said.
"Most every county in Kansas has a civil defense organization that is responsible for preparing its residents in an emergency situation," Schilder said.
This preparation may combine a communication between the National Weather Service and voluntary spotters who report for severe weather, he said.
"It becomes a team effort between the civil defense organization and the
National Weather Service to provide a program for the public," Schaid said. "This is where the communication sources enter into it."
The Lawrence Civil Defense Agency has a warning hot line hooked up directly to the National Weather Service; this hot line is called the National Warning System line, or the NAWAS line, he said.
"We also have the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration weather radio, which is a continuous broadcast station for weather conditions," he
Both the Civil Defense Agency, KLWN and KANU in Lawrence monitor the NOAA weather radio. Citizens can also have one of these radios with a built-in special alarm feature for use with an FM station, according to
Schidler said the alarm would
automatically sound in the event of severe weather.
Communication systems also include a direct line that can transport an emergency message to broadcast stations, he said. However, communication would favor NOAA weather radio, which, according to Schlider, is lust as fast.
Another system is the National Weather Wire Service, which is used by most radio and television stations, he said.
"The NWCS is a telatype system picked up by most broadcasting systems, and the most common system used to warn the public through broadcasting."
Schlader said that when a written warning is released by the NWWS, there is also a warm bell that rings to assist in fastening stations of the severe weather.
In addition, the telephone may be used frequently, he said.
"If you need information, as well as wanting to pass it on, the phone is just a good because not all counties have a good service." National Weather Service," he said.
For informing the general public, the broadcasting stations and the NOAA weather radio are most useful in monitoring air conditions quickly, according to Schiller.
One other system is the Topeka-
Shawnee County hot line.
Although the hot line does not reach Lawrence, it can be used to warn other counties via the local sheriff's office. Schidler said.
"The highway patrol is hooked up to NAWAS line and we can reach a particular county through the highway patrol," he said.
Schilder said that for warning the public of severe weather there were many back-up systems that were used to report and give information to the different counties.
Nurses cite their reasons for non-work
By TIM ELMER Staff Reporter
The acute shortage of nurses in the nation's hospitals was not due to a scarcity of registered nurses, but to the unwillingness of nurses to work in understaffed hospitals, Lymne King, Lice Nurse, and Nurse Nurses Association, said Tuesday.
"Nurses have been unhappy with the quality of care being given in hospitals and with the way nurses are being used," King said. "In many instances, nurses feel that there is unsafe care of patients in hospitals with which they don't want to be involved, so they leave."
THEERE ARE ABOUT 400,000 nurses in the nation not working because of poor working conditions, Nickie Stain, registered nurse and former lobbist for the Kansas State Nurses Association, said.
William Kuehn, director of communications of the American Nurses Association in Kansas City, Mo., said that about a million registered nurses in the nation.
But John Glassman, vice president of Stormont-Vall Hospital in Topeka, said those figures were misleading.
However, of the 1.4 million RNs, 400,000 were not working, even though there was a shortage of 100,000 RNs in the nation's hospitals, Kuehn said. There is also a shortage of 150,000 RNs in the nation's nursing homes.
Of the 40,000 RNs not working, according to a national sample survey of 40,200 inactive nurses, abstinence from alcohol was said. Of the remaining 200,000 who
DISSATISFACTION AMONG NURSES with their jobs is reflected in the turnover rate of nurses in hospitals. According to figures from the U.S. Department of Labor and Health and Human Services, the average turnover rate of nurses in hospitals in the nation is between 30 and 40 percent each year.
Stein said, "The nursing shortage has been chronic for the 40 years that I have been nursing. I have never worked in a fully staffed institution."
Nurses were frequently upset with the quality of care that was being given to patients. King said.
King, director of KSNA, said there were about 20,000 RNS working in health care institutions in Kansas. There were 700 openings for RNS in Kansas, she said, even though there were thousands and thousand RNS in Kansas not working.
There was a lot of dissatisfaction among nurses in hospitals because of poor patient care, low salaries and treatment of nurses in hospitals. Stein
In intensive care units where patients are critically ill, there should be one nurse for two patients, at the most, King said. However, six or seven critically ill patients were taken care of by only one nurse, Stein said.
"There is no way one nurse can take care of that many critically ill patients," Stein said. "Nurses leave their jobs because they carry a lot of guilt home. They have high professional standards, but see that they are not able to give the kind of care that they should be giving."
could be tapped for employment. 100,000 were under the age of 40 and had children at home, he said.
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Glassman said hospitals didn't overload nurses with work because there were state statutes that govern the workload nurses can carry.
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"NURSES ACROSS the country are getting underpaid," King said. "Nurses are making life-and-death decisions, but are aware they are getting salaries too." Nurse managers grocery on the shelf in a grocery store. That is the last straw.
A possible reason nurses are leaving their jobs was the poor salaries they get. King said.
"When you don't have staffing, you don't stretch it." Glassman said. "You just close down beds or units. That is what is happening in a number of hospitals. We are not going to set ourselves up for lawsuits with unsafe care."
Melissa Ness, assistant director for KSAN, said *nursery* salaries *were low because they were not recognized for the sort of professional work they did.
"You are looking at a profession where there is a lot of responsibility but little authority to determine salaries," she said.
The average salary for nurses in Kansas was between $11,000 and $13,000, she said.
Nurses also leave the profession because they are treated poorly, King said.
"A lot of nurses are missed," she said. "I know of a hospital in Indiana where the nurses are expected to cook meals."
Stein said nurses were looked upon as generalists who were supposed to do everything.
"A nurse in obstetrical nursing gets pulled away to the emergency room or hospital, where she specializes areas," Stein said. "She frequently does not feel confident to
work there, but she has no right to refuse."
NURSES HAD A tremendous responsibility, but no control over their own practice, she said. They are controlled by administrators and indirectly by physicians who have little appreciation of their problems, she said.
"Nurseas give 19 percent of the care to
who need it, but have no voice in
policy-making boards."
Another problem nurses face was how to care for their children while working. Stein said.
"Over 90 percent of nurses are kind of child care assistance," she said.
Stein said nurses had generally not tried to improve their salaries and working conditions by supporting a collective bargaining union.
The Kansas State Nurses Association was the official bargaining body for nurses, Stein said. However, only 12 of them in Kansas belonged to KSA, she said.
"Nurses simply do not know what KSNA is doing," Stein said. "It is difficult to contact nurses to organize them because we don't enter hospitals to discuss KSNA unless during 15-minute coffee breaks. Nurses work around the clock, so it is difficult to organize them."
"Some hospitals will not even post our continuing education schedules because KSNA is the official labor organization for nurses." Stein said.
Glassman said some hospitals were apprehensive about KSNA.
"I suspect there is probably some legitimacy that hospitals are apprehensive about KSNA, especially in smaller rural areas," he said.
KSNA had not contacted Stormont-Vail Hospital since he has been vice president of the hospital, he said. However, he said, the hospital had a strict policy against solicitation of any kind.
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