Nurses, let your voice be heard and vote today!
New Jersey licensed nurses are being asked by the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute and the Monmouth University Polling Institute with the cooperation of the Institute for Nursing, to register their opinions on doctors to help select the state’s best physicians.
Nurses were invited to participate in the program, “Nurses’ Choice”, through the quarterly Institute for Nursing newsletter, which is distributed, free of charge, to every licensed nurse in the state of New Jersey. Andrea Aughenbaugh, president of the New Jersey State Nurses Association, tells the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, “We believe that the data provided by nurses on the best doctors will provide New Jersey healthcare consumers with a new and trusted source for the best practicing physicians.”
Now until July 31st, nurses can visit www.nurseschoicenj.org, to cast their opinions or visit the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute and the New Jersey State Nurses Association site. Nurses participating in the Nurses’ Choice program will be asked to provide their last name and license number to make sure only licensed nurses in the state participate. All information gathered from this program will be published later this year or early next year in the New Jersey Monthly magazine.
Do you think this is a good idea for other states to start too? What if a nationwide data-base is started to keep track of physician standings within each state?
About the Author: Sarah is an Editorial Assistant in the patient safety group at HCPro, Inc. She contributes to two monthly newsletters; Briefings on the Joint Commission and Briefings on Patient Safety, and manages four e-zines; Accreditation Connection, AHAP Staff Challenge, Nurse Manager Weekly, and Healthcare Training Weekly. She also helps research new products for the patient safety and nursing market. She graduated from the University of Connecticut in 2008 where she earned her bachelor's degree in English.
