State nursing shortage needs urgent attention, group says - Topix | Thread profile

Tim wrote: This so called shortage is just another NEOCON scam. They've been pulling the wool over most eyes time after time. If there really was a shortage.. nursing wages & benefits whould exceed inflation by a considerable margin. Guess what??, that's not happening. Why, because they'll write another shortage article (like this one) or makeup another fake study which claims it.. And then bribe congress to open up...

There is NO nursing shortage. However, there is a shortage of nurses who are willing to put up with the abuse, low pay, and awful working conditions in the hospitals. The hospital administrators know exactly what they need to do to solve their staffing problems but they don't want to do it. Instead, they chose to spend the money on fancy buildings and outrageous executive salaries. There are many nurses who still have active licenses but...

OH, wait! Iz my spealing dat bad? Im sory. Im not purfect. I am a paramedic. I furgot.

lab-rat wrote: <quoted text> Good attitude goes a long way. Just how good is your attitude? It's not how nice you are. It's how much butt you're willing to kiss. I do my job, treat my patients as if they were a family member and don't kiss up to my supervisors.

John wrote: <quoted text> Its not worth it. No matter how good it looks while you're a student you're in for a very rude awakening after you graduate and begin working as a nurse. Nursing is the worst job imaginable. You are abused by everyone---ungrateful patients, nasty and demanding family members, rude doctors, and management that couldn't care any less about you. They give you way too many patients to take...

Prefer not wrote: <quoted text> JUST TO LET YOU KNOW MEDIC, YOU HAVE THE EASY WAY, A CCRN, THAT IS A CRITICAL CARE REGISTERED NURSE, CAN PASS YOUR CERTIFICATION WITHOUT FURTHER SCHOOLING, AND IF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEDICS AND RN'S IS INTUBATION, I'LL TAKE THE RN, YOU DO NOT WANT TO GET IN A VERBAL WAR WITH ME. I HAVE MY ACLS FOR 13 YEARS, MY PALS FOR 8 YEARS, AND MY TCLS FOR 6 YEARS, YOU CALL FOR A TRAUMA RN, WHEN...

Someone Who Knows wrote: <quoted text> Sounds like someone is jealous. Don't hate us medics because we have autonomy and are not just puppets, "yes doc, right away doc" You know why you are a nurse.....because you could not become a firefighter/paramedic.....but that is ok not everyone has that kind of integrity, ambition and skill set, including the ability to handle pressure.....which sounds like you...

Judged: 1 I have been a qualified FL RN for 30 years. The verbal abuse I endured from physicians, and stress level caused by balancing seemingly endless paperwork with a huge patient load almost wrecked my own health. I have been employed in a different occupation for 2 years, preferring a poverty-level income to providing sub-optimal care to my patients due to abysmal working conditions.

Sunsentinel Writers wrote: <quoted text> Maybe SunSentinel could do a story about how poorly nursing students and nurses are treated. Could help reform the behavior of nursing instructors. Gotta start somewhere I think that would be a very good idea. We had clinical instructors who berated us, screamed at us, made us cry and even hit us. One clinical instructor was brought up before a board because she would grab the students...

Mangler wrote: Why? So 20% of her potential salary can go to them? <quoted text> Exactly!!