In International Support

[madshutterbug]

The link on the Google page is headed with 'Reuter's Oddly Enough', but to me this is not Odd at all. It's something much in need in the place and time:

China Provides Embattled Nurses with Bill of Rights ... link should open in a new window.

Comments

[lolleeroberts.livejournal.com]

Thank you for an article I'll be printing out and sharing with my students. I find articles like this to be good discussion fodder, since my students are already LVNs and paramedics and thus aware of some of the realities of the workplace.

Much to think about here. We are seeing an increase in applications for admission to nursing schools, but the people who are coming for the money are frequently very ill suited for the job.

[madshutterbug.livejournal.com]

I've forwarded it to my sister as well, for much the same reasons.

Yes, it's nice to know that our pay improved (even notably during my tenure in the Profession), even improved enough to attract recruits for that reason. There is that small little detail, though, that even learning to think like a nurse isn't all of it. One needs that spark of empathy and compassion which tempers the scientific aspects into the art of the practice.

And, In Fact, Here's Her Response

[madshutterbug.livejournal.com]

"The article is very interesting and as you said we are not immune here in the US. It is unfortunate that when we now teach non-violent crisis intervention we teach it so that nurses and student nurses can protect themselves from family as well as patients in altered mental states.

Don’t forget to add the point that the nurse educators are aging and within the next 10 years there will be a mass exodus due to retirement."

And without Nurse Educators, who's gonna teach the next generation of Nurses?

I know, I'm preaching to the choir.