madshutterbug: (c)2009 by Myself (Self_RN Hard at Work)
madshutterbug ([personal profile] madshutterbug) wrote2008-02-05 09:51 am

In International Support

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.

[identity profile] madshutterbug.livejournal.com 2008-02-05 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
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.