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[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

[fatfred.livejournal.com]

Some areas of China got modernised way too fast for the locals to catch up.
Supression of information while Red didn't help in the least.

[jehannamama.livejournal.com]

Wow... and I thought I had it rough working the floor when we had lots of DT patients admitted!

It certainly is not odd, but something long needed!

Mao destroyed so much that was beautiful and good about China. Repression of knowledge is a bad thing...

Which could get me going into a reprisal of my discussion with Ronnie about how "No Child Left Behind" worked by dumbing-down educational expectations, holding all of the children back to the functioning of the least able, and destroyed the school systems in the USA.

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

I'm in favor of such a Bill of Rights.

However, because I'm also one to immediately look at edge cases, I hope that "impeding a nurse in the performance of his/her duties" will not be used to criminally charge people who are in an altered state of consciousness due to pain, shock, trauma, mental illness, etc. and are therefore flailing or uncommunicative or whatever.

[wedschilde.livejournal.com]

snookies.

just snookies.

[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.