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Nurses it's time to speak up to your nursing organizations and Nursing Boards in regards to this epidemic that we have in Nursing today. Where will good quality heath care come from is there are no nurses there to give it??? We must start to speak out now. I would encourage people to write their newspapers. Speak to the Media about the true situation we are all in, in this profession.
May 6th is National Nurses Day. Speak up Nurses it's your day to say, Hey, we Love Nursing and what we went into but where can we go to practice our skills??? This is not just a nursing issue, it's a health care crisis. If there are to be bail-outs maybe our President needs to take a stronger look at health care and the Nursing Profession. Without nurses to care for the patients and residents where will we all be? What is that, about a possible Pandemic in the Swine Flu??
Where are the Swines?? How did the Pigs get this flu passed onto you, and me??? Are we all on page here??
If we are about Health care then where is our Florence Nightingale approach?
It is time for all Nursing Associations to speak up and speak out on the issue of decrease in
staffing affecting good quality patient care. We need to start petition drives if need be to be heard.
We are the backbone of the first line of defense in sickness and disease. We are nurses at Heart
and We do Represent the People. We are to advocate for the people. Now is the time to start advocating. It's not just about our employment, it's an over all issue of Health Care In Our Nation.

healthcare is not like it use to be, i listen to all the wonderful stories the nurses in my family as well as seasoned nurses tell and i am like wow i wish i was experiencing all those great things you guys talk about, i am overwhelmed in working LTC. I answer phone calls that are not physician calls or related to medical issue, i am expected to monitor the residents on top of getting med pass done in a timely matter, doctor orders, admitts, unfortunate and unexpected occurences, charting and a supervisor who enjoys spending 7.5 hours of the shift monitoring everything i do because i am a new nurse.......lol. I am grateful to be employed because i have a family that i have to support, but i have no benefits and alot of my healthcare cost is out of pocket. It is very much so overwhelming to have 101 titles behind LPN, but at times i feel like a lot of my concentration is not on learning about nursing, its more about learning how to handle 1,001 task at one so that you are so overwhelmed sooner or later you are bound to make a mistake training, although you become familiar with your patients after some time its still like i dont have a strong connection with whats what because things are thrown at you so fast, your patients health status are changing ever so often and all it takes if for you to be off one day to come back to something totally different from what you know just the day or so prior. NOT COMPLAINING JUST OVERWHELMED. On top of that the nurses are i started working with are slowly but for sure enough being layed off from the facility. So the worry of being layed off is always at the back of my mind on top of oh wow which physician is gonna have a dispositon because i had to call him over a lab that wasn't stamped critical....lol. I am a new LPN and i am so ready to start back school for my RN at least I will have a better chance,then again who knows i have been hearing of a lot of RN's here in chicago being terminated from their jobs of 20 yrs plus as well....so we are not safe from the recession

nursing is not recession proof. My nursing school is located in a major healthcare area. THe cureent graduating class has 94 students and guess what 2 weeks ago there were no nursing jobds period. Not to mention there are 10 other programs here ADN adn BSN. that sounds like a recession to me.

i think it depends on where you live.. but people will ALWAYS get sick and need professional care.. so its up in the air..

In my area nursing has been hit by the recession. I live in the Flint area and as a new grad it has been difficult to find promising job leads since the local hospitals have implemented a hiring freeze. I am remaining positive that I will find a good job but it will just take a little longer than I had expected it to.

I just finished school in December and obtained my RN license last month. I cannot find a job as a RN in the Orlando area and I have 23 years of LPN experience and in all that time I have never had a problem finding employment in the health field. In this day and age it is not what you know but who you know that matters.

I have been looking for a nursing job since August, I am having no luck. Lots of hospitals near me are on hiring freeze. I do believe that the recession hit the nursing profession.

The sad thing is the drop in wages for nurses. We had finally started to get salaries thet were closer to approriate and now that is crashing, at least where I am located. And when the economic disaster truns, trust me salaries will take much, much longer to re-bound.
But funny thing is government is helping Banks, yet in last week I received 3 notices that interest rates were going up significantly on credit cards, Why do banks feel they can demand 29.9% and more? Not the Prime's fault, just another way to rip off consumers, and this is not personal it's across the board rate hikes. Once I get work I will remember those companies and promptly get them paid off and cancelled forever. Banks just take from everyone, let them go bankrupt just like many everyday normal people are.