Nurses have allow this shortage to occur. We allow the hospitals and
society to think that nurses are as replaceable as paper charting. Nurses need
to
unite and demand the respect that the profession deserves. We are put down
(and definitely not backed up) by the CEOs, Directors and MDs. Society and most
administration see nurses as those who put Band-Aids and bedpans on patients.
They don't realize that the simple process of wiping butts and bathing are
important for determining skin assessment and detecting bed sores. We as
Nurses need to let society know that it may require a doctor to admit a patient
in
the hospital, but it requires a nurse to get out of one.



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