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Re: Nursing Bloggers Dish About The State Of Their Profession

NPs Save Lives — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:24:37 -0000

I really agree with the fact that there is a dangerous shortage of nursing instructors due to a serious lack of pay. I could make more on the medical floor of my local hospital without a Master's degree than they were paying the local instructors. Let me know if you would ever like to interview a Family Nurse Practitioner some time. I put a link to the interview on my site. Cheers!

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Karin RN — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:28:36 -0000

Thanks for taking the time to put this podcast together. I will be linking to this post and/or podcast if that's OK.

Re: Nursing Bloggers Dish About The State Of Their Profession

Katie Brewer — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:55:13 -0000

I also liked your attention to the issues facing nursing. I agree with everyone's points, except for the creation of a new office for a "National Nurse". Resources for nursing issues are so extremely limited, that asking congress to put millions of dollars into this office are diverting that money from direct funding of Title VIII programs, health care initiatives, etc. It's taken years and lots of dollars just to get congress to look at legislation for nursing reforms, and hundreds of hours of calling to get appropriations for Title VIII renewed, and the political soup is just too thick to create this new office.

Re: Nursing Bloggers Dish About The State Of Their Profession

Shellee — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:03:15 -0000

Thanks for focusing on nursing in the Podcast and blog post. I am a proponent of having a National Nurse and I'm really glad that you mentioned it on your website. Those of us who work in the field of healthcare understand that there are important roles for nursing and medicine. In every speciality, we work as a team to promote the optimal health of our patients. If a National Nurse worked together with the Surgeon General, in the way that occurs in most healthcare settings, so much more could get accomplished, especially in terms of prevention, chronic care and health awareness (key roles for nursing).

Re: Nursing Bloggers Dish About The State Of Their Profession

Strong One — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:30:00 -0000

Aahh yes. Thanks for the PodCast as well as the blog post.
It was a great experience.
Thanks for taking an interest!