[ann945n]

While they didnt offer any answers to the shortage (which isnt their job to do) its good that they are reporting the real facts though obvious to us nurses is not to the general public. Perhaps more public awarness will spark some federal help if pressure is applied by the public more once they understand they are affected by this as well.

[KR]

Originally Posted by soontobenurse2

DIDO!!!!

NO new information there!!!!!
How can the prevent the shortage of nurses?????
Well what about providing students with scholarships!!!

I have to respectfully disagree with your statement. The problem is not that would be nursing students are not able to finance their education, the problem is that there are not enough nursing professors to teach nursing. I feel the reason for this is because you can make more as a bedside nurse by far than by working as a nursing professor. But I won't even get on that soap box.

[abundantjoy07]

There has got to be a point in every nurses career where they take the time to reflect on the profession of nursing and see how they can contribute to the future of nursing.

Nursing instructors aren't just going to just pop out of the woodwork. The instructors are you guys that have been nursing for decades and have acquired a great deal of knowledge.

Therefore, I propose that to help the profession as a whole either:

A. Keep working and providing the safe and effective care that is valued.

B. Be an advocate to your peers and encourage them to become an educator, stressing the importance of giving a renewed hope to the field of nursing.

OR better yet...

B. Quit complaining and teach! Give life to the new students and to those that want to get in school, but can't. If you serve as a teacher there will be more students serving as RNs and LVNs in the future. Not only is that beneficial to the patients, but also to nurses themselves! All of this "trench" work doesn't have to exist...but without new nurses filling in gaps of a strained work environment nothing is going to be accomplished.

The report was well done. The technical skill of nurses was presented, and the story was timely. They do these stories about once a year anyway. But if a nurse were to go on camera complaining, the shortage would be even greater by the end of the day!

The bottom line that was presented was the lack of instructors. No instructors means no new nurses and no new nurses means a greater shortage in the future.

It's time to put the money argument aside and give back to the field that has given so much to you.

[ann945n]

Originally Posted by abundantjoy07

There has got to be a point in every nurses career where they take the time to reflect on the profession of nursing and see how they can contribute to the future of nursing.

Nursing instructors aren't just going to just pop out of the woodwork. The instructors are you guys that have been nursing for decades and have acquired a great deal of knowledge.

Therefore, I propose that to help the profession as a whole either:

A. Keep working and providing the safe and effective care that is valued.

B. Be an advocate to your peers and encourage them to become an educator, stressing the importance of giving a renewed hope to the field of nursing.

OR better yet...

B. Quit complaining and teach! Give life to the new students and to those that want to get in school, but can't. If you serve as a teacher there will be more students serving as RNs and LVNs in the future. Not only is that beneficial to the patients, but also to nurses themselves! All of this "trench" work doesn't have to exist...but without new nurses filling in gaps of a strained work environment nothing is going to be accomplished.

The report was well done. The technical skill of nurses was presented, and the story was timely. They do these stories about once a year anyway. But if a nurse were to go on camera complaining, the shortage would be even greater by the end of the day!

The bottom line that was presented was the lack of instructors. No instructors means no new nurses and no new nurses means a greater shortage in the future.

It's time to put the money argument aside and give back to the field that has given so much to you.

This sounds like a nice idea, giving back, but you can't ask people to take a job for half the pay when we have house and car and student loans bills to pay off. One must be responsible for ones own self first.

[GoLytely]

It was more informative than that DREADFUL Johnson &Johnson commercial, playing that revolting song.

[reesern63]

Originally Posted by ann945n

While they didnt offer any answers to the shortage (which isnt their job to do) its good that they are reporting the real facts though obvious to us nurses is not to the general public. Perhaps more public awarness will spark some federal help if pressure is applied by the public more once they understand they are affected by this as well.

That's true, you have to consider the audience. Most national network news is more like "McNews." You get little bites, kind of tasty, but not a lot of substance. If it was enough to cause Joe Sixpack to say to his wife, "Hey honey, did you know there's a nursing shortage?" then it did its job.

You want serious analysis, then you need something like the "McNeil-Lehrer Report."

[reesern63]

Originally Posted by motorcycle mama

It was more informative than that DREADFUL Johnson &Johnson commercial, playing that revolting song.

Thank goodness they seem to have died off. I felt like I needed to mainline a liter of insulin after seeing one of those commercials.

[Emmanuel Goldstein]

Originally Posted by motorcycle mama

It was more informative than that DREADFUL Johnson &Johnson commercial, playing that revolting song.

[CseMgr1]

Originally Posted by reesern63

Thank goodness they seem to have died off. I felt like I needed to mainline a liter of insulin after seeing one of those commercials.

Make mine a double!

Laughing out loud, here....TOO FUNNY!

[CseMgr1]

Originally Posted by reesern63

That's true, you have to consider the audience. Most national network news is more like "McNews." You get little bites, kind of tasty, but not a lot of substance. If it was enough to cause Joe Sixpack to say to his wife, "Hey honey, did you know there's a nursing shortage?" then it did its job.

You want serious analysis, then you need something like the "McNeil-Lehrer Report."

The last decent TV program in my memory which actually addressed the day-to-day problems of nurses (even back in 1979-1980) was "Nurse", based on the book by Peggy Anderson. Though it and Michael Learned (a WONDERFUL actress) received critical acclaim, the network cancelled it after less than two seasons because of (you guessed it): poor ratings.

No blood and guts...no money for the corporations who run the networks.

My money is also on PBS, reesern. Most excellent.