[llg]

Thanks for all the good links, Hellllllo Nurse. That was a great post.

... and ... Thanks for the support, guys. You know I am not a "flamer" in general. But I do like to see allnuses.com uphold appropriate standards for scholarship and research.

llg

[beesnest]

Originally Posted by kismetsun

First may I begin by saying that I resent your attitude. It has been my impression that if you are seeking information, you go to the source. You have made the assumption that as a doctoral administrative student that I am lazy by "asking you (meaning nurses) to do my homework for me. This was merely one of many research tools that I was using at my disposal. I was searching the web for information and I ran across this site. My objective was to get a perspective from nurses and what was important to them. This is only a small portion of the research in the shortages of ALL healthcare allied professionals; however since the world is focused on the nursing shortage as opposed to medical technologists, respiratory therapists, radiology techs etc, I thought I would begin with nursing. To answer your question as to how the information would be used, it was for an assignment on why fewer people are entering the healthcare field. As a matter of fact, I should be focusing on an assignment I have for recruiting minorities in healthcare but I felt compelled to respond to your inflammatory post. I can only speak for myself but the reason I am a healthcare professional is I am concerned about the future of healthcare. I am a team player and my sole purpose in asking the question was to bridge the gap between the allied healthcare professionals. Forgive me for wanting to get an idea of what nurses expect and desire from administration. May I also say that if your attitude is representative of ALL nurses, I can see why your profession is not respected among other healthcare professionals.

llg made some very intelligent observations, and told you why we might not run to your aid. Yet you respond with this?

THIS is what is most frustrating to me about nursing. A nurse makes some excellent observations, suggests changes that are valid from our point of view, and the response is some combination of how rude and ungrateful we are, how you have much bigger and better things to do besides listen to our uneducated opinions, and nursing isn't a profession anyway.

Now why, do you think, we wouldn't want to stay in nursing?



PS; llg has more education and experience in research than you can dream of. If I was you I would thank her, and take her every suggestion to heart.

[kismetsun]

I would like to thank everyone who responded to this thread. In addition, I appreciate all the links and I look forward to reading the information.