regression to hospital based nursing

An immediate solution to the nursing shortage in this country would be to attract even half of those nurses back into the system by providing decent jobs, wages and working conditions.” Ged Kearney, ANF Acting Federal Secretary http://www.anf.org.au/

I went to such a program in Canada back in 1968....in our second year, we staffed the hospitals on night shift, then went to school during the day. (Heaven help the patients).The third year was all work, with one class/week. We got paid $375/month to work full time in the hospital and couldn't take the RN boards until the end of the third year. I got sick with meningitis during my second year and almost died. When I was finished, I never wanted to have anything to do with nursing again. I came back, thru the US, back to university, in the 90s. No comment.

The Australian Nurses Federation - the major professional organisation / union - reject it:
“It is old time thinking. Mr Howard [Australian Prime Minister] should ask himself and tell the community why we have over 10% of the nursing workforce (30,000 nurses) who remain registered as nurses but refuse to work in a system that has been run down and fails to provide decent wages and working conditions. An immediate solution to the nursing shortage in this country would be to attract even half of those nurses back into the system by providing decent jobs, wages and working conditions.” Ged Kearney, ANF Acting Federal Secretary http://www.anf.org.au/