DrStew

I agree. Well said.

Dude.....chill. I'm as Republican as anybody but there is a time and a place for unions. Child labor laws didn't get changed by the children. Factory workers didn't get minimum wage from their generous employers. There's a time and a place for everything. I actually think that a nursing union might not be a bad thing. It will only be as liberal or conservative as the nurses that make up the body of the union. Right now, the administrators of hospital systems are focused on the bottom line and not much else. They're trying everything from the Disney model to the Starbucks model to change the way hospitals do business. Let's face it....we had to take all that BS nursing theory for a reason. I think that the nurses need a bigger voice and some political muscle to get things done.

of course if you had a union, you wouldn't have to face this yourselves.

I actually found the best part of working the ED was the womb to tomb aspect where you could see anything and everything. Kinda kept me balanced. Being part of a death is never cool, but then you're helping some lady deliver. To me it was a Yin and Yang kinda thing.