[Ann30949]

Nursing is a pretty intensive ‘service’ career without a lot of rewards, even today. Nurses are required to get nearly as many years of education as doctors, but rarely earn even half as much. The advent of the HMO culture and the ridiciulous amounts of paperwork it entails means that many nurses become essentially hopped-up file clerks who have no time to properly care for their patients, but receive all the blame if anything goes wrong. In a lot of hospitals, nurses are still viewed, even now, as nothing more than the doctors’ handmaidens, with no right to think or act beyond ‘doctor’s orders.’ The ‘grocery baggers earn more than nurses’ era has largely passed, but nurses still get very little respect from the general public, especially if they are male. The attitude of the girl’s family towards Ben Stiller’s character in ‘Meet the Parents’ was not really an exaggeration. All this aside, nursing is not an attractive career to only-child, spoiled-rotten, never-heard-the-word-‘no’ teens, which are increasingly the norm rather than the exception in America’s colleges. (Easily half the nurses in the hospital I work in are foreign born). Things are slowly reversing themselves, because as they become rarer, and therefore a hot commodity, nurses can demand much better pay, respect, and working conditions, which will in its turn attract more people to nursing, but it’s going to take a while to reverse the trend of the last twenty-odd years, especially with the ‘brat pack’ population hump moving through their college years right now.

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Name : Ann30949, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO, Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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