[John S.]

I am married to a nurse and I work in a hospital. How many people think the following when considering vocational aspirations: I want a job where I can count on working nights until someone on day shift dies and it’s my turn to move up; where doctors can complain to the director of nursing about me because they’re having a bad day and I paged them because they’re patient is dying or has questions about the procedure to be performed; where physicians can be dead wrong (no pun intended) in their assessment of a patient, but I’ll get in trouble for questioning their decision or suggesting alternatives. And wouldn’t it be cool to have a job where I could put my license, livelihood and patients’ lives on the line by working 40 hours of normal work each week, then another 24 hours of mandatory overtime? It would be nice, too, if I could go into a career field in which other members go out of their way to stab each other in the back. And it would be a bonus if I found a career field whose members complain incessantly about the work they do. You get my point. Unless you’re a really altruistic or a ‘feel good’ person, there doesn’t seem to be much incentive or reason to go into nursing.

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Name : John S., Gender : Male, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 40s, City : Fayetteville, State : NC, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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