NursingPUNK

http://www.gallup.com/poll/124625/Honesty-Ethics-Poll-Finds-Congress-Image-Tarnished.aspx


Gallup's annual Honesty and Ethics of Professions Poll


83% Y'all. We just smoked pharmacists.

Feels good to be America's most TRUSTED profession.

MY patients listen to me as I have my their best interest at heart, in my heart and they sense that. It is a position I love being in. Black and white. Right and wrong.

Nursing is punk. Like Yoko Ono, Dennis Kucinich, Elmo, Don Rickles before us...We keep slogging through that losing battle to prevent hospital care from being transformed into a greased out fast food restaurant. Nurses don't want you to have to ask for ketchup, napkins and refills! You fucking deserve it for free! We try to fight the M.B.A. belief that patient care can be transformed into a goddamn Marriot for those with insurance, a lowly motel 8 for those with medicare and a two bit YMCA for those without any medical back up.

Fellow nurses you can deny it, choose to not observe it- but we are in a weird professional position. Our very existence costs hospitals money- our code of ethics is nothing but an irritating expense. But without us, a visit to the hospital would be an expensive an absurd form of rape. We are hard steel screws, holding tight in a time of cheap unreliable surgical glue. If you think infrastructure will be reinforced with quality materials think again...

Keep advocating for those in our charge, keep fighting the faceless cowards who are trying to destroy our salaries, savings and whatever meager pension is left. Stick together, stop gossiping and start collaborating.

THIS IS A STREET FIGHT GUYS!! AND EVERY YEAR THEY GET ONE BLOCK CLOSER TO TO OUR SACRED TERRITORY: OUR WAGE AND SCOPE OF PRACTICE.
EVERY YEAR WE GET MORE RESPONSIBILITY, MORE LIABILITY, LESS SUPPORT, LESS RESPECT AND IT'S OUR FAULT!
HAVE YOU ENJOYED AIR TRAVEL RECENTLY? WE ARE THE NEXT INDUSTRY TO BE COMPROMISED BEYOND ALL RECOGNITION. THE ASSAULT IS COMING. MINIMIZED AND TERRORIZED. INSTEAD OF SHAME THEY HAVE PROFIT MARGINS.