Happy Nurse Week

[WriterDom]

To all our nurses here.

 

[Desdemona]

Thank you.

 

[Kajira Callista]

Thank you.

i like nurses lots ya know.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Yeah, what's up with that nurse thing anyway?

I dig em.

 

[curiousjen]

The thing I don't get about nurses is....

everybody loves them yet they get paid peanuts. If we love them so much lets pay more tax and campaign for wage rises.

I had to go for a blood test today and the nurse was REALLY nice. It pissed me off that some crummy little advertising executive will be paid millions to sell a new kind of trainer, whilst old tina the nurse gets diddly squat. In general I have found them to be a very caring bunch. It would be a shame if so many people were put off nursing because of the low wages.

Just a thought. Sorry to go all socialist on your ass

/rant

 

[A Desert Rose]

To all our nurses here.

Well, isn't that just sweet of you.

Thanks.

 

[WriterDom]

The thing I don't get about nurses is....

everybody loves them yet they get paid peanuts. If we love them so much lets pay more tax and campaign for wage rises.

I had to go for a blood test today and the nurse was REALLY nice. It pissed me off that some crummy little advertising executive will be paid millions to sell a new kind of trainer, whilst old tina the nurse gets diddly squat. In general I have found them to be a very caring bunch. It would be a shame if so many people were put off nursing because of the low wages.

Just a thought. Sorry to go all socialist on your ass

/rant

Guess it depends on what kind of nursing you are doing, but there is a shortage, and I know nurses who make a lot of money. One turned down almost 50 dollars an hour, plus a lot of other perks, to transfer to Mississippi. 50 an hour in Mississippi is a lot of money.

 

[A Desert Rose]

Guess it depends on what kind of nursing you are doing, but there is a shortage, and I know nurses who make a lot of money. One turned down almost 50 dollars an hour, plus a lot of other perks, to transfer to Mississippi. 50 an hour in Mississippi is a lot of money.

There's more involved here than money and benefits. People fail to consider the responsiblity and the law suits that might (and do) come with it.

But never mind.

 

[curiousjen]

Guess it depends on what kind of nursing you are doing, but there is a shortage, and I know nurses who make a lot of money. One turned down almost 50 dollars an hour, plus a lot of other perks, to transfer to Mississippi. 50 an hour in Mississippi is a lot of money.

Over here, I think you can earn a lot of money if you go into private health care, but if you are dedicated to and work within the NHS the wage is pretty terrible especially in places like London where the cost of living is so high. People are being put off it, I think and we are having to employ a lot of foreign nurses within the NHS to make up for the shortage.

Hmmmm. I'm probably simplifying the issue somewhat, but I personally have nurse friends who are working all the hours god sends and still struggling to make ends meet. And like ADR says, the job has tremendous responsibilities and stress, which can all take their toll

So thank you, nurses, you do a great job!

 

[s'lara]

Just wanted to stop in and say happy Nurses Week to the gents and ladies who help to heal us when we need it the most.

Thank you.

lara

 

[DVS]

Nurses always get a rise out of me.

 

[Pelagie]

I just saw this. And I know I'm late and all, but this is really nice and much appreciated.

 

[Netzach]

There's more involved here than money and benefits. People fail to consider the responsiblity and the law suits that might (and do) come with it.

But never mind.

Not to mention the hours, stress, patients treating you like shit....Mds treating you worse...


I nurses, and the nicer I am to them the better they are to me and I need that these days.