Comments on: Nursing Industry Desperate For New Hires

With Applicants Scarce, Recruiters Turn To Creative Means To End Chronic Understaffing

[ms1-1-1]

- ever go into a VA Hospital anywhere U.S.A., good luck if the Physicians speak ENGLISH, this is what it sounds like:

Isn''t there a manual on how to perofrn this surgery in the top right drawer somewhere over there,

How many hospitals get these so called Phillippine nurses its a joke, Oh hurry hurry I need an American Husband I can give Hiv / Aids and wipe out his bank account oh hurry hurry I need an American Husband ...

Mail order flukes ... but then if they are willing to pay the $180,000 right up front money who cares where it''s from any more in U.S.A., is good, I say put these mail order brides to work, they beg for American Husbands so they can become U.S.A., citizens then make em pay dearly for it...... anywhere U.S.A., they these mail order brides had no problems bilking American citizens, so no problems using them.

Hail, today everyone in Philippines alleges oh look I''m a nurse, I''m a doctor hury hurry find me an American Husband oh hurry I''m an abused wife, mistress the gigs go on shamelessly...

its a joke already ... no one is interrested in nursing due to the fact HIV-AIDs its that simple ... nurses are contracting the diesease dealing with transgenders, bi-sexuals, lesbians, g,a,y,s, et cet.,

you can have it.

[montlady-2009]

The nursing shortage will continue, despite TV''s, massage chairs, etc, as we are tired of being treated like *** by administration and physician. Oh yea, even the housekeepers feel more important. Doesn''t matter what no other department wants to do, everybody turfs it to the nurses. Nurses are supposed to save your life, give your medications correctly, on time and in the right combo''s, KEEP THE DOCTOR FROM KILLING YOU INADVERTENTLY, and THEN we get to dump the trash, haul the dirty linen to the laundry, pass out meal trays and pick them up while dealing with patient''s constant complaints about ''I need more butter/salt/coffee/this is icky/etc'', as no one wants to take any responsibility for their own healthier diet. Patient''s and family come in with weapons, demand sexual favors and hit us. Why would anybody sane want this job?

[cattiej]

Before I close, as a retired nurse I just want to tell everyone...There are Patients Rights for all of us. If you feel you are not being taken care of properly or safely, voice you comments like I did. I wrote the hosptial director, the director of nursing and the personnal department and voice my displeasure. After all it is your life and your money that''s on the line.

[cattiej]

When you go to the hospital, you never would know if a person was a nurse who came into your room. Nurses (except for men) used to wear nursing caps, white uniforms, badges with there names on them. Now everyone that comes into your room has scrubs on, some of them are messy and dirty. Many of the nurses have long earrigs on, chewing gum, don''t even know how to help lift a patient out of bed. Also, they don''t wash there hands when they come into your room or when they leave. (many Dr''s don''t either) No wonder there are so many infections in the hosptial setting. I had abdominal surgery this past summer, I needed to use the bathroom and the nurse who finally came into my room was very pregnant. I asked her how she was going to help me out of bed and she told me that she would tell me how to help myself. She couldn''t help me because she was going to have her baby in 3 days (c-section). What kind of Director of Nurses would allow someone that pregnant to work on a surgical floor??? A desperate one, no matter how unsafe it was for the patients. Of course, I had to get out of bed myself, take my own IV, my abdominal tubing etc and she watched me all the time but never could actually help me. I will never be a patient in that hospital again.

[cattiej]

this is what happens when hospitals, Dr''s offices, clinic,nursing home have paid nurses slave wages.
I am a retired nurse, I worked sometimes 2 shifts of 8 hours each, no extra pay, just a job. Housekeeping employee''s made more money than I did because they were union.
The cost of nursing schools has sky-rocketed. The vocational schools that push out so called medical techs charge thousands of dollars. These people are not nurses, but they will work for slave wages. They call in prescriptions, orders etc. but have little schooling to do so. But, they work cheap. They are a danger to patients everywhere because they have no idea the normal labs, x-rays, injectable meds, etc.
Nurses work 12 hours on and 12 hours off at our local hospital. How safe is that? There is a lot of stress now because there are fewer and fewer nurses. There are also fewer and fewer American doctors. Our medical system is in a mess. We hope Obama will see American''s going to medical school at a fair tuition or for free but they would have to work for at least 5 years in a urban or rural setting to pay back there tuition. We need more American students who want to be Dr''s have a way to get into medical school, we have foreign students who come here to go to medical school and they stay after they graduate instead of going back to there own countries. This is not good for our country and not good for our citixens.

[shanev137]

It''s really too bad that more colleges don''t offer nursing degree programs.