“We’re not just warm and fuzzy: we’re scientists, we’re social workers, we’re personal counsellors  If we can give the people we talk to about nursing a complete picture of what it is we do–rather than focusing on things like nurses eating their young, or crappy doctors, or how fulfilling it is to wash a back at three a.m.–we’re likely to find many more smart, motivated people who are suddenly interested in becoming nurses..”

Health Leaders Media journalist Rebecca Hendren asks why nurses should get a day when so few others, including doctors, get the same special recognition. One of the doctors I know suggested facetiously that docs get the other 364 days to be special!  Wouldn’t it be nice, they say, if we didnt need nurses week to celebrate how nurses actually contribute to the health of nations.

The nursing advocacy website suggets a T-shirt slogan : “My physician colleagues got 99% of the funding for research and residencies, and all I got was this Nurses Week T-shirt!”

But seeing as how we still have it for now- lets use it for the greater good and blow our own trumpet positively, respectfully and intelligently!

a sqatting scavenger

I have found a new name for those nurses who have decided they will go no further in their chosen profession than where they have been for the past 10(15)(20) years…they are squatters of the worst kind. According to The Muse, they clog up the system, do not let other nurses on their way up the ladder past and generally create a nuisance of inertia.

“Nurses with a passion to be more and do more deserve to run into open arms, not walls.  They deserve a boost, not a glare.  Only when we have relieved the ranks of Squatters, will the profession of Nursing rebound… with loyalty, retention, energy and pride.”

Hear, Hear!

I confess to having plagerised his guide to guest posting to help budding bloggers on this site….hopefully we to will build up an expert team of smart, funny, slightly contraversial maybe, addicted bloggers!