Talk:Nurse education
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124.106.219.219 00:42, 18 December 2006 (UTC)Does all nursing students really take up such field of study as their own choice? what are the different reasons?124.106.219.219 00:42, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
I was shocked to see the absence of responses to this question. I am 60 years old, have been interested in health since I could read. I worked in a pharmacy as the delivery boy when I was in high school. Since my boss was a drunk, I frequently had to fill prescriptions, when he was tanked out in his office. When I joined the Navy, I looked at the casualty lists in Viet Nam, and seeing so many corpsmen coming home in body bags, I decided to be a steam engineer on a destroyer. I used my GI Bill to get a degree in psychology, and found the only job I could get was in a mental hospital. Since I was working in the nursing department, I decided to become a nurse. The longer I practiced nursing, the more I realised that the best nurses are born to it. I felt sorry for my female colleagues, many of whom found it the only profession that could earn them a decent salary, and a modicum of respect. The longer I worked in the profession, the more I realised how little respect I had, and how my lifetime income would be severely limited in a profession which is less than ten percent male, and will always be scaled down from the salaries of physicians. In 1950 the average nurse earned 1/2 as much as the average physician. In 1970 it was 1/5. I am afraid to find out the salary gap today, but consider the additional responsibility of nurses over those 20 years. One of the best reasons to become a nurse was for job security. Although retired for the past few years, I still get job offers every day, but why are so many nursing jobs going begging? Like the Dean of the College of Nursing at Columbia University said, "We do not have a nursing shortage. What we have is a shortage of quality nursing jobs."--J.D.Schultz, RN--W8IMP 23:44, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
