If patients and families don't get adequate education it may lead to confusion regarding health care needs at home. In the fourth quarter of 2000, Minnesota had 2,900 Registered Nurse positions vacant. The public needs to be involved in this debate. The root of nursing is nurturing. You can't really cut corners on care.
People heal with time and nursing.
We have to stop as a society and realize this. We want quick fixes, but nursing is anything but that. Ninety percent of all ICU nurses show signs of post traumatic stress. The present environment is not conducive to keeping good nurses, and many of them are talking with their feet. We are fighting for the dignity of the profession and to save patients' lives.