Health care consumers need to be aware of the issues facing today's nursing profession. Nurses for the most part genuinely care about but ones that have been entrusted to their care but report frustration at not being able to care for their patients properly and attend to their own self needs. Nurses want to be there comforting scared patients and families, carrying out orders while educating and comforting, teaching patients self care, and any other number of nursing functions. In many situations nurses lose their compassion in order to self-preserve. It is entirely a defense mechanism.
Nursing is a rewarding and satisfying career.
Nursing needs caring, dedicated, enthusiastic, intelligent people entering the profession. There is no easy answer of solution but the ANA is addressing these issues through legislation so hopefully our great nation will have nurses to see them through for generations to come. Dean Baker, RN, MSN, is a resident of Macon. The information you receive online from The Macon Telegraph is protected by the copyright laws of the United States. The copyright laws prohibit any copying, redistributing, retransmitting or repurposing of any copyright-protected material.