As some of our policy makers continue to plod into familiar solutions, searching for millions of dollars to build more lanes on the state highways for more cars that poison our air, others are recognizing that the new technologies allow for unprecedented answers to our problems. That's the reality of government.
Safety can be as simple as that.
Inherent in nursing is the control of disease, the care and rehabilitation of the sick and the promotion of health through teaching and counseling. So I have just one wish for you - the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom. In his book Unsafe at Any Speed he asked why thousands of Americans were being killed or injured in car accidents when the technology already existed to make our cars safer. The automobile industry resisted Nader's suggestions furiously, but public outcry forced government and industry to apply new safety standards, and to include devices like shoulder harnesses and air bags which have saved thousands from death or injury.