The fact is that people know it takes a lot of education and skill to be a brain surgeon. People don't know that it takes a lot of education and skill to take care of somebody who has just had brain surgery. That is the missing link in the nursing crisis. The fact is people are fighting for access to their doctors. They are not fighting with equal vigor for access to their nurse.
People know they have to have doctors.
That was just of patients who have gone to the hospital. A very small percentage of people every year are hospitalized, maybe 10 or 15 percent. So those people begin to learn about nursing. People that they interviewed in that study had just been in the hospital, they were very aware of nursing and lack of care. Nurses are regarded as honest and ethical but their breadth of skill is not known.