Hear, hear. The only times I was ever comforted in a hospital, it was always because of or by a nurse. Nurses make that shit liveable and that’s saying a lot. Sure, there are crappy nurses as there are in any profession, but without those good nurses, I shudder to think of the state of healthcare in America. And they…

The average RN job does not pay close to 6 figures. You would have to a) have a masters or PhD in a specialty area or b) be doing enough overtime to kill you.

That’s not even bringing into account the MASSIVE amount of assaults against nurses that happen ALL the time, and when nurses go to administration for support or action they are routinely dismissed and/or often BLAMED for getting assaulted in the first place. Nurses are told NOT to press charges when they’re…

I’m pretty upset with how Jezebel readers are being so incredibly dismissive and actually shitty about this.
Nursing is a predominantly female occupation and as such has routinely been dismissed as a less than vocation for exactly that reason. We have to fight to be taken seriously ALL the time. I get shitty comments…

Lots of nurses become nurses for the money as well. It was drilled into me in high school the high demand for nurses, the job security, and the potential for enormous overtime which catapults one’s salary. I certainly have former classmates who went into the profession for those very reasons.

So many nurses are saints; they literally do the heavy lifting; they catch errors in combined perscriptions; they are the ones to whom patients turn for emotional support and actual understanding of diagnoses in the face of distant/rushed doctors. And they are paid next to nothing. There are many and varied reasons…

I’m not even sure if his support *is* unequivocal. There are plenty of Jews (even in the Knesset) who support a two-state solution and who want more humane treatment of the Palestinians. It’s just unfair to single him out for his stance on it due to his religion. Jews get unsolicited questions about Israel *all* *the*…