Thank you for the great comment.

I could not imagine, as a mother and a nurse, how heartbroken that loss must have been (and still is) for you. I am so glad you had a crew of empathetic, empassioned nurses that helped you get through those days in your time of greatest need.

Nursing itself is great. It’s the corporate cutting and the lack of safety precautions that drives people from the bedside. I really don’t understand how those long-term nurses survive for so long and don’t burn out. Although the ANA is working on nurse injury prevention and safe patient moving/lifting, they can only…

I am now a nurse practitioner, but I worked as an acute care RN in several hospitals for six years prior to finishing my master’s degree in nursing. The important work that we do as nurses is not necessarily lost on the people that have the first hand experience with nurses on a regular basis: patients, family…