Friday, January 21, 2005

Tongue-in-cheek and painfully true

The Toronto Star's Linwood Barclay imagines the table talk at Ontario's Ministry of Health.

Once again, Ontario is abuzz with talk of laying off nurses. Quel surprise.

When I entered nursing school in 1988, it was generally assumed that one could write one's own ticket upon successful completion of a Baccalaureate degree in Nursing. By 1992, the bottom had fallen out of the nursing workforce. I was one of only a handful of graduates who landed a full-time job within 6 months of leaving Queen's. Most of my classmates ended up in the United States, at least for a while. I followed them a couple of years later.

How many SARS-type crises will it take to make the powers that be wake up to the fact that RN's are, umm, kind of important to the health care system?

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