[Judyd]

I agree with you about the problems with leaders. Nurses who want to be leaders usually don't make good leaders. Their motives are wrong. The Nurses who would make great leaders don't want the job. When we get a manager who is very good at the job. Managment does not like them. There seems to be a true lack of common sense. I want to be a part of the solution and often find myself cheering and ecouraging the good hard working nurses so they will stay. I have started keeping records. And have found a ground floor beginning of a union I plan to be active in and have found many of the nurses I admire most are already involoved. I find this uplifting for me. I don't feel so alone with the problems.

[Betty]

I only posted to mention that the hospital that I worked for when the nursing shortage came about in the 70's were trying to get people into nursing, the hosp. admin. found that foreign nurses could be brought in. And the hospital brought them in. I just wanted to mention that there seems to be a cycle in the nursing shortage and I found that interesting. What I meant by "they" was that possibly recruiters could try harder to show a better face to nursing. Our state board doesn't promote nursing on all fronts as good as they could, in my opinion only. I myself have no anwers for the nursing shortage, only questions. What else can be done will be left to those still in the profession or coming into the profession. I am one who has left the profession recently. I spent around 35 yrs in the medical profession and about 30 yrs as an RN. I have worked in almost every position including management. I have an ADN and BSN. I am probably 7 yrs from retirement. But opted out now. But this is about the nursing shortage and not about me, except that I am one who left nursing for numerous reasons, new career, death of my spouse, & illness.

[Aaron C.]

I agree Betty, I think things will change, it's a cycle...

Betty, did you get the private message I sent you? If not, you should have a flashing box on the navigation bar at the top of your screen.

--Aaron

[All41]

Sorry if I sounded like I was finger pointing your way which was certainly not my intent. I just used your post to expound on what I believe is a real problem. Like a "root" cause. We tend to want to cut off the limb to treat the finger. Again, it is never my intent to put anyone's ideas down. Thank-you for letting me know.

It's like being president. I don't want to have a president who wants to be president. Someone famous made a quote about that but I can't remember who or how it goes.

Usually those kind of people have alterior motives or bad intentions.

[Betty]

No problem in answer to your post. There remain internal problems which may never be fixed. My daughter is a nurse as well. All businesses can have internal problems, though. The nursing shortage seems to run in cycles.

[Jim]

I hope it was H.L. Mencken, but probably someone else, who said, "Those who aspire to power are precisely those who should not have it."

Jim

Yeah, Jim, that's the quote I was referring to. I knew it was something like that but I also knew I wasn't even close! Thanks for putting that up.

I love that quote. I think about that every time I see a political ad on tv.

[Judyd]

Jim I thought I had a clever thought of my own, alas it was before my time. LOL

[FreaK]

There will always be a shortage of nurses.....................its historical