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HILLS OUTLOOK Satorday October IS IMS Outlook op Lifestyle DRGOTT Nursing profession deserves respect By Peter M D The healthcare profession an anthill A complex community made up of thousands of Individuals scurrying hither and yon who per form dozens of tasks for the good of the inhabitants In order for the alii to run smoothly and accomplish its goals he participants must work in a coordinated and Interlocking manner When one part at the organ I on is threatened the whole system is put In peril Judging from my hospital expert and from what I read the nursing profession traditionally a vital and necessary component of health care is In trouble And soon or later this trouble Is going to feet doctors and patients The bases for what some experts have termed the nursing crisis ap pear to be poor working conditions and job dissatisfaction There are a number of reasons for this Nursing is a dangerous Nurses are at high risk of con trading the very disease they are helping patients to handle For exam pic AIDS patients now occupy aboul percent of New York City hospital beds and this figure will almost lalnly rise In the next decade both lor urban and rural hospitals Nursing is a poorly paid According to columnist George Will writing in Newsweek maga line salaries start at about Experienced nurses rarely earn more than annually even after yean of dedicated This trav of advancement may be an reason for the declining pool of young people who choose a nursing Nursing has become increasingly contaminated by record keeping and trivial administrative duties There is less patient care the of most nurses the handson rewarding activity that draws most applicants to the profession Nursing is fraught with incrcas ingly less job satisfaction as nurses find themselves caught between in sensitive doctors and a more demand log public Many continue to view nurses as handmaidens whose role Is to take orders When qualified nurses request and expect more re sponsibility the frightened and dcfcn sive healers refuse to accept this changing orientation Pressure from the public sector is equally conspicuous Patients are more seriously sick and require more individualized care than ever before However because of costcontain ment measures In hospitals where percent of nurses work nurses may be In short supply Also patients may cither take longer to be healed or are discharged feeling more unwell than is the c a few year re falling ago are discharged before they arc com cured they no longer reach the point of recovery where they buy candy for the nursing staff This can dycurve concept may seem inconse but according to Philip in Med World News magi zinc it reflects the general lack of recognition given to todays nurses While the metaphor may seem glib It accurately characterizes a deepseat work satisfaction problem Thus the anthill simile is not far from the truth If the nursing under pinning gives way the whole enter prise as know It will fall Into disarray You can run a hospital without a contingent of nurses This reality has been amply demonstrated when on past occasions nurses have gone out on strike Claire Pagan professor and dean School of Nursing University of Pennsylvania warns that nursing is becoming an Invisible profession composed of dtscnf ranch citizens for whom there is a lack of public and political outrage arc facing a nursing shortage because of an alarming drop In the numbers of If led people seeking nursing training This shortage will eventually trans late into declining levels of quality medical care Will concluded Someday when you are in a hospital and ring for a nurse she will not come or be as at tcntlve as you and she would wish And the chances are aging reader that the day will come when you will ring In short we must give nurses the recognition and respect that they have io amply earned during their many years of service to people who need help pours POINTERS Herbs in a dogs bed fend off fleas DEAR POLLY What herbs are 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