Personally I wouldn't get to excited about nursing in the USA..8 is a cake walk for many here.. Many would be envious..

I work in a chronic outpatient hemodialysis unit.. We dialyze 36 patients on MWF and 28 on TTHS.. That's 64 patients I am responsible for in a week. Yes, I know most of them quite well.. I have been here on a travel assignment since the end of Sept. Many days I am the only licensed person in the unit. Managers are so over worked with the finances of running the unit that they are not able to help. If it weren't for my patients being grateful I'd get out of nursing too...

The powers that be have to remember that they need nurses. When my son gets a 50 cent raise at Mikey D's and I get 30 cents that's an insult...And yes it is about the money.

Money says we are valuable too..

WR,,, three commas for Becca

Several studies have shown that each extra patient a nurse has reduces each of her patients chances of survival by something like 7%.. I'm not citing anything a good RN doesn't already know...