Nurses take on schools over insulin shots (Obama is against the nurses union)

[patrice]

86. I didn't intend to imply that. I have stood with nurses' local here & I have administered programs

that delivered their continuing education units for re-licensure, programs in which I read volumes of their written feedback, every week, for 3+ years (and also that of CNAs/CMAs, Medical Social Workers, Administrators, and Dieticians). I have some idea of what their problems are.

Yes, nursing shortages are not caused by CN/MA shortages; the respective shortages most immediate causes are different. The causes in nursing we have mentioned. The shortage causes for CN/MAs are about very low wages, poor scheduling, high patient to staff ratios, expensive benefits, no child care, lack of professional respect and the fact that "shit" just naturally rolls down-hill so whatever goes wrong becomes the fault of the person at the bottom of the power structure.

CN/MAs have more responsibility than they have power to deal with their problems. Though somewhat different proximate causes, the shortages in the respective fields are concurrent, because they are result of the same thing: mid- and higher- level management that have nearly nothing to do with direct care and yet make the lion's share of decisions about how direct care is done.