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theHandpuppet

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2. Every time I've had to go to the hospital, either for myself or others...

Reply to valerief (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 6, 2014, 01:51 PM

Oct 2014

... I've been truly impressed by the work of the nurses, even though so many of them are overworked and underappreciated. There is a nursing shortage in this country and it's predicted it's going to get exponentially worse in the coming years.

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Did you know this is Emergency Nurses Week? [View all] theHandpuppet Oct 2014 OP

Nurses are great. It's a shame the assholes who control hospitals don't hire more. nt valerief Oct 2014 #1

Every time I've had to go to the hospital, either for myself or others... theHandpuppet Oct 2014 #2

Is it a nursing shortage like the "IT shortage" which resulted in tons of H1Bs? valerief Oct 2014 #4

Thank you nurses everywhere! logosoco Oct 2014 #3