Reply #41: Predominantly female and seen as only assisting the docs

[lastliberalintexas]

In reality, nurses provide most of the care, and we all know it. Plus, many nursing schools seem to try to keep the numbers artificially low by having such limited enrollment. I don't know if they think that it will drive up wages or if there is some other driving force behind it.

And some places are even refusing to hire nurses for positions that would have traditionally been filled by LVNs at least. Instead, they are hiring "nurse assistants", who are really just 20 year olds with no experience or training. From what I understand in Texas, they can take vitals, etc.- just not administer injections. And they're much cheaper than real live trained nursing professionals. And maybe they use the excuse that there aren't any nurses, so we have to be able to hire these assistants? I don't know, but the bottom line focus of healthcare today is horrible.

See what I said in my other post about for profit corporations running healthcare? x(