Tonight, ABC’s “Desperate Housewives” gave us a hospital nurse as mousy, pathetic physician lackey who can be bribed into revealing sensitive patient information with free lunch at a French bistro, and who has time to leave the hospital mid-shift to eat that lunch. Yeah, we know–it’s just Wisteria Lane. We’re sure that the episode’s 16 [...]

Tonight’s episode of Fox’s “House” seemed designed to placate nurses unhappy that the show has spent the last four seasons pretending nurses play no important role in hospital care. The show’s isolated effort to make amends did not focus on what nurses actually do, but instead relied on a strike plotline which supposedly showed how [...]

Kim at Emergiblog feels the way I used to feel about nursing. She loves taking care of patients and can’t picture doing anything else.
The difference between her and I is that I lost that feeling LONG AGO and discovered I was trapped in a profession that was a dead end.
Kim talks about the fact that [...]