http://blog.gleeson.us/2006/12/08/az-ag-has-big-beef-nurses-grudge The Gleeson Family of Fine Blogs Mon, 21 May 2012 11:36:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 http://blog.gleeson.us/2006/12/08/az-ag-has-big-beef-nurses-grudge#comment-54270 Sat, 09 Dec 2006 20:50:20 +0000 http://blog.gleeson.us/2006/12/08/az-ag-has-big-beef-nurses-grudge#comment-54270 [...] I looked at their site. The news article doesn’t begin to really explain how offensive it all is. All their “nurses” have stripper names. I notice their one “doctor” is male and is covered head-to-toe in scrubs and shoe covers. Where’s his g-string? Hmmm?? It wouldn’t be so bad if nursing as a profession didn’t already have to fight against nearly insurmountable odds against the AMA and the AHA in this world of for-profit medicine for recognition and appreciation for our qualifications, the sacrifice, the job we do, and for that and our positions to be respected. We’re not unskilled labor. We do labor, but it is the only degreed profession out there that qualifies as labor and requires one to sacrifice one’s own selfand family and belittles one’s own struggle for self-respect as employers expect the sacrifice of every part of one’s own self and outside life to perform it. And for all that sacfifice, that education, that responsibility, we get paid less than plumbers and comparably to UPS drivers. Thats the real problem here. Respect. We just don’t get that. Instead we get our resources cut, are treated as insolent children, and are belittled as merely objects for sexual fantasy and are told to “lighten up” when we object. Other bloggers have put in their $.02 as well: Code Blog, Doctor Anonymous, The Gleeson Blogomerate, Belle of the Brawl. As have their commenters. You in Tempe, you do what you want, just please don’t contribute to the notion that I, as a nurse, am put on this earth solely to entertain peoples’ nursing fantasies. I get hit with it all the time already and I’ve had quite about enough of that. If people are going to recognize me by my profession, I want it to be associated with a smart, caring, advocacy position and not part of a titillating marketing game. You could dress up your staff in little short black “Grim Reaper” costumes with the hoods and I doubt the real Grim Reaper would complain. [...] […] I looked at their site. The news article doesn’t begin to really explain how offensive it all is. All their “nurses” have stripper names. I notice their one “doctor” is male and is covered head-to-toe in scrubs and shoe covers. Where’s his g-string? Hmmm?? It wouldn’t be so bad if nursing as a profession didn’t already have to fight against nearly insurmountable odds against the AMA and the AHA in this world of for-profit medicine for recognition and appreciation for our qualifications, the sacrifice, the job we do, and for that and our positions to be respected. We’re not unskilled labor. We do labor, but it is the only degreed profession out there that qualifies as labor and requires one to sacrifice one’s own selfand family and belittles one’s own struggle for self-respect as employers expect the sacrifice of every part of one’s own self and outside life to perform it. And for all that sacfifice, that education, that responsibility, we get paid less than plumbers and comparably to UPS drivers. Thats the real problem here. Respect. We just don’t get that. Instead we get our resources cut, are treated as insolent children, and are belittled as merely objects for sexual fantasy and are told to “lighten up” when we object. Other bloggers have put in their $.02 as well: Code Blog, Doctor Anonymous, The Gleeson Blogomerate, Belle of the Brawl. As have their commenters. You in Tempe, you do what you want, just please don’t contribute to the notion that I, as a nurse, am put on this earth solely to entertain peoples’ nursing fantasies. I get hit with it all the time already and I’ve had quite about enough of that. If people are going to recognize me by my profession, I want it to be associated with a smart, caring, advocacy position and not part of a titillating marketing game. You could dress up your staff in little short black “Grim Reaper” costumes with the hoods and I doubt the real Grim Reaper would complain. […]

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