Nurse delighted to leave profession.As a registered nurse and mother of three, Johanna Reid's letter, "Nurses with families need better support" (Kai kai Noun NZ informal food [Maori] kai noun N.Z. (informal) food, grub (slang) provisions, fare, board, commons, eats (slang Tiaki Nursing New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. , May 2007, p3) really resonated with me. Nursing has been a call and a career for me, not merely a job. I am privileged to have worked with many tremendous nurses, who have supported, taught and cared for me, as much as for the sick people and families in our care. Since having three children, I have struggled to work shifts ending at 11.15pm or beginning at 7am. Finding appropriate childcare has been a nightmare and the work environment, with the perils of rostering, irritating paperwork, policies and politics, has finally got the better of me. It is almost impossible to complete the requirements for a comprehensive portfolio when working one or two shifts a week, and, finding out that any practice experience more than two years old is "obsolete OBSOLETE. This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy, without being repealed, 2. A positive statute, unrepealed, can never be repealed by non-user alone. 4 Yeates, Rep. 181; Id. 215; 1 Browne's Rep. Appx. 28; 13 Serg. & Rawle, 447. " for my portfolio, leaves me in no doubt about the future of my career. I have now left my ward staff nurse position in order to focus on a new way of working with families and children (www.planbforbaby.co.nz) and I applaud nurses looking to improve their lives. Our health system and communities need to consider nurses' need for support, not merely admiration and lip service lip service n. Verbal expression of agreement or allegiance, unsupported by real conviction or action; hypocritical respect: , if they are to stave off stave n. 1. A narrow strip of wood forming part of the sides of a barrel, tub, or similar structure. 2. A rung of a ladder or chair. 3. A staff or cudgel. 4. Music See staff1. the emerging nursing shortage. Nursing has been hard work for me and, unfortunately perhaps, I am delighted I am no longer doing it. Rachel Lamdin Hunter, RN, BN, PGCert (Child and Family Health), Hamilton Hamilton, city, Bermuda Hamilton, city (1990 est. pop. 3,100), capital of Bermuda, on Bermuda Island. It is a port at the head of Great Sound, a huge lagoon and deepwater harbor protected by coral reefs. |
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