The Nursing Shortage: A Crisis in America Healthcare 1 of 8

This documentary takes a very honest, much needed look at the state of nursing in America. By interviewing doctors, hospital administrators, union representatives, members of the public and nurses themselves we get a complete picture of this severe and growing problem.

Produced and hosted by Paula Packwood MHA, RN, a health care professional with over 35 years of experience in the field. She has presented this video to politicians and policy makers in Sacramento and Washington DC.

Directed and edited by Greg Wyatt.

Originally aired on the now defunct Adelphia Channel in the fall of 2003.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• nursing
• nurse
• health
• healthcare
• hospital
• doctor
• HMO
• medicine
• medical
• career
• union
• politics

[lachilangitaloca]

mama mia! I just started my first semester in the Nursing program...I hope I made the right choice :(

I guess time will tell.

[gcwyatt]

You made the right choice - don't second guess yourself. Nursing is a rewarding and potentially profitable career. Do well in school and you'll have your pick of great jobs! I wish there were more people like you choosing Nursing.

[MChell87]

We just don't get paid enough for what we do, they expect so much from us.

[zekeandcharlie]

Wanna end the nursing shortage? May I suggest money??

[aaqaaqaaqaaqaaqaaqaa]

There is no shortage. You are an idiot if you go for a BSN today

[Th3Fab3]

@PHANTOMSLAYER777 Where do you work? I'm going to make sure I don't end up in the hospital where you work in your hands.

[cba1307]

I am a nursing student , the real world where I have to work on g my own gives me so much anxiety.

[PHANTOMSLAYER777]

@PHANTOMSLAYER777 I am tired of talking to a foreigner who has what should be, "my fn job." I have nothing against these Filipinos, but they are a very different culture, and it is uncomfortable to be around people who can be hardly understood and are so different. They cry about the Mexicans, but what about our fn jobs.

[appapo3]

@PHANTOMSLAYER777 I have seen nurses being fired for no reason and lay offs to cut expenses. Six months later they were crying nurse shortage. The hospitals are often subsidized to recruit from over seas. They sometimes pay the new recruits more than the home nurse to compete with richer nations. I suspect the government allotments offsets their expenses are created by administration departments .This was happening a while back

[hexumrulz00]

@shelyr I agree with you....

[kgaccount]

See nursing nightmares on youtube and see WHY we need not only more nurses, but BETTER TRAINED NURSES for home health care. California is releasing thousands of developementally disabled and few nurses can handle severely autistic population! California families need GOOD cnas and lvns to help keep their children OUT of institutions.

[kgaccount]

See nursing nightmares on youtube and see WHY we need not only more nurses, but BETTER TRAINED NURSES for home health care. California is releasing thousands of developementally disabled and few nurses can handle severely autistic population! California families need GOOD cnas and lvns to help keep their children OUT of institutions.

[PHANTOMSLAYER777]

Nursing is a creepy field in the U.S. Creepy to say the least. The typical duplicitous death care I mention in my video. Only the imported foreigners praise American health care because to them, it's a meal ticket. Creepy field, creepy nurses, and creepy system.

[PHANTOMSLAYER777]

I am a nurse. You'd have to be nuts. This is just an excuse not to train Americans, and bring in foreigners.