Nursing Education and the Media P.I.S.D. Pathetic...

There has been another scratchy eruption of media generated P.I.S.D., attempting to inflate rapid nursing education programs. The latest gem comes from Arizona. Reviewing this topic again necessitates a brief re-education and a wee summary. The nursing profession, led along by the American Nurses Association, the National League for Nursing, the regulatory state boards and legions of advocates of nursing insist on blasting away at their own domain from their isolated machine-gun nests. Since oh, say 1860, this collective academy refuses to mandate a bachelors degree as the base academic entry point for Americas nurses. The consequences continue to be pathetic, embarrassing and dangerous. Hideously unprepared new RNs are thus†¦show more content†¦One result: Decades of front-loaded financial waste incurred by hospitals without a trace of publicity. Patient safety notifications, warnings and profession-generated advisories alerting the public to these elite recruits are blissfully missing. Years late, a complete outright immediate moratorium is necessary for all U.S. nurse-related visa programs. A 29% NCLEX pass rate: RES IPSA LOQUITUR. As for the existential state of U.S. based nursing programs, a bachelors degree entry point to qualify for licensed RN status is non-existent, save for a few token states. The organic pathologies are many. Hospitals prefer a cheaper undereducated labor force, better to stifle Zira and Cornelius. Rural areas with two-year RN programs dont want locals bailing for distant university settings, they wont return to Farmville. In Gotham City where both ADN and BSN nurses live, a kinetic frenzy exists to hire new grads. Larger hospital drones often integrate these grads into a staffing mix to care for your grandma, brother and spouse. For vast numbers of RNs, a two-year education is the Ivy League degree. Cascades of dreamy mission statements and decades of wasteful grant-funded initiatives from the Nurse Universe have simply failed to germinate the academic mesoderm in which to gestate nursings future cortical activity. Imagine the ensuing chaos if any school teacher anywhere, possessing but a two-year degree was turned loose inside any American