If you are ever a patient in a hospital or a nursing home,
even the most "common " nursing assistant ( NA ) will appear to
you as a guardian angel of kindness and mercy.
Despite a crisis in staffing, nursing aids too often receive
pitiful wages - and even worse, in the institutional pecking order
they are held in contempt.
One way to keep quality nursing assistants is revolutionize
career opportunities for them. After 2 or more years as an NA , he or she
should be offered a complete scholarship to study for a more skilled
job - while continuing to work part time as an NA.
Nursing Assistant should not mean DEAD END JOB. One way
to increase the number of " minority " professional nurses is to recognize
the potential in hundreds of NAs. Our society pays a very big price for
idiotic snobbery : always seeing people where they are instead of where
their innate abilities can take them.
What is true of NAs is also true of registered nurses: many
of them would make fine DOCTORS !
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