Sen Baucus--it's not good to piss-off the Nurses, especially during Nat'l Nurses Week

SageHagRN

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Wednesday May 13, 2009 · 9:36 AM PDT

2009/05/13 · 09:36

As a nurse (of 31 years), I read with pride yesterday the National Nurses Movement's Daily Kos diary on the nurses in the Baucus committee hearing doing what they do best--advocating for American patients by asserting that health care must be a Right not just a privilege in this country. They were arrested for their advocacy.

As a professional group, nurses consistently rate #1 or #2 on public surveys as being the most trusted profession....number one or two consistently! Senator Baucus, do you really want to go down this road? Do you really want to anger the largest professional group in this nation? It takes a lot for us nurses to get to this point of indignant frustration, but guess what, WE ARE THERE NOW! We are not going silently away this time because we are tired....

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