By: championnicole

championnicole — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:35:52 +0000

It seems I had to search high and low to find some semblence of what I was
looking for. I absolutely love your blog, and feel honored to be the first
comment on this post (how I found you). I’m hoping that you still check
this and update it! I’m a nursing student from Maryland, and it’s really
a breath of fresh air from my theory books to read a real critical
thinker–from the Rand to Kirk continum (haven’t read enough to pinpoint
yet but it’s safe to surmise you fall somewhere along that line). I’ve
honestly never responded to a blog before, but your passion for the nursing
profession and commitment to holding it to the high standards I imagine you
practice is laudable. I’m giving a presentation to my class on the
ANA…more facilitating a discussion. No where can I find an intellectual
piece about the flaws which proliferate the organization. From the little I
know of the California dilemna, I can only imagine you see this first hand.
The ANA is not all bad, but the political hierachy of the organization and
its insistence to speak for all nurses raises my ire (and i won’t practice
for another year). My book (dated 2004, new edition in the spring) reports
only 6% of nurses belong to the ANA. I find their “support” for Obamacare
under the guise of “all nurses” utterly shameful. The little information
I find on the organization requires reading between the lines (structure,
the ANApac, the union, all of it) I’m on a mission to present the other
side to my peers so that they can make informed decisions about the role of
the ANA because it’s all the rage among faculty. While I’m no L.A. times,
I do have an audience of 15 nursing students that I’d love to provide the
whole story. Keep doing what you are doing because I’d like to practice in
a profession that you clearly love, as I do. Thanks, Nicole

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