OPEN LETTER TO DOUG
COLLINS:

In response to your insulting,
. Chauvinistic and bigoted column in

this unfortunate dispute and that
she, in her own way, has been our

Nurses care
about people

OPEN LETTER TO. DOUG
COLLINS:

Nursing is not a privilege, it’s a
Profession. It requires skill,
courage, technical expertise,
stamina, high principles, and
heart. ;

It is not for everybody. But it is
still, at the bottom line, what runs

any hos;ital.

I consider it a privilege during
my 21-year career to have worked
with some extremely fine people.
But this is my career, not my

I am supporting my family with
my job. I am not a seamstress, nor
a cashier; I am a nurse.

Until someone invents a
seplacement for me, I am the best
thing you’ve got in any hospital _-
your care-giver, your listening-
Post, your advocate — maybe even
your lifeline. Value me.

. Don't pay me lip-service. Pay
me for beng. at the bedside at three
on a Sunday morning.

Don’t tell me I was aware of
what nursing. involved before I

. started. No one is prepared for the
; realities of nursing — the physical
exhaustion, the emotional drain,
the frustration of a death so vainiy

someone else’s despair. There is no
way to prepare for or to guard
. - against these things.
. -Oh yes, it can also be joyful —
° joys in small gains, a movement, a
‘breath, in 2 smile, a heartbeat, the
squeeze of «a hand. These are
sometimes the only reasons one
stays and cadures.
~~! The legacy of nursing is one of
which nurses are all familiar and
justly proud. But this profession
has evolved so much:since the days
of Nightingale that it is ludicrous
- fo compare what she was to what
we are.
' But what we are would meet
‘with her approval { know. For we
We care about. the peopie of this
province. We have been talking
health-care and issuing warning
signals about its demise for years
now.

Nurses stand at the inside of the
health-care system looking out.
You wan:.the wuth about health

. care in BC? Ask any one of us.
. For we are its heart.

Doug Collins, you seem ignorant
of what we do. I am only grateful
that the general public appears to
be much better informed and ap-
‘preciative.

. Gail Hampson, RN.
North Vancouver

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RESPONSE TO COLLINS
Florence would approve of strike

guiding light.

During the development of her
nursing school in the mid 1800s, it
is known that Florence Nightingale
removed all nursing services (in-
cluding her own) from their place
of work, until the doctors prom-
ised they would no longer treat
nurses as basic slave laborers and
would help to improve their work-
ing conditions.

Times haven’t changed that

much, have they?
‘+ Nurses remain very caring indi-
viduals, humanitarians to be sure
(no matter what you might think)
or we would have never chosen this
profession, nor would we remain
in it.

That ‘‘rotten old dirty dollar’? is
an important part of nursing pres-
ently, both to retain nurses in this
province and to encourage indi-
viduals to embark in this profes-
sion.

If we were to abandon nursing
and choose to work in a super-
market, sew, move to another
country offering decent incentives
or heaven forbid... marry a doc-

tor, who would be left to care for
your ailing family member, Mr.
Collins, when the time comes?

Cen you not look past the pres-
ent and see what the future holds?
Or is hospitalization and a decent
standard of health care not your
cup of tea?

The public, ir general, appears
to have a good perspective of our
future concerns and the problems
we now face (unlike you it seems),
which is probably why they are
giving their much needed support
and will hopefully continue to do
so.

If we had to rely,on the likes of
you to solve our ongoing problems
in health care, there would not be
a hospital in this province with its
doors open for service.

No nurses, no care to be given,
no place to go. .

Please Mr. Collins, give that
“brain pan’’ (or is it “‘bed pan’’?)
head of yours a good solid shake
and see if you can understand the
seriousness of this situation.

L. Aplas
Vancouver

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