Miss Chase and other nurse lore
Hospitals are facing a shortage of nurses these days. Kim Price can’t figure out why.
“I can’t imagine doing anything else,” she said earlier this week, “and there are so many possibilities in the field now.”
In other words, it’s not just about taking temperatures and emptying bedpans anymore. The modern nurse is more like a junior partner to the physician, as well as the person standing between you and a nightmarish hospital stay.
That’s why this is National Nurse’s Week. It’s also why the “Reflections on Healing” museum was established at Virginia Baptist Hospital almost exactly a year ago.
I would have written about this museum before,…
