DOUBTS EMERGE OVER IMPACT OF AMERICAN HEALTHCARE REFORM ON NURSES
December 1st, 2009
BY CRAIG HOWIE
GERI Jenkins has seen more than most in her 32 years as a registered nurse in California.
Recently, she said, an uninsured patient was admitted to San Diego Medical Center suffering from acute respiratory failure. Rather than demand immediate care, the desperately ill patient requested that his treatment wait for a week - until he turned 65 - when it would be paid for by the government's medicare programme for senior citizens.
Jenkins says America's healthcare system, and by extension the nursing profession, is in need of reform. Kathleen ...
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