Campaign to educate Paul Krugman

Is nursing menial?

Educate Paul Krugman about the cognitive level it takes to be a nurse!

Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman thinks nursing is "menial," not "cognitive"

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Message:*	Dear Professor Krugman: Please reconsider your February 24, 2017 New York Times blog <http://nyti.ms/2o0rFED> post listing "nurses" as an example of those who perform "menial work dealing with the physical world." You contrasted nursing with work that has traditionally required college, and you observed that "the point about the relative [technological] displacement of cognitive versus manual jobs seems to stand." In fact, nursing is a distinct health science, and registered nurses need a university-level education. Hundreds of thousands of nurses have graduate nursing degrees. Nursing includes complex drug calculations, patient surveillance for subtle signs of deterioration, as well as advocacy, teaching, public health, and other "cognitive" roles. Extensive research shows that better nurse staffing saves lives and improves patient outcomes through the cognitive decisions that they make. Most types of nursing include physical tasks, such as touching a patient, but even those tasks tend to be linked to nurses' advanced skills, such as psychosocial care or assessing a critical patient's minute-to-minute status. For almost two decades, the world has suffered from a deadly nursing shortage driven in large part by the kind of stereotyping that your blog post exemplifies. I understand that you teach at the City University of New York's Graduate Center. Perhaps your colleagues at the Graduate Center's Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing program-scholars with doctorates in nursing-could provide you with more information about what nursing really is. Please publicly apologize to nurses, and explain the true place of nursing in the modern economy. Thank you.
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