Steve Gilliard at The News Blog has an interesting post on this topic that starts out as follows:
You know, people like to say that Americans will do ANY job if it pays enough.So why won’t they become nurses? A job shortage, high wages, choice of employment. Yet, every year there is a shortage of nursing school students and nurses. So why is that? Maybe because they get treated badly? Once there was a pool of women who gladly became nurses. Now, half of medical school classes are female. Maybe status has a little to do with this.
