"We should be looking for a few good men
and a national union of nurses."

It is my position, therefore, that nurses should abandon the gender affiliation associated with its present manifestation and adopt the more practical stance of active recruitment of males into the profession (still only 11% of the nursing profession) and unionization. As evidence of the impact that such a strategy would have on the profession ponder that both initiatives proposed here revolutionized the teaching profession in the United States after World War II, and teachers began to be better compensated for their contributions to the national community.

Nurses are in no way adequately compensated for their contribution to society. I propose that we abandon our differences, petty or otherwise, we recruit more qualified males and females into the profession, trying to achieve a balance and an equitable base, and that we attempt to achieve solidarity.

Nursing is truly the sole health care avocation that has the best interest of the client as its primary agenda. However we should not be vastly under compensated while hospital administrators, insurance administrators, and even physicians that play the game by and large remain vastly overcompensated. We should be equitably compensated related to our respective contributions to the wellness of the national community. To attain the self esteem that will assist us in caring adequately for our clients, we must first stand up for our own worth, that is, we must advocate for our own rights. We need more men, we need solidarity."