Nurses are expensive. We are the largest professional workforce in healthcare, and with over 3.1 million professional nurses in the country, it appears that we are large in number but small as a priority. Nurses are overworked. Underpaid. Stretched too thin and sliced too lean and made to feel disposable when we are, indeed, indispensable. Perhaps my greatest concern regarding the ever-evolving healthcare platform is this: as the system becomes more focused on metrics and quantifiable figures, nursing feels the brunt of the blow.

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