I’m writing in response to the Sun Journal article, “No nurses,” which was printed Jan. 8.

Being in the nursing profession for more than 20 years, I know a few reasons why nursing doesn’t entice young people to join that rewarding profession.

Young people today have many options open to them when choosing a career. Women, especially, have a lot more choices today than they did 20 years ago.

How many teachers, real estate agents and computer programmers get up and go to work on Christmas morning, or work off-shifts on weekends and long, holiday weekends?

We must do more to keep the nurses we have in the profession. We must encourage our legislators to look at the workloads registered nurses encounter in their chosen nursing facilities.

I am a registered nurse working in a long-term care environment, and I have seen nurses come and go due to the staff-patient ratios and too-heavy workloads.

Something, and I’m not sure what, needs to happen and happen quickly to our so-important profession.

Kathy Kimball, R.N., Buckfield

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