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by lightblade 3307 days ago
Nurse is licensed though. That's instant credibility.
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rodionos 3307 days ago
Exactly. Also, the supply of nurses is highly constrained in the Bay Area due to a very small number of people able to graduate. There's actually a lottery to enter a registered nurse program and last time I checked the odds were less than 30% to win the ticket. Besides that, hospitals lose state subsidies if their nurse/patient ratio drops below a certain threshold. It's really apples-to-oranges.
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atmosx 3307 days ago
Not to mention "useful". Imagine nurses going on strike. Now compare that to lawyers, programmers or investment bankers going on strike ... no one cares.
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NikolaeVarius 3307 days ago
What happens when IT for a hospital goes on strike?
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twblalock 3307 days ago
Not to mention an airline. The recent British Airways debacle was caused by a technical problem, but if the IT workers had gone on strike, similar problems could have resulted.
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Spooky23 3307 days ago
Same thing that you do when nurses go on strike. You hire a bunch of scabs and muddle through.

The difference is that IT usually sucks so much that nobody notices.

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fnord123 3307 days ago
If it's infrequent enough, reliability may go up as there's a moratorium on production environment changes.
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xxSparkleSxx 3306 days ago
It's just as much credibility as any college degree in computer science. There are still lots of crappy nurses that are licensed.
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