To Care or Not to Care?

Characteristics of a nurse:

Nurses need to have a great deal of compassion for their fellow human beings.

With that being said, how does a fellow nurse who has undergone several years of training and sacrifice handles the broken promise of a government?

Day in, day out, we hear the cries of nurses who are not being paid properly because the government 'cannot' find the funds to pay them, or the benefits they are to receive are not being delivered.

The most recent escapade includes the nurses at the Children's Bustamante Hospital going on strike because they need their voices to be heard. This has left several children to suffer ... is it at the hands of the nurses (who took that promise to care for them no matter what) or the hands of the government (who we, as a people, voted in control)?

One aspect we could look at is, how can someone walk off their job when they were hired to look after children/babies.... these dependent human beings need us, so how can you leave them when they are in need? Imagine waking up in the night to see your child turning blue because he can't breathe, he is having an asthma attack and you hurriedly grab the necessaries and rush to the Children's hospital, only to be told that there are no nurse to assist you, they are on strike !!!

Your first reaction is anger as you realize that your hard earning 'mandatory' taxpaying dollar is not being put to its fullest use. Your child is on the brink of death or could suffer serious mental damage if he is not looked after immediately.

The flip side of this is that these are the same nurses who have been overworked and underpaid and when the government has promised to raise their pay (along with the cost of living) they only fulfill one end of the bargain and that is the latter.

So at this point when the nurse choose not to care and put down their foot and demand that the government acknowledge their plight, or else... what do we as citizens do?