When the ladies of The View ran afoul of the nursing profession back in September, the sheer force of the backlash that ensued seemed to catch people by surprise. Unless, of course, you actually know any nurses and understand what they do all day—or through the long, lonely hours of the night, for that matter.
It’s a physically demanding profession, involving long hours on one’s feet and, in many cases, shifting immobile patients. It often requires quick thinking and a level head in literal life-or-death crises that would freeze most of us in our tracks. Not to mention that it can be downright emotionally grueling, the sort of gig where you evaluate a good day based—quite literally—on whether anybody died. You face people at their most frail, their most vulnerable, their most stressed.
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