Crazy School Days

I have recently returned to Nursing school after huge gap of, oh...4 weeks. Here are the highlights of what I have learned so far:

According to one instructor, the Obama health care bill is 'forcing' small critical care hospitals like the local one to spend 'thousands and thousands of dollars they don't have" to go completely digital with doctor's orders and patient records. This puts an unfair burden on the small hospital. Apparently, my instructor feels that the patient records can be hand-written and illegible if it means saving a few bucks. Also, the 'unfair' burden of the 'thousands of dollars' the hospital might have to spend on digitizing their charting doesn't explain the need for the hospital to expand to the tune of approximately $6,000,000...Yes you read that right, Six Million dollars over the last two years!

Remember, this hospital sits in a town of around 7,000 people. But building new rehab facilities and a dialysis unit and now a huge ER addition and, Get this, a building that will stand empty until such a time as it is needed, is normal growth for this area, while $100-200,000 to update charting is an unfair burden.

Also, from another instructor, I learned that the Obama health care bill is not going to pay for medicare and medicaid treatments at hospitals so more people will be going to the hospital but there will be less jobs in nursing because there will be no money. Really? Do you think that even Democrats would have passed a bill that said hospitals won't get paid? Oh, and this instructor also believes that the current Salmonella outbreak with the eggs is really a terrorist attack by Al Queda and our socialist government is covering it up.

What do politics and conspiracy theories have to do with nursing school?