I hope everyone had a happy new year, and now as we enter both a new year and a new decade, the same issues that we faced a week ago in 2009 are still with us.

I am curious how nurses, as a group, feel about the current form that healthcare reform has taken. I haven’t seen much news about nurses, but then, nurses are rarely interviewed and opinions from nursing groups aren’t usually sought–except for issues that are strictly nursing related.

So if any nurses are reading this, I would love to hear some comments. Personally, I don’t think it will have much of an effect in the workplace, at least not initially. More patients may seek medical care if they gain insurance, but then, it is difficult to say how insurance policies will change. Higher copays? Bigger deductibles? Less coverage? All of these things will affect the number of people seeking care, and the type of care.