When the conditions become unbearable, the nurses want to protect their licenses, so they leave.

It seems like they have a fast line to the door because of the fact they were aligned with the governor. It almost seems like a coup at UNM, with the governor's folks coming in and taking over.

It's sick. We have some questions as to why he would be offered a salary like that.

Most of the nurses at my hospital did not turn their patients every two hours, mostly because it is so hard to get staff members to help. Also, many are very well aware of the dangers of back injury.

If he thinks there are not two Americas, I call on him to talk with the 170 nurses you've sent to New Orleans and Mississippi and Texas,

[When there are enough nurses on a unit, they can pick up subtle changes in patients before complications develop.] It's hard to measure what doesn't happen, ... Nurses prevent very bad things from happening.