Why Is There a Shortage of Nurses?

Guest Bio: Juliana Adams, BSN, MSN, MA

Juliana Adams, BSN, MSN, MA is dedicated to the advancement of the nursing profession and is actively engaged in how nursing care is delivered. She is an author, speaker and film maker. In 2012 she produced the film Exposure, Reclaiming the Nobility of Nursing to meet the requirements of developing an original work of discovery for a Masters degree in Spiritual Psychology. This film led her to seek a greater understanding of what was noble about the profession of nursing. What began as a metaphor of her own exposure to nursing led to her writing The Joy of Nursing: Reclaiming Our Nobility. She is an instructor in English as a Second Language (ESL). Her early-beginner students are predominately Korean, Chinese and Mongolian. She marvels that what she learns and enjoys about her students which is far more than what they receive from her. Juliana's personal belief is that if everyone supported one person that needed some assistance, we would have societal and global needs met on a level that would exceed most of our expectations. These gifts of ourselves would then sow seeds of greater understanding.