Provincial monies mispent again

I was reading on CBC web news how the Ontario government has just decided to put $142 million into ER's in Ontario. They discussed paying ER doctors more, opening more beds, putting more money into rural hospitals. The problem? You can not run an ER much less a hospital without nurses. When will so called knowledgable governments stop ignoring the real problem. Yes, there is a shortage of doctors, but the shortage of nurses will screw the health care system more.
Doctors will not give prescribed meds to their own patients; doctors will not do the dressing changes; doctors will not change the linens on the beds; doctors will not do the admissions paper work on the patients...
Where the hell is the money to get more nurses in to the system!
How can governments be so blind. More beds need more nurses. More money for doctors is good, but you must help the other important half of the health care system too.

Is there power in the color of white

I recently posted this question on a nurses discussion board and I'm already receiving some very varied opinions. Basically I asked if nurses felt more respect from patients, patient families, governments and even supervisors when they wore white uniforms.
Indeed some feel insulted, or like a "student" yet others immediately noted how patients referred to them as the "real nurse".
Could the disrespectful behavior of patients toward nurses (and might I add visa versa) change if we brought back an easily identifiable nurse symbol, like a white uniform, or is this bitterness (from everyone) just a sign of todays stresses in the world?