Should nurse classes be added to high schools?

In light (blatantly bright light, supernova level brightness, biblical...really.) of the giant (blatantly huge giant, supernova level giant, biblical...really.) fail of the Quebec healthcare system, should we begin giving all high-school students at least one year of nursing class?

Consider a future, not too far, let's say 7-8 years, where all graduating high-school students would have a minimum of one year/course training as a nurse, everyone, male and female.

Imagine being at home when a family member gets burned/cut/bumped/sick/etc. and you have this nurse training, a training that would allow you to determine if they need stitches or not, if they need special care or antibiotics or not.

A course that would allow you to determine if your vomiting is caused by food poisoning, indigestion, gastro or Malaria. Perhaps with a little help from your friend Google.

A class that would teach you to make a bandage properly, perhaps set a dislocated shoulder, perform the Heimlich maneuver, determine if your old pop is having a heart attack, a blood cloth or a simple indigestion or a classic migraine.

Training to help you determine if your toddler is pushing a fever because she has the Measles or if she is simply teething.

Consider the savings in the healthcare system in nurse time, bandages (which we would have to pay ourselves at the drug store, perhaps 8$/bandage versus the usual 16$ charged by the bandage company to our hospitals), time and money.

Time and money.

In retrospect why aren't we doing this already?

WTF? Shouldn't we be demonstrating for relevant stuff?

Oct 2nd 2010, Quebec city. Over 60.000 people are reportedly manifesting to regain a professional hockey team.

http://www.demotix.com/news/463046/quebec-citizens-want-back-nordiques

Oct 3rd 2010, 30.000 people walked to collect money against cancer.

Some weeks ago, another manifestation gathered 1000 people to protest against natural gas mining.

Yesterday 5000 people manifested against a law that would allow English speaking families to send their children to PRIVATE English schools.

Seriously, WTF? Where are our priorities?

When I was a kid in Italy we had feminists protest against the rampant sexual harrassment that was usual in the 1970s in the offices, the minimal salaries women had, the rights to abortion, etc.

In France there are regular protests against the rape of pension funds by government.

Why in the hell is it that here in North America, when we hold a protest, a walk, a demonstration, it's never for, or against something relevant?

If I called a walk, on an arbitrary date, to DEMAND better healthcare for which we actually pay for on our taxes (and heavily at that), better roads, better government management, better police protection for victims, better education, a better choice of immigration...

How many people would show up?

Sadly, the walk for the Quebec Nordiques collected a total of 12.5M$.

The walk against cancer the next day? 2M$.

Nice.

Real nice.