Would it work if we cut the pay of Doctors, and gave a portion of it to the nurses, and nurses aids?
2007-12-08 03:06:07 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Optimist on block.
2007-12-08 03:21:17 · update #1
It shouldn't be about the money, but for the love of your work; especially in that proffesion. helping others, is the biggest reward one can ask for and if you do it right...you will get richer than you know.
2007-12-08 03:08:45 · answer #1 · answered by Internet Junky 1 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Pay is relative to education, experience, and legal liability. RNs go to school for a minimum of 2 years, but could spend as many years in school as a MD if a nurse went for a PhD in nursing, and depending on the nurse's job, could make nearly as much as some MDs.
As for those who try to minimize what nurses do, it's so much more than a**-wiping and passing pills and taking orders from doctors. Nursing is a unique profession that is NOT just a "supportive" role. We have our own set of nursing diagnoses, we create goals for our patients and create plans of care to meet those goals. We must be able to perform complex physical, mental, and environmental assessments, interpret complex lab and imaging results, perform technical skills, etc. And most importantly, we are the ones who offer emotional support to our patients on a minute-by-minute basis.
It takes more than a monkey to do a nurses job.
2007-12-08 07:13:14 · answer #2 · answered by Take A Test! 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It's related to education and responsibility.
Nurses (RN) train for 4 years. Doctors train for a minimum of 11 years, many of us train much longer.
Physicians have much more responsibility than nurses do.
There are advanced practice nurses that do train longer, and they are paid more.
The nurses I work with are terrific people, but our jobs are totally different.
2007-12-08 07:42:00 · answer #3 · answered by Pangolin 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
It does not cost as much to get a degree in nursing as it does to become a Doctor, nor does it take as many years of college, intern and residency.
2007-12-08 08:21:54 · answer #4 · answered by WarLabRat 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've always wondered the same thing about cops.....they have to put up with a lot of crap and only make an average of 30 thousand a year.
Med school is very expensive.....it costs a whole lot more money to go to school for 10 years to be a doctor versus 2 to be a nurse. Doctors are way more educated than nurses so its only natural they get a much higher pay.
2007-12-08 03:11:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
The salaries of doctors and nurses and garbage men for that matter are set by supply and demand. If one hospital decides to go all socialist and redistribute the salaries, the doctors would simply find a job at the market rate at another hospital.
2007-12-08 03:15:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
i suppoose it's a regional thing, but of the people i know are nurses, they make pretty good money.
and as previously stated, money should not be a motivating factor on wanting to persue a healthcare profession. (but that's easy for me to say since a do what i like and get paid decently for it)
2007-12-08 08:07:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is all about education and no doctors would not go for a pay cut look at teachers thy are in charge of the youth of tomorrow and get paid squat
2007-12-08 04:39:47 · answer #8 · answered by irish_matt 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
hey nurses is only a support function, we should have 5 nurses for one doctor. so their salary whatever they are getting is sufficient. as it is nobody is interested to become a nurse adopt the noble profession.
2007-12-08 03:10:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
I'll be your nurse for free. Love, honey
2007-12-08 05:31:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋