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Should nurses earn more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted 5 months ago Nurses are 24 7 around the patients offering nursing care and support, should they earn a mega payment than any other proffessional????
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| Posted 5 months ago Nurses are 24 7 around the patients offering nursing care and support, should they earn a mega payment than any other proffessional???? Discuss! * YES Nurses are with patients more than the dcotor spends time with patients. They do the most work from helping CNAs with BMs and medical care for there patients. I think Nurses should make closer to a doctors salary $. |
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| Posted 2 months ago I agree that nurses should make more money;however, we have several docs in our family and docs have MUCH more schooling and stress. They deserve a lot more pay than RN's.....perhaps a PA is deserving of more pay |
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| Posted 2 months ago OH, I forgot to add......med students have huge loans....like 150,000 dollars to pay back. They deserve the big bucks |
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| Posted 2 months ago I know nurses should be paid more for the simple fact that we work hard and are very important in the healing process. I do not begrudge an MD that makes a mint. All the Doc's I have worked with earn every cent and more. I would not want the stress that they carry. I considered psychiatry in my early years and decided that I could not balance being an MD with doing all the other things in life that are important to me....I was a psych nurse for many rewarding years. C Roxanne www.chercheley.com |
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| Posted 2 months ago Yes, nurses should earn more money, but so should most workers. That would include about everyone other than the rich. Wages and salaries have continued declining since the seventies; some authorities believe the decline began much earlier; once I heard the decline traced back to Eisenhower's presidency, 1953 - 1961. Since at least the seventies, only one class's income--the rich--has continued to increase. Even professionals' income, such as doctors, has been more or less flat. There are many ways to express the decline. Here's a very, very crude one: in my father's day, it was common for a single earner, say an accountant, to achieve a middle-class lifestyle, including house, car, kids, wife; now both husband and wife must work at well paying jobs to achieve middle class, and perhaps merely approach middle-class. You can get a much more apportioned appraisal of the decline in almost any first-semester sociology textbook. But if you do consult an introductory text, beware: the reading will probably anger and sicken you. |
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| Posted 2 months ago Here's another consideration: nursing is often a dangerous occupation. How much should someone earn who is routinely engaged in dangerous work? Hazards include needlesticks from IV starts, phlebotomy, or the like on patients infected with HIV or AIDS or a herpes or another communicable disease. How about battery? I saw a confused patient slug a nurse. A nurse I worked with for a shift had her wrist broken by a combative patient. And how about back injuries? I did some research on the subject in nursing school. At the time, nurses were more subject to back injury than almost all other occupations. About the only more hazardous occupation for back injury was construction work. (Nursing aides may also have nurses beat for back injuries; of course nurses often delegate lifting chores to aides.) How about falls from wet surfaces--poop or blood or vomit or pee or just overturned water containers? Anyone care to add to the list of hazards? I once read that the protective gloves nurses use fail to protect them about 30% of the time. Any nurses out there collecting extra cash for hazardous duty?
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| Posted 2 months ago Nurse practioners arent even paid that great! So i yes I feel that Nurses should be paid more! http://community.advanceweb.com/forums/thread/24893.aspx Kelly Gardiner 12-06-2007 Nurse Practioner Sadly, I don’t recommend people going to NP school. I have been in the business for 20 years and an NP for 10 and I don’t make much more than a 2 year degreed RN. I met a guy with a BSN doing home health care and he made $125,000 last year. I told him what I make and he was thinking of going to school to become an NP. He also had heard that he would take a pay cut and have to pay for school and work for free for clinicals. For you, I would suggest that you calculate how many patients you see per day that you work, look up the medicare and blue cross websites and figure out insurance reimbursement for your services, (make sure you calculate secondary insurance into the formula as well) and then determine what you should be making from there. This will give you a baseline of what the providers is making from your services. You can also look for a medical biller skilled in your field and find out calculations from that person. In my field of psychiatry, I get a 50% reduction in payment (as do psychistrists) so the amount billable is not what you get in return so find out what deductions you get if any, in your field, as well. Hence, the need to talk to a medical biller in your field. Note that the medical billers make about 5-7% of what you get from the insurance carriers. Good luck. I bring over $350.000 to this office and I still don’t get what i deserve. I am amazed how PAs who can be some one with a computer or sales back ground go through a 2 year program and yet make as much or even more when compared to NPs. That really hurts. I think this is because of the fact that NPs education concentrates on research/ book knowledge and not much “hands on practice”. Also, the fact that PAs are often hired by surgeons makes a difference in their pay scale in general. If I had to do it all over again I would go through a PA program. We are not being appreciated the way we should. The fact the Board of medicine and doctors are supporting PAs makes a difference, apparently. Gity S., ANP-C, RNFA, Private March 11, 2008 We must unit! Employers for the most part want us to “play doctor” see as many if not more patients than t hey do, yet want to pay RN wages. What can we do? If I had stayed at the hospital as an RN I would be earning more and would have job security. A A, Nurse Practioner, private February 28, 2008 |