Should Nurses be paid more than Doctors?

[j-kid]

http://www.jamaicans.com/forums/showthread.php?64991-Should-nurses-be-paid-more-than-doctors

[j-kid]

Nope! Yuh will put more patients lives at risk!

[lonewolf]

Nope! Yuh will put more patients lives at risk!

Obama care will do just that. More and more responsibilty is being put not only on the nurses, but on the first responders. (Paramedics, EMT's etc) Those of us in the field are now administering medications and doing procedures in the back of Medic units that was once left to Doctors in the emergency room. It's all about cost saving for the insurance companies.

I just finished my three day EMT recertification, and the writing is on the wall. Many things have changed since the last three years of recertification. Of course, I'm speaking for those of us that live in the US.

[RichD]

Obama care will do just that. More and more responsibilty is being put not only on the nurses, but on the first responders. (Paramedics, EMT's etc) Those of us in the field are now administering medications and doing procedures in the back of Medic units that was once left to Doctors in the emergency room. It's all about cost saving for the insurance companies.

I just finished my three day EMT recertification, and the writing is on the wall. Many things have changed since the last three years of recertification. Of course, I'm speaking for those of us that live in the US.

don't worry too much man ...Obama only had a couple more years

[lonewolf]

don't worry too much man ...Obama only had a couple more years

Ya know Rich, it is what it is...just hope ALL of them (Dems and Repugs) in Washington, don't reduce the country to ashes before people wake the hell up and get rid of them.

[RichD]

Ya know Rich, it is what it is...just hope ALL of them (Dems and Repugs) in Washington, don't reduce the country to ashes before people wake the hell up and get rid of them.

is there an alternative? system has run out of time ut there is no willingness to actually change it

[lonewolf]

is there an alternative? system has run out of time ut there is no willingness to actually change it

To many people want something for nothing, that includes corporate as well as regular US.
Things can change if people are willing to bite the bullet...In the mean time we are all just sliding down the old rusty razor blade of life.

[Tuff Gong]

To many people want something for nothing

What do you have against a good bargain?

[WitchyOoman]

Nope! Yuh will put more patients lives at risk!

Obama care will do just that. More and more responsibilty is being put not only on the nurses, but on the first responders. (Paramedics, EMT's etc) Those of us in the field are now administering medications and doing procedures in the back of Medic units that was once left to Doctors in the emergency room. It's all about cost saving for the insurance companies.

I just finished my three day EMT recertification, and the writing is on the wall. Many things have changed since the last three years of recertification. Of course, I'm speaking for those of us that live in the US.

This ^ is exactly the truth and the problem. Traditionally, doctors went through many more years of education than nurses (and other allied health professionals) did; ergo, they earned - and should have earned - much more money. But that is no longer necessarily true these days. Now, many nurses have gone through just about as much education, and have the equivalent degrees, as doctors have. Plenty of nurses now have Doctoral degrees, and even more have Masters degrees. And, in another few years, more nurses will have such advanced degrees than not. Other allied health professionals are following the same model.

Once nurses and other allied health professionals do, in fact, have just as much education - and equivalent advanced degrees - as doctors, will they then earn as much money as doctors? Should they?

I know nurses now who earn more than some doctors - and should because they are worth more than, say, a resident. One of my neighbors is an R.N. who's been a nurse for some 30 years, and she has always added additional training as it has become available to her so she could make herself a better/more valuable nurse. She holds two Doctoral degrees. She is currently the Director of Nursing at a large teaching hospital (here, in the Newark NJ area). She earns more than some of the younger doctors on staff at that hospital - as she should, because she is worth more to the hospital than some of its doctors are.

I suspect that the article hotlinked above was referring to regular hospital nurses, and they generally should be paid less than regular doctors who are past their residency, who have much more education and overall responsibility regarding patient welfare than do the regular nurses.

[twiney]

Those of us in the field are now administering medications and doing procedures in the back of Medic units that was once left to Doctors in the emergency room. It's all about cost saving for the insurance companies..

I really believe I am alive today because 2 paramedics administered treatment to me in the ambulance and didnt wait for the doctors in the ER back in 2009.

but carry on.

[Gen]

suh the Affordable health act o warra it name reach all the way a jamaica ?

[j-kid]

Di danger is not soh much pan di non-doctor side. Di Doctor will rebel actively and passively against any kina move like dat.