Compensation in Nursing
Tina Hughes
Ross College
Compensation in Nursing This day and age nursing has become a very respectful yet stressful way of life. The nurses get more patients, more challenges and work short most of the time. There is no compensation in any of it. There is just an acceptance of this is how it’s going to be. That’s not how it should be looked at. This means patients get neglected and not get the care they should have and the nurses get over worked and burnout faster. When it comes to getting paid for what they do, it is not really compensated right.
There is many generations of nursing, traditional, baby boomer, generation x, and millennial. They all are known for different ways of
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How important and precious is your time with your family? What is that worth to you? As human nature you want to do what’s right and help everyone you can and nurses they have that held over them everyday. They sacrifice their time with family to care for complete strangers and is their pay worth losing that time? To most it is there is a satisfaction of knowing they are helping someone who needs them. That alone is enough for them to forget the pay rate and whatever compensation they do get is fine with them.
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Since the 1990’s, the interest in nursing and the profession as a whole has decreased dramatically and is still expected to do so over the next 10-15 years according to some researchers. With this nursing shortage, many factors are affected. Organizations have to face challenges of low staffing, higher costs for resources, recruiting and reserving of registered nurses, among liability issues as well. Some of the main issues arising from this nurse shortage are the impact of quality and continuity of care, organizational costs, the effect it has on nursing staff, and etc. However, this not only affects an organization and community, but affects the nurses the same. Nurses are becoming overwhelmed and are questioning the quality of care that each patient deserves. This shortage is not an issue that is to be taken lightly. The repercussions that are faced by both nurses and the organization are critical. Therefore, state funding should be implemented to private hospitals in order to resolve the shortage of nurses. State funds will therefore, relieve the overwhelming burdens on the staff, provide a safe and stress free environment for the patient, and allow appropriate funds needed to keep the facility and organization operational.
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Organizations are working hard in today’s world of business, not only to remain competitive, but also to focus on stability and structure. Employees are the backbone of an organization. It is becoming more important to offer quality HRM programs to staff, in order to support the retention of trained and experienced staff. Employees have always been concerned with salary however, there is a new focus emerging that looks at compensation as a whole entity. Monetary wages are now just as important as other benefits such as paid time off, medical and dental offerings and retirement. This paper will discuss the importance of the total compensation program which includes many aspects, not just salary. Attention must be paid to equal pay, pay