Nurses have such an important role in our lives. They are there when we are born; we die; and anytime we need them in-between. I fail to see why they are still being paid such a substantial amount less than people who have less important jobs. For example, some footballers are paid almost £300,000 a week. This means that footballers are paid more in day than nurses are paid over a whole year- in my opinion, this is absolutely ridiculous.
I personally think, if the government were a little wiser with their money, they might be able to give nurses a slightly higher maximum salary than £35,000 a year. For example, the government waste £1.2 billion a year on benefit fraud and £300 million on tax fraud. That is a total of £1.5 billion being wasted, and its increasing every year. If the government didn’t make it so easy to claim benefits, nurses might actually get the amount of money they deserve, rather than people effectively stealing money they do not need nor deserve. Minimising benefit fraud could potentially increase nurses salaries by a substantial amount.
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But on the other hand, why should a person that hits or kicks a ball be paid as much as someone who saves lives. AFL players may have all this skill and everything else that some other people do not, but do they have the skill of saving lives on a day-to-day basis like a doctor does? Or do they have the skill of teaching children how to read and write like a teacher does? Yes, doctors are paid more but they do more as far as other people’s lives are concerned.
Angelou once said, “The people may forget the nurses name, but they will never forget how that nurse made them feel.” Nursing is a profession. Unfortunately, nursing does not always get the credit it deserves because of these stereotypes. Nursing is not a gay profession for males. Due to the shortage of nurses, our society needs more nurses now than never. Nurses make a difference in almost every person’s lives just not in hospital rooms but also in schools and clinics. Nursing in not easy job but somebody has to do it. There has to those individuals who must take on this challenge and be the difference in someone’s life. People could not care if someone considers them a failure for being a nurse and not a doctor. Most doctors could not do their job effectively without the help and assistance of nurses. The money is there for those who think nurses does not get paid that much. Healthcare is one of the biggest factors in our world, and for our world to progress further, an increase in employment for nursing is necessary. These stereotypes should not and will not stop the field of nursing from
Professionalism in the workplace in many professions can be simplified into general categories such as neat appearance, interaction with clients, punctuality, general subject knowledge, and likability. In nursing, professionalism encompasses a much more broad and inclusive set of criteria than any other profession. Nurses specifically are held to a higher standard in nearly every part of their job. Nurses are not only expected to uphold what it seen as professional in the aforementioned categories, but they are also expected to promote health, wellbeing, and advocate for patients, but also continually provide the highest standard of care, demonstrate exemplary subject and procedural knowledge, and abide by the Code of ethics set forth by the American Nurses Association. This Code of Ethics includes the complex moral and ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, fidelity, honesty, and integrity.
Calman’s study examines, from the patients' perspective, what is meant by competent nursing and how, with this perspective in mind, patients would view the prospect of assessing the competence of nurses. The study was guided by a primary research question “how do patients construct the concept of competence of nurses?” (Calman, 2006). Her research aimed to create a theoretical understanding of patient’s views of nursing competence and what their opinions are when faced with the prospect of assessing the competence of the nurses that have cared for them. The research strives to be able to eventually provide evidence that would aid to improve the future planning of patient involvement in nurse education. Calman used an array of techniques to collect and analysis data, it could be suggested that it may have been more beneficial or appropriate to have chosen alternative techniques.
Through centuries nurses were given the title “Caregivers”. Unlike some doctors, nurses actually care for their patients, not necessarily saying doctors do not; they both just have a different way of caring. Yes, doctors cure illnesses, but nurses are just as important because they help with the healing process. Most nurses can have the same exact education or knowledge as a medical physician but the only thing individuals see is a name tag with either the acronym CNA, LPN, R.N. and PH.D. Of course PH.D will get all the credit, seeing as how nurses do not exactly diagnose patients. A nurse could just become a doctor but there are different aspects of each title. Nurses take instructions from a higher administrator, which is sometimes a doctor. What needs to be known is doctors are not the only ones that stress and have rules to abide by. Nurses have ethical codes, daily ethical dilemmas, morals, and ridiculous distress, but some of these examples differ with country, state, and hospital. If nurses are capable, then they should be given the opportunity to make medical decisions or diagnosis in critical situations.
Nursing is the #1 healthcare job amongst women that goes unnoticed when comparing to a doctor in the field of medicine. Nurses are there when a baby is being born, a child is in need, the ones the military calls on when a soldier is injured, and even alongside people on their deathbed. Yet, they still get treated as though their role/duty is not enough to be equivalent to a doctor’s role in the hospital. Although, the doctor is the muscle of his or her staff nurses are the legs and arms in every situation. Nurses give so much of themselves and time every day to people and get paid not enough. Nurses should be paid the same as doctors because they hold the same level of degrees/knowledge as doctors, they deserve more equality, and they are the backbone a doctor leans on.
The human body is the most complex organism in the world. A vast majority of society never gives it real thought, but our body is a well oiled machine composed of several systems with separate functions yet they all work together. No man can recreate an exact working replica of a human; even with all of our technology we still do not fully understand it. Each day anatomists and physiologists are getting closer, by making medical breakthroughs. Therefore, since the study of the human body constantly is evolving, so is the study of medicine. These changes pertain to every position held in the medical field, including nurses. As doctors’ duty is to become well informed of the constant changes, it is just as important for nursing staff to evolve as well. Most people do not realize the very valuable role a nurse plays in the process of treating a patient. Actually, some would say that nurses are more valuable than the doctors’. It is the nurse that gives the direct patient care by working with patients to monitor, evaluate, and implement their best judgment regarding the patients care. This is a very large responsibility for any person, let alone someone who has not attended medical school. Granted, nurses generally operate within certain perimeters set by the doctors’ orders, but there are times where nurses have to implement their own skills. A good nurse must be a good communicator, must be well educated and willing to evolve with the industry, and most importantly must be able to implement last minute critical thinking skills.
According to the article, “A Risk to Himself: Attitudes Toward Psychiatric Patients and Choice of Psychosocial Strategies Among Nurses in Medical-Surgical Units”, Nurses professional attitudes towards stereotyped psychiatric patients have a major effect on the psychosocial interventions chosen for that patient.” In the article, stereotype is defined as a cognitive element of a strongly held attitude toward a particular social group (Nelson, 2006). Nurses working in different units outside of the psych unit in the hospital are expected to know how to care for psychiatric patients ( Zolneirek, 2009). These nurses base there nursing implications on past personal experience with dealing with other psychiatric patients (MacNeela, Scott, Treacy, & Hyde, 2010). The article elaborates on a research study done by 13 nurses that watch a video of a psychiatric patient with anxiety that was admitted to a med-surgical unit. Research in Nursing and Health, discovered that “Nurses professional attitudes play a key factor in the psychosocial strategies chosen for psychiatric patients”. The two attitudes chosen amongst the nurses in the research study for the psychiatric patient were risk, vulnerability, or both. Depending on the attitude towards the patient, the nurses recommended three psychosocial interventions: Reassurance, encouragement, and structured engagement.
To conclude, as stated by Lisa Carter on the web site kids health, nurses are important people, not only are they often the first health care professional that sick or injured person sees, but they do their job in all kinds of setting- from local hospital to faraway military bases ( work government). Today nurses are among the hardest workers in the healthcare profession. Registered nurse endures many stressful situations on the job, ranging from having more patients than time to see them, to navigating workplace politics, and to being up close and personal with people in a way that would make most of us more than a little squeamish. I mean nurses face a lot of difficult situation but among all of that, they still do their job and care for people (what they do).
When people think of nurses they think of the basic stereotypes portrayed in movies and T.V shows and how all they do is “deliver shots” or “give shots” but in reality nurses do way much more than that. Nurses are in all the most helpful men and women in a hospital, office, school, etc. and without them the workplace would be completely lost because not only is there registered nurses but there are many types of nurses in the medical field. Doctors, surgeons, and other medical specialists admire and value the work, time, and effort of what nurses do for them.
Many people believe that nurses are overworked and it is true. Nurses that are overwork is no just in the United States but in serval other countries as well. They problem has been going on for several years and many wonder if there is any solution to fix it. OIverworked is defined as exhausted with too much work. Throughout the paper is a few reason that nurses are overworked.
When addressing the value of entertainment, there is without a doubt, that we as a society value entertainment highly. But there is no reason that these athletes, who are here to merely entertain us, get paid higher wages than those that save our lives and teach us such as medical doctors and teachers. I find it ridiculous that players make millions of dollars a year, and yet demand more. The entertainment that these athletes provide is solely entertainment; it is not essential to the function or productivity of society. If I were to become a professional football player I would not complain about my salary for many reasons. I am playing the sport that I love and getting paid for it. The minimum wage for football is well over $100,000 a year, as is for many professional sports. These reasons by their lonesome are enough to warrant that the salary professional athletes are paid is suffice.
“What is a nurse?”. Denotatively, a nurse is “a person trained to care for the sick or infirm, especially in a hospital”; But nurses are far than just a trained individual, nurses are far more important which is why they are in such high demand. Nurses have always been in high demand. For hundreds of years now nursing has played a very important role in health care and the lives of numerous individuals. “The United States alone plans to add more than 382,000 nursing jobs in the next 10 years”. Four factors explaining why nursing jobs are currently in such high demand are: The academic selection process is very rigorous, the growing number of retiring nurses, nurses not having what it takes to keep up, also to prevent the doctors from getting
The average salary for nurses nationwide is $67,490. The salary for nurses can vary based on performance and location. Nurses can earn a bachelor of science in nursing degree (BSN) to greatly increase job prospects and pay. Conventional BSN programs take 4 years and are slightly more expensive to obtain but they greatly increase job prospects.
The medical field is vital to society and is will always be in need of a medical staff. Nurses are a crucial part of the medical team and are the ones responsible for the care and safety of patients. Nursing requires great communication skills, responsibility, patience, and dedication. Many nurses are social and like to care for others, enjoy thinking on their feet and problem solving, and excel at collaborating with others. These skills help a nurses work efficiently and are often the best skills suited for this profession. Nurses are health educators and advocates for patients, families and communities. "They have a unique scope of practice and can practice independently, although they also collaborate with all members of the health care