Why Nurses' Appreciation is one Week and Doctors' Appreciation is one Day?
With all due respect, I love nurses and appreciate them, and my best friends are nurses. BUT, why almost every post I read or video I watch about appreciating nurses frequently compares them to doctors or claim that doctors take more credit? I think it is a foolish comparison because you can't compare oranges to apples
With all due respect, I love nurses and appreciate them, and my best friends are nurses. BUT, why almost every post I read or video I watch about appreciating nurses frequently compares them to doctors or claim that doctors take more credit? I think it is a foolish comparison because you can't compare oranges to apples
Appreciating nurses should never mean depreciating doctors. They both work in a hospital, but the two have entirely different professions. No doctor can do a nurse's job, and no nurse can perform a doctor's appointment. No doctor can take credit from a nurse or a nurse can take a doctor's credit. They are a team, they should help, respect and complete each other not compete with each other. Hospitals can not run without either nurses or doctors.
Nursing and Doctoring can't replace each other
Nursing is 2-year for an AA degree or 4 years for a Batchelor and $0 to $100k debt
Medicine is an 8-year university degree and averages $250k to $500k in debt.
Nurses are licensed after a 2 hours test and work right out of school
Doctors are licensed after 4 tests, 12 hours each and they work after 3 to 7 years of intensive residency and or fellowship training after Med School
Nurses are with the patients all the time, doctors see the patients just during the exam
Nurses are in direct contact, evaluate and report.
Doctors exam, order tests to diagnose, and prescribe meds,
Nurses give prescribed medications and observe and report adverse changes.
Doctors perform procedures and surgeries.
Nurses may work 40 hours/ week. mainly 12-hour shifts 3 to 4 days a week
Doctors may work 120-hours / week, continuous days, nights and weekends
Nurses mostly get paid every hour they work plus overtime plus benefits.
Doctors mostly get paid per year not counting hours, so all overtime and on calls are not paid for, and they buy their own benefits.
Some nurses may make $50/hour, and some experienced travelers make $100/hour while a new doctor may start at $25/hour because of the fixed pay and the endless work hours like I did! Or some may get paid per patient after a hassle with insurance
Nurses have union, demand what they want and they strike
The law prohibits doctors from having a union or striking
Nurses carry smaller responsibility while doctors take all the blame
Nurses almost never get sued
Doctors are sued all the time for good and mostly no good reasons
Nurses get one appreciation week
Doctors get one appreciation day
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