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Typical fluff piece. If the average Joe Sixpack believes in articles like the above, our schools have failed miserably in teaching students how to think critically.
Typical fluff piece. If the average Joe Sixpack believes in articles like the above, our schools have failed miserably in teaching students how to think critically.
Yeah. As a registered nurse, I'm offended that our profession boils down to "not as much responsibility as a doctor, but responsible for some equipment".
Yeah. As a registered nurse, I'm offended that our profession boils down to "not as much responsibility as a doctor, but responsible for some equipment".
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Nurses don't have as much responsibility as a doctor, but they do have a prominent impact on a patient's health.
Uhhh, what part of what they actually said is offensive....?
Uhhh, what part of what they actually said is offensive....?
Both statements are 100% factual.
Arguably, RNs have the most impact on a patient's health. Both Doctors and RNs have legal liability in the health of the patient, and the RN has much more interaction which leads to greater opportunity for liability to occur.
It varies wildly from state to state, but here in California at least, RNs have much greater responsibility than people believe.
The fact that RN is in the #1 spot is an outright lie. It is not easy for new nursing graduates to secure nursing positions right now. The markets in many locations are saturated with nurses yet nursing schools keep churning out more students every semester. They are certaintly capitalizing on articles such as these. How unfortunate veterans are being fed such a line of crap.
It depends...most cities and places with a lot of schools are saturated with RN grads, but smaller areas in the middle of the country ("less desirable" areas to live) still have a significant nursing shortage, and an MD shortage for that matter.
Nursing is saturated. And, I mean saturated in many, many cities all over. Go onto allnurses.com and look at the threads. New grads can take up to a year to find a job and it's gonna be nights most-likely.Hospitals are freezing jobs left and right. For every nursing position, there might be tons of applicants and they'll pick and choose who they want. When I started in nursing in the 80's, I could count on getting most every job I had applied to. Now, no way. It's competitive and the wages are highest for the jobs that have loads of stress. Those jobs, you burn out fast so the pay isn't even worth it.
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