There are many problems within the profession, mostly the range of educational levels that are allowed to call themselves nurses and the lack of increase in salary to correspond to experience. The more education you attain, the farther from the bedside you end up, to be compensated adequately. Many nurses enter the field to be in direct contact with people and see the difference they can make. Without that type of gratification, it can turn into a regular office job, which doesn’t require clinical skills, so why bother going to nursing school? It’s easier to go get an MBA.
the newer nurses all want to "go on" and become nurse practitioners or educators or some other......
nursing in hospitals is grueling, back breaking, emotionally draining and you must keep up with all the new computerization, new drugs, treatments etc.....
but its a hellava job with such amazing human stories.....its just unbelievable the experiences ....but you have to like people to appreciate it.....
There are many problems within the profession, mostly the range of educational levels that are allowed to call themselves nurses and the lack of increase in salary to correspond to experience.
Minor problem here of course is that research shows that there is no difference in perfomance of the floor factory workers no matter what degree or diploma they have.