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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH grew up in a rural town where like the default path for a LOT of the women in his graduating class was to go into nursing.  He wants to dissuade our DD from the field because he feels it is underpaid, over worked, and not given enough respect in the profession.  He claims they barely break $100k, despite working long hard hours responsible dozens of patients.

My impression is that there is a nursing shortage, and I would expect salaries to rise to approach $150k or so, a solid professional salary.  And if you go into a specialty, like CNP or CNA you can break $200k riveling pediatricans and internist salaries.

Love to hear stories of nurse careers to balance out my DH's long list of RNs scrapping by in rural Georgia![/quote]

I dont get it- why would you choose to be a nurse instead of a physician?  Is it a class thing? If I was going to do all of that work, I'd just go to med school etc etc.. it's not like the work load is any less. Its more stress and responsibility but academically it's the same and you earn a LOT more. [/quote]

Nursing is a different career than being a physician, with more patient contact (at least floor nurses). You can be a nurse after much less schooling. And you can end up $400k in debt from med school and still have to do residency and fellowships, etc.

I think a more interesting decision is between nurse practitioner and PA.[/quote]
Nursing is better because it teaches you how to work with people. The nursing model is about the how. (How to change an IV, how to check for vitals, how to give insulin and give injections, how to talk to a patient and answer “am I going to die?”)

The medical model teaches the what. (what is the diagnosis? What is the prognosis? What is the cause? What does the X Ray or blood test say?)

Two very important things. I find that doctors have the knowledge but low people skills and nurses don’t have much greater people skills.

PA’s are a happy medium because they’re taught the medical model like doctors not the nursing model in school, but they are required to have 2 years of direct patient care  prior to school.

Most doctors were in research labs, scribes, or EMTs prior to med school and those jobs just aren’t as patient or people centered as nursing.

Nursing has a skill set doctors don’t learn and Vice versa [/quote]

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