Busy weekend - nursing shortage

[Jane Harper]

I agree, we have to get the economics within reason.

And I'm definitely not complaining about my job, or I wouldn't have been
doing it for 25 years.  It's not like there's nothing else I could find with
my qualifications.

However, I don't get overtime either ... and like you, I work as many hours
as it takes to get the job done.

My point never was that I think physicians make too much money.  My point
was that nurses, because we make so little IN COMPARISON, can't afford to
take the kind of drastic action necessary to cause genuine reform in the
system ... and as long as economics trumps everything, nothing will change.

Jane


On 7/15/08 3:22 PM, "surgbee at aol.com" <surgbee at aol.com> wrote:

> 
 OK, I can't stand it anymore.  You have to get the economics within reason.
> For one, I too am female and am the sole supporter of my family. Second, I
> have been one of the senior partners in a level 1 trauma center for almost 10
> years and make almost 200,000 as a general, critical care and trauma surgeon.
> Third I put in more hours a week than you do and do not get any overtime.
> Fourth, I do this for my patients and because I love this job.  My nurses also
> put in hard hours and many do not make 100,000 but they are here at this
> county hospital working for our patients and doing what we love and are
> blessed to be able to do.

sorry now I am off my soap box

T. Bee



 




-- 
Jane Harper, PhD(c), RN, APN
Trauma Nurse Practitioner, Rockford, IL