Nurses are 24 7 around the patients offering nursing care and support, should they earn a mega payment than any other proffessional???? Discuss!

* YES Nurses are with patients more than the dcotor spends time with patients. They do the most work from helping CNAs with BMs and medical care for there patients. I think Nurses should make closer to a doctors salary $.

OH, I forgot to add......med students have huge loans....like 150,000 dollars to pay back.  They deserve the big bucks

Nurse practioners arent even paid that great! So i yes I feel that Nurses should be paid more!

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Kelly Gardiner  12-06-2007  Nurse Practioner

Sadly, I don’t recommend people going to NP school. I have been in the business for 20 years and an NP for 10 and I don’t make much more than a 2 year degreed RN. I met a guy with a BSN doing home health care and he made $125,000 last year. I told him what I make and he was thinking of going to school to become an NP. He also had heard that he would take a pay cut and have to pay for school and work for free for clinicals. For you, I would suggest that you calculate how many patients you see per day that you work, look up the medicare and blue cross websites and figure out insurance reimbursement for your services, (make sure you calculate secondary insurance into the formula as well) and then determine what you should be making from there. This will give you a baseline of what the providers is making from your services. You can also look for a medical biller skilled in your field and find out calculations from that person. In my field of psychiatry, I get a 50% reduction in payment (as do psychistrists) so the amount billable is not what you get in return so find out what deductions you get if any, in your field, as well. Hence, the need to talk to a medical biller in your field. Note that the medical billers make about 5-7% of what you get from the insurance carriers. Good luck.

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 I bring over $350.000 to this office and I still don’t get what i deserve. I am amazed how PAs who can be some one with a computer or sales back ground go through a 2 year program and yet make as much or even more when compared to NPs. That really hurts. I think this is because of the fact that NPs education concentrates on research/ book knowledge and not much “hands on practice”. Also, the fact that PAs are often hired by surgeons makes a difference in their pay scale in general. If I had to do it all over again I would go through a PA program. We are not being appreciated the way we should. The fact the Board of medicine and doctors are supporting PAs makes a difference, apparently.

Gity S., ANP-C, RNFA, Private March 11, 2008

We must unit! Employers for the most part want us to “play doctor” see as many if not more patients than t hey do, yet want to pay RN wages. What can we do? If I had stayed at the hospital as an RN I would be earning more and would have job security.

 A A, Nurse Practioner, private February 28, 2008