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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
Do you realize that the only difference between a medical professional or any other is they deal with human lives? Sorry to sound inhumane, but at a certain point the general public become barcodes, products, to be managed like any other business. My roomates girl is EMS and makes jokes about having to pick up pieces of people who are still alive after they get smashed to pieces in car wrecks or nailed by trains or whatever the case may be. A graduate from school (an EMT)makes $24/hr and is not guarenteed full-time work. They go to school much longer and more intensively than a nurse and their pool of applicants is much smaller. Who really needs to be around so much death in life and death situations anyway? Oh yeah, and they get paid s***.
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Isn't that a huge difference? Human lives? Would you still say the same if your parent was lying on a hospital bed, and the person your parent will most frequently see is the nurse looking after them? Would you not rather they do their job to the utmost of their ability, to ensure they do not miss a single instruction on the care of your parent? I would, and therefore, I believe their job is unique and there are literally only a fist full of careers very much like theirs.
Well, since a good friend of mine is EMT, yes he doesn't get paid as well as nurses. I also support his cause for more hires and increase in pay. As a second year EMT, he works the same shift as nurse, transport the same sick and injured nurses have to look after, and speaks the same medical language as the nurses do. So I agree his line of work needs more government support.
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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
They chose to be in nursing. Comparing them to a musician, at least they get a real wage! And eventually don't have to work crappy hours! Then there is pension, and benefits. You listen to music everyday I bet, and I'm willing to bet whatever the hell it is the person went through a hell of a lot more than 2-3 years of bad hours (prolly with two jobs) and I guarentee they worked every single last holiday. And got paid s***.
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I agree, this is the profession they chose. I can't agree with the fact that if you don't deal with human lives, and you work every holiday, you're at the same situation as a nurse. If a walmart greeter doesn't greet you, no one cares. If a nurse forgets dosages or gives the wrong ones, well...
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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
What about soliders? They make a hell of a lot less for years before they earn the same as a nurse and I think we can all agree they go through something a hell of a lot harder than nursing school. Now, not everyone is actually intelligent enough to be a nurse I will acknowledge, but the actual pool of applicants is most certainly adequate. While there is a role for everyone in the forces one cannot just expect to be made of what it takes to live that highly unique and dangerous lifestyle. It requires years of intense training and the whole idea comes down to your life is to be given in defence of some morons back home bitching about having to work holidays.
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These views are a little too simplistic. Obviously Soldiers are underpaid and train very hard for their profession, and I don't deny soldiers have to do horrible things...but every profession you listed (with the exception of EMS) is uniquely tied into the care of human life. A soldier isn't in constant wartime mode. A nurse is (in a sense). He/She has to look after the sick and injured to ensure what the Doctor has dictated be followed through with no mistakes.