andrew39

I'm not a nurse, but I'm sure you could find areas of work that have none - or at least less - "yuckies". I'm sure the average NP/PA in Family Medicine doesn't have to deal with bodily fluids a lot, if they work primarily on an outpatient basis. I'm sure patients vomit in an outpatient center, but the medical assistant would probably clean it up if you asked her. A PMHNP or PA equivalent probably has to deal with very little bodily fluids - if at all. If blood freaks you out, maybe OR/CRNA nursing would be a good choice. You could use the BSN to go into an MSN in Nursing Administration or an MBA. You could be a medical supervisor for an insurance company. So if you can't avoid it all together, you could probably at least minimize it.

Maybe this will help? http://www.outpatientsurgery.net/forms/2004/pdf/OutpatientSurgeryMagazine_0410_crashCart.pdf

CRNA supervision differs from state to state. In most states, CRNAs do perform under the supervision of the surgeon. First of all, if this did go through, I doubt most, if any, hospitals would actually allow nurses to provide surgery. Just like many ACNPs don't see ICU patients and many CRNAs don't provide anesthesia during open heart cases. Those patients are within their scope of practice, but hospitals don't let them participate in those surgeries. I think it would be much easier to convince a jury to find against a hospital in a civil suit if a nurse was doing surgery rather than a doctor. If you want to do surgery independently, why don't you go to medical school? Nurses will always have a more narrow scope of practice when compared to doctors.

The information I got was from Market Driven Health Care by Regina Herzlinger (a Canadian herself) and Miracle Cure by Sally Pipes. Sorry I didn't mention that in the first post.

MRIs Per Million People UK - 1 Canada - 1 Germany - 3 USA - 11 CT Scanners Per Million People UK - 4 Canada - 7 Germany - 12 USA - 27 Canadian radiation oncologists suggested the waiting time between diagnosis and treatment for their patients be two weeks or less. Average waiting time for people with breast cancer between diagnosis and treatment: 61 days. That's over eight weeks. For every one doctor that immigrates to US from the Canada, 19 immigrate from Canada to the US. For every nurse that immigrates from the US to Canada, 15 Canadian ones leave for the US. 66% of Canadian doctors and nurses say they are loosing confidence in the system. Canadian specailists estimate that 81% of surgeries waiting times are longer than necessary.

Sorry. I guess I should have said "wider scope of practice."

First of all, the topic wasn't assigned to me. But let me explain the general concept of it to you. Usually, more responsibilities come with more pay. A pay check is usually the way we tell people how valuable they are. For example, the CRNA makes more than the NP who makes more than the RN who makes more than the LPN who makes more than the CNA. This is because each one has more responsibilities and more education than the other. But, professional athletes have very little education and if they mess up, what happens? No one gets sicker and no one dies. Yet some are making $30 million a year. If a Nurse Practioner messes up, someone could get sicker or die. Not only that, but they spent at least six years on their education. Yet, if we look at the two paychecks, we are saying that the professional athlete/singer/actor is worth 500 times more than the person who spends their life taking care of us. PS - It would be really nice if this site had a spell checker...

I was hoping some of you could help me out. I'm a high school student that writes articles for our local newspaper. Right now I'm working on an article about athlete, actor/actress pay versus more professions that have more education, require more skill and have more responsibilities. I would appreciate it if you could answer the below questions. I hate to have to ask for salaries, but they are important so I can accurately display the revolting income disparity between nurse practioners and athletes. I would really love to hear from Nurse Practioners who work in free clinics or clinics for the homeless. Where do you work? (doesn't have to be the name, but "free clinic", "homeless clinic", "drug abuse center", etc will work). Where do you live and practice? (example: near Dallas, TX) What is the highest level of education you have completed? Including your BSN, any bridge programs (RN-BSN, etc) and MSN, how much was the total cost of your education? Do you still make payments on your education loans? If you do, how much do they cost a year? What are your duties during the course of your day? Peyton Manning, a player for the Indianapolis Colts, made $35 million dollars in 2004. Do you think he deserves to make that much? If you had to choose a hero, who would it be? What was the most rewarding experience you ever had while at work? Do you feel the income disparity between nurse practioners, social workers, nurses and other similar professions and those of athletes, singers, actors is unfair? Why do you feel that way? Some people say "you are worth exactly what you make." Do you think that is a true or false statement? If you had the power to set the national salaries of the following professions, what would it be (annually): Staff Nurse: Nurse Practioner: Medical Doctor: Teacher: Football Player: Actor: Singer: Social Worker: Police Officer: What are your annual earnings? Thanks, Andrew