Pros And Cons: The Problems Of Registered Nurses

A registered nurse is a nurse who has graduated from a college 's nursing program or from a school of nursing and has passed a national licensing exam. That is the dictionary definition of what they do. Nurses are people who care for others to make a living and to provide for their own family. They work three 12-hour shifts or five eight-hour shifts throughout their seven day week, they usually also work weekends and most times holidays as well. Registered nurses, on average, make $68,910 a year (Registered Nurse: salary). In recent years the influx of students going into the nursing field has slowly dwindled down considerably, one of the reasons being that most of the nurses feel underpaid and overworked.
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Hansen’s article talks about how across the nation almost 500,000 RNs are not currently working as nurse and have taken up another occupation (Hansen). An issue with this is that the nurses are not spread across the United States where they are needed. If they were spread out by need then the shortage would not be as prevalent in some cities anymore. Many towns are understaffed and cities are bursting with RNs that are unemployed or not content with the pay wage. If they could be moved to where they are needed then it would even out and everything would follow along with …show more content…
This is a big problem because they did the duties that nurses were too busy to do. Without the students the nurses must do all of these jobs and they might neglect their other responsibilities because they will be in a hurry doing these. The students will be missing out on real life experiences that they will not be able to have in labs. They would get paid to perform these jobs and now they have to do them in their labs. This means the students were most likely to do the jobs in a timelier manner instead of for a class grade. Without the students some nurses will inevitably end up taking their places and so the pay would be lower for the job they are doing. This could be avoided if the pay wage went up. More people would be attracted to that field so there would have to be more teachers. With more teachers who actually understood nursing then less labs would be used. The students would end up in understaffed hospitals and fill the positions quicker since they would pick up the work faster. So the RNs would have a higher pay with the nursing students there making thing easier for everyone. The students who work at the hospitals will have much more experience in what they are doing and will be able to specialize quicker if that was what they wished to do. King explains that the government is doing a