Nurse Compensation Research

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Nurses today get put in some of the most dangerous situations relating to providing care to their patients. To deal with this lack of respect they get, some nurses believe that they should just move to another hospital or find a different profession. Nurses are often required to work long hour shifts. In this case nurses are required to work back to back or extended shifts. The health affairs found that the longer the shifts for the hospital nurses, the higher the levels of patient dissatisfaction. This could lead into extreme amount of patients being hurt if they don't cut down the hours for the nurses. Compensation is one of the biggest issues today, some nurses today believe that it is unfair that other nurses in different states get paid

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