Top 5 Problems of a Nurse
To be a nurse is a high pressure, high responsibility where you have no control over anything, patient load, work environment. Nurses will have some flexibility especially after they have some experiences under their belt, they can work in hospitals, health centers, schools, companies and more.
Nursing, as a profession, can be very rewarding and challenging, however many problems exist and most becoming worse due to lack of legislation to address these issues.
There are five problems only nurses have:
- Lack of common ground. This kind of issue is frustrating in that it causes great stress for nurses as they are deeply divided on entry-level themselves. For nursing, there is no real common entry-level and this causes a great deal of confusion to young people looking at nursing as a professional career path.
- Meeting patients expectations. Meeting or failing to meet the care patients hoped for is an important predictor of patient satisfaction with out-of-hours care. Meeting patient expectations is hard enough as it is and some people fear it may worsen as healthcare and the elderly population increases.
- Lack of Respect. Nurses in some hospitals or health centers have far too many patients to safety care for. It is a gratifying profession; however, nurses continue to experience lack of respect from their patients, doctors, admin, and even from their co-nurses. As a result of this, nurses view their voice as limited in health care.
- Crisis in hospital staffing. Some hospitals are facing shortages. This problem may be worsening due to more hospital CEOs investing in advance medical technologies and failing to pay attention to maintaining adequate staff levels.
- Healthcare cost continue to escalate. Health care costs are still rising, faster than workers wages and overall inflation. Nurses believe that their wages do not fairly compensate for the service they perform.
The future is not all doom and gloom for the nurses, it can indeed be very bright and beautiful if they all come together and work to change their profession from a weak subservient occupation, to a profession that is strong, vocal with conviction and able to provoke change for the future.
Published at: 06/10/2015
