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Are there any former teachers out there who are now nurses?

Why don't nurses get paid a lot of money, esp when compared to professions like teachers?

  • Nurses and nursing aides do NOT make as much money as teachers and teaching assistants do. Why is that? Nurses & nurtsing assistants work 12 hour shifts, whereas teachers/teaching assistants work for half the time, and nurses/aides often have to work overtime to make extra money & do more laborious work with lifting patients, moving them, cleanign up their feces/urine, bathign them, delivering food to them, and potentially beign exposed to blood borne diseases via needles, whereas teachers//assistants just grades papers, give lectures, discipline students, help students with thigns they don't understand, and usually are NOT exposed to big illnesses. Yet, the latter get paid a lot more than the former, if you compare the work load and the hours. Why is that? Is it because nursing in many ways is still cosndiered menial work & not something intellectual(even though they've an important and caring job)?

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    RN's make pretty good money in NYC. I don't know what you're talking about.

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I would approach your question with another question from the similar line of logic and see how you might respond.Why don't field laborers get paid more than scientists? Field laborers work ALOT more physically and longer hours than a scientist might. They would exposed to ailments such over exposure to the sun, infections from open wounds, etc.. Yet scientist' get paid more. I think in the end the answer comes down to basic economics. Supply and Demand. There is a greater supply of Nurses than demand. Thus employers can afford to pay them less. I think its interesting question because from my experience, teachers ALWAYS complain about how little they make. College professors less so, they do well for 1k a head in a room full of 100 students

Gooduserename

You're paid according to the monetary value of your work, not the emotional value. If you were primarily interested in money, you would probably not be a nurse OR a teacher.

SalientAlien

I am not saying nurses do not deserve more. but so do teachers. and teachers also have to do a lot of work outside of normal hours. example grading prepping things like that. A lot of jobs are under paid and under appreacated. But i dont think teachers make big money. Nurses work long hours and have hard jobs, so do teachers just in a different way.

RIP Somenicegirl

Many public sector positions don't get paid a lot of money including nurses and teachers.Many do it for a 'vocation' they care and want to help.

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