Fed-up Queensland nurses turning to prostitution
The government needs to stay the hell out of medicine. The governments responsibility stops at certifications of healthcare professionals and drug safety.
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Fed-up Queensland nurses turning to prostitution
The government needs to stay the hell out of medicine. The governments responsibility stops at certifications of healthcare professionals and drug safety.
Erm...the problems spoken of in that article spring from the nursing shortage, not the existence of Medicare. I know several nurses and they're EXTREMELY well-paid in this country. It's just that the job is a stressful one, which is the case in private hospitals as well as public ones.
Also, we're talking about four or five nurses who quit to join the sex industry. I'd hardly call that walking out in droves.
Obviously the premise this thread was started on is a complete misrepresentation of the actual problem in AU.
Also, Medicare is a very, very popular system, including amongst health care professionals (who are not obliged to bulk bill and may charge any additional fee they choose, outside the public system). It's almost a sacrament in this country. Not even the previous conservative government, which stayed in power for eleven years, dared touch it, despite being ideologically opposed. They knew the public would never accept any sort of scaling back.
Well paid? Compared to whom? Dishwashers or Lawyers? Sure this is a small sampling of those that admit to changing profession to prostitution, but how many of you are shouting from the roof tops about Stripping?
My point is that when government meddles in an industry for other than safety concerns government disrupts that service adding bureaucracy ,and inefficiency.
We've got the same problem in the US. So what does socialized medicine have to do with a labor shortage?
RNs/LPNs have a tough profession partly because of stereotyped and antiquated workscope siutuations. Physicians have a lot of help (NPs, PAs, nurses, technicians, etc.), but nurses have very little. Tough because people have made it tougher for them then needed.Quote:
"We could no longer work in such an understaffed and stressful environment," said the mother of two, who wanted to be known only as Jenna. "I was overworked, poorly paid and a mistake could have led to charges if I caused a death," she said. "I came to the conclusion the nursing shortage wasn't my problem but it was my responsibility to protect myself from burning out or making a fatal mistake."