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Do nurses do more than just 'assist' doctors?

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I my career as a nurse I can count on the fingers of two hands the number of times that the doctor has emptied a urinal, taken away or even given a bedpan. So, does the nurse do do more dirty work than the MD. Hell yes! read more

Unless the nurses are working with a very bad doctor, yes. Nurses are the eyes and ears, hands and noses of the physicians. The patient will almost always first be seen by a nurse, in triage, then be seen by a nurse in the patient’s room, and only then be seen by the doctor. read more

Your experienced floor nurse knows way more about medicine than your average intern. Physician assistants can sew up wounds and assist in surgery. A person who becomes a nurse is just as smart as a person who becomes a doctor, which has always been true, but not always acknowledged. read more

The nurse, on the other hand, has to meet a more or less similar educational terms to receive a similar fate as that of the doctor’s, salary wise. Meaning to say, nurses have to gather more master’s degrees and doctorate degrees to get a notch higher than that of a regular nurse. read more

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