re: If nurses across the US simply got paid more then we wouldn’t have a nursing shortage

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You ever work in a hospital anywhere in July when the new Residents come out? Not saying nurses are equally trained as a MD obviously but I am saying nurses save many a new doctor’s asses and keep pts safe from their inexperience.

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Residents are in training and have a attending MD monitoring their interactions.
They are overseeing it all. When the residents round on the patients, who is in the room with them? When residents are on call, who do they phone at 3 am with questions on a course of action? Who goes in at 3 am when situations come up? The attending. Don’t spin this shite that residents are on their own making decisions and nurses make medical/medicinal decisions to save patients from residents.

It’s this adversarial attitude that is helping to frick up medicine. Nurses have a lot of practical experience and are an integral part of patient care, but they are not the saviors of medicine. It’s a collaborative job.