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It's weird though - my girlfriend studies nursing and Geriatric Nursing is still one of the lowest paid specialisations with poor conditions and respect (compar

It's weird though - my girlfriend studies nursing and Geriatric Nursing is still one of the lowest paid specialisations with poor conditions and respect (compared to say working in the ICU). It seems residential homes charge the 'guests' loads and pay the staff (carers, nurses, cleaners etc.) very, very little.

RhodesianHunter 8y ago
Hopefully not offending anyone, but it is one of the most manual labor intensive and has some of the lowest educational requirements and cognitive overhead of the various nursing specialties. It also carries lower requisite insurance costs.
- hoaw 8y ago
  Also one of the best examples of what you lose in this changing society though. The decline of the middle class in general is of course problematic, but at least some of these jobs weren't worth saving as activities (though probably as careers). However that you can't have sustainable career as a common nurse, teacher or construction worker is a huge problem. Because these professions can't necessarily be paid a lot and also serve the public.
  - bryanlarsen 8y ago
    Geriatric may be one of the worst paid of the nursing professions, but nursing itself has seen its salaries increase dramatically. Partially due to demand, partially due to increasing responsibilities, and partially due to the equal pay for equal work movement. I know nurses who make well into 6 figures. That's because they work way more than 40 hours / week, with much of that night shift, but even without it's not the horrible pay it used to to. Nursing is definitely a "sustainable career".
    - hoaw 8y ago
      I hope you are correct. Point still stands that professions like nursing to some extent have an inverse relationship between utility and cost. Everyone can't be a nurses with specialist education, a teachers at private school or a construction worker building luxury apartment buildings. If people do not want to pay more, and probably also lose more in transit, I think it is crucial that you can live a good life at low costs in those professions. Otherwise no one is going be left to care for the weak, tech the poor or build housing for the middle class. At least not with good results.
bryanlarsen 8y ago
But nursing salaries in general have increased dramatically over the decades. From wages suitable for "unskilled girls" to something that is almost appropriate for the highly skilled professionals that they are.

RhodesianHunter 8y ago

Hopefully not offending anyone, but it is one of the most manual labor intensive and has some of the lowest educational requirements and cognitive overhead of the various nursing specialties. It also carries lower requisite insurance costs.

hoaw 8y ago
Also one of the best examples of what you lose in this changing society though. The decline of the middle class in general is of course problematic, but at least some of these jobs weren't worth saving as activities (though probably as careers). However that you can't have sustainable career as a common nurse, teacher or construction worker is a huge problem. Because these professions can't necessarily be paid a lot and also serve the public.
- bryanlarsen 8y ago
  Geriatric may be one of the worst paid of the nursing professions, but nursing itself has seen its salaries increase dramatically. Partially due to demand, partially due to increasing responsibilities, and partially due to the equal pay for equal work movement. I know nurses who make well into 6 figures. That's because they work way more than 40 hours / week, with much of that night shift, but even without it's not the horrible pay it used to to. Nursing is definitely a "sustainable career".
  - hoaw 8y ago
    I hope you are correct. Point still stands that professions like nursing to some extent have an inverse relationship between utility and cost. Everyone can't be a nurses with specialist education, a teachers at private school or a construction worker building luxury apartment buildings. If people do not want to pay more, and probably also lose more in transit, I think it is crucial that you can live a good life at low costs in those professions. Otherwise no one is going be left to care for the weak, tech the poor or build housing for the middle class. At least not with good results.

bryanlarsen 8y ago

But nursing salaries in general have increased dramatically over the decades. From wages suitable for "unskilled girls" to something that is almost appropriate for the highly skilled professionals that they are.