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That's weird to me, in the US, because I don't know a single doctor that draws blood for tests. And if a doctor ever tried to draw blood from me I would say "No
by stevehawk 3y ago
That's weird to me, in the US, because I don't know a single doctor that draws blood for tests. And if a doctor ever tried to draw blood from me I would say "No thanks, let the nurse do it". The American equivalent of this is probably "Administration knows best!" Like at my wife's hospital where they said "having all of these part time nurses is difficult on the admin staff and is going to force us to hire a few more people. So the nurses can go full or quit." Well, they all quit, and now the hospital is paying 4x the normal nurse rate for locums.
- throwup238 3y agoDoctors get paid a lot less in the UK because the NHS has a monopoly over their employment (I’m oversimplifying but that’s the effect). There’s a lot less incentive to offload routine patient care to nurses but they’ve still got the air of superiority so patients get the worst of both worlds.
- 0x1ceb00da 3y agoThey don't have to be part time nurses. Can't they treat other patients in their free time?
- stevehawk 3y agoI'm not entirely sure what you're asking. In my wife's hospital's case, a lot of the nurses were part time due to family requirements. When the hospital demanded they go full time or quit, they simply quit and went part time at neighboring hospitals. You can't go making unreasonable demands of your employees when the demand for labor is larger than the supply.