Do nurses get paid enough?

I'm a male registered nurse and have been working on a medical unit in the hospital for 6 years now. I feel that I don't get paid enough for all the duties that I do. Nursing in general is the core of returning patients to better health and keeping patients alive. Doctors are paid in multiple of what a nurse earns but the time spent with the patient is 1/20 of the time the nurse spends with the patient. Are nurses cheated out of what they should be earning?

I agree on some aspect of that however I didn't go into nursing for the money.

yes the nurses do more of the grunt work but the nursing assistants work harder than the nurses and make less money. i believe the pay scale is in relationship to the amount of education

I'm a nurse aide and get paid $10 an hour to do twice the work as the LPNs and RNs where I work...they get to at least sit down all day and do their work (in a nursing home...I know hospitals are way different. I am on my feet all day except when I have to feed someone.

anyone providing health care is cheated(along with those receiving it)-by the money changers-HMO's PPO's PR for Pharmecutical cos.-greedy basterds

NO nurses dont get paid enough. One lawsuit could take at least 5 years of our income away.

Although, when I go home at the end of the day, I feel as though I have made a difference and that is what I love about nursing. Its very stressfull, we are the maid, nurse, housekeeper, waitress, and personal assistant.

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