Nurses Vs Doctors in Health Care

National and local health policy is leading to significant changes in the skill mix of the health care workforce. Nurses are substituting for doctors while less qualified staff are substituting for registered nurses. Without a firm evidence base, these policy changes are little more than a large social experiment with poor evaluation of its risks, costs, and benefits. This paper highlights the need for further research in this area.

In this day and age, the cost of healthcare is astronomically high. Doctors expect more and more money to treat patients but yet they spend less and less time in contact with the patients. They are in and out of the room in the blink of an eye. On the other hand, nurses tend to spend more time with the patients and allow them to feel at home and ask more questions about their ailments. Nurses tend to be very caring and compassionate people that are in-tuned to their patients every need. It is the nurse who truly notices progression or regression in these patients because they spend much more one-on-one time with them. It is usually the nurse who informs the doctor of the patients'