Financial incentives for healthcare providers

Nurses work well with patients. Their training not only covers the medical field but it also relies heavily on people skills. How to react to patients in different scenarios. For example, in the event of the death of a loved one, receiving a life-threatening diagnosis, situations. They also deliver first aid in the emergency room and are normally the first to attend to you in the event a doctor is not present. Nurses are first-line managers. They handle the situation and inform their superiors on the case (before and after treatment) and the patients involved in the process before seeing the doctor.

This means, registering in the system, taking your blood pressure, weight and the likes. They prep you before you go see the doctor and present their knowledge. After they attend to you and let you know the next steps of treatment and how medicine is administered. If you are being admitted, these are the people who will help you get a change of clothes, bring a menu to you, show you where the bathroom is, change your sheets and be your guide while you spend a few nights in the hospital.

The work of a nurse is to provide comfort and medical aid to a patient. This refers to showing empathy and understanding for their situation. Caring for them so that they are not further stressed or in pain, by administering the right medication to them. Assisting in treatment as they have been instructed the doctors. Making sure that their stay in the hospital is comfortable and most importantly, that they get the required treatment. During these shifts, nurses are already being paid as per usual.

Depending on their state and institutional rates. Some are paid overtime, some are not. However, I would not advise giving bonuses for saving someone’s life, because it is their job. When we do our jobs, we are rewarded with a salary. If the company does very well, better than usual and makes profits higher than expected then sometimes top management chooses to reward their employees. For nurses, during holidays their salary may be increased. The long hours they work, they also get additional pay.

Most bonuses are given over the holiday seasons as a gift to the employees. Rewarding nurses based on how many lives they save is unethical. All lives are equal and worthy to be saved. It is their duty to assist and their job is not like any other. It is vocational and working only for monetary rewards is dangerous in the nursing capacity. It requires being emotionally present and for the work to mean to you than just a paycheck because you are dealing with peoples lives. When it comes to paying the issue should be with the organization and not with the patients present.

However, nurses who show exemplary skills should be recognized and additional efforts should be put into the training of the nurses so that they can all participate with equal skill and prowess. It is important to recognize achievements and reward them with either a promotion or an increase in wage. Based on experience and qualifications. Merit is always the best reference for progress and promotion.

In some cases, senior doctors receive a bonus for their performance. The same is not extended to nurses. Nurse Unions have come forth to demand the same for nurses who perform special care to patients who are in extreme need. Nurses have been known to go out of their way for patients; in the UK organizing weddings within 48 hours has been done before for a patient on their death bed. They do perform out of the ordinary tasks for patients who are gravely ill and otherwise to support them. Not only medically but emotionally as well. Bonuses can be handed out but not on the motivation of the patients’ outcome but more as a consequence of circumstance. Holidays, season changes, promotions and the likes.