The second most important person after the doctor, on whom not only comfort but also the course of the patient’s recovery, is a nurse. The requirements for medical workers at this level are not only identical to the requirements for doctors, but also much tougher in places. Here, not only the professional qualities of a specialist are important, but also personal characteristics. Consider the question of what is the salary of a nurse and what features does this profession imply.
Nurse - who is it?
A nurse, in fact, is a representative of a junior or mid-level medical staff. Employees in this category belong to the niche of the junior specialist in accordance with the entry in the diploma. Nurses and nurses are assistant doctors and follow all their instructions. Previously, in order to take the post of a nurse, no special education was required, today a document confirming the level of qualification of an employee is a prerequisite. If the doctor is responsible for prescribing comprehensive treatment to the patient, then the nurse is an employee of a medical institution who implements in some places, and in some places controls the treatment process itself while ensuring optimal health conditions for each patient.
Variety of duties and average wages in the country
The duties of a specialist depend on the specifics of his activity. The staff of the treatment room sterilize the instruments and perform the procedures prescribed by the attending physician. It can be both injections and droppers, collecting biological material for analysis. An operating nurse, whose salary is not very different from representatives of the profession who have other responsibilities, helps the surgeon during operations. She is responsible for preparing the surgical instrument, dressing and suture. The local specialist helps the local doctor in receiving patients, takes part in preventive procedures and conducts medical procedures at home in accordance with the doctor’s instructions. The only drawback of this profession is that the salary is not very large. The average salary of a nurse in Russia corresponds to 20 thousand rubles.
Remuneration of nurses in the regions of Russia
The salary of a nurse varies depending on the regions of Russia. Payroll monitoring of junior medical industry employees showed the following results:
- The salary of medical personnel in the Moscow region corresponds to 29 983 rubles.
- The Republic of Buryatia - 27,701 rubles. Employees of deficient specialties were allocated 5 million rubles from the budget of the republic.
- The Republic of Karelia - 25 thousand rubles.
- Severodvinsk region - 22 964 rubles.
- Leningrad region - 24 014 rubles. The region introduced lump-sum payments to secure junior medical staff at workplaces in the amount of 15 thousand rubles.
- In Mordovia, the salary of a nurse is 22,115 rubles.
- Tyumen region - 22 thousand rubles.
- Vladimir region - 21 500 rubles.
- Primorsky Krai - 21,375 rubles.
- Khabarovsk Territory - 21,143 rubles.
- Krasnodar Territory - 20,409 rubles.
- The Republic of Sakha - 20 thousand rubles.
These data beat relevant by the end of 2014.
The lowest salaries in the regions of Russia
While researching the question of what kind of salary a nurse has, the Health Foundation has published the following research results. If the national average, as mentioned above, the level of salaries of nurses is 20 thousand rubles, that is, the regions where wages are even lower. Least of all are junior medical workers in such areas as Tambov and Yaroslavl, Astrakhan and Kemerovo, Ulyanovsk and Ivanovskaya. Nurses working in the Krasnodar Territory and in Dagestan, in Kabardino-Balkaria are not spoiled by wages. According to the director of the Health Fund Eduard Gavrilov, in some of the areas listed, industry employees get their hands clean up to 83.3% of official earnings.
Where is the highest salary for nurses in Russia?
The highest salary of a nurse in Moscow, in St. Petersburg, in the suburbs, in Yakutia, in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. In particular, in the capital, among 100 respondent-nursing respondents surveyed, salaries of 50.6 thousand rubles and more were made by 10.6%. From 40 to 50 thousand rubles receive no more than 2.1%. About 40.4% of junior medical staff talked about remuneration of their labor in the amount of 20 to 40 thousand rubles. Specialists who got the average salary of a nurse in the country in the amount of 20 thousand rubles or less gathered about 46.2% of all respondents.
Percentage of combination and features of the test
The results of the survey showed that junior medical workers in order to ensure a decent standard of living, should work not in one place, but simultaneously in several (2-3 jobs). About 30 - 40% of all respondents in the Moscow region and in St. Petersburg are engaged in part-time jobs. The trend is especially pronounced in regions where the salary of a nurse in a clinic is the lowest in the country. In the Astrakhan, Sverdlovsk and Kemerovo regions, about 80% of junior medical workers practice combining. The survey, conducted by representatives of the Health Foundation, was attended by 4,689 people, of whom 703 are junior medical staff. Monitoring was carried out in 774 settlements, in 47 regions of Russia. According to official figures, today the average salary of a nurse in Russia is 24 102 rubles. Interviewed industry workers constantly noted the overly heavy loads that they had to endure. The only good news is that in his May speech, Vladimir Putin focused on bringing the salaries of both doctors and nurses to 200% of the amount that the average salary of a nurse is equal to today, by 2018.
Remuneration of nurses in the Crimea
In Crimea, such a junior medical worker as a senior nurse, the salary does not exceed the average, and sometimes minimum wage. It is 20 thousand rubles. This information was provided in an official statement by Alexander Mogilevsky, who holds the post of Minister of Health of Crimea. From his words it became known that about 11 thousand nurses are working on the peninsula. At the same time, the need for specialists in outpatient care is about 3-3.5 thousand personnel. According to the minister, the reason for the lack of specialists is not the low salary of a nurse in the Crimea, but the queues at the peninsula’s health facilities.
What are the government's plans regarding the salaries of medical workers in the Crimea?
The Crimean district nurse, whose salary currently varies in the range of 20 thousand rubles, can expect an increase in accordance with official government statements by the end of 2015. In accordance with the budget of RBC, the level of remuneration should increase exactly two times. The first increase was recorded in 2014. At that time, instead of the usual 10.6 thousand rubles, the junior medical workers received within 20.6 thousand rubles. The tendency to increase wages in the Crimea was noted among all public sector employees.
What to expect in the future?
At present, the Russian medical industry is in a permanent state of decline. Despite the seriousness of the work of doctors, their level of wages is almost the lowest in the public sector. The first growth dynamics in this segment was recorded at the beginning of 2012. At this time, a presidential decree was signed, which regulated financial issues in the medical industry. In accordance with the decree, the salary of a nurse in Moscow, in any other region of the country, during the course of 2013 was increased by about 24%. In 2014, in accordance with officially submitted data, the remuneration of medical specialists increased by 13% compared to last year. By the end of 2015, doctors can expect a 17% increase in wages. The economic situation in the country radically crippled the government’s plans, but did not become a reason for their rejection. Will the state be able to ensure the optimal level of salaries for medical workers, will show only real increases in fees.
What measures is the government taking to increase the remuneration of nurses?
Considering the question of what kind of salary a nurse has in Russia, one involuntarily wants to note the fact that despite the seriousness of the profession, the heavy workloads and the level of responsibility, it is almost the smallest in the public sector. The Russian government seeks to actively increase wages and, first of all, uses compulsory medical insurance for this purpose. The current increase in wages is no more than one of the stages of a complex government plan, in accordance with which wages in general will be raised to the optimal level in the public sector. If the trends in the growth of doctors' salaries continue, and the government will continue to adhere to its policy in this direction, then by the end of 2018, junior level medical specialists will receive from 40 thousand rubles or more. A clear evidence of the implementation of the presidential decree on increasing salaries to nurses and other budget specialists was the amount of 100 billion rubles, which was allocated from the budget to implement this task and to accelerate the achievement of the goal.