Zdzisław Czajka

Doctors and nurses payment in comparison with other occupations (2001-2010)

This article aims is presenting relationship doctors and nurses payment in public health services, after the reform from 1999. Increase salaries for medical personnel was very important government problem in ninetieth years. Doctors and nurses to wait increase their salaries. Trade unions to demand level of salaries adequate to importance and function health service in whole economy and doctors and nurses qualifications. Between government suggestions and medical personnel expectation of salary increase was considerable difference. One rule of reform in public health service in 1999 was finance wages budget from National Health Fund. Article presenting factors influence on level of payment medical personnel, payment relationship between health service and other occupations, influence of employment seniority on payment diversity, relationship between women and men as well as payment influence on doctors emigration. Results of information presenting in this article is, that payment relationship doctors and nurses in comparison with other occupations changing between 2001 and 2010 for the better.

The aim of the article is to indicate the role of professional competences in adjusting the qualifications of medical workers to the requirements of the patients treatment process. The article presents the activities of EU and the Polish labour ministry aimed at increasing the role of competences in the labour market policy. It also shows exemplary connections of competences with tasks of family nurse, competence profile in 12 selected medical professions, social competences and personality traits, important for the performance of various medical services. Information on competences is contained in the “Information on occupations”, prepared by the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Affairs. The analysis in the article leads to the conclusion, that not all descriptions of competences are adapted to the specificity of medical work. They must not be used as a benchmark for the development of competence profiles in a particular healthcare organization. 

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