Nurse profession is one of the professions required to work extra time. But nurses' salaries are still low, even nurses (honorarium) salaries do not meet the minimum wage (regional minimum wage).
Ironically, the salaries of nurses in Indonesia are far behind when compared to other countries in Southeast Asia.
The salary for nurses in Thailand, for example, is three times smaller compared to nurses in Indonesia. Though the cost of living in Thailand and Indonesia is almost the same.
This phenomenon is interesting, because nurses' position in the world of health is very much needed. Not only at the national level, the nurse profession is demanded to participate at the forefront in realizing the global ideals in SDG’s.
This enormous role is not matched by appreciation and appreciation. Like it or not, like it or not, the country's appreciation and appreciation for this noble profession is still lacking, even though nurses are at the forefront of the quality of national health services.
Even though the nurse's job is hard and tiring, you will not be strong, let me just. Sometimes they have to serve a lot of patients.
Not to mention the risk problems faced by nurses is quite large, where a nurse must face all the 'babbling' patients and the patient's family.
My experience during the internship was unique, where this profession did not know where Eid, Nyepi, or Christmas, nurses remained alert and willing to not feel the beauty of celebrating the religious holidays that God himself commanded.
Risk of Violence
Nurses have the risk of experiencing verbal abuse as well as physical attacks. In my opinion, the root of the problem of violence faced by nurses is one of them from the public perception of the profession of a nurse.
So all matters relating to hospitals in the view of users of "hospital" services are borne by nurses.
My internship experience in one of the red plate hospitals, the delay in the administration process and even the length of the doctor's service were precisely my ears as nurses who were the main target of patient complaints and patient's family.
The funny thing is when the doctor comes, they are patient and the patient's family is silent.
In a study conducted by Stanly Rawung et.al (2017) of 74 respondents from the IGD nurse population in three hospitals in the city of Manado published by Ikmas Journal (Vol 2, No 2), showed that 73.0% of respondents had experienced violence in Last 12 months.
The study also revealed details of violence according to type, namely 8.1% experienced physical violence, 71.6% experienced verbal violence, 32.4% experienced bullying, and 1.4% experienced sexual violence.
The same thing was also obtained from Veny Elita's study of 61 respondents in Pekanbaru Tampan Hospital where violent behavior in the form of physical threats to nurses was 79%, insults to nurses 77%, and verbal violence as much as 70%.
More than half of respondents, 51%, experienced physical violence resulting in minor injuries. A small proportion of respondents, 20% had experienced physical violence that caused serious injury.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), an Occupational Safety and Health Institute based in the United States which is engaged in research on Occupational Safety and Health states, violence in hospitals can occur to anyone, whether nurses, doctors or other workers .
However, because nurses have the most contact time with patients and their families, nurses are most vulnerable to violence compared to other professions.
However, of course as a nurse I also realize that the quality of nursing services is not in accordance with what is dreamed of by the roots of rump up, even though as users of the service they also have the right to friendly service and we also need to realize that patients who are willing to face nurses who are poor or unfriendly, especially unprofessional.
Behind the salary and risk phenomena of this profession, I just want to say that behind the demands of "professional service" to nurses must also be balanced with appropriate awards from the State. It's simple, nurses and humans need decent lives as they should.
I conclude this paper with my respect to my seniors at the Indonesian National Nurses Association (PPNI), that PPNI as a professional organization must formulate long-term political steps that are more realistic than playing transactional political strategies as it is today.
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