مكانات وأدوار الممرضين والممرضات في النسق الطبي

Nurses’ Social Ranks and Roles in the Medical Field Dr. Abdul Aziz Ali Khazali Abstract The aim of the present paper is to study nursing social ranks and roles via investigating the developmental stages of nursing and the changes through which the nursing social ranks and roles undergo in medical field of Jordan. 219 subjects holding various medical roles have been chosen to give their views about a number of points raised in the questionnaire. The points concern the nature of medical job, salaries, the merits of the job, psychological stability and security, respectability, relationship with colleagues, etc. The points concerning social ranks and roles have been numerically arranged in accordance with their importance to nurses. The paper has concluded that these social ranks and roles vary if these points vary too, and nurses give their utmost priority to wages and salaries.