Why do Nurses have high salary than teachers?

Both professions are overworked and underpaid. But nursing is definitely more stressful simply because everything a nurse does must be documented to avoid lawsuits or losing their licenses. A nurse carries a great deal of responsibility and they are overworked because of the shortages. Nurses are getting good salaries but it's still not enough for the amount of responsibility they hold. Becoming a teacher is indeed stressful as well but you don't have people's lives at stake everyday.

Well, you are right that nurses are not taking home any job from workplace. And that I think is our government's reference on pay assessment. :) I tried the teaching job for a while when my aunt had to file for an indefinite leave for medical procedure. She was almost 3 months away from her students. I also had to do leave-of-absence from my work as Tumor Registrar. I was a hospital employed so I had to compare a little between two different careers. I also have weighed their possibilities of earning better against each respective professions. While teaching my aunt's students, I had to deal with st*p*d college students. There were around 40 students in the block section. Almost all of them were working students in their class. Being employed as regular employee in the hospital and at that time I tried to teach and experience the thing about becoming a teacher. It wasn't as easy task that other people have thought about. Though nurses are also working in graveyard shifts, exposed to health hazards like contageous diseased, exposed to emotional fatigue when the nursing unit you are working is into geriatrics or old-aged cases, patients in the medical oncology...the nurses will surely be affected on the day-to-day mortality. What is easier on the nursing job is that will just report to the hospital and perform their tasks through Doctor's Order. Unlike becoming a teacher, you have to deliver what you teach vividly, make sure that the lesson is sequential, working with syllabus, moods swings of students, reporting to the school director, department head dean etc.... A teacher must project that they can mould a person better and prepare them to be better people. I think it is just fair for teachers to be paid higher than that of our nurses. Just a personal opinion ;)

Anyone in the medical field should have a higher pay job than a teacher in my opinion. Just for the fact they go through much more schooling than teacher and are responsible for much more than teachers also. A nurse is required to give medication, do IV therapies, chart and work longer hours. Nursing is very stressful because you never know what is going to happen to your patients live or die on ya at any give moment.

I dont think nurses are paid higher salaries than teachers in the UK. I think nurses are underpaid for the responsibility they have for people's lives. I am not a nurse but I do work in a hospital and have seen the amount of paperwork that nurses are expected to complete whilst administering care. I think the government takes advantage of the fact that most nurses are in the job because they genuinely care about people rather than for the salary.