I don't have a "home office", I'm an emergency medical professional that is in the field everyday addressing laboratory and hospital needs. You do forget that newspaper headlines and hysteria of 2020 in regards to travel and even in this subreddit. Look up the news in Houston TX for June 2020 and check out their COVID cases, I was there to address those needs except the public thought it was a hoax and carried themselves without any sort of protection. My partner who works for the NY hospitals and covid patients directly is immunocompromised who had quite a high mortality rate prior to vaccines if she contracted COVID based on the published papers from a medical director I worked with at the NY hospitals for patients with her medical condition. I came home and slept on the floor in a different room for a year and half to quarantine myself. Also my travel and work during the COVID peak was usually 14 to 18 hours a day where I wake up at 4 AM and can relax at 8 PM or come home at midnight. my point is to not Garner sympathy. We all have a story about why we need more money for what we do. Part of being a medical professional is to be patient oriented not financially focused. Guess what, that is why we became medical professionals. If you want money, go to finance or work for med devices as a consultant/specialist.

Clinical lab technologists have a graduating class you can count on 2 hands out of only a 4 schools in the NYC area and Suffolk County. Require a NY state license that some applicants from other states do not qualify for, intensive course load, BS degree, and rotations. Clinical social workers require a licensure, Masters degree, internship, and professional clinical hours. Physical therapist requires a doctorate, license, and clinical hours. Speech pathologist requires masters, license, clinical hours, and fellowship. You can include your example of pharmacists They all get paid less in the NY hospitals than nurses. Sure some can get paid more if they elect to work away from the hospitals. And for less educated, paramedics and EMT have an equally as tough, fast paced, and physically laborious job in the front line that do not even get anywhere close to nurses.

The last three statements are why myself and other medical professionals sometimes roll our eyes on these requests. We all do our part in patient care. This is what you signed up for. What happens if those pharmacists working in the AC rooms decide to not all show up Monday? How about all those clinical social workers who elect not to show up to the ER on Monday?

Nurses have the numbers, union, and public awareness. You can shout all you want and receive praise for it.