Advanced practice nurses must look to the marketplace and decide their value based on what do people now value in health care and what advanced practice nurses offer. Value in the Marketplace Markets do not obey the organized judgment of any group of sellers. A market is a system of exchange in which goods and services are bought and sold at going prices. Powerful sellers do not enjoy losing control of the market. Power abhors competition.
Professional organization is one form resistance to the market can take.
But medicine is no longer able to control the market, because buyers have found Western medicine wanting and are looking elsewhere to buy what they need to fix their problems. Cultural influences have a powerful effect on people's sense of social order and the way things should be. But medicine is no longer able to control the market, because buyers have found Western medicine wanting and are looking elsewhere to buy what they need to fix their problems. As the culture has changed to allow women a fairer chance at competition in the market place the culture has began to shift in their attitudes about what people in general should be paid, what is fair, and a reevaluation of what a certain job is worth to society has ensued. In the new age of information, traditional jobs of such as cleaning and garbage pickup have come to be valued slightly more, and the wages of the highest paid have been called into question.