Why Is There A Nursing Shortage? The Shocking Truth About The Future of Nursing

[@NursesToRiches]

If this video gets 100,000+ views I'll make a video about the highest voted comment in the reply to this pinned comment.

[@yrazu05]

I actually worked hard on my job as a Nurse, and I actually liked it. Even when understaffed I managed to get things done. Issue was the toxic work environment. Too many nurses are backstabbing B's, and when you're actually doing a good job they turn on you with jealousy and malaise. Didn't help that I'm a male nurse, so even talking to any of the other woman would land you in sexual harassment claims, this is not a joke. I remember being fired from my first job, 1 year in, because I thought a PCA was pregnant and mistakenly called her so. Never worked with this person, was a transporter, and bam HR called me the next day. I was like, "is this real life?" Its toxic behavior mainly coming from women, didn't seen this from any other men, that has made the job horrible. Even women treating other women horribly, and I met many sweet female colleagues that didn't deserve the hate and bullying. I don't know why enter a profession that rewards unity and kindness, when deep down you don't care about any of it. It always boggles my mind meeting these type of nurses. So after working 5 years as a Med/Surg nurse I'm just starting my NP school in the fall. Taking a brake until then with my saved finances. I can't handle the staff toxicity. I know it won't change as a NP, but less people at your level that will even try to demean you and bully you.

[@privacyvirtues8540]

You absolutely said it right. I'm a living witness to that.

[@Fred_Amyett]

Awesome video as always!! From what I’ve seen, it’s not a shortage of licensed LPNs & RNs, It’s a shortage of Nurses willing to put up with unsafe ratios and unrealistic assignments. Just about everyone I work with has an exit strategy.

[@NursesToRiches]

The Nclex is all about learning how to take tests. You already know the material. You've been taught it in nursing school and you passed. Now you just need to take test questions over and over until you can answer a question before you even finish reading it.

[@jayria08]

@Monica I have some strategies for you if you want to know about them

[@3kayoung]

You got that right!!

[@joshwhite3328]

@Joyce_RN Try U-world and Mark Klimek

[@cbl6520]

Citation?

[@cindyeisenberg8367]

There’s never been a nursing shortage. Nurses are mistreated and burned out. They are expected to get a university education. It is no longer enough to get an associates degree education to become an RN, or an education at the trade school to become LPN’s. I am quite old and an ASN degree was enough. But, treated very poorly, while working at the bedside. It always was being short staffed, long shifts, write ups, even as early as the 70’s and 80. Increased pay will not fix short staffing. Hospitals, are trying to make money at the expense of nurses and patients. Also, the reason people are dying is because staffing has gotten to the critical level. It doesn’t pay, when a nurse makes a mistake, because of the system, and a patient dies. She/he is sent to jail, while the facility gets away scot free. The system has been broken since I was in the field.

[@andoriannationalist3738]

A BSN RN isn’t enough if you’re a White male

[@Angelfood52-iq3dd]

There is a lack of nursing knowledge also.

[@Calcium-mn9eq]

@@Angelfood52-iq3dd how so?

[@lori5946]

I got bullied a lot over my 29 year career. I went to traveling prior to covid due to this reason. I also left because management didn't care about RNs. You were sent home if it slowed down, then the bus rolls in then we don't have enough staff. You don't get breaks. They don't have staff to give you a real break in Florida. California is the only state that has to give you a real break by law. I am 58 and quit working a year ago. I will need to go back when I get my health right.

[@cindyeisenberg8367]

@@lori5946 yeah. My health is so bad that I had to stop working at 60. Too many requirements and hours, even working at home as a coder. There’s no such thing as a cushy nurse’s job anymore. They work you until you’re disabled.

[@liezlcamacho500]

The public needs education on basic manners and respect. Nurses frequently face all sorts of assaults from mean patients and families. You get 5 patients assigned to you in a shift, all it takes is one mean and very demanding patient and family to kill your spirit and consider quitting.

[@Terry2227]

I have been a bedside RN for 34 years. This is the first time I’ve ever seen anyone seriously discuss the shortage of nursing school educators and how it affects the nursing profession. To have more nurses we need to educate more nurses and without educators, clinical instructors and funds we aren’t going to make a dent in the demand. Nurses programs do not need to be only BSN based. LPNs are needed and should be welcomed. RNs in two year programs are also important and should be welcomed as well. Not every nurse wants to have a bachelors degree. I love my BSN and LPN family and ALL of us want better and safer staffing.

[@sgnibble1]

Tbh from all of my clinical experience the best thus far has been teaching received my LPNS/LVNS and CNA’s they’ve been more receptive to teaching students, been patient and have been great teachers so I totally agree with the sentiment. I don’t think it’s right that hospitals are leaving them without jobs and placing those responsibilities on RNs just to save money. I may be wrong but it’s what I’ve heard. Much love to my LVNs and CNA’s ❤

[@anicoleratliff2681]

Thank you for mentioning LPNs.

[@andoriannationalist3738]

We don’t need more nurses we need different serious Managment by non sadists more interested in profits than care for our communities. They dont own “hospital” that’s ours, the communities. We can take it back any time we want.

[@Mary-vw8gh]

@andoriannationalist3738 man, you beat me to it!! You said everything I came here to say. I know so many nurses from my graduating class of only 45 people that couldn't put up with the BS they were experiencing at their work places and quit nursing altogether. I always say there's never a shortage of nurses. There's just a shortage of nurses who are willing to put up with the BS (Bad management, poor working conditions, and barely manageable pay). If the working conditions and pay for nurses improved across the board, I'm sure a lot more people would come back. The pay doesn't match the physical labor and emotional and mental toll that comes with the job.

[@kristenloughmiller9460]

I am an experienced RN who left the bedside 9 years ago to take care of my babies. I have since tried to get back into nursing and I can’t even get a call back from the hundreds of jobs I have applied to. The system is broken when experienced nurses can’t get jobs even in a “shortage”.

[@realyzm]

Wow, that’s absolutely ridiculous!

[@blqberry1]

Same! I stopped trying and am happy where I am!

[@blqberry1]

The irony is I stepped away from the bedside to TEACH!!

[@supertenor561]

there's no shortage...that's why. If there were really a shortage, you'd get a job.

[@bee1979]

Man it must be where you live. Her in Central Ohio they’re hiring anyone with a pulse.

[@joanneguevara505]

I’m a new grad RN at Kaiser Permanente and it has been a horrible experience for me so far because we don’t have help. The workload is too much and I have dreaded to come to work everyday. I really love to help and care for patients but I feel like I am a robot just giving and pushing meds, not much of patient interaction and quality time with them. This is because we are short staff all the time. Kaiser needs to add more CNAs so that RNs can provide high quality care the patient needs. I am a new nurse and I feel burnt out already and I want to leave the bedside if nothing is done about this. 😞

[@1985atari]

Where in California do you work?

[@camilleallure_2708]

Is this Kaiser in Cali

[@jensarkany8005]

Hey girl I hope you’re doing ok. It’s not so much about the hospital and I think more about the unit’s staffing and culture. Definitely don’t leave so early on. Try other units and/or different specialties first. Don’t let all that hard work be for nothing! I’m sure it will get better for you. The first year is the absolute worst.

[@bs4real]

Ahhh did your friendly nursing instructors tell you that your RN self was too good to actually perform patient care?

[@zombieapocalypse3837]

I feel your pain, after 27 years working as an RN, 15 of which was spent at KP and 1 year of covid frustrated me to the point of retiring early and not renewing by license. Word of advice take it as you see fit, find yourself a specialty department in nursing (i.e. GI lab, Cath Lab, Interventional Radiology, etc.) where you deal with one patient at a time, if you plan to stay in nursing for the long term. Otherwise retrain into something related, Diagnostic Imaging, Laboratory, something of that sort. Good Luck.

[@bee1979]

Bedside, ER, and nursing home nursing have the worst of the worst issues in my opinion. RN with 8 years of experience here. You couldn’t pay me enough to work either one of the specialties. They want you to do more and more with less. Something’s gotta give.

[@NBay_]

I feel the shortage is more bedside nurses. Hospitals are becoming more of a business of customer service then medical patient care along with problems such as not backing their nurses when dealing with difficult patients.

[@JackDenn]

I hate being a nurse. I sit in my car for 30 minutes after every shift thinking about how I leave my family on holidays to go take care of someone else’s just to get ridiculed and treated like crap. My body hurts and I’m sleep deprived. We’re not respected and we work so damn hard. I’m just tired.

[@Dan-mo4ek]

Go work a blue collar job and you will feel grateful and blessed. It’s about perspective

[@kloatlanta]

Same. Working every weekend too

[@coreyheisley8404]

@@Dan-mo4ek I left nursing for blue collar work. Financially I took a hit and I have to budget more, but I’m much more happy than I ever was dealing with administration BS and 🧻 💩. Perspective is not everything and merely looking at something from a particular POV can set you up for even more misery.

[@andoriannationalist3738]

Yep and there’s no shortage of

[@andoriannationalist3738]

@@Dan-mo4ekno I have often taken gas station jobs anything I can when healthcare decide to not hire White male nurses because DEI and bigoted hateful antiWhite woke hospital admin.

[@knocs531]

As a prior line medic in the U.S. Army and a newer nurse (started working as an lvn lpn a little over a year ago) I can tell you 90% of the bs the school taught me isn’t used and it’s basically learn as you go once you become a nurse. I was a caregiver and a cna since 2009, joined the army 2017, became a nurse 2022 and have seen our healthcare system and workers become uncaring, unappreciated, and unmotivated to a level I couldn’t imagine. I am embarrassed of what is has become and see why. From people expecting you to do everything even as 1 nurse with 1 cna with 36 patients from family members complaining and harassing the staff to physical violence, lack of supplies, higher ups not helping but actually giving you more and more work, to do much more. I work 60-140 hours a week and know I need to make sure my kids aren’t stuck in so many broken systems like I have been over my 15+ years of working in many field. Corporations rob us and employers use you and throw you away. Like is too complicated with all these things to buy and bills to pay we need a simplistic life with only necessary things to be focused on like pt care, food, supplies l, mental health, etc. but our society is too selfish and ugly to not buy that new iPhone, video game, car, and won’t just live a little more modest. My family is and will continue to do great and live a stress free life

[@NursesToRiches]

Well said!

[@nathancoats6432]

I went to nursing school and the instructors were bitc*s. I was a medic in the army and did very well. So they can deal with the issues that they made for themselves.

[@brianafrojack5215]

You cannot change what you do not acknowledge. Hospital administrations simply don't want to pay their nurses for the abuse that they have to put up with from patients, families, or horrible managers. They would rather dance around those issues and pay them in pizza while reaping in the profits, but nurses are finally waking up. No one in their right mind makes a career out of this for roughly $30 an hour any more. The martyrs are retiring and taking their experience with them. The young new grads see the toxic work environments and they leave for a different career path with better working conditions, work life balance, and better benefits. The hospital industry is reaping what they have sown. The system we have here in the US is breaking down and will have to completely before we have a breakthrough and rebuild back up.

[@andoriannationalist3738]

It’s our community hospital what you speak of is a hostile group have overtaken our sysyem

[@lolay331]

Not just nurses .. whoever works in the hospital we are all burned out!!

[@supertenor561]

but "ESPECIALLY" the nurses.

[@rachelhanscom7498]

PCT’s too, and the pay SUCKS!

[@Solange94]

Yes I left as a service assistant the excessive productivity with lack of support and staffing is crazy and not being compensated

[@andoriannationalist3738]

No. CNAs give nurses shit now I’d rather work in the kitchen where I can be mean to everyone and keep my job.

[@dctrscuffed6839]

Yeah I just quit after 15 years and my quality of life improved drastically, who wants to work for corporate health care anymore, the 💩 is beyond broken.

[@loafi9900]

what are you doing now

[@dctrscuffed6839]

Contractor for the government in the aerospace sector. Work from home 4 days a week.

[@Uluvcal]

@@dctrscuffed6839 howd you land a job like that what cert/degree?

[@dctrscuffed6839]

@@Uluvcal bachelors in aviation management. Job history as a paramedic/rn with some experience in low to mid level management of a major hospital system.

[@Uluvcal]

@@dctrscuffed6839 nice man im in the ASN program right now and i want to do it but its already getting toxic between instructors and students. Even in on clinical rotations the RN’s are fed up lmfao

[@MishaIsha1]

You said exactly what I'm frustrated about, that I've not heard mentioned yet. That is when the schools dump off their students for us to train when we are already overworked. I get no forewarning, nor get extra pay for this. But, you know the hospital is being paid to be used as a school. It's total disrespect and taking advantage. Staying working in an environment like this has seriously given me PTSD, anxiety, depression, and fear of people, which I never had before. Staying at a job that uses and abuses you and then gaslights you so you'll doubt yourself and stay, is a surefire way to the pysch ward. I've been a nurse for 27 years, and this past 2 years is my first time at the bedside. And, it's absolutely the most stressful, abusive job I've ever had. I'm out!!!

[@coreyheisley8404]

@@MishaIsha1 I actually had a student and an intern assigned to me on the same shift. At first I refused the intern because I was like “ef that” then I saw a reflection of myself in her back when I was new and didn’t know what to do about the situation I was in, so said screw it and took them both. Admin just shrugged it off and of course didn’t give a damn. I don’t miss nursing at all, really just the pay, but pay is not worth your sanity.

[@Pumkinseeds.]

You should do an update to this. I see healthcare organizations posting positions and not felling them for over a year or until someone else leaves the team. Keeping the “shortage” consistent.

[@30bananaguy]

I found out I made more money at the bedside than my professors that were teaching me. Of course they don’t have enough professors to teach. The pay sucks! Love the video.

[@NursesToRiches]

💯 As always, the money goes to the ones running the organizations and not the ones in the trenches.

[@astoldbymuriel103]

I've always felt if I try for an MSN it will be in education. I don't nurse specifically for the money as I plan the majority of my income would come from my own business. But the benefits offered to become an educational nurse always the money for me.

[@fosteringguineapigs3830]

I think part of the problem is also the lack of child care for people who work nights and 12h shifts. For example a single parent whom doesn't have the support of family or the other spouse couldn't consider nursing as a profession.

[@Madamchief]

For real!! I don't understand why hospitals don't offer on-site child care for employees???

[@donnathedead7554]

Yeah I think most of the people that quit during covid was over childcare issues. I love 12s but nobody else wants to work them so it's hard to find childcare if you do.

[@Madamchief]

@@donnathedead7554 I don't understand why hospitals don't have on-site childcare for employees. It's a damn community effort

[@donnathedead7554]

@@Madamchief I've worked at hospitals that had childcare - for a whole 10 hours a day. So if you work 12s like most of the staff there do you're SOL.

[@navygf86]

Yes yes yes !!!!!

[@grisselabreu3817]

ER holding nurse 🙋🏼‍♀️ Last week the hospital I work for, went on divergence and every other day they “flirt” with the idea of doing it again. It gets so tiresome because the hospital I work for, will accept everyone and will not stop until every room, every chair and every stretcher (in the hallway) is filled in the ER. Although I am thankful that as a ER holding nurse they try to cap me at 8 admissions, I have gotten 9-11 patients before. And I can attest that the Reg ER nurses can expect to get up to 20 ER patients, and if they are assigned to traumas sometimes 8-9 patients that includes traumas, ICU and admitted patients. Everyone talks about how they cant wait to leave and get a new job, nursing interns barely even complete their “training” before be given patients of their own. Sometimes ER nurses tell me they cry after their shifts, its honestly depressing. I’ve been a nurse for three years now and at times I second guess my decision, I didn’t expect nursing to be like this…

[@mysteriousmysterious2389]

so in short its tiring right? In india doctors also have to face this so i dont have a problem with this CUZ MY FATE WAS ALREADY LIKE THIS i just hope i clear nclex and get a job and atleast be in abroad for 3 years and maximum 10 years atleast so that i could settle hopefully (I HOPE)

[@lovedestinyz]

Great video and editing. You highlighted many good points. Lately it's been very bad. We get patients that are very heavy and sick at times in a challenging population. It seems like the hospital is purposely pushing us to work with less nurses and CNAs. Me and my peers have been very frustrated with the short staffing, verbal and physical abuse from patients, and not being able to give the best care due to constraints. Some of my coworkers are looking into leaving the bedside already.

[@NursesToRiches]

It's sad that this is what nursing has come to.

[@sherry240687]

Hi Thank you for the video. I would like to add one more point, the way nurses are treated by patients and family nowadays is so different. I have seen new nurses with caring heart leaving in one year. It’s hectic, at the same time no great health insurance offered by employers as well. Don’t treat nurses as slaves., my previous employer mentioned during Covid crisis “ you all are lucky, you have jobs” . Every individual deserves to be treated with respect in their jobs, so does patient and nurse.

[@yourmedicarenursenavigator]

Phenomenal job on your video production Jason ! I understand the research and the video editing are labor intensive so props to you. Thank you for creating an updated alarming video for the nurses and the public.

[@NursesToRiches]

Much appreciated, Eliseo! It really does take me a long time (weeks) to do the research for these videos and put them together. So, thank you for acknowledging that!

[@yourmedicarenursenavigator]

@Nurses To Riches I'm acknowledging it because the "full time content creator" videos make it seem easier than bedside nursing but the reality is that it is A LOT of work and if your cash flow has to be on point to make a basic living.

[@NursesToRiches]

Yeah, I work 20 hours per week at my nursing job but put in at least 50 hours per week into running our KZbin channel, website, and other social media platforms. It can take a toll on someone who is not goal oriented and motivated.

[@yourmedicarenursenavigator]

@Nurses To Riches I can only work 8 hour shifts as a case manager so it is exhausting doing something else at night but I love the grind. There are endless relevant content that ER case management provides so that helps with storytelling plus it is not back breakingwork. I am 53 and the average nurse looking for a way to retire from nursing just like in your video. Now I'm off to do Oncology travel case management so I can better serve my future consulting private clients with their issues. Experienced nurses should prepare to be complex care nurse consultants or Medicare Nurse Navigators. Nurses should create their own strategy away from the volume driven care hospitals provide. To provide great care to a few clients who listen to them and are a pleasure to work with.

[@dionne4937]

@@yourmedicarenursenavigator I would love to get into this! Any good travel companies? I have Oncology background!

[@Frank-pu3ze]

Over the past three years I have been in the hospital 15 times and try to stay under the radar when in the rooms upstairs. I try not asking for help. One nurse said she almost forgot I was her patient and that is how I want it. Now after seeing this and other such posts I take that into consideration when deciding that I should go as I don't want to be a burden. Like right now my chest hurts but not real bad, just annoying tension. My main issue is CHF stage three.

[@things_can_only_get_better2179]

I could clearly see the amount of work you have put into this production. Research is great, the editing is top- notch and I loved the voice over too. This is certainly a documentary style video. With much love and support from Ghana, West Africa:)

[@NursesToRiches]

Thank you so much for the wonderful compliment!

[@emilypascua1823]

Great video! I did bed side for 12 years & Left due 2 burn out . Now I’m doing corrections and am so much happier

[@NursesToRiches]

Thanks for watching! So many nurses have are getting burned out at such an alarming rate that I'm afraid hospitals will have an even greater challenge hiring nurses.

[@undearwearman654]

Nurses have to take shit from everyone: patients, doctors, managers, RTs, PTOT, Janitors, NAs… the list goes on

[@colleenpeck6347]

Pharmacists, Risk Managers, Financial Administrators, & sometimes their fellow LAZY NURSES 😴!

[@infamyinfamy]

Hospitals could sponsor local community college nursing programs to increase places, sponsor high school practical nursing programs, employ CNAs and LPNs in hospitals part-time and pay for them to attend a local RN community college program, with a payback clause for number of years worked in the hospital after graduating. Pair up LPNs and RNs on wards to decrease the patient-nurse ratio for little or no cost. Building a staff accommodation apartment block on site for remote hospitals. So many ways hospitals could get all the nurses they need, but no one seems to have the vision or interest to do so. They just want to save money and pretend it's impossible to employ anyone.

[@Lee-so4ub]

That would never happen. There’s far too risk to have nursing students not to mention not enough space. I know this because we are a facility who takes on students. What has happened over the years are the mistakes happening while these students are in rotation. They pair one nurse with too many students and that nurse is already overworked as it is so in time the load of students has lessened and some years we don’t sign any on. Also here in CA that’s why they don’t have LVN on floors they give all the load to RNs and pay less having MAs. Filtering the already hired and use them up to point of exhaustion is the name of the game. 😢

[@mysteriousmysterious2389]

@@Lee-so4ub do they do racism?? i mean do they keep international nurse?? or layoff them?? I WANT TO WORK ABROAD but i hope they dont discriminate nor do patients discriminate with INDIAN MALE NURSES 🙏

[@travelnurseadventures3225]

There’s a nursing shortage but the pay is getting lower (outside of CA). I’m a traveler in South Dakota and the Nurses got a 20 cent raise-half left for traveling!

[@NursesToRiches]

That's appalling!

[@marymurphy8636]

Thank you for this video! I've been a RN for 40 years, at the bedside (currently) for 30 years and a nurse educator for 10 years. I have a master's degree in nursing education. Nursing is a "really" tough job, both physically and mentally. I regret the toll it has taken on my life, I actually believe I have been traumatized by the unrealistic demands of the job. Some areas that are concerning for me are: how nurses are educated now. My experience for the past twenty years has been that nursing students are "dropped off" on a nursing unit by their clinical instructor and one of the staff nurses are assigned to work with that student nurse. It's not like the student nurse can help the staff nurse with her work because basically they can't do "anything" except observe. It puts so much pressure on the "already overworked" nurse. From my point of view, that is an example of exploiting the bedside nurse. I'm not getting paid $80 an hour to educate the student, but the nurse educator is. I often wonder if the parents of many of those students know where their expensive tuitions are going to. Overall my biggest concern about nursing education is that the nurses are not prepared to function in their role. Once a new nurse is hired, they are assigned a preceptor nurse to teach them how to be a nurse, preceptor pay is an extra $15 a day. But, the mantra begins in school and new nurses soon figure it out, they decide to become an APRN. It sounds wonderful, nurses are praised for getting away from the work of the bedside nurse, "you're too smart for that". My concern is the impact of APRN's on the quality of care we can provide in the health care system. In order to be a doctor you much have outstanding undergrad grades to qualify for medical school. After 4 years of medical school, you then must do 3 clinical years and pass boards for a general doctor. That is a "minimum" of 11 years. An APRN has 4 years of undergrad to become a nurse, though there are overlaps in curriculum, the focus is on nursing. They then complete two years of graduate work and take their APRN boards. The math does not add up to me. Patients will be misdiagnosed or under diagnosed and treated. Just some thoughts, that eat at me everyday. My message is that we need to be careful about solutions, people want "quick fixes" but their are consequences to the quality of health care as evidenced by out current situation.

[@camelbean1807]

LPN of 15 years in primary care and outpatient specialty clinics. It used to be the area everyone wanted to be in after the bedside but it's bad here too and significantly worse since the pandemic. Pay is of course lower than hospital, but raises are pennies at best and non-existent at worst. Revolving door of nurses (and doctors), patients are increasingly hostile, the amount of managed care/pharmacy/HH phone calls have exploded, and the scope of work keeps expanding. The nurses are expected to know clinical & non-clinical roles in case of staffing shortages, manage patient complaints, and do our regular tasks with less resources, less support, and less pay.

[@noblebeautycosmetic8936]

Honestly as a registered nursing I am currently taking an IT CLASS because rhe pay is just ridiculous I work soo much and get paid little and always working extra from no more money.... I am tired and just over it

[@NursesToRiches]

I feel your pain. I would love to take a course on software engineering and with nursing being the way that it is, I might actually end up doing it.

[@blakejonathan4505]

@@NursesToRiches Software engineering is not so good either. There is an age bias involved in a lot of hiring processes and a lot of skill jobs are getting outsourced overseas. Just look at all the tech layoffs going on, of course software engineering is in very high demand but nursing is less likely to face automation and outsourcing.

[@TNISH11]

I hear you! I’m currently enrolled in a Tech Sales bootcamp. I might take a pay cut a first but I figure I can work PRN as a nurse until I can get up to or exceed my current nursing salary. Which could take 2yrs.

[@JackJoens]

@@TNISH11 are you working in IT now? How is the pay?

[@jansturm9335]

I always wanted to be a nurse. Even though I had a scholarship for nursing my father would not let me take it. Years later I became an LPN. Sadly Medicine has become a business. So there is constant shortage and each nurse has to take more patients than they can take care of in the way they were taught. You can work your tail off a work, yet be crying on the way home because you just didn’t have the time to do all the things you wanted to do for your patients. It’s very discouraging.

[@janetttyminski7295]

In my 30 years as a nurse, I have observed that nurses need to be careful about how many hours they work. I’ve seen too many burnout because they work 12 hr shifts 4 to 5 times per week. The OT pay may be great but without work-life balance you become a zombie. At 68 I still love being a nurse. Now, I’m in cardiac rehab & work four 8 hr days with no weekends or holidays.

[@autumn399]

I'm interested in nursing but I'm worried about work life balance, can new grad nurses choose the hours they work? And can they choose not to work weekends and holidays?

[@alexiaalexandra9512]

@@autumn399 yes! you can apply to jobs that work 8-5 for the whole week, or do three 12 hour shifts. Sometimes people do four 12 hours shifts, but usually it’s three If you work in the hospital you can choose not to work weekends but you still may work holidays. My mom works at the hospital and they rotate their holidays. For example, they’ll be off thanksgiving but have to work Christmas (and vice versa) but the next year it will be the opposite. You could work at a doctors office that’s only open on weekdays and closed during holidays.

[@robioavion]

Jason, I commend you for the excellent work you have done on this video, as with all your other videos. As a Year 1 RN student, I am keen to discuss how I can make the most of my nursing degree and my future career. Your videos make studying nursing seem worthwhile, yet I am anxious about the risk of burnout. I am a strong advocate of your work!

[@NursesToRiches]

Thank you so much. Nursing can be stressful but the option to work in a low-stress specialty is always an option.

[@RedFaceeee]

This channel has come such a long way. What a video! Keep it up!

[@NursesToRiches]

As always, thanks so much dude!

[@chilloften]

The facilities don’t even want to train you on their EMR’s. Just expected to know and function at 100. WTFE. It’s maddening to me.

[@supertenor561]

exactly!!!! and want perfection but don't want to invest in nurses.

[@ambivertical]

This was an outstanding video! One of your best ones yet imo. Had me engaged every second. Great motivator for me to complete my LPN-RN bridge program so I can help the shortage. Very scary the situation when you put it that way. I pray the seriousness of this will really convict those in control over staffing and influence on the factors to change this as you well presented it. Keep up the great work. This was great!

[@NursesToRiches]

I honestly don't think the shortage will get better by 2031 because it would require hospitals and legislators to spend more money for an issue that does not have a large monetary impact on their bottom line of making more money. Getting more nurses into the profession and reducing the nurse to patient ratios would require huge investments that no CEO is willing to take because that would mean less money for the organizations shareholders. The American healthcare system is about making a profit, not improving health and mortality outcomes.

[@ambivertical]

@@NursesToRiches thats a sad truth. Its how we got here in the first place. But maybe with all the nursing strikes with victories is a sign they know their limit to keep the cashcow running to an extent they have to yield than to have a dead cow maybe.

[@mysteriousmysterious2389]

@@NursesToRiches but would they hire international nurses??? atleast?? THO I AM NOT INTERESTED TO WORK IN US due to less chances of citizenship for our country people and trust me NO ONE from our country wishes to work in US we all want UK CANADA , AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND cuz of chances of getting citizenship (UK FOR NHS govt job)

[@ddc93760]

No nurses want to work full time to be be overworked and under paided! When you have pcu 1:4 with the nurse primary on 1, 1:7 Med surg, 1:5 tele, and 1:3 icu in Ohio. Not worth it. I’d rather be travel or prn and pick when I’d come in.

[@BeataClasp]

@@ddc93760 exactly. There is not a nurses shortage, there’s a shortage of nurses that are willing to work under those conditions.

[@immank2102]

Thank you for this video. We also need to look into how some nurses and nursing professors treat students. School and hospitals are very good at covering their mistake by supporting bad practice. Nursing is difficult but the system of nursing education make it more difficult.

[@NursesToRiches]

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[@FreedomForever2010]

Apparently, there is a doctor's shortage too. I've been going to a practice for 2 years now for my routine work, but I've never met a doctor, only a physician's assistant. I don't even know the name of the physician she is assisting.

[@NursesToRiches]

That's pretty sad...

[@TrainingIsBelieving]

The video edits are extravagant and the way the information is presented is non-bias as always! :) Good work Jason!

[@NursesToRiches]

Thanks! I appreciate that!

[@coreyheisley8404]

Recently left this misery of a profession to get into trucking. Let the broken system crumble I say.

[@starsiegeRoks]

@@coreyheisley8404 unfortunately, its a needed industry, so like public education, we will realize the need for it once it crumbles and there is nobody to treat our cancers or broken organs.

[@lauragiles132]

As an RN, you never discussed one of biggest reasons nurses leave the profession: bullying. They are expected to endure verbal and physical abuse from others nurses, physicians, patients and patients' families. When you have to post sings that say " violence against health care workers is a felony", qould any nurse want to stay?All this on top of unsafe nurse to patient ratios. It's not a safe situation when a patient tries to strangle a nurse because they want a different pain med, because the patient is a opiod addict. You never touched on how " not for profit" health systems put staffing concerns at the bottom of their budget. Giving an RN a hiring bonus cannot make up for the working conditions. You did not mention how many young nurses leave the profession. They look at the working conditions that older nurses have tolerated for decades, and decide to change careers. Maybe someone should do honest reporting by interviewing actual nurses.

[@janellemcleod]

Nice nice!!! Love this video!!! Btw, I am definitely attending RN school this year to become a RN. My long-term goal is to get my DNP because of all of this. Very same reason, massive shortage within the nursing space… I don’t plan to do this for the rest of my life as this type of work can be very stressful and straining on the body, but my long-term goal is the eventually leave bedside and go more behind the scenes

[@SamianHQuazi]

This video quality is absolutely insane!!

[@nursebondemcanada]

Facts

[@NursesToRiches]

Thanks Samian! Always love your feedback.

[@Cindypham33]

YES! another thing is that there was more politic and financial crisis in the education program than educations itself. This is critical because it is putting new generation of health care at risk for incompetency, some that we aren't even aware of , putting patients and ourselves at risk for many things. Educators need to remember that their roles in education is so important, that we are their products, think twice before showing up to classes just to read slides and dismiss students' questions.

[@GANURSE12]

It's honestly the hospital's that are the most to blame. It would definitely help if they hired more new grads in California most hospitals have new grad programs were they accept 24 new grads a year. 12 at the beginning of the year for US Davis that's in April and 12 at the end in November. That honestly is not going to cut it. I heard you say before it takes an average of 6 months for new grads to find a job, how is that possible when there is a shortage?

[@mistermilkman]

What happens is, u don't have the staff 2 train new nurses. What's happening n many facilities is, new nurses r training new nurses & they aren't staying bc they have jnadequate training. Hiring is not as simple as just putting bodies n the building. A poor training can b traumatic 4 a new nurse. It can cause them 2 quit nursing all 2gether, which happens more than u can imagine.

[@mashpot3806]

I just don’t understand what we are supposed to do? As someone in college wanting to go to a nursing program that only accepts 70 people out of their 2,000+ applicants I don’t know how I’m supposed to do it? Or how I’m supposed to get through if I do make it, I hear so many cases of bad mental health in nursing school and even when you become an RN they get mistreated and have ridiculous work loads. Will it get better within the next 4-6 years???

[@rachelm76]

Good video, scary topic. For the pay, hours, and stress, nursing asks too much. One or all of those areas has to improve. I only just graduated but in my clinicals I was surprised how many *young* nurses were on their last week or even day. One said to me, "If you're gonna take the abuse, you should at least get paid for it." She said she didn't earn enough to start IVF and had a better paying job lined up. I'm trying to arrange childcare for my 3 kids, but it is more than I earn. I have a great job lined up, but I'm not sure I can make it work. I didn't know I'd need a few years experience to find part-time. If I had known, I would have waited until my kids were older to go back to school or picked a different profession. I personally know 2 nurses who never worked as a nurse after graduating, and many more than quit after becoming moms. I think better scheduling could make a big difference.

[@1973sophia]

Or a daycare or.nightcare areas at the facilities we are working. And at a very.discounted rate .

[@mysteriousmysterious2389]

pls allow male nurses to enter so that NURSING IS SAVED and people get care which they need NURSING SHORTAGE can also be solved if you allow international nurses easily and also MALE NURSES cuz in our countries we get paid to just live homeless the pay we get is just 0.5 times more than of what homeless people get . WE ARE POOR HERE and male nurses have even worser situation

[@leopoldosaldivar1388]

I did 10 years of bedside, Med/Surg, Tele, I finally left Bedside, and couldn’t be happier. I see the floor nurses and new grads running like crazy taking care of patients with Ratio 7 : 1. It’s just a law-suit waiting to happen, not to mention getting your license revoked. So, choose your assignments wisely !

[@NursesToRiches]

That's what every nurse who leaves the bedside has to say. I'm so done with being a nurse altogether though. That's why I'm working so hard on our brand. I love working for myself and helping others find financial stability and freedom while doing so.

[@lesliecaputo]

We as nurses can’t choose our assignments… But we can choose our employment

[@supreme5998]

Yeah, the problem is immense. The programs in my area only accepts 15 students a semester; it's because there are not enough instructors and enough clinical sites.

[@NursesToRiches]

And the worst part is that they charge you an arm and a leg for the program but don't even have enough professors to teach it.

[@johnphilipagbunag2534]

I'm a nurse from the Philippines and currently, a USRN hoping to work in the US and pursue my American dream someday. However, there is news right now that there will be a retrogression of hiring overseas workers. I'm worried right now because I have bad feelings that this can affect those nurses that want to work in the USA right now. Can you please make a video regarding this issue so that it will enlighten us and lessen our stress as foreign nurses? Thank you!

[@mysteriousmysterious2389]

infact we foreign nurses WANT TO WORK abroad , if they allow and make it easy ONLY FOR FOREIGN NURSES then shortage may reduce in some time , its okay if you dont allow foreigners from other backgrounds but NURSING BACKGROUND FOREIGNERS should be allowed infact encouraged to come to DEVELOPED COUNTRIES and MUST BE GIVEN CITIZENSHIP also trust me idk abt philippines but in my country ALL WANT TO WORK IN UK , CANADA, AUS, NZ just for citizenship cuz US has bad image for it FOR OUR COUNTRY PEOPLE

[@wingsumlam8405]

I guess pay is the major issue, it’s not reflecting the actual amount of work a nurse has to study and the amount of workload he does. Minimum pay should really stick with no less than 50 dollars an hour across the whole country in my opinion. Plus working above 36 hours should be paid double.

[@carolsipala1639]

Pay and staffing are just two of the critical issues.

[@VikkiHer]

Wow! What a great job you did. I love this new editing style.

[@NursesToRiches]

Thank you so much!

[@551223]

Ill give my personal take: I was living in California, central valley, wanting to attend nursing school but I realized how incredibly difficult theyve made the requirements. I couldnt even attend an ADN program because it was completely on a lottery system and enrollment was entirely full. Even if I wouldve been admitted, they didnt allow part time attendance. I cant afford my bills if Im a full time student. Nor did I want to take out more student loans. Already having a BS, I couldnt attend majority of universities because they dont allow a second bachelors. I looked into master’s programs but they required a lot of prerequisite coursework that wouldve taken me at least two years to complete part time. My only option was to attend a masters program in Australia where I am now. Hopefully ill have a seem-less transition back to the US once I graduate

[@Lee-so4ub]

This is so true even back years ago when I was just starting my medical career (20plus years ago). Luckily some schools did away with the lottery system and now so point system but even way back I remember at the time my co worker said she had been on a waitlist for over 4 years! I did not want to sit around so I went the longer route Medical Assistant to LVN and now RN lol kudos to you for not giving up hope. I am sure it will be well worth it in the end.

[@HikariMiwa]

You have to pass nclex tho in order to get back to US

[@folashadeabayomi4058]

As a patient considering go back to school for nursing. How do we as patients also advocate for our healthcare professionals? We want safe working environments for you all as well cause that increase our patient care. What can we do?

[@NanelleGriselda]

The James Jani of nursing 😍😍😍😍

[@NursesToRiches]

I wish!

[@kiancapulso1725]

I will be one of those guys serving people through the profession of Nursing!

[@RochelleUyeda]

Hello, I love your videos! which articles and books can I reference for this? I'm using for class discussion. Mahalo ❤️

[@lizway0020]

I’m an RN. I am exhausted. The demands for the ridiculous amount of charting and 5-7 patient’s daily and families and patients demanding this and that. Ugh! Nurses can’t take care of anyone, unless they start taking care of us.

[@MishaIsha1]

I agree!!! If they cared for the nurses, and put us first, you would see many nurses staying and quality of care go up. But, the hospitals are too stupid to do this. They have no real business sense, if you ask me.

[@mikeg5365]

The board of nursing in most states are a crap show as well. It’s always interesting to hear travel nurses getting endorsed while others wait weeks…like they were bribed .

[@zacharyhockett6248]

As a nurse I dont even have to watch the video. Its never been a shortage. Its always been the lack of resources and lack of pay across bedside nursing. Pay me more, limit my patient load appropriately, pay for support services like nursing assistants & lab techs. Do that and the nurses will come back en mass. The issue is the layers of bureaucrats sucking up all that money that should be going to pay working staff.

[@charlemainecohen458]

I really enjoyed this video please keep this type of content going..At my job they had gotten so bad they are sponsoring nurses from the Philippines and it has helped tremendously! We have about 20% of our staff has come from there and we are suppose to have more arriving in the next few months. Not a long term solution but it definitely helps and we are so appreciative!

[@NursesToRiches]

Thank you so much for the comment. Kaiser has over 4,000 positions posted across the united states. So we definitely need nurses.

[@mysteriousmysterious2389]

@@NursesToRiches PLS allow indian nurses also 🙏and pls give us citizenship also , US DOESNT GIVE IT thats why indian nurses dont target usa they want UK CANADA AUS NZ trust me this is the truth (majority want canada uk tho) so pls developed countries accept us so that we can support our dependents and also help this shortage to get better 🙏

[@oscarmbugua3119]

Hey Charles, Could you help give the name of your hospital and its location so that more foreign nurses can apply directly to it. Thanks.

[@astoldbymuriel103]

Hospitals can be replenished by allowing LPNs back into the fold.

[@charlemainecohen458]

Totally agree I see some hospitals near me in Charlotte, NC are doing that now!

[@supertenor561]

these people are so sick that I dont think they should be in certain specialties in certain hospitals.

[@mistermilkman]

​@@supertenor561 They were there b4 & it wasn't an issue. It became a problem when hospitals wanted Magnet status, many of which gave up the status bc they r short staff & it's expensive 2 maintain. Instead they put n techs 2 pay less money.

[@supertenor561]

@@mistermilkman to me these patient's are more complex & sicker than what i remember when starting out And I'm not that old. I stand by the position that in "certain specialties" and in "certain hospitals" you may not want lpns back in the fold. I have a lot of experience. Some of the best nurses are LPNs. I have great respect for them. LPNs have helped cultivate me to where I am today BUT being a better nurse does not legally allow you to do everything that needs to be done for these complex patients. It's a risk to cover LPNs when u r overloaded yourself. Set it up to where RNs are not at risk and ivp aren't required all of the time along with signing off on lpns assessments, etc. Then it's a good deal. Otherwise it's a liability. So maybe open acute rehab up to LPNs but I promise you all that if u even go to a rehab floor, those patient's are sicker than back in the day.

[@mistermilkman]

@@supertenor561 If u don't think LPNs r already working with sickly patients, ur mistaken. I started out as an LPN on a High Intensity Care Unit. I had an awesome preceptor & a desire 2 learn. My exposure is what made me a good nurse. When I started traveling as an RN, I learned that not all seasoned RNs have vast experience. While I don't totally disagree with u, I must say 1s experience is limited 2 their exposure. I'm on an assignment @ an LTAC & we work closely with LVNs that r savage. Patients may b sicker, but if ur short staff they r put n jeopardy ANYWAYS. 1 RN is not going 2 save 4 patients n an ICU. Patients r dying unnecessarily bc of shortages. Bringing LPNs back n2 hospitals doesn't make it worse. Their scope of practice eliminates the nurse vs cna debacle I c @ many places. The teamwokl between nurses has potential 2 b impeccable when the rationale 4 safety is understood, not just knocking out tasks bc they r due @ a certain time. My initial comment was bringing them back as a whole. N Baltimore, some hospitals have started bringing them back n the ED, Psych, & Rehab. A new RN is not going 2 b more safe than a seasoned LPN. Some places r working them n amon teams. Whether we like it or not, nurses r looked @ as glorified CNAs.

[@Unknown_rbnx19]

The problem is, nursing schools are even making it harder for anyone to become a nurse even if you're an LPN wanting to get your RN. If you already working in the field of nursing, why make it hard to get higher level of nursing education to better serve the population? Yes, some of you will say, "Oh you will be working to save people's lives, so you better know what you're doing", yes I totally agree with this, however most of the things that you learned in nursing school you really do not have to apply it all in real world of nursing. The system is so rigged.

[@biatae2713]

Another great video, Jason. Request for future video: nursing specialties with the highest job satisfaction/least burnout. We struggling out here! 😅

[@salliegal8932]

Salaries need to increase, pt ratios need to decrease, more programming (i.e. on-site childcare, self-care/stress reduction options), less discrimination and cliches on the units, make the education piece affordable, and offering loan payoff programs that are attainable.

[@DaraCelestin]

Amazing information and content. Thank you.

[@NursesToRiches]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@haetienne]

Amazing video brother

[@NursesToRiches]

Thanks Herve!

[@Tfolife528]

Jason great topic! We still need to stop taking low pay. Question do you recommend I do travel nursing as a new RN? What are good places to start my career in Florida?

[@NursesToRiches]

If you ask most nurses they will tell you NOT to travel as a new RN because you only get a few days of orientation in most places you work. This is very unsafe in my opinion and you will do most of the learning on your own. I suggest you work for a minimum of 6 months (preferably 1 year) before you take on a travel assignment.

[@Tfolife528]

Thank you!

[@EnnPeeCee]

Maybe if Hospital corporations would hire enough nurses and maintain an acuity based pt per nurse ratio - then you might get enough nurses to sign on. The reality is that nurses are expensive to hire and maintain - thus - the shortages will continue.

[@NursesToRiches]

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[@EnnPeeCee]

@@NursesToRiches In fact: if hospitals in the US truly want to heal; they would be certain of SAFE pt to nurse ratios, they would also decrease the pill load per pt (thus employing more pharmD's) as well as employ more CNA's per RN or LPN. It is my contention that hospital corporations are doing what they can to decrease population by creating obviously unsafe practices/policies in the name of 'saving money'. I am from the ancient years of the 80's when nursing research (regarding pt safety) used to matter. I thank you for your reply.

[@lauratyler4863]

Oh they just import nurses from Nigeria and the Philippines. Much cheaper.

[@Car-ro2hw]

Maybe stop the burn out factory and hold leaders to account? Many of the system settings that make work more stressful are not necessary, but have been implemented in recent years....

[@GabrielaSanchez-qn9my]

Terrific video!

[@NursesToRiches]

Thank you!

[@raystheroadtravel]

There are plenty of jobs that have burnout, stress, and high pressure. The truth is that hospitals refuse to pay at levels that keep nurses in the jobs. Nurses are looked at the same way as janitorial staff, not as medical professionals. This is the problem- when the medical community starts classifying and paying nurses as highly skilled medical professionals, holding them to higher standards and offloading low level tasks to lower skilled techs, the problem will continue to.

[@NanelleGriselda]

Great great great hook !

[@NursesToRiches]

Thanks @Nanelle! I'm always trying to improve my hooks.

[@gengen0108]

They are burnt out and shortage of staff my daughter is a clinical instructor and I understand their ordeal😮

[@gabrielasanchez2028]

Great stuff!

[@NursesToRiches]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@fishgalveston]

Every year, my hospital requires nurses to justify their salary. It's called a clinical ladder packet. You don't fill it out, your pay is reduced. It's an exhaustive self evaluation that requires someone to give testimonials regarding your care. it's a joke. I had one manager tell me to redo the packet because of the punctuation. I quit and started in another unit.

[@teachmetelugu7320]

Liking this on all my KZbin accounts so this can be bumped in the KZbin recomendations

[@NursesToRiches]

You're amazing!

[@yaya5tim]

You know, US is actually pretty good with their nurse benefits and salary. Japan, Korea, Taiwan are all having some of the best health care system in the world, and as a Taiwanese, we are also facing the same problem of nurse shortage and heavy workload, on top of that, Taiwanese nurse aren't getting paid enough, not enough to catch up the cost of living in Taiwan and the world. I do not know about the situation in Japan and Korea, but I believe it's somewhat similar, US nurse aren't getting there yet, which is why the high salary even attract a lot of Filipinos from Asia to come to US and fill up the nurse shortage. So if you take a look from a global perspective, you'll understand it's a problem we are all facing, and if this continue, we will have it worse when we're old, if you look at how Americans nowadays don't go to date as much and not having babies as much, it will be less people to take care of us when we're old. I think it's time that we either try to develop an AI robot or robotic medical system that can help with ease nurses' workload, or try to legalize then commercialize the euthanasia, make it an industry, other wise, I don't know how we can cope with current situation. The modern day capitalists are very greedy, they want everything cheap, high margin, then just sit on the money they make, buy nice house, cars, women, and they do not allow that growth line on the chart drops, I think that's the biggest problem with modern capitalism, they do not allow the line to drop, you either out of business or you stay, so dropping that line will be a no no, but that puts everyone on a expensive cost of living life and exploited our social working production(such as nurse provides her service for cheap salary or high salary but also HCL, that's exploit) I do not think any politician of any parties, of any countries, would care for things like this, they still live comfortably, when they're old and sick, they still can get a crew of high end medical team to take care of them, they do not live the life we live, but they decide what our life would be and they choose make it hard for us and every generation that comes after us.

[@theblondeone8426]

how much pay is enough for you to not be able to walk for a day after each twelve hr shift?? Also consider the international nurses hospitals hire by the thousands because theyre cheaper than us. Nursing is indentured servitude at this point.

[@tonmage29]

Another one that drains the nurses in the hospital is the increasing need for Psych NP’s. Due to increase in mental health needs of the general public. Inhospital RN realized that doing psych NP is less stressful with much better pay and quality of life.

[@lastone8896]

It doesn't help that thousands of nurses quit or were fired because they didn't get the covid shots

[@science7713]

7:00 But the hospitals don't want that. And by that, I mean the owners, the multimillion-dollar corporations, and upper management that run the hospitals don't really want to staff hospitals with adequate numbers of nurses. Because that's more money they have to pay out, meaning less profits for the corporation. CEOs/Hospital administrators make over a million a year and those at the top of the corporation make more than that. With deliberate short staffing of nurses, the hospital does not stop filling beds. Infact, they make management keep the beds filled regardless of if there's only one to two nurses on a unit, or fully staffed with 5 to 6. They could care less if a patient dies because there's not enough staff to get to that patient, they're still going to make the same amount of money off that bed. The state's not going to do anything to the hospital when things go wrong. It's the nurses that get thrown under the bus and have to answer to the state when everything falls apart. Nurses are tired of risking their health, safety, and licenses to work in poor unsafe conditions. What other job do you work 13 to 20 hours a day with no bathroom or lunch break, minimal pay and compensation. Some hospitals are so bad, I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole even if they did pay good. These organizations need restructuring. Accountability is highly lacking in upper management.

[@iluvcatslol5714]

Very informative video!

[@carcarzela1]

My question why is it hard to get in nursing school and end up being short staff? Is the pay not enough is the school short staff to attract more nurses?

[@itsDjjayyArt]

Don't forget the entrance exam😅

[@taramr]

The numbers speak for itself. If this video does not wake up the hospitals I don’t know what will

[@amalhussein6731]

Could you please talk about nurses who are interested in working abroad and in America and how to apply

[@overdose2679]

what about international nurses Jason? I'm a RN in Egypt and I'm in the process of immigrating to the US as a RN and so many countries have a lot of nurses want to work and live in the US

[@Jeb9221]

I'm so sick of the toxic culture of nursing and poor leadership. Management has no idea & doesn't care about what goes on on the ground. I was a target of bullying in my previous job. My nurse manager did nothing. I left that job. My last day was 31 Jan 2024. I'm utterly burnt out. Don't know what to do next but glad I'm out of that shit hole. Feel like I'm going through a midlife crisis.

[@brandonfouts4074]

enjoy the journey and have a plan

[@carolsipala1639]

Let the hospitals learn a hard lesson , fend for yourself !

[@albertespinal4172]

My hospital refused me to work part time or per diem despite them being short staff and me not being able to work full-time anymore. They are usually short but she would rather lose a nurses than allow them to still work part time or per diem. Hospital coporations sometimes don't care if they are short staff. My director told me they didn't have those positions available because of "business reasons" So I guess a well staffed department isn't good for business I guess?

[@delightfulb7974]

This is a huge problem in a few years to come.They are going to start recruiting Nurses from abroad even against their wish.That is what is going to happen.I wish they can make it easier for people in the country to get into Nursing.

[@roknthegreat7128]

But then the pay will drop, not a good idea. High supply of nurses will give employers leverage to pay lower due to increased competition to find work.

[@jameswhite3725]

This is indeed what’s going to happen bingo 🎯if Biden gets relected.. that’s exactly what’s going to happen immigrants are coming over with nurse degrees and their money and the pay is going drop in the nurse industry.. it’s already happening in the warehouse industry…

[@HappyHappy-ln7lr]

And to get a four-year degree, BSN costs thousands! There are practically no scholarships for nursing students. And nursing salary increases do not keep pace with other four-year degree graduates, like computer science, IT, AI, financial advisor, etc. The nursing degree is not as lucrative a return on investment as other career paths. Nurses don't show up to work to be another "pretty face" at the workplace water fountain. They work hard for the low salaries they are paid!

[@carolsipala1639]

There is a shortage yes , so what does the board of nursing do ? Raise the fees for renewing your license. Now that helps out hmm? Money hoarders are what they all are !

[@JohnDoe-mx3rr]

I think it multiple problems, new healthcare business trying to pursue profit forced this like Kaiser and providence trying to get more out there worker then what they can get, some people shouldn’t be nurses, most nurses work two jobs for pursuit of money but if you can not handle it and take day off when you are suppose to, and new job title being open in medical field like case manager, liaison, medical rep, and etc.

[@hunty92]

What ratios do you all have in your EDs? At 4:1, we simply do not have enough to take on our patient load at nights. Sometimes we’ll have one greeter and one triage nurse responsible for a waiting room of 30+ people, typically with multiple 80+ year old chest painers or SoBs simply because we have nobody present to take care of them. I’m a tech and make a genuinely laughable $20/hr, yet am expected to be able to conduct and read EKGs well enough to know when I have a STEMI in my hands. It’s nuts to me that I made more money as a barback in 2014 than I do as a clinical worker that literally helps save people’s lives. We need better unions PERIOD.

[@NursesToRiches]

In our ED, if I have 4 patients, and one of them turns into an ICU patient, I hand off my other 3 to the nurses I work with. If I have a patient that has to be placed in violent restraints, that's becomes a 1:1. If my patients are all tele/medsurg I get no more than 4. If I have a step down patient, I'm maxed at 3 patients. Outside of the ED, medsurg floors are 5:1. Tele is 4:1. Step down is 3:1. ICU 2:1 unless one of your patients is very ill, then it's 1:1.

[@justynaolczyk1235]

Bunch of excellent costly certificates, a perfect GPA, and volunteer experience, and I can't find my first nursing job in the past two years! Where Is the shortage, I ask!

[@JackieOwl94]

Nurses aren’t in short supply. There are plenty of qualified individuals, but hospitals won’t hire them, leading to the false perception of. lower workforce