California has a nurse shortage - how some hospitals are combatting the issue
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2023
- California hospitals are looking into recruitment and retention strategies to improve vacancy rates.
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A shortage but it’s so hard to get into a nursing program here. Makes no sense.
Skilled nurses and other health care workers are very skilled and highly educated professionals. They should be highly paid, given benefits, and such. They deserve it. Hospitals can afford to pay out. Without them, the system will fail.
It's a worldwide shortage. Worst than the pilot shortages.
Please stop calling it a nursing shortage. It is a staffing crisis. We have plenty of nurses who would work if there were safe staffing levels. Healthcare’s mantra is that hiring won’t fix the staffing issues when it actually would. In most departments nurses are working with half of the staff they need and it is unsafe.
As some have pointed out, it’s not that there aren’t enough nurses. It’s that staffing is nowhere near appropriate, currently nurses are expected to take care of up to 7-9 patients by themselves. I’m going through my masters for nursing and the research I’ve done is startling. It’s been shown through various studies that increasing patient loads for nurses can increase patient mortality by up to 2-3% for each patient above what would be considered normal. (That being around 3-4 patients per nurse). The state and federal government needs to set a hard limit on the nurse to patient ratios if we are ever going to get to a level of normalcy.
Please tell the California Board of Nursing to stop issuing RN Licenses to foreigners.
Prioritize local graduates first.
They need to make it easier to get a job. I'm a new grad rn who was previously and lvn. When I apply I'm over qualified for a new grad position but under qualified for a rn position. Most rn positions want 6 months experience how are new grads suppose to get experience if you won't hire them?
Do home health. They are always hiring new grads
Pay them like tech professionals. Not enough pay! There are other options besides being a nurse.
They are making $80 an hour in California.
We nurses are more flexible than techies. Hospice, Traveling nurse, ED, school, private, clinics, etc. We get OT, can work 2 or 3 jobs, can work more than 8 hours, etc. The hospitals are not hiring, a lot of seniors that were paying premiums are dead.
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