Anyone else read this?

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This recent article from the Atlantic discusses the looming nursing shortage:

Five years ago, my mother was rushed to the hospital for an aneurysm. For the next two weeks, my family and I sat huddled around her bed in the intensive-care unit, oscillating between panic, fear, uncertainty, and exhaustion.

Specializes in ICU, Pacu.

Well well well..... disbelievers eh? I am already seeing it. people in management, not so much , long as the numbers crunch who cares what you have? just wait.......... And where are all these new grads going? ....Not to the hospitals to be used abused ... they are going back to school to get advanced degrees. The five NEW nurses I just worked with are ALL leaving and going back to school. There are more than just a few us boomers and retirement accounts or not we still have social sec. and are tired of putting up with the hospital crap. Our whole floor was pretty much boomers. The worse hospitals treat their nurses(which also means patients will not get as good of care) the more of a shortage you will see.. There are lots of jobs here where I am and most have been available or are filled for a short time due to the way nurses are treated. Wait for it.........

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Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life).
Well well well..... disbelievers eh? I am already seeing it. people in management, not so much , long as the numbers crunch who cares what you have? just wait.......... And where are all these new grads going? ....Not to the hospitals to be used abused ... they are going back to school to get advanced degrees. The five NEW nurses I just worked with are ALL leaving and going back to school. There are more than just a few us boomers and retirement accounts or not we still have social sec. and are tired of putting up with the hospital crap. Our whole floor was pretty much boomers. The worse hospitals treat their nurses(which also means patients will not get as good of care) the more of a shortage you will see.. There are lots of jobs here where I am and most have been available or are filled for a short time due to the way nurses are treated. Wait for it.........

I find it funny that quotes in this article were taken directly out of the textbook I am now reading on Nursing management and I might add taken totally out of context. Just someone trying to stir the pot. I agree it may be a tactic by for-profit nursing schools to hoodwink students out of their tuition dollars.

Hppy

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Specializes in ICU, Pacu.

You also might want to check out what the ANA has to say . I am going by the nurses that I have worked with in 44 years and their ages and what I hear and see from the younger nurses. Search nursing workforce-ANA

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Specializes in ICU, Postpartum, Onc, PACU.

Those "predicted stats" are all well and good, but I can't find a staff job to save my life (which is the ONLY reason I'm still travel nursing...I'm so over it) and I even applied to areas I don't want or have experience in as well as new grad positions. They all say they either don't have the time to train someone (then take the freaking ad down or say the position's been filled in the response email!), or have already hired someone for the job and had to leave the posting up for whatever length of time.

9 years of nursing, most of it in ICU/PACU, and still no job over a year later? Something is wrong. I hate hearing about the availability of nursing jobs when they're not hiring experienced nurses for the ones they have right now.

xo

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