Hospital Politics

[Melaina]

Follow the money trail. For those of you who have spent 40+ years in your nursing career, and have had the opportunity to work gazillions of overtime hours, we have hospital politics to thank for this opportunity :-)

I graduated from a very elite nursing school in Philadelphia in 1969..whew! Before and during nursing school all we heard about was the nursing shortage...

Here we are 40+ yrs. later and we are hearing the same song. Okay, point being,

the heart of the matter is in fact, every business operates on a budget/financial

guidelines, all of the advertising for nurses is to make sure hospitals are looking to fill their criteria to be accredited by JACHO, does not mean they are HIRING. For those of you who think Obamacare has anything to do with anything in the way hospitals hire personnel, it does not. It always has been and always will be about the OPERATING BUDGET!!! Not a bad thing, this is the way it is. Obamacare may change some of the ways hosptals do COST SHIFTING...ever hear of costshifting in healthcare??? Do your homework people. Wishing all the best to everyone who will do their homework and do it well :-)

[cardiacfreak, ADN]

I have not heard of costshifting and will educate myself on it. I can only imagine what you have seen over the last 40 years regarding the direction of nursing. I've been around 20 years and it amazes me sometimes how far we have come and how far we still have to go. And sometimes I am amazed at how we haven't moved forward but backward.

[markstewart]

We have witness several types of shortage in medical care sectors; due to which patients are unable to get sufficient and quality health care service. So it is quite better to avoid health or hospital politics; it's better to promote patient care.