There are so many unemployed new grads out there that pretty soon we are going to be willing to work for minimum wage if things don't change soon. I bet hospitals would be willing to hire lots and lots of us at that price. That might even translate to loss of jobs and decreased wages for those experienced nurses already employed.
You might want to encourage your hospital to give new grads a chance instead of requiring experience for every job posting they have. Maybe be a little more enthusiastic about helping to train them.
Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.
I was going to ask if you were drunk or "impaired" but
eh
that'd get me in trouble right now lmao
I always bring out Mr "Dazed" when I'm typing something and suddenly a still, small voice of reason says, "ok we jumped the shark about 7 posts back on this thing and the few stragglers still hanging out here are behaving like bumper cars randomly smacking things and getting whacked from the side when they try to back up" or at least I imagine what the voice of reason would say if I actually had one. :nuke:
I always bring out Mr "Dazed" when I'm typing something and suddenly a still, small voice of reason says, "ok we jumped the shark about 7 posts back on this thing and the few stragglers still hanging out here are behaving like bumper cars randomly smacking things and getting whacked from the side when they try to back up" or at least I imagine what the voice of reason would say if I actually had one. :nuke:
By the way RN7776, I reviewed a couple of your posts. Considering that you are a proponent of higher education for nurses, perhaps you might want to brush up on your grammar and spelling. Furthermore, "bazillionaire" is not a word. Lol.
It's not "speculation" -- it's the knowledge that, historically, only a small minority of US RNs ever pursue any graduate education. Why is that bad? What's so wrong, exactly, with being a good, competent bedside RN that everyone should "aspire" to something different????
And I never suggested that "the market can't absorb more NPs" -- I was responding to your suggestion that every nurse should want to become an advanced practice nurse, and questioning how on earth our healthcare system could absorb the millions of advanced practice nurses that would result if that actually happened.
(Realism, per your request:
"Nearly 13% of US nurses (375,000) and 2.5% (6,300) of Canadian RNs and have earned masters or doctoral degrees."
Congrats...these stats are affirming my case. Theres 3 million RNs in this country and if 10% are APRNs do the math....thats a tons of APRN nurses. I am not suggesting every RN pursue masters heck half the RNs i know could care less but perhaps BSN for everyone? Gasp....shudder to think we could raise the standard.
By the way RN7776, I reviewed a couple of your posts. Considering that you are a proponent of higher education for nurses, perhaps you might want to brush up on your grammar and spelling. Furthermore, "bazillionaire" is not a word. Lol.
Higher education is about patient care...not about dotting Is and crissing Ts
Let me reference: Sx (suction), AOx3, c with a line over it....heck if I reference every nurse grammar shortcut I'd be Bill Gates.
Refute what? I have no idea what that means. Now your talking about the internal med MD problem.
I think bou have a condition called "post salad". Similar to neurolabamical one, lmao! If you think there are to many optometrists, well everybody else has read that book, too! We need those IV teams just try and refeet it! You can get special bunion shoes at Central Supply! (spelling? thankyouverymuch) I can get my NP because I can't sprint down the hall and that means there will temporary easing of the shortage of hospitalists? To that I say your nursing home will pay for those little plastic pill boxes with the days of the week printed on top!
If you thought you were being funny, I'd say you succeeded. Everyone here knows you're a joke, incapable of making a real argument.
Are you going to come back next with, "I know you are but what am I"?
And the spelling/grammar we are talking about aren't "shortcuts". My spelling/grammar represents that because I'm typing one handed on my iPad in bed.
Yours represents a true lack of understanding.
Lol to the comment that higher education =patient care, not crossing your T's. I guess you've never been in grad school??? Even in my BSN program, if I didn't cross a T, or dot an I, then I was getting an F. And it had NOTHING to do w/pt care.
Please take a step back, and re-evaluate yourself. It's embarrassing.
By the way RN7776, I reviewed a couple of your posts. Considering that you are a proponent of higher education for nurses, perhaps you might want to brush up on your grammar and spelling. Furthermore, "bazillionaire" is not a word. Lol.
...I want to be a bazillionair, so freaking bad...
I have no idea what that means. Now your talking about the internal med MD problem.
eriksoln, BSN, RN
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Whats really scary is if you can follow it with ease, like I did................errrr..........I think I did anyway.