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What are the main reasons for the US to have a nursing shortage? |
What are the main reasons for the US to have a nursing shortage? Nursing schools don't have enough faculty or clinical sites to provide training. Increasing health demands of the population - obesity, heart disease, drugs, etc. Baby boomer population is aging, creating a strain on the all levels of health care. Nurse / patient ratios leading to decreased job satisfaction and nurse burnout, nurses leaving the profession or leaving bedside nursing for other administrative positions. One other thing I wanted to say is that it is still the stereotype that nurses are devalued by physicians and are treated poorly. At least, I have not encountered that in my experience. Nursing as a profession has gained a great deal of respect in recent years, and no longer are nurses viewed as bed pan emptiers and pill passers. Our jobs are far more technical than that, involves far more responsibility than that. The image of nursing is improving and it's mainly just the old-fogey physicians who still treat nurses as inferiors. For nurses who feel like they don't make enough money for what they do, or that they feel disrespected or devalued, it's time to get another job with another employer. It's not nursing that sucks, it's your work environment. Nursing is physically demanding work requiring a large amount of highly technical training and doesn't pay all that well for the training/education required. Low pay and putting up with peoples shite day after day,, gotta remember humans whine alot,,, Bed pans. I see some answers saying low pay... Not so fast...the pay is great and the work is demanding. The schooling is demanding. Guess what folks. It's called work. Remember that? Nurses are treated as second class citizens by doctors (actually many doctors treat all others as second class citizens). Nursing requires a very long and hard training period and frankly although pay and opportunities have improved a lot in the past 30 years, they haven't improved enough. Many will start a nursing program and when well into it will realize that they can switch to a medical program and become a doctor instead. Unfortunately the system will have to change before the supply will catch up with the demand. RN's can make phenomenal money, I don't know where the above people get their stats. Job security, good pay, pensions, doesn't sound bad to me. The main reason for the shortage is our aging population, ever-rising obesity rates and our new pill popping generation thanks to sleazy marketing techniques from pharmaceutical companies. Not to mention, that it is tough work and most Americans want the lives of the rich and famous, not hard working & industrious. |
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