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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can kind of see nurses since it is a BS degree.  But physician assistant and nurse practioner degrees are professional degrees![/quote]

Nursing is a high turnover profession and we are constantly bleeding staff on tough units like med surg. Most hospitals will only hire BSNs. I was a nurse manager for med surg and the only way to staff the unit as long time older nurses retired was to keep hiring new grads, but they all go elsewhere after a year like ICU, mother/baby units, etc. [/quote]

Pay them more. Let the market system work

Long term labor shortages do not happen naturally in market economies. That is not to say that they don't exist. They are created when employers or government agencies tamper with the natural functioning of the wage mechanism.

"[To attract] workers, the employer may have to increase his wage offer. ... So when you hear an employer saying he needs immigrants to fill a "labor shortage'', remember what you are hearing: a cry for a labor subsidy to allow the employer to avoid the normal functioning of the labor market."
-1990 Congressional Testimony of Dr. Michael S. Teitelbaum
http://users.nber.org/~sewp/references/archive/weinsteinhowandwhygovernment.pdf

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Would love to, tell hospital administration. But also be realistic. I worked for a nonprofit urban hospital with a high medicaid/medicate population and operating profit of like three percent. Nurses are the largest dept with thousands of employees and biggest budget. [/quote]

DP to add, given the size of the nursing dept, even if you cut the admin salaries in half, it would be a drop in the bucket when spread across the entire nursing staff. [/quote]
RN here. It’s not just the pay, it’s the conditions.  I work PACU now, which is chill compared to most units.  And I work in a good hospital that has safe patient ratios. But that is not always the case.  In fact, it’s probably the exception not the rule.  [/quote]

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