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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NYC nurses striking claiming it is due to workload and staffing levels. Meanwhile, they're already making $165k and want to increase it up to $275k at some NY hospitals. GMAFB.  That is grotesque overpay for a 4 year degree job.  We are supposed to now compensate nurses more than many family docs?  Talk about wage inflation spiral. If nurses make $275k I guess we have to pay teachers $200k and docs $1M now.

USA wages and cost of labor are out of control. [/quote]

What are your sources for these salaries and what types of roles?

-RN[/quote]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/nyregion/nurses-strike-hospitals-nyc.html

AVERAGE is already $165k. Union is making demands that would push it to $275k.

Ridiculous over compensation. [b]Fire all union nursing and replace[/b]. [/quote]
There's a nursing shortage, so who are you replacing them with?[/quote]

This. Nursing staffing is the biggest budget and personnel number of any hospital and we can never keep up. For one 30ish bed med surg unit in an urban hospital, we had something like 50 nurses, 15 cnas, and a couple of unit clerks. Multiply that by 30 units, the ER which employs way more, plus the operating rooms, preop, postop, interventional radiology and other imaging services, endoscopy, and on and on... And all with specialized training to their area too.

You think you can just replace them all? [/quote]

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