Despite High Demand For Nurses, Colleges Aren't Keeping Up

NPR ^ | December 21, 2020 | Matt Krupnick

[pas]

Mine graduated a couple years ago. Went the 4 year degree route and is working in a trauma ward.

[Chickensoup]

Just like with MDs

[Macoozie]

Horseshiite

Every nursing program is packed and has waiting lists.
There aren’t many more training spaces in hospitals and other facilities.

The problem is the increased demand for training. Used to be 2 year Nursing School and take the NCLEX. Now, facilities and states are demanding 4yr BSN and then get the license.

On the job 20 yrs and have to go back and get a BSN, WTF?

80% of “nursing” can be carried out by a competent grandma with some life experience.
The rest is specialty.

It took the ChiCom WuHu Red Carona to get us to wash our hands and not pick our noses.

We can Nurse our folks without all the expense and crappy, phony “credentialing”.

[tbw2]

When real solutions include reducing the strict licensing requirements.

[Starcitizen]

When real solutions include reducing the strict licensing requirements.

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No, it’s preventing Indians from stealing yet another jobs area totally from the US.

Hope the hell I never have to get healthcare from an incompetent Indian nurse that took a nursing short course, and let into the US as part of Hiden/Ho’s Make America into India plan.

[tbw2]

I agree, don’t let them import foreign medical professionals.

[Starcitizen]

I agree, don’t let them import foreign medical professionals.

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Indian nursing “professionals” are about as qualified as Indian software engineering “professionals”. Whole websites and brain dumps set up so they can cheat their way into the US.

So many American doctors waiting to get into residency programs, yet Indian (and Pakistani) doctors get priority why? Oh, affirmative action.

Hell, even in the Philippines, Filipinos are complaining that Indians have invaded its medical schools.

Luckily Duterte tried to kick most of them out.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/medical-students-stuck-in-philippines/article31102114.ece

https://indianexpress.com/article/coronavirus/coronavirus-indian-students-in-philippines/

https://mattersindia.com/2017/07/indians-flock-to-philippines-for-medical-degrees/

[Svartalfiar]

Nursing isn't an easy life. Understaffed, long hours, no breaks, 12 hour rotating shifts, nights, weekends. It's unhealthy, both physically and mentally. My daughter is an RN, and she left a hospital for a job that provided better work-life balance. The $10,000 pay cut was more than worth it.

The wife was doing this for a while, then quit after having the kiddo. Managed to find a job as school nurse, so now she's on teacher hours. She likes it much better, and the pay is actually more than what the hospital was (it was Parkland though, and they pay a decent bit less than most other hospitals in Dallas).

Hell, I'd LOVE to have a 3-day a week job. Even 4 10-hr days would be acceptable. But 12-hr days would be more than worth getting a four day weekend. Every weekend. Except drill weekends.

[Svartalfiar]

Got a similar problem at a Games/Media college I teach at. Fully 20% of the required classes are liberal arts filler material garbage. That’s almost a year of college wasted.

Sigh yup. I'm looking at getting back into school for engineering, and for a 130-hr degree, THIRTY HOURS of it has NOTHING to do with the degree. And that doesn't even include the generic chemistry/math/physics that's part of the liberals arts added classes; I consider those as sufficiently part of an engineering degree, even if they aren't engineering classes.

Luckily I have maybe half of it covered by old college classes/AP credit, but it's still dumb having to do that crap.

[MarDav]

First of all, Nursing is one of the hardest degrees to achieve and the test is one of the most difficult to pass. Now, add the latest crop of snowflake candidates who receive their degrees (somehow), but need a mental health day every third shift and you’ve pinpointed the problem— the work ethic is dead in America.

BTW, all this is first-hand knowledge from the husband of an excellent nurse who works alongside today’ s nursing wannabe’s.

[Starcitizen]

Funny, same school, overseas branch. No bullshiite liberal arts requirements. Only the degree program. Amazing that.