“”But if you flood the country with nurses, their wages would drop to minimum wage.””
When my sister was in nursing school, she learned very quickly that they only allow a certain few to enter each year, thereby limiting the total number of nurses each year. If they just expanded the classes, teachers, etc, many, many more nurses could graduate each year. But that would be making sense. Cannot have that.
You presume there are lots of nursing educators out there. There are not
Medical schools are the same.there is no shortage of people able to be Dr’s. Just a shortage of med school positions controlled by AMA.
Med schools did not take into consideration that when they let in women and that when women became half or more of their classes that there were specialties women would not do. Surgical ones in particular. Many of the difficult ones. They tend to flock to pedes, internal med, and psych. They tend to work many less hours and often raise families.
Whenever you hear Dr crunch. Blame them.