Posted on 10/06/2023 1:30:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
At a time when registered nurses are going on strike to protest staffing shortages, thousands of applicants who want to enter or advance in the profession are being turned away from nursing schools.
Nearly 78,200 qualified applications were not offered spots at nursing schools last year, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, which represents schools with baccalaureate and advanced degree programs.
This includes nearly 66,300 applications for entry-level bachelor’s degree programs. The number of applications turned away from baccalaureate programs has been higher in recent years than it was prior to 2019. (One person may submit applications to multiple schools.)
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Not clicking on CNN. What’s the reason?
They have a shortage of teachers.
System decay.
Corruption getting so bad that professional instruction is getting hard.
Not in your excerpt.
Requires giving a hit to cnn…not going to do that.
Biggest problem is shortage of space in facilities.
You can’t have more Practicals because hospitals and other facilities can’t handle more trainees.
Just maybe if Biden had not mandated that all hospital workers get the covid vaxx, there would not be a shortage of nurses. The experienced medical staff who were in their 50’s opted to quit vs taking the jab.
Of course, CNN would never want to report on a ‘cause’ and the resultant ‘effect’.
No they only want to spin some fear that the government needs to spend more money to hire more teachers to train some ill-educated to become nurses.
“The professional organization that credentials nurses likely created the crisis.”
Bingo, and this was being said in the 80s when they decided in their intellectual snobbery and hunger for power to get rid of diploma programs. University indoctrination wasn’t happening, and we were learning things they didn’t like, for example vaccine dangers and Big Pharm/insurance controlling doctors. We were warning, but few listened, because real nurses weren’t behind this, big money was.
Oh great - that means they’ll import nurses who barely speak English with sub par schooling.
Not enough nursing faculty.
I’m a retired RN. There’s never really been a nursing shortage; it’s more of there being a shortage of nurses willing to work in under staffed situations. Hospitals short staff as policy, to keep costs down. In other words, a fully staffed unit almost always has too high a patient to nurse ratio. Of course, there are exceptions, but management, for the most part, expects nurses to do more work than they should be expected to do and still provide quality care.
I am a registered nurse. I refuse to do the job. There are thousands upon thousands of us, who like me, found more rewarding work.
Nursing shortage? No way! There is merely a shortage of nurses willing to do the job.
The national median salary for nursing school professors with master’s degrees is just under $89,000.
But the median salary for advanced practice registered nurses, who hold graduate degrees, is $120,000, according to the 2022 Nurse Salary Research Report issued by Nurse.com
Not enough teachers and preceptors.
My daughter-in-law is the same. She is now managing AirBnB's. :)
Please read my post #13.
I, too, am a registered nurse. I refuse to do the job.
Yep! I understand completely.
An associate’s degree today might be equal to a high school diploma some 40 years ago in terms of attained knowledge. I mean, you get a HS diploma for just showing up these days.
So, it’s not that the level of degree is the problem; it’s what the degree represents that is the problem.
I was in the hospital with serious problems. (I was administered a nearly fatal dose of blood thinner.) A Pilipino nurse whose tag identified her as an RN was trying to give me an itervenous connection. She was obviously panicked, and another Pilipino RN came over and instructed her after looking around to see that no one was witnessing this. Here’s a woman who, apparently self-identified as an RN who had obviously never put a needle into someone’s arm before. I started keeping an eye on the staff and I suspect that half of the foreigners were not as qualified as their badges said they were.
How many hospital people, including the Indian doctor who ordered a strong blood thinner while I was bleeding profusely from my prostate, are not qualified to be in the position where they are? Also, what hospital staff are running the resumes on these people?
For the week of Christmas, I think I saw one American born nurse.
My favorite was a black woman who came into my room and announced, “I be the one operating on you tomorrow.” She had not spoken with the “team” and didn’t know the latest on my condition. When I told the specialist who came in to see me, he said, “Uhm. Yeah. I’ll take care of that.” When I signed the paperwork, it identified the same surgeon who had done the initial work.
I was severely and permanently damaged by the incompetent treatment of an almost Marx Brothers level medical staff.
The staff to train, and monitor students in their practical semester, are pretty thin.
This issue is just going to get worse as the huge boomer generation starts using up a larger percentage of the nursing hours.
In ten years…this wont be as big a problem.
Just don’t get sick in the next ten years.
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