“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.
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 dreaded degree creep. You don’t need 4 years of college to insert catheters.
Most states and hospitals accept new nurses with associates degrees but many such nurses try to get their Bachelors within a few short years. The 2 year degree schools are also hurting for instructors.
Credential creep to make different career paths feel more important.
Nurses went to nursing schools and got diplomas then associates snd now baccalaureate.
And masters and doctorates.
Mostly a joke.
Nursing schools are run by women a d they are horrific cat fights. Have been for years.
No nurse worth he salt want anything to do with them.
Women are not good in leadership positions beyond line management