I guess at age 44, I'd better stay in nursing 'till doomsday...or the overlords figure out how to milk illegal aliens to be effective nurses at 8 dollars an hour, under the table with-out benefits.
There was a hospital in Boston that attempted that stunt with fillipinos...fired a third of their most highly paid nurses then filled in that missing third with the fillipino's at 9 dollars an hour.(what the UK health systems does with foreign nurses). Many of the fillipino's left and went to hospitals paying much higher wages. I haven't heard what happened afterwards other than the fact that the hospital found itself up the proverbial creek!
Still I see the hand-writing on the wall...if the Health CEO's could figure out a way to do it, a lot of American nurses will get replaced by cheaper foreign help as well. As it is, I sense the need to learn Spanish......
What's this about retirement though. When the legs go I guess they will start issuing us wheelchairs! I was reading an article about how medication labels and other stuff we need to read is being enlarged and stocking reading glasses due to the mean age of a nurse increasing:')