[JohnnyZ]

The way to INCREASE the supply of nurses is to raise the wage

Just what we need, higher health care costs.

Personally I think many American women and gay men are just too lazy to complete the studies to become nurses. I'm all for importing hard-working legal immigrants.

[raybbr]

Personally I think many American women and gay men are just too lazy to complete the studies to become nurses. I'm all for importing hard-working legal immigrants.

Ignorance is bliss, in your case.

The nursing shortage is due to three things. Ageing nurses who are retiring. Working conditions that are crazy and dangerous to patients and nurses alike. And, nursing schools can't find teachers while at the same time making the curriculum so difficult that only about 60% of the students can make it through.

It's a serious problem. Just throwing money at it won't solve it.

[Gamecock]

Gay men?

[RipSawyer]

gay men

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So you think all nurses who aren't women are gay men? Speaking as a man who, though untrained, has had to serve as a nurse for my first wife through cancer, my mother through cancer and my father through cancer, I resent that remark. What does the Z stand for Johnny, Zero?

[Old_Mil]

Just what we need, higher health care costs.

There are days when I wonder why complaining about costs seems to be restricted to energy prices, health care, and airline tickets. When it comes to these three areas, it seems as if everyone wants the world for free. There seems to be no complaint on the part of the powers that be about "higher housing costs", "higher energy costs", or "higher CEO costs."

If you're interested in paying for health care at a 1950s-1960s level, expect to receive health care at a 1950s-1960s level. If you want free health care, expect the same. As they say, you get what you pay for.

Personally I think many American women and gay men are just too lazy to complete the studies to become nurses. I'm all for importing hard-working legal immigrants.

There's something called the law of unintended consequences...Let's take our nursing crisis for example. In a more civilized age in America, an intelligent & talented woman who wanted to work in health care was guided into nursing based on social expectations. This ensured an adequate supply of intelligent, talented, well trained nurses.

Enter feminism, and add 40 years to the toxic receipe. Suddenly, you're faced with a situation where slightly over half the students in American medical schools are female.

Has this increased the "quality" of our doctors? No it hasn't; medical school admissions have always been insanely competitive and many talented individuals were not accepted even before this shift.

Has this decreased the "quality" (and numbers) of our nurses? Absolutely. Nursing isn't a profession that appeals to the male psyche, so the rise in female physicians has not been matched by a rise in male nurses.

The result is a nursing shortage and now we are faced with importing foreign trained nurses.

[politicalwit]

"Personally I think many American women and gay men are just too lazy to complete the studies to become nurses"

"GAY MEN"??? Are you saying only "gay men" go into nursing? If so, your ignorance is showing. Any more stupid statements?